Sentences with phrase «like pinpricks»

Though all the pulses were of equal strength, volunteers reported that some of them felt like pinpricks while others were painless.

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«Beyond such information, there is emotion in what we are offered, which, even more than the lack of logic, keeps us in a permanent state of masked shock... after so many of these pinpricks, which are like the drops of water on stone, we too shall crumble into fragments.»

Though Akel and Mass share writing credit, Chalk was actually shot in a loose, improvisational manner in the mode of Christopher Guest's films, and its best set pieces are like devastatingly effective pinpricks puncturing the Hollywood hot - air balloon of inspirational teacher / coach melodramas.

I thank all those from the glittering metropolitan fleshpots of New York and Toronto to imperial pinpricks like the Falklands and the Cook Islands who've helped keep me in the game by swinging by the SteynOnline store or picking up one of our gift certificates.