Sentences with phrase «like impenetrable»

Well known for her resilient personality and her ability to find ways to navigate complex challenges, even when they look like impenetrable obstacles, Rogers has been able to see Global Relay through a period of unprecedented growth.

I liked being a uber - warrior that swung like Sauron and walked through the battlefield like this impenetrable god - fiend.

Although at first Mochizuki's papers, which stretch over more than 500 pages, seemed like an impenetrable jungle of formulae, experts have slowly discerned a strategy in the proof that the papers describe, and have been able to zero in on particular passages that seem crucial, he says.

Not exact matches

It may not look like much, but Yahoo's pioneering stream of an NFL game is another crack in the once - impenetrable fortress surrounding ESPN

We all know what happened when a small, David - like Facebook began to chip away at an impenetrable Goliath known as Myspace.

Washington has had great success using Section 301 in the past, like when it pried open Japan's impenetrable semiconductor market in the 1980s.

You still need to figure out how to optimize your AdWords campaigns so you can «fall like a thunderbolt,» but hiding your ads gives you the advantage of testing new campaign variations so that your plans are «dark and impenetrable as night.»

The more important takeaway, though, is that this upheaval is happening at all: even a seemingly impenetrable clubby human interaction - driven industry like venture capital is susceptible to change that, in retrospect, is really quite radical.

It is described as a huge, fire breathing sea creature with an impenetrable double hide, tight scales on its back like shields and tightly joined, immovable flesh.

And I liked George and his impenetrable defense that he forged and drilled.

Sczchesny is like the keepers you mention, he can be impenetrable.

It just shows that the shadow is impenetrable and they will be our b*tch es for years to come... And I like that

«The same impenetrable quality that allows them to grease the wheel for a building like this, also creates a situation where many small property owners are trying to make perfectly reasonable renovations to their building and they get stopped by DOB for actually inexplicable reasons,» he continued.

It's an impenetrable organization and that doesn't just affect neighborhoods like SoHo,» Bergman continued.

It's designed to be like crocodile hide - thick, tough, and impenetrable.

Important messages like «find your shoes» bounce off the impenetrable fortress and drift unheeded to the floor.

Like a wooden shield, they offer some protection from microbial assaults but aren't impenetrable.

In Vera's vision, the Europe of the past looked more like a city park than an impenetrable thicket of trees.

There is something especially armour - like about heavily polished, curated looks, however, something impersonal and impenetrable that has its own peculiar appeal (though it runs the danger of being completely charmless, even if technically well executed).

They're meant to keep allergens like pollen and dust being absorbed into your pillows, so they're probably pretty impenetrable to bugs.

A Most Wanted Man, like such other le Carré adaptations as The Tailor of Panama and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, has been hard - wired with an impenetrable narrative that holds the viewer at arms length from start to finish, with the convoluted, confusing atmosphere compounded by a total absence of interesting or sympathetic characters.

Many of these men are bafflingly incoherent, which I actually kind of liked because it made the whole movie feel more surreal - some guy is speaking to Johansson in an impenetrable Scottish accent and she laughs and replies in a passable but not great English accent and I have to figure out what her replies tells me about the gibberish flowing from the Scotsman's mouth.

But the movie still succeeds, like Wolf, by putting human faces on this deliberately impenetrable, predominantly unpunishable white collar crime.

I've long since given up on Levy (something about his child - catcher role in New York Minute (as well as his impenetrable avant - garde turns in Christopher Guest's arrogant flicks) have turned me right off), but Martin, one of the smartest, most transgressive comics of his generation, you just sort of want to like.

Although the rituals, like the rest of the movie, are impenetrable and amazingly inept, I have to concede that no one presides over a ritual quite as well as Sybil Danning, especially when she is savagely ripping open the bodice of her dress.

Much like the delicate balancing act that women have to strike in real life, Hall in her performance as Elizabeth had to be practical without being a nag, dominant without being impenetrable.

The most interesting notion that the new «Tomb Raider» reboot has to offer apparently comes from the 2013 reimagining of the original»90s video game: It gives us a Lara Croft who's capable but not superhuman, making her more like Bruce Willis» legendary John McClane (in the first few «Die Hard» movies, anyway) than the usual impenetrable war machines who so often anchor action flicks and video games.

The political details are a bit arcane (there's a prologue outlining his career for American audiences) but the overall portrait is spellbinding and Toni Servillo, with his window pane eyeglasses and hang - dog face of impenetrable expression (and a hint of sadness), is like a silent movie comic as a political power broker.

As more and more beloved British TV shows like Fresh Meat, Misfits and Fast Girls begin to gain a steady U.S. following (thanks to Hulu and Netflix), Zawe Ashton, Antonia Thomas, Lenora Crichlow and other young newcomers have been able to readily tap into a once impossibly impenetrable fan base.

Like I said in my review, this has long been an impenetrable (pardon the pun) film for me, but I think it was my own mentality toward what Cronenberg should be — versus what he was becoming at that point — that kept me on the outside.

What bothers me is that often successful grant - getters use language to obscure rather than to illuminate their ideas, thereby writing a proposal of such impenetrable murkiness as to make Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics read like Pat The Bunny.

It seems like we're able to find our way through the writing, the marketing, and the branding, but getting the design right is almost impenetrable and people just limp through.

Xbox Live is not impenetrable and XBOX games are not reproachable like all the MS Sycophants choose to believe.

In one part of the campaign, you're in an impenetrable suit of bulletproof armor wielding a machine gun like Arnold Schwarzenegger mowing down enemies, which slightly undermines the main point of the narrative.

With huge, living worlds and gorgeously slick visuals, Capcom's cult co-op game looks like it will finally live up to its full potential on modern consoles, while bringing in newbies like me who found previous installments impenetrable.

I was delighted to find a survival - sim with rogue - like elements that didn't pride itself on being impenetrable.

The Festival Plaza in Pokémon Sun and Moon and Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon can, at times, seem like a bit of an impenetrable mess, particularly when it comes to the relatively simple features of trading and battling online.

«Our plans are dark and impenetrable as night, and when we move we will fall like a thunderbolt.

This is especially true when most other crew members are safe behind impenetrable plexiglass, rocking the more muted colours of what we like to call «non-victim chic».

With some occasionally impenetrable difficulty and lack of online co-op, it feels like quite the disappointment by the time you put the controller down.

Like anime and Hornby trains, fighting games are a quaint niche of nerdery that can be nigh - on impenetrable to outsiders.

I like the idea that the unwary «worshippers» are confronted with these sentinels, the idea that their gaze is somehow reciprocated but these impenetrable totems, spouting out of a magmatic matter coming from a distant future or past, have found a home in the Biennale's ground staring at the unwary art crowd...

Anne has made amazing things happen while remaining collegial with her coworkers and producing challenging projects even while she was at a place like the Smithsonian Institution, which has a nearly impenetrable bureaucracy.

A remake of Duchamp's «The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)» by Kendell Geers is called «Stripped Bare» and features bullet - riddled steel - framed glass, but the show also highlights small subversions, like Jennie C. Jones's impenetrable tangles of Apple earbuds and noise - canceling instrument cables.

Like the green mass in the two paintings mentioned above, the drawings Mitchell made in 1964 consist of an impenetrable tangle of marks; unlike the paintings, they don't dissolve into an array of twisty brushstrokes.

Whereas I tend to be very straight with my paintings except for the whole series of black paintings where I really repainted them over and over and then sanded them down in order to make an extremely impenetrable surface that looks kind of like Formica sometimes.

Accordingly, the painting's eight checkerboard segments seem to chart different states of matter, ranging from thickly applied, impenetrable black crayon to pale, amoeba - like wax sitting atop a dark ground.

These concerns and protests are nothing new, of course; art world outsiders and enfant terribles like the Guerrilla Girls and their irreverent posters, the anti-art of Dada, or Warhol's «Oxidation» paintings have long waged war with performance, protest, and art to challenge and change the otherwise impenetrable establishment.

Austrian artist Fisslthaler collects, carves, and layers found photographs to create intricate sculptural works that explore portrayals of the human body in media, like the two cut - out collages of Marilyn Monroe on view that somehow capture the complexity of an otherwise impenetrable bombshell.

Faces emerge and illegible glyphs sprout like cordyceps from a network of impenetrable foliage.