Sentences with phrase «long descent»

The following is a first - person account of a day - long descent into madness.

Less invested in themes of fate and convergence than his previous work, this gritty, slow - burning melodrama nonetheless offers a very long descent into a private purgatory, and its scant emotional rewards can't shake off the sense of a prodigiously gifted filmmaker stuck in a grim rut.

Apart from preventing acceleration in long descents, is there any reason why downshifting would be advantageous in snowy / icy / slushy conditions?

The Brembo brakes bite a bit too aggressively at low speed, but they are strong and fade - free during long descents.

We very well might have just seen a double turn, the recklessly driven exclamation point to fans cheering for Braun and Roman's slow, months - long descent into heeldom through badassery.

When Nortel began its long descent after the tech bust, there were similar hopes of a surge in startups.

As old habits and outmoded ways of thinking stop working, the two men begin a long descent into madness and addiction that's shocking and, for all Cronenberg's characteristic distance, strangely moving.

In addition, at the end of the long descent down Croatia's winding Učka pass, the pedal starts to feel mushy.

Eventually, making the long descent, we met a stretch of superhighway leading back to Estepona, our starting point.

At the summit there's time for an espresso at the excellent café overlooking the lake — not that we need to be kept awake given our mode of transport — before beginning the long descent on the other side.

A stretch of easy driving on a long descent down from a mountain added a couple more miles.

First, there's no shift paddles or a rocker switch to manually select lower gears, so the transmission itself decides how much engine braking it thinks you want on long descents.

Skiers come from all over the world year - round to ride the 25 km from Matterhorn Glacier Paradise to Zermatt, the longest descent on the entire continent of Europe.

By a strategically located hotel the long descent begins.

After the long descent into the cave, the way out involves a long hike back up that includes the rigorous activities of rock climbing and ladder climbing.

Pausing to explore the maze of Inca stone towers, fountains and stairways that spills down the mountainside here, we begin a long descent through ever - changing layers of cloud forest.

In Adlešici we make a long descent on a bad road with big rocks to a kayak camping site on the Kolpa reka.

In 1969, Win Price, experimenting with a vaccine against encephalitis, tried it out on himself and instantly began a long descent into mental and physical illness that ended with his death in 1981.

After injecting himself with an experimental vaccine against encephalitis in 1969 and contracting spinal meningitis, he began a long descent into physical and mental illness that ended with his death in 1981.

By then, she had left New York for Baltimore and had begun a long descent into critical neglect.