Sentences with phrase «like skyscrapers»

Architecture critic Martin Filler penned an appreciation of «Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American Art» at San Francisco's de Young Museum and its «cocktail shakers that look like skyscrapers, skyscrapers that look like cocktail shakers, paintings that resemble photographs, cars reminiscent of zeppelins.»

Rothko's - such as Number 10, 1950, which once belonged to the architect Philip Johnson - are vertical, like skyscrapers.

The dream battles, by contrast, involve Mario fighting alone, until he uses special moves (here referred to as Luiginary Attacks) which involve an army of Luigis forming various shapes, like skyscrapers and boulders, that require more unique uses of the 3DS (such as motion controls or the touch screen) to do maximum damage.

While players may begin with basic elements, like fire or air, they'll eventually form things like skyscrapers, weapons or animals.

As for antiquity, some of your best bets are in Israel and Lebanon, where ancient sites vie for your attention like skyscrapers in New York.

Large structures like skyscrapers, bridges, and highway overpasses are sensitive to low frequency shaking, whereas smaller structures like homes are more likely to be damaged by high frequency shaking, which ranges from 2 to 10 hertz and above.

First seen in October 2017, the space rock «Oumuamua looks like a skyscraper tumbling through space — and challenges our ideas of how planetary systems form

One problem the genre suffers from is the number of dull, dreary games like Skyscraper Simulator, Digger Simulator and Roadworks Simulator.

Our knowledge and skills are like a skyscraper: the more floors the better we know the language, the more confident we are about our skills in it.

These are designed to stop the big SQ7 swaying around in the bends like a skyscraper in an earthquake.

The game offers new locales like the skyscraper - packed New Donk City.

There is, first, the obvious fact that the elements don't really very often add up to a legible landscape (the black pentagon in Calvi looks no more like a cave than the squares in Mondrian look like skyscraper windows — that is, a confusion might be possible because of the limited number of shapes available, but everything in the intention of the painting is there to steer one away from it).

HBM addresses the problem by stacking DRAM vertically, like a skyscraper.

Intel's Optane technology is based on a «3D» crisscross design called XPoint (cross point) that stacks memory layers vertically like a skyscraper for faster access.

Not exact matches

Cheng's friend Benjamin Von Wong is a photographer who pulls stunts like posing a model underwater with sharks, or on the unprotected edge of a skyscraper.

From inside the crown of the Statue of Liberty he stood in awe, gazing out at the sea of skyscrapers, shining like metal and glass exclamation points, punctuating the urban skyline.

The REAL twist is thousands of public companies hemorrhaging billions in losses and value over the next ten years, like gigantic, collapsing Manhattan skyscrapers in slow motion... except that it might not be that slow.»

Once you find pieces of content like this, you can employ a brilliant strategy devised by Backlinko CEO, Brian Dean called the Skyscraper Technique to create content that is almost guaranteed to do well.

Today, in Singapore's financial district, big names in the private - money world, like Credit Suisse, Julius Baer and UBS, keep offices in gleaming skyscrapers among the squat facades of century - old colonial British buildings.

This tells us that either there is really significant searches for a mechanical keyboard guide — and we should aspire to produce the very best one we can and use a promotional strategy like Brian Dean's SkyScraper technique.

The hopes of Barca fans the world over were smashed like a glass dropped from a skyscraper last week as the overwhelming favourites went down without a fight against Roma in Italy and were subsequently knocked out of the Champions League.

The Loop structures, the Haskell - Barker - Atwater buildings at 18, 22 and 28 S. Wabash Ave., provide a snapshot of what the Loop looked like before skyscrapers began dotting the city in the 1890s.

In all three cases the group started with semiconductor crystals, material with a regular atomic lattice like the girders of a skyscraper.

Now she lies in the Hudson River like a horizontal skyscraper, three levels of her 18 decks filled with exhibits about military technology, history, and the science of seafaring and flight.

Dr Michele Bannister said: «We've discovered that this is a planetesimal with a well - baked crust that looks a lot like the tiniest worlds in the outer regions of our solar system, has a greyish / red surface and is highly elongated, probably about the size and shape of the Gherkin skyscraper in London.

The tower looks like an unfinished skyscraper, a boxy skeleton of steel.

While finding a gigantic black hole in a massive galaxy in a crowded area of the universe is to be expected — like running across a skyscraper in Manhattan — it seemed less likely they could be found in the universe's small towns.

Having to build devices with only the three magnetic metals naturally available to us is rather like trying to build a skyscraper using only wrought iron.

So in this issue Hanson follows that through to a conclusion coming up with tiny insect - like robots with greater than human level intelligence living by the billions in skyscrapers and sort of doing their virtual work at the equivalent of pennies per day and what this leads to, there are two different ideas about what this kind of economic runaway advancement would ultimately lead to.

Aug. 28, 2017 - Materials scientist Xavier Lepró can't grow his «spider webs» fast enough to swing from skyscrapers like Spiderman, but he can best another web - maker, Mother Nature, when it comes to consistency.

Materials scientist Xavier Lepró can't grow his «spider webs» fast enough to swing from skyscrapers like Spiderman, but he can best another web - maker, Mother Nature, when it comes to consistency.

From the twinkling lights along Michigan Ave. to decorations as big as the skyscrapers themselves, I often feel like I'm living in a real life winter wonderland!

Golden leaves raining down and tall skyscrapers peeking through bare branches... it felt like a scene from a movie!

(Bras that stand up by themselves, girdles, etc.) I'm picturing a skyscraper - like scaffolding inside Jackie O's clothing now.

It's like being out in the wilderness with all the trees & flowers, and instead of mountains to gawk at, we've got skyscrapers.

What's nice is that the long skirt exaggerates how tall you are, making petites seem statuesque and us talls seem skyscraper - like.

The sights of blowing up cars and breaking skyscrapers doesn't look dizzying as it did in films like The Avengers or Man Of Steel.

Like ABC's «FlashForward,» this post-apocalyptic, serialized drama begins with a global catastrophe, including scenes of damaged skyscrapers and panic in the streets of Los Angeles.

And the news — good or bad, depending on one's viewpoint — is that if you don't like this one, his next action vehicle, «Skyscraper,» will open in July — a schedule that's become predictable in more ways than one.

As Davis tells Kate before a headlong glide down a collapsing skyscraper, «It's like riding an avalanche.»

Land of pastoral futurism, where herdsmen wave cheerfully at spaceships zooming above the umbrella - thorn acacias, and earth - toned skyscrapers rise from the savanna like David Adjaye versions of the Watts Towers.

And the scoop — excellent or unhealthy, relying on one's standpoint — is if you do not like this one, his subsequent motion car, «Skyscraper,» will open in July — a agenda that is transform predictable in additional techniques than one.

The disaster movie has never really gone away, but certainly its heyday was the 1970s, an era so fraught with social and political chaos that the country often felt like a sinking ship or a burning skyscraper.

Though barbs bounce off it like giant lizards off a Wakandan force field, one criticism has stuck: that the studio is loath to kill off characters with the potential to generate revenue ad infinitum, which means that nothing ever seems at stake except skyscrapers assembled from ones and zeros.

The upshot is that the gorilla, the wolf and the croc are headed to Chicago to the top of skyscraper (the title of Johnson's next movie) where they can go all King Kong on the city like the earthquake did to San Francisco in San Andreas.

It's hard to get invested in a routine car chase after seeing the entire city of Dubai swallowed by a tsunami, or dozens of Hong Kong skyscrapers topple like a row of dominos.

Once upon a time, an ex-cop who looked like the guy from Moonlighting walked into a terrorist - infiltrated skyscraper.

According to the official press release accompanying this latest trailer, LEGo New York is bigger and better than before, allowing players to «hyper jump off skyscrapers with Hulk, use Quicksilver to speed run over water or even play as giant characters like the menacing Fing Fang Foom who can grow to the size of buildings.»

It has thunderous robots against terrifying monsters fighting to the death as skyscrapers shatter like glass all while set to an amazing musical score.

I know it sounds like a sequel — hello «Towering Inferno» — but «Skyscraper» (July 13, Universal) unites Dwayne Johnson and a burning super-high-rise in Hong Kong.