Sentences with word «miasma»

Sadly, the limitations of its gameplay haven't been addressed for this port, so while there's a great story to be experienced, the game itself remains a forgettable miasma of genres.
Meanwhile, these nonprofits operate with only nominal direction, are unaccountable to voters or elected officials, and operate in a bureaucratic miasma with little transparency or oversight.
Once again, the threat of the black miasma appears.
wielding both a giant scythe and the mysterious energy known as miasma, Harbingers are reapers of destruction ready to protect you at a moment's notice.
When a curious dark miasma floods the flora and fauna, it's up to your hero to discover the origin of the strange substance.
Sadly, the limitations of its gameplay haven't been addressed for this port, so while there's a great story to be experienced, the game itself remains a forgettable miasma of genres.
When a curious dark miasma floods the flora and fauna, it's up to your hero to discover the origin of the strange substance.
Once again, the threat of the black miasma appears.
Using TP, they can summon powerful miasma armor with passive support or status ailment abilities (like curse, paralyse, etc...).
In addition to cutting down enemies, they can summon powerful miasma armor and unleash passive support or status ailment abilities, so see how they work in the video below.
That late - noir miasma lives on indelibly in Scorsese's masterpiece, though for all its actuality it acquired a mythic aura in a way that other searing films depicting contemporary necropoli have not, among them Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa (1986, London), Mike Leigh's Naked (1993, London), Wim Wenders's Land of Plenty (2004, Los Angeles) and Andrea Arnold's Red Road (2006, Glasgow).
Like the previous features directed by the brilliant Argentinean filmmaker Lucrecia Martel («La Ciénaga,» «The Holy Girl,» «The Headless Woman»), this isn't just a movie but a full - on miasma — a humid, atmospheric vision of a complex world conjured from the inside.
That's because the NES Classic, in a swirling miasma of muddled corporate messaging, ludicrous stock shortages, opportunistic scalpers, and Internet drama, was the biggest Nintendo «thing» in - between the Wii U dropping off and the Switch taking off.
The only slightly less - cuddly thing is a purple miasma known as Murk, which seems to only exist to artificially block off certain routes around Gemea and restrict your access to certain locations of interest.
Until we can connect our brains directly to this virtual miasma of data that Google has done such a good job organizing, we're going to be reliant on companies to make hardware that acts as the intermediary.
Bask in the sublime beauty of «Karl,» the city's chilly miasma, with these always - updated satellite images.
In the television ads that drug companies run at half - time between beer commercials the message is always our malaise, social anxiety or nervousness is a meaningless internal miasma that can be dispersed by a few pills — pills that will return us to our true alacritous selves.
It's a postmodern, self - aware, ironic miasma of earnest appreciation for how much emphasis is placed on the commercials aired during a massive television event.
These three sayings about capture the current Nigerian season of hysteria, in which the unwritten code is yak to no end as to the Armageddon to come, when common sense dictates reasonable quiet, lest a fatal distraction, of those trying to fix this economic miasma, which has worsened Nigeria's crisis of nationhood.
Whilst the spectre of the Ghost of the Labour Party Past in the shape of the Gord has occasionally caused distraction at Westminster, Miliband, as the Ghost of the Future according to some, has been more of a permanent miasma.
The acrid miasma of 91,000 liters of jet fuel and the 10,000,000 tons of building materials and contents burning at temperatures above 1,000 degrees Celsius extended from lower Manhattan across the East River into Brooklyn and beyond to the sea.
The overriding challenge, this official said, is to find a path of the national energy policy miasma and focus on where the nation's electric power will be coming from after 2020, before there's no time left to carry out the plans.
In that brownish - yellow miasma, PM2.5 readings were off the chart and the corresponding air - quality index warned of «emergency conditions» that could affect the whole population.
Kiarostami and Raisian conjure up the oppressive miasma clinging to women and kids in patriarchal Iran... offers startling images... [a] stubbornly ambiguous film.
Out of the morally compromised miasma of Atlanta's bustling criminal underbelly, captured with superb sordid detail by Belgian DP Nicolas Karakatsanis (Bullhead; The Drop), we eventually focus on the dynamic between Anthony Mackie's crooked cop and the altruistic Casey Affleck (between his performance here and this year's Manchester by the Sea it would appear he's been a woefully neglected male lead).
And yet, I still found myself lost without a torch in the indecipherable miasma of Scottish Shakespeare.
Tully is clearly an astute student of Eurohorror cinema, as we can feel both the British influences, plus touches of Italian schlockmeisters like Lucio Fulci and Sergio Martino, seeping into this hazy, dread - stuffed miasma.
Shot like an art film, Raw oscillates through many moods but remains a consistently thought - provoking miasma of coming - of - age drama, collegiate hazing satire and squeamish body horror.
Area X is affected by a strange miasma called the Shimmer, an unexplained force that affects and adapts the ecosystem within it.
The second season of Joss Whedon's other cult cancelled TV show is a curious beast; a weird miasma of big ideas and crushing pessimism.
A haunted miasma of youthful alienation, suburban malaise, cosmic upheaval and 1980s pop - cultural infatuation, writer - director Richard Kelly's captivatingly strange 2001 debut plays more than ever like its own suspended - in - time artifact.
They have yielded, for instance, vastly improved collection of achievement data, report cards on school performance, new ways of thinking about financing education, innovative organizations such as the New Schools Venture Fund and Teach for America, unconventional leadership in schools and districts, and a plethora of alternative pathways into the classroom that allow would - be teachers and administrators to avoid the traditional college - of - education miasma.
Join a record - breaking 166 narrators in an alternate existence where the words of ghostly beings and factual quotes from Abraham Lincoln's contemporaries eddy through the audible ether in a foggy miasma that conjures Oak Hill Cemetery, where Lincoln's young son, Willie, has been newly interred.
White, for my money, has been too melancholy in some of his books and his trademark moroseness is here, too (with good reason: existential New York miasma, AIDS, literary failures), but the spark of love and friendship between the gay hero and his straight friend, in the end, suggests hope and is a life raft to cling to.
Inclining her head, Liz once again touched her cheek to the silky scarlet nap of her scarf, enveloping herself in a faint scented miasma which brought Mark's physical presence — his eyes and his mouth and his hair — rushing home to her.
Her fellow cops acknowledged her usefulness but could never quite get comfortable with her, so she was relegated to the basement, where the depressing miasma that accompanied her work wouldn't affect them.
Immediately shunned, ridiculed, and bullied by classmates who chide him for being the odiferous son of the mysterious «Garbage Man,» Joey soon realizes that the revolting miasma of his new home results from the tools and plunder of grave robbing, the family trade, which first repels, then attracts the teen as he becomes an apprentice to his father, Harnett.
What GVR has in fancy hotel rooms, excellent restaurants, great entertainment and hot casino action, it supremely lacks in that teeny tiny thing called location... unless you find the cookie cutter miasma that is Las Vegas» suburban sprawl fascinating.
What follows is a spiraling miasma of intensely personal horror.
You'll then compete to stay alive as a deadly miasma closes in, while scouring ancient ruins and tribal villages for loot.
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