Sentences with phrase «like whirling dervishes»

Like the whirling dervishes, for whom their twirling dance is one of the physical methods used to reach religious ecstasy, these paintings have a similar (though more secular) function.

That means you shouldn't just allow your kids to behave like whirling dervishes.

This past Christmas Eve day, I was running around like a whirling dervish.

Depending on the skills you have unlocked, you can aim Kratos» Leviathan ax like a sniper rifle to get precision headshots at range, or you can send it spinning into a crowd of hostiles like a whirling dervish of death.

Corporal Jones in Dad's Army (UK TV show) used to rush around like a whirling dervish shouting «Don't Panic».

You pack like a whirling dervish.

Not exact matches

This is true of the virtuous woman of Proverbs 31 as well, who though something of a whirling dervish of godly femininity was not, like her husband, by the city gates with the elders (Proverbs 31:23), but working tirelessly to bless her family and manage her home for God's glory.»

Flip another switch and the spheres begin whirling like dervishes, churning the liquid sodium between them.

Lord Shen, the white peacock, whirls about like a dervish, alternating his wide, beautiful tail as both shield and weapon with moves that make Jet Li look like a wallflower.

Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters 2000 Playing Bugs Bunny & Taz: Time Busters, a solid game starring that rascally rabbit and the whirling dervish, with appearances by other notables like Daffy Duck (who never gets top billing), is like starring in your own Looney Toons cartoon.

Thomas's late works, with reduced palettes of one, two or three colors, echo mosaics, as in the vibrant red «Scarlet Sage Dancing in a Whirling Dervish,» or loose patterns, like the irregular blue - black shapes on the white background of «Hydrangeas Spring Song.»