Sentences with phrase «like sledgehammers»

I'd agree that the biblical metaphors are like sledgehammers sometimes but I really responded to the film overall.

The most common «weights» for recreational use were the globe - style dumbbells and fixed - weight barbells, along with various odd implements like sledgehammers, weights for measuring cereal grain and produce, and ballast weights.

I've also included a number of «special equipment» workouts for you, in case you do have more varied equipment available to work with (like sledgehammers, sandbags, bands and chains, etc.).

Unlike antibiotics, which act like sledgehammers, wiping out all bacteria, phages specifically target single strains of these germs, leaving beneficial microbes unharmed.

Other traditional treatments, such as chemotherapy or surgery, act more like sledgehammers.

Commodities Steal the Show Commodities stole the show overnight led by WTI which soared to a three year on the DOE report while industrial metals catapulted higher on the likelihood that an extension of Russian sanctions will hit like a sledgehammer at the heart of the nation's mining complex.

Haiti whacked me in the face like a sledgehammer.

The problem struck me like a sledgehammer when I tried to open some old Microsoft Word documents earlier this year.

Firstly, it ramps up your metabolism and breaks down stored energy like a sledgehammer to your fat cells.

This is a newer pre-workout that is hitting the market like a sledgehammer.

Many of the major points of the movie are presented like a sledgehammer to the forehead, but there were a few visceral thrills to be had.

In Corsa mode, upshifts at redline feel like a sledgehammer whacking the bucket seats.

Day was in a side impact, during which Gladwell says «the door was driven into him like a sledgehammer.»

GM was planning on producing 600 GT1 Championship Editions, but just as the cars became available, the economy hit Corvette sales like a sledgehammer.

BEATTY, Nevada — Climbing out of the air - conditioned comfort of the Kia Sedona test car, Death Valley's heat hit me like a sledgehammer.

The Chrysler 300 SRT is a bit like a sledgehammer with a suede - covered handle.

Seeing all of these rumors and leak information, it seems like Sledgehammer Games will be the first in a while to feature a Call of Duty Game that's taking place in the past

Titanfall however, doesn't just shoe - horn this movement into an already existing gameplay template like Sledgehammer have done with Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

However, this time around it looks like Sledgehammer has combined the series» staple Nazi Zombies mode with the co-op campaign to create a brand - new, story - focused mode to play through.

Wang recently got his hands on Saints Row's iconic Penetrator, and can also use more mundane crossover weapons like the sledgehammer from Serious Sam 3 and the katana from Hotline Miami.

You'll also wield a number of ranged weapons such as guns and grenades as well as melee weapons like a sledgehammer or baseball bat.

It almost feels like Sledgehammer and Activision dodged a pretty close bullet.

From WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS Chemistry says Moon is proto - Earth's mantle, relocated Data confirm model in which impact pulverizes Earth like a sledgehammer hitting a watermelon Measurements of an element in Earth and Moon rocks have just disproved the leading hypotheses for the origin of the Moon.

Not exact matches

Like Gandalf wielding a makeshift staff, Zooko unleashes the force of a sledgehammer upon the CPU tower.

It wasn't enough to be persistently sledgehammer - like with its presence yet it was enough to knock my overall opinion of this smokey salsa down a notch or two.

The Conor who destroyed Aldo, Alvarez, and made Diaz» face look like he was hit with a sledgehammer would KO this bum quick.

I like how at the end the guy is like THE HELL WITH THIS SLEDGEHAMMER and just knocks over the crumbling wall with his fists.

But as with people, this is much like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

«This provides a new target in our search for a drug — instead of sledgehammer, it's more like a scalpel.»

The exact dimensions aren't known, but how does a researcher find a chamber like this — what they're calling a «void» — when they're not exactly allowed to take sledgehammers to a 4,500 - year - old structure?

That can make it hard to make subtle changes to a gene — like introduce point mutations corresponding to natural variations linked with human disease — without taking a sledgehammer to the entire gene locus.

Blast fishing is «like hitting the reef with a sledgehammer,» Harrison says.

He also recommends «renegade» conditioning like medicine ball slams, sledgehammers, tire flips, etc..

Much like the tire flip, this exercise is great for power production, however, sledgehammer work focuses on power production in the opposite direction.

I know when I take my sledgehammer outside to swing it, my thumbs blow up like hot water bottles.

► In 3D, we see a number of large objects thrust toward the audience: a sledgehammer, a fist, a spearhead, flaming arrows, feather - like daggers, fireballs, a flaming cannon ball, a grimacing panda face and animals and vegetables thrown up in the air by a speeding 2 - wheeled cart.

He opens the movie with the ecstatic build of the prelude to Wagner's «Das Rheingold,» just as Terrence Malick did «The New World,» and as Leonard Kleinrock shows off the first node of what would become the internet, a massive, sturdy metal cabinet that looks like it could sustain several blows from a sledgehammer, there's a similar sense of boundless possibility being opened up.

After discovering blueprints, Frank can build his own combination weapons that are over the top and terribly fun to mow down the enemy with, using classics like a crossbow that shoots fireworks or a sledgehammer with grenades taped to the head.

I mean, if Leatherface actually bashed that guy's skull in with a sledgehammer, I bet it'd look a lot like that.

The scripted gags from the Farrellys and Mike Cerrone do have a momentum of expectancy, like when a loose sledgehammer head lands in a bucket of water or when Larry randomly fires an arrow into the air.

The game also introduces a new gameplay mechanic that lets players combine items to make improvised weapons, like duct - taping a fire axe and sledgehammer together to produce «The Defiler.»

Some popular weapon combos make a come back like the electric axe, exploding sledgehammer, and my personal favorite, the Ice Sword.

It demands a lot to make a complicated character like Davis sympathetic, especially as we watch him take a sledgehammer to his life.

There's Black Death as W'Kabi, T'Challa's head of security — face like an anvil, agreeability of a sledgehammer — and [takes inordinately long pull from oxygen tank, ambles closer with widened eyes for dramatic effect] Forest Whitaker as Zuri, T'Challa's oldhead bodyguard - slash - confessor - slash - drunk - uncle - figure.

If you ever wanted to know what a sledgehammer feels like for acceleration, the C63 S's turbo lag - free savage acceleration is a good place to start.

The big - bore V8 is more flexible than the M4's turbo six, offering more torque down low and barrels of twist anywhere between 3000 and 6000rpm, but it lacks the sledgehammer - like mid-range thrust of the C 63's mighty 6.2 - litre natmo bent eight.

There's the same sledgehammer - like power delivery from the 6.0 - litre twin - turbo V12 (matched with a silky - smooth seven - rather than nine - speed auto, as in the S 500, and «just» 390kW and 830Nm instead of the colossal 463kW / 1000Nm AMG version), making for effortless acceleration and an undeniably rapid five - second 0 - 100 km / h sprint — despite weighing about 120 kg more than an S 600 SWB at almost 2.5 tonnes.

If Dice or IW / Treyarch / Sledgehammer go back to WWII then that would be the beginning of getting back to amazing games like CoD 2 and MoH etc..

The plot feels less like the first part of a planned trilogy and more like something the developer, Sledgehammer Games, just copied and pasted from past CoD games.

Speaking with Polygon, Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey discussed how the series» latest installment sought to make players feel like a vulnerable man, rather than an unstoppable super soldier.