Sentences with phrase «like poring over»

Looking becomes addictive, as you inch your way across the microlife of each canvas, like poring over a rock pool and forgetting the ocean.

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It feels like a headphone that was pored over before it was sold.

That included talking with them regularly, poring over research, and even wearing an insulin pump and checking my blood sugar regularly for a period of time so I could better understand what it was like for them.

It was slightly before noon and horse - players in the paddock area at Tropical Park assumed the postures of their trade — they threw back their heads like turkeys in a rainstorm and drank in the sun and dreamily contemplated nothing at all, or they shaded their eyes and pored over agate type in the Racing Form's columns and scrawled notes to themselves in the margins.

For Years I have pored over accounts of the English prize ring bare - knuckle battles and tried to visualize what those fights were like.

Most handicappers pore over statistics like Power Ratings and then factor in various other angles like «the revenge factor» to come up with a game prediction.

It's like panning for gold: We pore over the top baby names of the year (and the less common ones too) to spot the trends that are influencing name choices.

I pored over baby catalogs while I was pregnant, imagining what my life with my little one would be like.

I did not come into politics to pore over the government's budget figures like a beady - eyed accountant.

He pored over U.S. and Japanese patents and articles in periodicals like Applied Physics Letters and Journal of Applied Physics.

In one way, she explains, her work is like that of any diligent researcher: painstakingly gathering information, spending hours poring over facts and figures and pondering their significance.

Kneeling next to an active dig of an ancient crocodilian creature, Lewin admits that he is not a paleontologist, but he can pore over a find like this for hours.

Psychologists Noah Sasson and Amy Pinkham, who are conducting the trial, have pored over hours of tape featuring scenes like this one, evaluating how people with autism or schizophrenia approach everyday interactions.

So like an obsessive accountant, Trenberth pores over the energy budget, tallying up the joules accumulating in various parts of the climate.

The usual cycle is like this: bacteria builds up, it gets attacked by an over the top inflammatory response, the pore swells up and becomes acne.

Neither too shimmery nor too flat, this powder acts like a soft - focus veil over breakouts, pores, and wrinkles.

, which turns over shiny new cells that brighten your skin and diminish pesky troubles like fine lines and large pores.

Over the years, I've tried so many expensive products to blur out my pores and imperfections, but I always felt like they would clog my pores, causing more breakouts and blackheads.

It's always best to start with a good base, like Proactiv's Smoothing Primer, under foundation to fill in any pores and smooth over lines.

I love it because it has a soft and a more rough side (the colored side); it slips right over my fingers and works like a little scrubbing wash cloth perfect for getting deep into pores and removing that ugly dead skin.

And then, over the next few hours, days, and even weeks, it becomes apparent that Glazer's film has embedded itself in you like a parasite, making it difficult to do anything but process, unpack and puzzle over «Under The Skin,» a film that seems to have penetrated every pore of you.

Like so many films consumed with the minutiae of daily journalism, «Spotlight» is a magnificently nerdy process movie — a tour de force of filing - cabinet cinema, made with absolute assurance that we'll be held by scene after scene of people talking, taking notes, following tips, hounding sources, poring over records, filling out spreadsheets, and having one door after another slammed in their faces.

Following massive research on the clothing of the period, which included poring over the Victoria and Albert Museum's fashion archives, Bridges» team created 50 unique, House of Woodcock garments inspired by the likes of Balenciaga and Hardy Amies.

Students pored over copies of Red Hot Salsa, Paint Me Like I Am and You Hear Me?

Learned, a veteran in school finance who came out of retirement to take the job, pored over the district's books and came to a quick conclusion: «My thought was, boy, I sure liked retirement,» he said.

My Scirocco easily wins the award for the farthest - traveled attendee, and the other Scirocco owners spend an hour poring over differences between the U.S. and German - specification cars, differences so minute — like the small strip of chrome on my door panels or the hook inexplicably welded to the underside of the hood — that I hadn't noticed them in fifteen years of ownership.

Still no clock, or right - side mirror, or tilt wheel, or trunk release, or tinted glass, or many other options — you'd need to brew a pot of coffee to pore over the list to get this Nova equipped like the cars of today.

First, I pored over magazine profiles of Amazon superstars like Amanda Hocking to uncover the secrets to their success.

Whether we like it or not, the process of agents vetting for rudimentary competence and coherence, and then the publishers having their editorial staff, including editors, copy editors, and proofreaders pore over the work, DOES in fact make a difference in most cases.

I began to treat anything related to finance & investing, no matter how mundane, like a sacred text — something to mine for info, and then pore over for any scrap of insight.

You could spend hours poring over each and every ETF on the market before you decide where to place your money... or you could enlist the aid of someone like Robin Carpenter, editor of Cabot ETF Investing System, who follows ETFs for a living.

Built from the ground up on new tech to take advantage of Nintendo's new portable's three - dimensional qualities, it also includes exclusive features like a Boss Challenge mode, and now we have a new - admittedly 2D - trailer to pore over.

Wearing time like a stain - Its leafless branches dressed in hollow vessels sweating nervously like the pores on a belly pushing outward As leather yolks seep out from behind their lemon shells Forming a wet mask over the face of what was.

And some big companies, like Verizon, are taking big hits.Verizon, the telcom provider, is bleeding from every pore; vandals stole over $ 300,000 in copper from their cell phone towers last year, and that was just in California!

«Many climate scientists, like myself, study climate change by poring over large data sets and running climate model simulations.

Underwriters will also pore over your medical records, looking for answers to questions like how much blockage was there, what do your current echo, EKG, and treadmill results look like, and how often do you follow up with your doctor.

In short, you need to pore over the settings of the device and / or service providing the signal to your television (e.g. your receive, Blu - ray player, cable box, TiVo, etc.) and ensure that if there is an option to select the speaker configuration of the receiving device that it matches what your actual speaker configuration is (e.g. if you're just using your TV then it should be set to «2.0» or «Normal Stereo» or the like).

It feels like almost yesterday that we were excitedly poring over the first pictures of the Nexus One, Google's own - brand Android smartphone that sought to present the company's operating system in the best possible light.

We have a new build that I would like to add some «character» to, so I'll be poring over your blog for ideas.