Sentences with phrase «marked by giant»

Marked by a giant strawberry, plus carrots atop golden slices of melon (we think?)

Our tiled 15th - century house in the old quarter of the city was marked by giant bronze doors.

The epicenter of American business has long been marked by the giant bronze bull statue in the middle of Wall Street in New York City.

The epicenter of American business has long been marked by the giant bronze bull statue in the middle of Wall...

Not exact matches

Business giants like Mark Cuban, worth $ 3 billion, stop by his house.

Mark Zuckerberg and his data - hoarding creation Facebook remain in the crosshairs this week as scrutiny over its Cambridge Analytica profile - scraping scandal continues to mount, with the social media giant's stock price falling by over 13 percent this week.

The Cenovus and Canadian Natural deals marked the first of many themes that emerged in 2017 — the withdrawal by foreign energy giants from Canada's oil patch, creating in its wake a couple of homegrown oilsands giants.

The examples include not just well - known socially conscious companies like Ben & Jerry's and Patagonia, but also wildly successful corporate giants who are also profiting by doing good in the world, including General Electric, Toyota, Unilever, Marks and Spencer, and many others.

The story, by Wired Editor - in - Chief Nicholas Thompson and Contributing Editor Fred Vogelstein, is headlined «Inside the Two Years That Shook Facebook — and the World» (subhead: «How a confused, defensive social media giant steered itself into a disaster, and how Mark Zuckerberg is trying to fix it all») and sets the stage for the social network's current drama.

Chinese giants Guangzhou Evergrande have added their own mark to the list of big name players heading to China during the January transfer window by completing the signing of Atletico Madrid striker Jackson Martinez for a stunning $ 42million (# 31.8 m), Goal.com reports.

The Catalan giants were thumped 4 - 0 by Paris Saint - Germain in the Champions League this week, resulting in question marks being raised over Luis Enrique's future, as well as the club in general.

Philadelphia's star righthander, Robin Roberts, hurled 8 1/3 hitless innings in opener against Giants, was tagged for three blows in ninth, won 4 - 2, came back later in week to beat New Yorkers by same score as Phillies swept doubleheader, moved into second place with 4 - 1 mark.

Steelers cornerback William Gay, whose mother was killed by his stepfather when he was a child, and Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich, whose fiancée's experience with domestic violence in her childhood spurred him to work with a local prevention group, would be strong spokesmen.

A dispatch from beyond reveals that Babe Ruth isn't losing any sleep over seeing his home run mark eclipsed by the joyless Giant

The Catalan giants fell short in the Champions League and question marks have been raised by supporters throughout the campaign over Ernesto Valverde's lack of rotation.

The Colombian made his mark on the world stage during Porto's Champions League run in 2012 - 13, By that stage of his career, he had already proved himself to be a prolific scorer from midfield and the giants of European football began to take notice.

Invest in a Warehouse Club Membership Mark my words, the first time you use a giant shopping cart that you just KNOW was invented by a parent of multiples, you'll let out a satisfying sigh.

As we renew the promise of our nations to make them stronger at home — in the words of President Reagan as the «sleeping giant stirs» — so let us renew the relationship that can lead the world towards the promise of freedom and prosperity marked out in parchment by those ordinary citizens 240 years ago.

In North America, the Ice Age was marked by the mass extinction of several dozen genera of large mammals, including mammoths, mastodons, American horses, Western camels, two types of deer, ancient bison, giant beaver, giant bears, sabre - toothed cats, giant bears, American cheetahs, and many other animals, as well as plants.

Rounded with smooth floors and claw marks along the wall, the caves may have been dug out by elephant - sized giant ground sloths or maybe a species of enormous armadillos, both now long extinct, Discover Magazine reports.

The organized theft of copper from homes and building sites has become a global problem in recent years, but German telecommunications giant Deutsche Telekom has struck back by marking their copper wires with DNA.

Some of the images were drawn over scratch marks made by the extinct giant bear, and bear bones are scattered around the cave.

Swaisgood had previously shown that giant pandas pay more attention to handstand scent marks than those left by less acrobatic means, but he had never compared the effect of handstand marks of different height.

Five such awards are to be given annually by the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation, a nonprofit formed by tech giants Art Levinson, PhD, Chairman of the Board of Apple and Chairman and former CEO of Genentech; Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google; Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andMe and Mr. Brin's wife; Facebook founder Mr. Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, MD; and Russian philanthropist and entrepreneur Yuri Milner.

June 5, 2017 • The speaker is powered by Apple's personal assistant Siri and marks the long - awaited entry of the tech giant into competition with Amazon's and Google's smart home devices.

by Walter Chaw Written and directed by wunderkind J.T. Petty, the second sequel to Guillermo Del Toro's underestimated and, admittedly, somewhat botched Mimic is a self - confessed «Rear Window with giant man - eating cockroaches» marked by a strong sense of camp and a visual style humming with a cohesive, kinetic logic that indicates, possibly, the emergence of a major genre talent.

The BFG (Disney), adapted from the 1982 Roald Dahl novel, is about Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), an 8 - year - old orphan from central London who is taken from her orphanage in the middle of the night by a 26 - foot giant, portrayed by a special - effects enhanced mark Rylance.

Sophie (Ruby Barnhill), an orphan, is snatched from her bed late at night by a big - hearted vegetarian giant (Mark Rylance) and is whisked off to a land of oversize cannibals in this adaptation of Roald Dahl's much - cherished 1982 children's story.

The story is told through the eyes of a precocious child, «Sophie,» played by newcomer Ruby Barnhill, who is befriended by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), Mark Rylance (Bridge of Spies 2015).

A fantasy adventure written by Mark Bomback (Live Free or Die Hard), telling a story set in motion when a princess is kidnapped, threatening a long - standing peace between men and giants.

In this image released by Disney, Ruby Barnhill portraying Sophie, right, appears in a scene with the Big Friendly Giant, voiced by Mark Rylance in «The BFG,» opening nationwide on July 1.

Not having read Roald Dahl's 1982 children's book, I can't say how faithful this adaptation is (though colleagues have suggested that darker aspects have been watered down), but it seems to follow the same basic trajectory: Cute British orphan Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) gets abducted by the title character (played, or performance - captured, by recent Oscar winner Mark Rylance), who turns out to be the smallest and kindest inhabitant of Giant Country; Sophie winds up enlisting the Queen (Penelope Wilton) in an effort to stop the other, meaner giants (led by a performance - captured Jemaine Clement) from eating England's children.

The BFG like all Disney films features yet another motherless child (I'm really getting tired of this meme), an orphan named Sophie (relative newcomer Ruby Barnhill) who gets kidnapped (for no explainable reason) by a lonely giant who calls himself the BFG (Mark Rylance).

The Best Thing About Middle Age Is Not Having to Care About Giant Franchise Movies By: Mark Harris

In the two - minute preview, we see the beginning of Sophie's (Ruby Barhill) journey as she gets snatched by the Big Friendly Giant (Mark Rylance) and whisked off to the strange world of Giant Country.

In the two - minute preview, we see the beginning of Sophie's (Ruby Barhill) journey as she gets snatched by the Big Friendly Giant (Mark R... Read more

The Steven Spielberg film, which was the last to be written by the late Melissa Mathison, stars Mark Rylance as the titular giant and Ruby Barhill as Sophie, the young orphan who befriends the BFG.

The tale of an orphan kidnapped by a large - eared giant (the skillfully motion - captured Mark Rylance) has a dreamlike quality that allows Spielberg to stage some of his trippiest, borderline psychedelic imagery, along with some really elaborate CGI - assisted fart jokes.

Other films I liked very much are The Assassin (Hou Hsiao - Hsien), Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg), Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg), Masaan (Neeraj Ghaywan), My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin), My Mother (Nanni Moretti), Night Without Distance (Lois Patiño), Results (Andrew Bujalski), Sleeping Giant (Andrew Cividino) and the three cine - essays by Mark Rappaport.

Of course, this year has also been marked by much upheaval in the movie business, from the sexual harassment scandals that have already taken a toll on the independent film scene to the recently announced merger of giants Disney and 20th Century Fox, which also promises to effect major changes in the years to come.

Kung Fu Panda Year: 2008 Directors: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson Like Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle, DreamWorks» Kung Fu Panda punctuates its light - hearted, comedic tone with surprisingly poignant moments along with nonstop homages to a giant list of truly classic Kung Fu films, often scene by scene.

THE BFG, directed by Steven Spielberg based on the beloved novel by Roald Dahl, is the exciting tale of a young London girl (Ruby Barnhill) and the mysterious Giant (Mark Rylance) who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country.

Starting in January, all three various Avengers titles will be turned into a giant, weekly 16 - part series that will be co-written by Mark Waid, Al Ewing and Jib Zub and illustrated by the likes of Pepe Larraz, Kim Jacinto and Paco Medina.

Revenge is a dish best served with dumplings The giant shadow cast by this film is a tribute to the unbeatable movie - fu of its director, Park Chan - wook: It's not until the 40 - minute mark that the audience even remembers to breathe.

Little orphan Sophie (Ruby Barnhill) gets snatched from an orphanage by a friendly giant (Mark Rylance) who takes his new little human pet to Giant Cougiant (Mark Rylance) who takes his new little human pet to Giant CouGiant Country.

Americans are awed by geniuses, especially technology giants like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, whose youthful ideas created entire new industries.

The Japanese giant may increase it by 50 HP and take the engine to 600 BHP mark, making it a more aggressive machine.

I think of that book surprisingly often as something about the giant's house left its mark on me so that whenever I drive past one of the many «McMansions» that are springing up around us with their ridiculously huge front door I always get a flashback to Eustace, Jill and Puddleglum standing outside the house of the «gentle giants»» dwarfed by the huge doorway!

September also marks the release of Sara Gruen's follow - up to the smash hit Water for Elephants, Ape House, (Sept. 7), Ken Follett's first part in a new trilogy, Fall of Giants (Sept. 28), another love story from Nicholas Sparks, Safe Haven (Sept. 14) and Michael Cunningham's first novel since Specimen Days, By Nightfall (Sept. 28).

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