Sentences with phrase «like mushroom clouds»

Some of its excesses land with hilarious aplomb (a parade of literally hundreds of human heads popping like mushroom clouds, set to the patriotic standard «Land of Hope and Glory»), while others fall flat (an out - of - left - field sexual provocation involving a Scandinavian princess).

Then, they make a fortune while your personal life explodes like a mushroom cloud over a nuclear bomb.

Not exact matches

That's the period that left us images of bright, sky - piercing mushroom clouds like the one at the top of this article, and footage like this of the devastation these weapons could wreak.

Tests like the «Bighorn event» display the mechanisms that lead to the formation of the iconic mushroom - shaped cloud.

This fungus also known as «Cloud Mushroom» resembles very much its namesake with a big stripped colourful plume like mMushroom» resembles very much its namesake with a big stripped colourful plume like mushroommushroom.

Sure, it's all terribly derivative, and it all looks like an Armani ad, but that's just his way, the adorably fetishistic director, but hey, if you're gonna fetishize anything, if you're gonna make love to your subject matter, it might as well be Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson instead of offshore oil rigs exploding into mushroom clouds or 18 - wheelers flying through the air to crash almightily on the freeway or whatever.

When the radical art collective Ztohoven slyly inserted a digital image of a mushroom cloud into an otherwise ordinary morning weather report on Czech Television's CT2 channel last summer, the response was nothing like that provoked by Orson Welles's 1938 radio play The War of the Worlds, which was based on H. G. Wells's novel about an alien invasion and caused near pandemonium.

Think of a large hot air mass in the atmosphere as rising like a hot air balloon in the shape of a mushroom cloud -LRB-!).

But the real issue was... did you get kind» a high dude from those glue vapours, as they increasingly permeated, then got hoovered as you panicked, up into your nostrils like some magic mushroom cloud being drawn to craneal infinity by an unwilling recipient in need of fresh air regardless of what was transpiring right beneath your olfactory probiscus member of middle - aged facedom?