Sentences with phrase «like phantom»

The habits and mental agitations of digital work life persisted like phantom limbs.

«Amputated from history in 1945, Rama's work would reappear at a later date, insistently and painfully, like a phantom limb.»

Seeking perfection, while floating like a phantom from gig to gig, sounds like a recipe for madness.

Your dog's behavior sounds like a phantom pregnancy.

Enter a bit of temptation by the name of Sevaughn that Braelyn just can't resist, and her upcoming wedding seems like a phantom memory of the past.

«They are like phantom grandparents.

Leo is a sick boy trapped in hospital who discovers he can leave his body and fly around like a phantom.

And he creates some of the most hauntingly beautiful and terrible images I've seen on the screen in the chaos of the climax: orange and yellow flames devouring the black - and - white image on a theater screen, the image reforming on the billowing smoke like a phantom cackling over the destruction.

Composed by Icelandic cellist Hildur Gudnadottir and British composer Natalie Holt, the score is rueful and ominous, like a phantom floating through a winter's dusk.

In addition to a trailer that showed off Quiet's interaction with Big Boss and his Diamond Dogs — as well as her superhuman abilities to turn invisible and move undetected like a phantom — Kojima showed off new gameplay that focused on cooperative stealth.

Then, like a phantom, it's gone.

Like a phantom limb, I get these fake sensations of my milk letting down ALL THE TIME.

The Belgian is one of the most remarkable players in the world: Like a phantom in boxing gloves, he combines fluid dribbling with a thumping defensive output.

What isn't there, of course, are the Cubs and the Red Sox, whose absence is a presence, like the phantom legs of an amputee.

Jesus never said he'd be present like a phantom or like a ever happy feeling, or talking in my head.

Comic ideas waft through the movie like phantoms hoping to take shape.

Swells are slowed by outer reefs like Phantoms before breaking onto a sharp lava reef, producing fast right bowls and rippable walls before a square inside barrel section.

Like phantoms, the images exist as fully imagined and unconscious of the artist that so obsessed over their impossible, but necessary, existence.

Not exact matches

Ever felt your BlackBerry buzz with a «phantom vibration» from what felt like an email that turned out not to exist?

Plus, photocopies sometimes have a «phantom» staple that can throw off systems like Ripcord's.

We were terrible against West brom yes the ref gave a phantom penalty but come on we should be putting teams like West brom to the sword never mind holding onto a 1 goal lead courtesy of an own goal..

OMG, our mates are strengthening and we here debating how to keep obviously average players like walcot, elneny, wilshere et all, Antonio conte had the balls to tel a world class striker like diego costa to f *** off and we here debating mediocrity, we seem to have short memory as arsenal fanz, thumb me down d way u like, y ’ all gon protest nd moan and groan like last season coz as at now i see no phantom changes, still d same old system, same old players nd d deluded one probably closed for the transfer market after signing just one out of the numerous we actually need to compete.

That sounds way cool, like they're phantom superheroes.

The name of the operation was «Spectrum,» referring in Portuguese to the phantom - like nature of a fugitive «who lived discreetly and in the shadows... evading police attempts for almost 30 years,» the police statement said.

In the desolation of East Antarctica lies a mountain range like no other: phantom peaks buried from view beneath thousands of meters of ice.

«Even though the hand is gone, people with phantom limb pain still feel like there's a hand there — it basically feels painful, like a burning or hypersensitive type of pain, and conventional painkillers are ineffective in treating it,» said study co-author Dr Ben Seymour, a neuroscientist based in Cambridge's Department of Engineering.

Y - 90 burden and kidney mass were determined from reconstructed PET and CT images and verified using phantoms — inanimate objects that act just like patients» vital organs during imaging and therapy.

In addition, like NIST's other MRI phantoms, the breast phantom generates image data that can be traced to international measurement standards.

However, in the 1950s, suspiciously dicynodont - like footprints were found alongside dinosaur prints in southern Africa, suggesting the presence of a late - surviving phantom dicynodont unknown in the skeletal record.

«But it's not a true «phantom pain,» like in people with an amputated limb.»

So while anyone who has any memory of the early Seventies will feel like they're back there again with the establishment / counterculture antagonisms and raging ego trips and spells of mellow sunlight, they will also, like the film's hero, detect another phantom vibe.

He was in The Shimmer, of course, and it's here that sci - fi fans may start to recognize the phantom impression of Andrei Tarkovsky's deep - think genre classics, films like Solaris or Stalker, the latter similarly concerned with the traversing of a mysterious realm.

Is she, like the two men, a waif or phantom?

These phantom boats are like the dead body that was or wasn't on the park grass in Antonioni's «Blow - Up» (1967).

King George (Jared Harris)'s decaying health - and eventual passing - stalks The Crown's opening episodes like a constant phantom.

Then see more cool vintage Lobby Cards from the likes of PLANET OF THE APES, JAWS, STAR WARS, ALIEN, and THE PHANTOM MONSTER SHOW, or read my ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT - related tales and interviews, movie reviews, Famous Monsters - related pieces, and more cool vintage movie lobby cards.

Awkward dramaturgy like this is often a hidden (dare I say, phantom) cause of audience dissatisfaction with stories and motion pictures, particularly in narrative modes like fantasy and adventure, where the archetypal structures are so well - worn and unconsciously familiar.

«We were headed for the edge of sanity... like we were aberrations, phantoms.»

It's almost like having a phantom pain in a limb that wasn't amputated from us but our grandfathers, but still the pain is real.

His camera swoops and glides up staircases, through hallways, and around corners like an omniscient phantom, almost always keeping a respectful distance from its subjects which it regards almost exclusively in 2 or 3 + shots.

Crooks offers a long street - level tracking shot, his camera sighting down numerous alleys and other urban passageways, his editing having collapsed the enclosing architecture into razor - thin facades that occlude passersby, making them appear and disappear, phantom - like.

The Charger also presents more of a performance flavor combined with a spacious interior and a phantom - like exterior aesthetic.

The Zenith Collection Phantoms are equipped with luxury amenities like a built - in Champagne cooler with enough room to chill two bottles and store eight crystal flutes.

There's also a very nice phantom - like effect used for Cloak and it really helps set the character apart from his 616 counterpart.

Articles include behavioral topics such as repetitive habits like excessive chewing and furniture scratching, odd behavior like «phantom food burying,» and every day concerns such as exercise and sleep routines.

Some of the acceptable colors for the breed include white, black, brown, gray, silver, beige, apricot, cream, red, and sable as well as patterns like brindle, phantom, sable, and parti - color.

It is assumed some dogs feel a phantom sensation in the limbs much like an amputee.)

It sounds like you and your husband may be experiencing phantom sensations from being in a heightened state of awareness.

Just as a human following an amputation has phantom pain or a sensation that the missing limb is still there, cats will feel like their claws are still there.

It may not have a fleet of 14 bespoke Rolls - Royce Phantoms like its legendary 1928 namesake in Hong Kong, but the Peninsula Beverly Hills, designed by... Read More