Sentences with phrase «like locust»

There are the odd graphical glitches like locust riding non-existent Reavers or clip - through with sprites but these are the exception rather than the rule....

If you allow your legs to roll outward in a backbend, (like locust, cobra, wheel and bow) what you end up doing to your pelvis and sacrum will leave your body aching for all the wrong reasons.

Like the locust, much of the cockroach genome, some 60 %, is made of repetitive elements — sequences of DNA that occur over and over.

Its morally complex stories are rife with blockbuster - ready special effects like locust plagues, apocalyptic floods and talking donkeys.

In Richard Snowden's The American Revolution; Written in the Style of Ancient History, Congress became the «great Sanhedrin,» Lord North's counsel was similar to that of Ahitophel, and the British descended on America «like the locusts of Egypt» devouring «every goodly thing.»

Five minutes after Norway's King Olav took his rail seat, accompanied by his beautiful daughter, Princess Astrid, the Russians were swarming over the Canadians like locusts.

- How technology will solve the planet's hardest problems - Aritificial intelligence has a lot to learn from babies - Tiny robots jump like locusts

This is a lot of crap and political theatre, just like the depressing spectacle of the hordes of special interests descending on the Capitol like locusts this time every year to bleat and whine and self - flagellate to keep their oxen from getting gored or their golden geese and sacred cows from being butchered by budget cuts, to thoroughly mix metaphors.

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

Goodwood welcomes roughly 150,000 spectators who spread out like locusts over the grounds of host Lord March's Goodwood estate during the weekend.

Chorus Swarms of placemen and pensioners soon will appear Like locusts deforming the charms of the year; Suns vainly will rise, showers vainly descend, If we are to drudge for what others shall defend.

Self - publishers are like locusts (I'm serious, hear me out).

Some books will be like locusts, emerging by some fickle whim long after they were forgotten.

They were like locusts, creeping into every crevice, their voices shrill and sharp.

The Flood are an endless, um, flood of disgusting bug - like creatures and infected warriors that operate much like locusts.

Like locusts, Joseph Seed's followers are slowly eating up the land in Hope county.

If an entire nation of 300 million [undivided India's population in those days] took to similar exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.»

They also tend to spawn from holes in the ground, just like the Locusts in previous games.

Not exact matches

Revelations predicts «locusts» with human faces, women's hair, lions» teeth, and scorpions» tails, also, horses with the heads of lions and tails like serpents with heads.

I smite like no one else, I'll show you evil, quakes, tornado, hurricanes, massive polar shifts, hail, locusts, disease, famine like no one can you puny pets.

Just like people in the wilderness wearing camel hair coats and eating locusts with a side of honey disrupt us, people who think Jesus actually meant all that stuff he said don't fit in anywhere.

He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of «full - spectrum dominance,» its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts.

WE NEVER USE INDUSTRIAL FILLERS - We don't use industrial stabilizers, emulsifiers or gums like carrageenan, locust bean, or xanthan, which many of the leading brands do (have you read their ingredient lists?).

What's best is that the AKB's will be back like a plague of locusts JustaArsenal will change it's name to «JustAKB's»

Additionally, I am enthralled by the vision of LSU fans washing over a town in Northern Wisconsin like a horde of locusts, except instead of eating the crops, they make jambalaya in parking lots.

Like Belushi in the Blues Brothers, «Locusts, it was lLocusts, it was locustslocusts.

Obama should have gotten into the Moses act — riffing how Republicans, as repped by Bush and McCain, are like unto a plague of locusts.

Dunni Obata's tomato-less stew Plate of beef stew made with tatashe (bell peppers) Image DOONEY»S KITCHEN Image Bell peppers are often used as a good alternative to tomatoes in stew Ingredients: Tatshe (red bell peppers); shombo pepper (long red chilli) use half or all; a few ata rodo (scotch bonnet or habanera pepper)-- the bigger ones are not as hot as the small; ginger; three or four fairly large onions; half an iru (fermented locust bean)-- if you like iru for fuller flavour use all and garlic is good alternative if you don't like iru; vegetable oil; ike eran (hump of the cow); palm oil (optional but good to use if the stew is too hot.

Like other locusts, desert locusts can switch from a solitary phase with low population densities during recessions (periods of calm), to a gregarious phase with high population densities during invasions, when hopper bands and swarms can devastate agriculture.

The Oxford team has preliminary results from field experiments in Morocco that show that locusts in the desert behave like those in the lab.

«Geraniol, which smells like rose to us, was an attractant to the locusts, but citral, which smells like lemon to us, is a repellant to them.

The millimeter - size rods are tapered at one end to make them «walk» in a preferred direction; like a bird or a locust, they tend not to move backward.

Hyde — like changes in at least one species of grasshopper — the desert locust (Schistocerca gregaria).

But then a locust is not much like a chimpanzee.

Especially when you have acne around the chin and jawline, it probably means your hormones are out of whack — so I made use of poses like twists, locust pose, plow pose, and headstand, which helped balance out my hormones.

In addition to stabilization, multifidus also assists with extension of the spine — otherwise known as backbending — especially against the resistance of gravity, as in belly backbends like bhujangasana (cobra pose) and shalabhasana (locust pose).

Your disease did not «drop into your lap» like a plague of locusts, it took time to develop and for many different reasons.

Try Wheel Pose or practice Circle of Trees), outside fun like sledding (locust and reverse plank), snow man building (roll like a ball), or snowball fights (low lunge with throwing arms), holiday baking (Kira Willey song: The Mixing Bowl).

Also, are stabilizers like guar gum, locust bean gum, xanthan gum, and cellulose OK?

When filmed in reverse, they look like a swarm of locusts taking flight.

The farm scenes in particular (the poor city is reduced to only a few locations (that look like sets actually) and seems much smaller than the town in Sunrise are really stunning: much of the film feels like Days Of Heaven was the film Murnau actually wanted to make (same location: wheat field in the upper midwest, attacked by a natural disaster, though Murnau doesn't appear to have the budget for his hailstorm whereas Malick could afford locusts).

We're just two months out from the 2017 iteration of the Sundance Film Festival, descending on Utah like a horde of movie - loving ski bum locusts from January 19 to January 29.

It focuses on only a half - dozen characters — the nameless protagonist (Jet Li), three legendary rebel assassins (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and Donnie Yen), a student (Zhang Ziyi), and the king they're all plotting to kill (Chen Daoming)-- but it mostly takes place in a massive palace, surrounded by hundreds of armored guards ready to fire arrows like a cloud of locusts.

All slick and black and shiny... If you were to ask me, it looks rather more like an awful locust...»

The cinematography by Sean Bobbitt (who worked with McQueen on his previous features) is stunning; and the score by Hans Zimmer represents his best work in years, an eerie, discomfiting soundscape that buzzes like angry locusts and drums like approaching thunder.

In these dialogue - free opening scenes, set to a score that buzzes like a plague of locusts, There Will Be Blood establishes itself as a film of Darwinian ferocity, a stark and pitiless parable of American capitalism.

But I was as guilty as anyone; the only tree I knew beyond pines and willows and birches was the black locust, and that was because I liked the way John had described the blossoms» scent: like grape lollipops.

The Mardi Gras World party was an operational disaster, the pub crawl almost as bad, and I heard the Samhain «Sinners and Saints» party looked like a swarm of locusts swept it bare less than fifteen minutes after opening.

Some voices are slow like honey melting in the sun, Elli and I saw a locust spread scarlet wings in the Nutcracker, it was crooning «I'm so gorgeous.»

Locusts with teeth like lions, breastplates of iron, and a sting whose pain lasts for five months.