Sentences with phrase «like hurtling»

With theaters across the country celebrating the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, productions of the playwright's mighty tragedy, «King Lear,» have come thundering one after another like hurtling boulders.

Never has standing still felt so much like hurtling forward.

Not exact matches

It goes roughly like this: Imagine one day you see a trolley — the famous San Francisco variety, or something more like a Toronto streetcar — hurtling along its track.

To grow up in Canada is to inherit a privileged position for understanding modernity» sufficently distant from that hurtling spaceship of «the republic to our south,» while retaining (perhaps from connections to nature, to the history of France, and to Catholicism) a sharp, intuitive sense of what it once was like to be «premodern.»

Rather, we are on a spaceship hurtling into the unknown, just like the solitary passenger in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey after he had tried to regain control by dismantling his spaceship's computer.

These days, it feels like my doorbell is always ringing after school, and my front street always has a half dozen kids, hollering and laughing and shrieking, hurtling down the small hill on their scooters.

Long before we first hurtled down the luge - like chutes on wheeled carts during the summertime at Snowbird and Park City ski resorts, my husband (Steve) and I knew «alpine...

It became a blur, like I was watching a train hurtling down the track.

I had no connections; I was no one's pet, hurtling through the ever - after like the mummified cats of Tutankhamen.

Our bodies react to threat the same way: fight, flight, or freeze, whether the threat is a bus hurtling towards us or a to - do list that makes us feel like we can't breathe.

2003 EL61 looks like a deflated football hurtling end over end through space, dragging along two moons and a tail of icy debris.

A new argument is hurtling up the Skeptic Leaderboard, leaving old stalwarts like mid-century cooling and water vapor in its wake.

Much like the football above, a single ion is hurtled at a thin layer of atoms.

You are having the time of your life; you are hurtling through the trees, at risk of crashing into any one of them, and you are moving at an exciting pace the likes of which you have never experienced before...

The movie hurtles authoritatively from Philly to Newark to an aircraft carrier in the Atlantic to South Korea to Israel to Wales, like Richard Engel on a worldwide assignment.

So onto the team comes pretty, blonde and hyper - ambitious lady - journo Veronica Corningstone (Christina Applegate)-- and before long it looks like the boys» fun is hurtling to an end.

A good racer makes it seem like you're really hurtling around the track at high velocity, narrowly avoiding collisions and fighting neck - and - neck with other cars.

Telling of the burgeoning affection between the Devon teenager Albert (played by former Royal Shakespeare Company ensemble member Jeremy Irvine) and the horse, Joey, who leads the young man hurtling into the horrors of World War One, the script trades heavily on the kind of «I knew when I first saw you» stuff that one might expect from a meet - cute saga like One Day - except that such language is here applied to a strapping lad who would appear to have no actual friends and the half - thoroughbred that his drunken father (a sad - eyed Peter Mullan) buys at auction.

Moments like this are merely speed bumps along a plot hurtling mercilessly toward a finish line you neither see coming, nor would you want to.

As we hurtle through the beautiful foothills of the Apennines, I feel like I'm playing a high - stakes, high - speed version of that fairground game where you have to guide the hoop along the electric wire without touching it.

The action looks a lot hairier from the cockpit of an über - yellow 2014 Volkswagen Beetle hurtling along the salt at 208 mph, its bodywork buffeting like a flag in a typhoon and a pylon marking the course's left edge looming alarmingly large through the windshield.

And yet here we are hurtling towards Monticello's decreasing radius corners — New York State's poshest club track has no shortage of those — in something that looks suspiciously like a Camaro but feels surprisingly like a 911.

The old S / C RR was an almost surreal experience as it hurtled towards the horizon like an ancient monument on four wheels, and the new RR S / C just exaggerates that perception.

I like the delicious, rockin» V8, the way it rumbles at idle, sounds like a Cup car while revving, and the way it hurtles this thing down the road when you stomp on it.

When I was in my pajamas, I raised the shade again so I could get the maximum benefit from the experience, lying straight as a mummy in my little coffin - bed of rebirth, hurtling through one town after another where people steeped like old tea bags in their humdrum lives, speeding farther away by the minute from Earl - dom and all the other bottlenecks I had narrowly squeezed through.

She would not let herself imagine anything untoward, she would not visualize the gondola rising upward until it burst into flames or hurtling down until it smashed into pieces on the ground or floating away over the rooftops like Gambetta in 1871.

Walking on what seems like a razor thin piece of rope where one false move or breath will send you hurtling to your doom.

Locals treat the road like a village square, crossing slowly and stopping for a chat with neighbors and friends, disregarding the motorbikes and other vehicles hurtling by.

If you would like more of a together experience where you can scream in unison then buckle up in a swing for two on the Minjin swing and you'll not only hear each other screams as you hurtle at 120km / hr, but both your hearts pumping harder with the adrenalin rush!

Sounds like standard stuff, thus far, but spin the scroll wheel and the camera will suddenly leap backwards into the air, hurtling upwards to reveal the shocking revelation that you're not just fighting over some square chunk of land, but rather you're battling across a globe, a complete planet ripe for the taking.

These massive world events are named Ark - Falls and are one of the few moments when Defiance actually feels like an MMO: people from around the map will create conveys of vehicles as they all hurtle toward a major Ark - Fall event, each and ever one determined to score some big XP for their trouble.

Taking control of a supercharged human with capabilities such as sending cars hurtling miles with a shockwave, throwing cars at wherever you so desire and creating an ionic vortex (an electric tornado) to gobble up the enemies and spit them out like a baby's dummy is a LOT of fun.

These side missions are hit and miss with some being quite fun, like causing the biggest explosion you can by hurtling a vehicle at high speeds towards a structure, or getting the highest chaos scores in a specific outpost.

The highly anticipated Metal Gear Online beta has come hurtling back to earth like a big world destroying metorite of failure.

The game actually found ways to help you with this — portals would shift to fit nicely onto a platform if your shot was off, and the springboard Aerial Faith Plates would gently correct your course if it looked like you were about to hurtle to your doom.

You can pull yourself towards the generator at breakneck speed, hurtling past it like on a giant rubber band, smashing and grabbing all enemies and objects on your path.

FIFA 16 is hurtling towards its September 24th release date and it's looking like one of the best entries for a while, with multiple improvements to shout about.

«Bananaman (To the Rescue)» shows a hero hurtling like Superman through just such a sky.

Without negative feedback, a system will tend to have a dynamic much like that of a billiard ball balanced on a knife edge; any minor perturbation will send it hurtling off in one direction or the other.

That's like being in a car hurtling towards a cliff and deciding not to do anything, because we don't really «know» whats going to happen, it's all speculation.

A new argument is hurtling up the Skeptic Leaderboard, leaving old stalwarts like mid-century cooling and water vapor in its wake.

We are hurtling down the track towards a canyon rife with unknown risks (Jeep's entertainment console's zero - day vulnerability that allowed hackers to hijack core vehicular controls), deliberate deceptions (VW's emissions cheats) and corporate power plays (like using anti-circumvention measures under DMCA s. 1201 (a)(1) to force auto consumers to spend money in the unregulated monopoly of manufacturer - authorized repair shops and tools).