Sentences with phrase «like water through»

Casting my screen while playing something from Kodi was obviously going to drain power like water through a sieve, though I found a trickle was still going when streaming from Plex to the Chromecast.

The result is that some places are foggier than others, because the fog flows like water through gaps in the hills.

Urine passes through this hollow bone like water through a pipe.

«Most beneficial mental states wash through the brain like water through a sieve,» says Hanson, «while negative mental states... get stuck in our brains forever.»

But, like water through my fingertips, the minute I close the lid to their secure spot in my wardrobe, their existence completely leaks out of my brain.

Under which conditions does the current not flow like water through a tap, but rather trickles like sand in an hourglass?

The sol flows through the gel like water through a sponge, creating a network of low - viscosity channels.

Not exact matches

Through a thick cloud of cigarette smoke and after drinking Manhattans, Martinis and straight scotch like water, Don would probably deliver a hypnotizing speech stating that the fundamental part of any marketing strategy is to communicate to potential consumers what you do, what you can offer, and why you are better than all the rest.

The answer is actually the Grand Canyon... you know, where there are canyons that are perfectly suited to having water — like maybe the Colorado River, which cuts through it — fall over them?

The balls made here — not to mention their raw materials — are put through every kind of test, from a machine that looks like an arcade claw game that makes sure each ball conforms to regulation, to a so - called «spinach test» in which balls are dumped in a vat of water and fresh spinach and spun around for up to two days to test grass stain prevention.

«Mostly, our digital work was confined to those moments where TARS and CASE, his twin robot, tend to do extraordinary things like turn into the waterwheel and move through the water to be able to collect Dr. Brand, pick her up, and run with her,» Franklin explained.

When his daughter Lizzie came through to get some water and saw him maniacally scribbling the same words over and over like Jack Nicholson in The Shining, she asked what he was doing.

The platform is hoping to raise $ 2 million for Maria victims through a relief fund, which will go toward emergency supplies like food, water, and medicine, in addition to longer - term support for recovery and rebuilding efforts.

Leading an organization can sometimes feel like navigating a ship through mine - infested waters.

With that in mind, I'm reluctant to pick The Shape of Water as this year's Best Picture winner: It received the most nominations and several guild wins, but like La La Land (which also breezed through awards season until the final night), it's a retro pastiche.

The key argument of leading «salt water» Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman, Joe Stiglitz and Larry Summers is that governments can and should drive faster growth through deficit financed public infrastructure investment, which would boost short - term growth and also raise productivity and longer term growth prospects.

The cryptocurrency is automatically donated to UNICEF Australia and is turned into real funds that reach children through life - saving supplies like safe water, therapeutic food and vaccines.

This will make the most challenging of offshore operations, using the deep and ultra deep water rigs owned and leased by companies like SeaDrill, Transocean, Ensco and Rowan, increasingly profitable moving through 2012 and into 2013.

Certainly we can tell others at the water cooler and in our churches what we believe about issues like this, but it's important that we talk and listen and trust God to help us wrestle through the seeming contradictory pros and cons involved.

Isaiah 43: 20 - 21 This is what the Lord says — he who made a way through the sea, a path through the mighty waters, 17 who drew out the chariots and horses, the army and reinforcements together, and they lay there, never to rise again, extinguished, snuffed out like a wick: 18 «Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past.

And so far, we have seen that if sin is the like a fire, then grace is like the water that puts it out, and it travels through the hose of faith.

All the good things and encouraging words passed through me like water, leaving only the muck behind.

Then right in the middle of his song, Noah breaks — and tears stream down the 10 year old boy's cheeks like unexpected water through the desert.

From the prophets, Mary knew that God could very well use someone like her — an unmarried teenage girl, a minority in an occupied territory at a turbulent time in history — to bring the Messiah into the world in the most unceremonious way: through water and womb, blood and labor pains, lullabies and gentle kisses and the helplessness of a baby's cries.

So yes, this moment, the one in the picture there, is saving me, when she smells like sunscreen and pool water, her eyes so heavy with taking in the sunshine, and she's warm with the exhaustion of a good day, soft baby curls to poke my finger through, wearing her golden hair like a ring.

«God's tumbling through the world like white water on rock.

We want to be firmly planted in the Word, like a tree by streams of living water, that bears fruit in season, it's leaves don't whither in the drought, it doesn't blow over with all kinds of trends and false teachings, it is there through thick and thin, when the sun is shining and the rain is pouring, that is the kind of church we want to be.»

It's like saying a collander can «stop» water from passing through it because of the water that hits parts that aren't holes stops briefly before slipping through.

So were Warren Jeffs [Rapist / child molester], Jimmy Swaggert and Jim Baker [Adulterous johns], Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson [preach (ed) that god punished people through bad weather and speak like through them Jesus comes to bring water from a rock, but taking credit for themselves] and Billy Graham [preached that Jesus was dark skinned].

Like water flowing through a rusty pipe, our desires and needs contaminate the flow.

The reply through something like what I call «living waters» rippling through me was..»

Then, as he described it, through reading, and pondering «beauty, art, water, flowers, trees...» something began to happen: «God began to appear on the horizon, it was a faint light, like hope.»

It was plain, running through in a tinkly little voice, like water on tin.

Late at night, splashing my face and neck, through sounds of water running I hear cruel cuts like pencil points fine sharpened snapping against a smooth white page.Quick rinsing, covered now and tense, all stiff, peering alarmed from broken privacy, I for a moment harden, with nor one clue, against....

Since that was the lens through which I first considered problems like deforestation, pollution and lack of clean water, the recognizing the human cost was a key part of my own journey.

It is thus comfortable precisely because it has «gone through many waters» which have not defeated and can not «drown it»; it is «terrible as an army with banners», not because like such an army it uses force, but because it is in itself the only really strong thing in the whole world and in human experience.

And, like water that finds a path through the hardest rock — it may take time, but we will some day have equal rights in this country.

A bead of water traces a path is parallel to the way a river meanders which is parallel to the way a galaxy navigates through space and often collides with another galaxy, like a river collides with a stream or a drop of water collides with another to make a larger drop.

Shrinking looked they like those who wade through a stream in winter; irresolute like those who are afraid of all around them; grave like a guest (in awe of his host); evanescent like ice that is melting away; unpretentious like wood that has not been fashioned into anything; vacant like a valley, and dull like muddy water.

It gains much of its power through its allusions to the Psalms, as in «The water smooth ran like a hymn / And like a harp did hum.»

And that's what I'd like — some help in figuring out the meaning of what's happening to us and some fixes for guiding our navigation through these strange waters.

One speaks, for example, of the wheel as a solar symbol, of the cosmogonic egg as the symbol of the non-differentiated totality, or of the serpent as a chthonian, sexual, or funeral symbol, etc. (In like manner it is agreed that the term «symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 ff.

But she lives a hard life and runs through help like water.

Prep: Finely chop 1 medium shallot, 2 — 3 T / Zest one lemon and chop finely / Cut lemon in half for squeezing / Measure 1/4 C white wine (optional) / 2 T butter / 1 t salt and pepper or lemon pepper to taste / Measure 2 C Arborio rice / Bring 6 cups of liquid to a light simmer — this can be plain water, any broth, clam juice, tomato juice, or a combination / Pieces of seafood like clams, halibut, salmon, shrimp — which are optional, can be chopped into bite - sized pieces in advance, or while rice is cooking / Add pieces of almost any vegetable — some will need to be par - boiled or sautéed before adding about mid-way through cooking time / I like to add rehydrated wild mushrooms and their broth, chopped kale or chard, thin spears of asparagus when in season.

Pierre likes it almost cold, so I ran it through cold tap water after step 2, before adding the sauce to cool it down.

Ever since I told Ryan that coconut water was a great way to hydrate during the hot summer months, we have been going through it like crazy!

Soak 12 oz of coarsely ground coffee in 60 ounces of cool water for 12 hours, drain through a filter and enjoy an incredibly strong but amazingly smooth coffee that you can use as a concentrate — you'll use less in a smoothie like this since a little goes a long way flavor wise.

Since we normally go through bananas like water, this was a special occasion and I really didn't want to screw it up.

Although I need my coffee, it's a little tougher to drink a hot cup in the summer, especially on those days where the humidity makes it feel like I'm walking through water.

After you take them, bulk - forming laxatives like psyllium swell with water and form a large, viscous mass that stimulates intestinal muscle contractions as it moves through the digestive tract.