Sentences with phrase «like turbulent waves»

Another analogy is that emotions can be like turbulent waves thrashing about on the surface of the ocean.

Not exact matches

Their oars had no more effect on the turbulent sea than toothpicks, even though some of them were fishermen, They were accustomed to wind and wave, but to nothing like this.
The imagery revealed a bow shock — like the wave that piles beneath the prow of a moving ship — in front of the star and its smaller companion, Mira B, as well as a wake broken into turbulent knots or loops, according to a report in Nature.
The best way to explain this spike is from the swirling maelstrom below, where turbulent atmospheric waves must generate heat by crashing together like breakers on a windy beach shore.
The shock wave is a thin area found at the boundary between a supernova and the colder material around it that has a turbulent magnetic field that sweeps up plasma into a steep tsunami - like wave of plasma.
Lobsters then ran or migrated in such quantities that they turned the shallows red, their antennae waving like fields of tentacled periscopes above the turbulent waters.
This is not simply a question of «turbulent diffusion» by the atmosphere but also of wave - like «teleconnections» propagating away from regions of tropical convection that are altered by the pattern of tropical warming.
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