Sentences with phrase «like glassy»

The Command Prompt gained some superficial theming from this (like the glassy frame present in other windows), but it came at the expense of being able to drag and drop files, text, and so on into the Command Prompt window.

Colours are reproduced poorly, especially black which just looks like a glassy mess.

Maybe we like glassy, sparkling surfaces because they suggest close proximity to water.

Not exact matches

Regarding SAVED's comment... Is it just me or does anyone ever picture some glassy eyed overwight person with a personality disorder behind a keyboard when they say something like this?

Noah pulled a metal chair across the concrete patio and sat hunched over the water garden, silvery scales glinting as the fish darted beneath the water hyacinth... Ten minutes later all six were dead, floating glassy - eyed and white - bellied like sardines on the surface.»

One look at its glassy fa √ ßade and redwood trimming would tell you that the Seal Rock is another of the thousands of modern, aseptic motels that are as frequent as empty beer cans along the highways of the South and West, and it is in just such places that the professional golfers and their families like to bed down when their tour hits town.

«Ask the parents what kinds of activities their child likes to do ahead of time, so you can prepare for that,» Dr. Glassy recommends.

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

Last May, physicists Brian Greene and Michal Lipson, venture capitalist Shelley Harrison, journalist Jon Gertner, and DISCOVER editor in chief Corey S. Powell gathered in front of an audience in the academy's glassy New York offices for a spirited discussion about string theory and supermarket scanners, cranks and geniuses, and how in science, as Bob Dylan once sang, there's no success like failure.

In this study, a chronically stable class of thin ‐ film devices for electrocorticography is manufactured incorporating silicon carbide and diamond ‐ like carbon as adhesion promoters between glassy carbon (GC) electrodes and polyimide and between GC and platinum traces.

«So if you use those models to describe water at room temperature, you do not get the regular liquid but instead a supercooled glassy state that does not look like nature's most ubiquitous solvent,» said Xantheas.

Free dating sites in malaysia CNN)-- Online dating seems like the pinnacle of modernity, an online meat market where glassy - eyed humans browse possible suitors.

Online dating seems like the pinnacle of modernity, an online meat market where glassy - eyed humans browse possible suitors, sorted for ease.

This repetitive, glassy - eyed finale feels more like a weak victory lap, offering little pleasure but plenty of lifestyle porn (not to mention product placement) by way of luxury cars, a decadent Paris honeymoon and an enviable alpine view bubble bath.

Almost ritualistically, she picks up stray, unattached men in the city, talks to them to establish they have no family or friends, then lures them into a dark cottage where clothes are peeled off item by item, dropping like leaves from a tree, onto the glassy darkness of the floor.

Like Funny Games, this might prove too barbaric to connect with a broad audience, but as a glassy - eyed shocker with true crime trappings, it goes down a chilly treat.

Which is like a lethal game of air hockey (just one of Tron Legacy's classic - arcade game nods), as black - suited Capoeira - style foes send electric frisbees ricocheting around a glassy area.

Perhaps all would be forgiven if M: i: III were competently - directed (while M: I - 2 is one of the stupidest films ever made, as John Woo is one of the best action directors of the past twenty - five years, damn if it's not beautiful, coherent, auteurist stupidity), but it's a glassy - eyed, dead thing complete with superfluous flashbacks to events we don't care about involving characters we don't recognize, an interminable party sequence in which Cruise trots out his smile like it was a weathered, beaten - down trophy wife, and a smug, self - congratulatory conclusion full of high - fives, victory arms, and shit - eating grins.

It handles a bit like a fine sport yacht on glassy water.

The metallic green Carabo absolutely steals the show, but 1969's Italdesign Iguana — painted in a metalflake finish that hot - rodders can only dream of (see page 77)-- and the bright yellow 33/2 Speciale from the same year look nearly as stunning with their glassy cabins and balloon - like tyres.

Like I said, I spent years using Ising models as models of glassy behavior, so I know what it's like to work with a model where if you're within an order of magnitude, it's all gLike I said, I spent years using Ising models as models of glassy behavior, so I know what it's like to work with a model where if you're within an order of magnitude, it's all glike to work with a model where if you're within an order of magnitude, it's all good.

Unlike normal play, during which both dogs consent, Walter seemed to get a kick out of rough, glassy - eyed interactions that Datson clearly did not like.

I forget the exact line, but when one of his friends asks him if he would like the surf to be glassy, but smaller or a big day, he replies, big, always big.

You will be asked to plan ahead to make sure everything runs well, and smooth (like a beautiful glassy wave).

On the western coast of Mauritius, an island that lies like a jewel on the glassy belt of the Indian Ocean, is nestled Flic en Flac, a small town that emerged 20 years ago from a sleepy fishing village near a beautiful beach.

Almost achingly beautiful, Trou aux Biches, or watering hole of the doe, is a splendid choice for anyone seeking glassy swimming waters or activities best enjoyed on the gentle waves, like snorkeling, swimming, kite surfing or wind sailing.

Some journal entries from soldiers offer insights like this: «They look at you, glassy eyed like they don't know what you're going to do to «em.

It was meant to solve problematic audio and rendering problems like steady state of water in rivers that looks glassy instead of kinetic.

A canvas like «Stolen Blues» revisits the work of painters so disparately scattered throughout the last century — late 1940s Pollock, 1970s De Kooning, the glassy color swirlings of Janet Fish's still lifes — that merely recognizing them recalls Jorge Luis Borges's suggestion that artists create their own unique precursors.

A mysterious inverted universe stretches out beneath the boat, the moon casting its spell over the water's glassy surface, throwing pools of white light and brilliant flecks like fireflies across the lake.

--(i) There shall be banks of maidenhair arranged about the Speaker's Chair: and roses white and roses red shall hang above the Speaker's head: like some tremendous window - box, the Galleries be gay with phlox: and goldfish, lovely but aloof, shall swim above the glassy roof.

The Honor 6 Plus has rounded corners, and the back panel is glassy just like the iPhone 4S.

Renders show only the rear of the device in the different colors, but features like the Google «G» logomark, the fingerprint sensor, the oversized camera port and the glassy cap up top correspond to where previous leaks have put them.

I like my transparencies, so it's great to see Aero — the blurred glassy effect introduced with Vista — is back.

It is very much comfortable in hand, have a similar glassy body but it doesn't have the same look on the sides, which we liked the Xperia Z3 for.

If the answers are «no», could you maybe use some kind of industrial - like pourable more rugged glassy kind of poly?

The youngest's eyes went all wide and glassy like she was on drugs when I told her we were going to teppanyaki.

However, her eyes went all glassy like someone who'd joined a cult when we got inside.