Sentences with phrase «motionless when»

«Dark Crimes» has Carrey, who seems like he's auditioning for an HBO procedural, but the rest of the movie is motionless when it isn't baffling.

Researchers have known for decades that if you cool liquid helium just a few degrees below its boiling point of — 452 degrees Fahrenheit -LRB--- 269 degrees Celsius) it will suddenly be able to do things that other fluids can't, like dribble through molecule - thin cracks, climb up and over the sides of a dish, and remain motionless when its container is spun.

In a study performed by North Carolina State University researchers, zebrafish that were bred to be more bold — quantified by the shorter amount of time they remained motionless when placed in new surroundings — displayed a sleeker body shape and an ability to dart around the water more quickly when startled than those bred to be more shy.

When researchers used optogenetics — a technique that allows cells to be switched on and off with light — to increase the amount of bursting in the lateral habenula, mice behaved in a more «depressed» way, remaining motionless when forced to swim in a container of water, for example.

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Among other things, the study identified 15 moments when the audience experienced the fight - or - flight response (as determined by a specific heart - rate pattern) and 4,716 seconds during which viewers were motionless, signaling peak filmgoer engagement.

For instance, a person can move a considerable distance in a tenth of a second — where is the motionless conscious superject that came into being here, when the body is now there?

Russell Wilson should be arrested for criminal endangerment for his actions when Ricardo Lockette was laying motionless on the field.

«When you see Lester Piggott, one of the world's greatest jockeys, going down in the Breeders» Cup and lying there motionless, it puts the fear of God into you.

I am conscious of the magic of nature when a chattering squirrel hops within feet of where I wait motionless, or I glimpse the silent, almost imperceptible movement of a young deer tiptoeing through the woods.

Children learn to sleep when parents focus on perfect timing, motionless sleep (no rocking asleep or holding) and consistency in soothing style (developing a regular bedtime routine).

It's an astonishingly physical production; the only moment of stillness is as the audience enter, when the actors stand motionless, heads bowed.

Not when they seem to spend so much time motionless, or turning so slowly they wouldn't pull the skin off a rice pudding.»

The illness was later renamed progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) to describe the weakness or paralysis (palsy) patients develop when brain areas that control eye movements are affected by the syndrome — which produces the classic symptom of motionless eyes described by Dickens.

Our neural fear module increases our ability to detect motionless snakes, even when we are unaware that we have seen them.

In nightjars, however, which conceal their eggs by remaining motionless over them when predators approached, it was the appearance of the adults that was most important for their survival: nightjars that matched the background pattern were more likely to save their eggs from being eaten.

To the opponent, this means the aggressor will appear motionless even when it is actually coming closer.

When a person is frozen with fear, she is motionless but far from passive.

If your outfit looks sad, dull and motionless, this is when you add a statement.

What I don't want to do is be stuck, motionless, in fear when God calls me to take a step of faith.

It's strange how the graphics are so poor in all poker games when they only have to make a bunch of people sitting around a table, relatively motionless.

But of all the remarkable things they can do, few are as galvanizing as when they simply stop moving and stare into the equally motionless camera, as though daring us to look deeper.

Yet Jordenö, in a recurring motif, honors the kiki denizens the most when she captures them motionless, staring directly into the camera, regal and indefatigable.

Steven relishes his power, inside and outside the operating theater; when Anna wants to initiate sex, she undresses and lies motionless on her back, like a patient awaiting surgery.

There's a split second when you start to think you may have to stand up and jump off in order to progress to the next stage of the simulation — and this is where you decide to sit there, motionless, in an obstinate hope that you won't have to actually do that to yourself — before you're suddenly flung back through the expanse of the city and onto a train track.

When I opened the hood of this week's test car - a gorgeous British Racing Green XJ6 - I stood there motionless for a few seconds staring in disbelief at the layout of the engine bay.

Motionless, its sleek panels appear pinned to the frame like a greaser's hair to his scalp — right down to the flush door handles that emerge only when summoned.

First, I think I'll re-read John Updike's «Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu» as it's the 50th anniversary of Ted Williams» last at - bat — and his famous final home run, when «the ball seemed less an object in flight than the tip of a towering, motionless construct, like the Eiffel Tower or the Tappan Zee Bridge.»

He lies almost motionless on a mattress lined with pee pads as his paw - rents Sharon Tan, 39, a homemaker and her husband Chai Jun Yea, 42, an architect, reminiscence about a time when Junior wasn't plagued by the afflictions of ageing.

As the name suggests, the Pointer will stand motionless in a pointing position when game is located.

Remain motionless (e.g., «be still like a tree») when approached by an unfamiliar dog.

You endure standing watch in the middle of the night when you're usually tucked securely into a motionless bed at home.

The current was weakening towards slack — the moment between tides when the sea becomes motionless and kelp bulbs expose themselves to the calm pewter surface of Puget Sound.

Adjustments - Timing shortened from being downed to rising, rising into a movement, mid-air quick recovery, jumping, dashing, moving (on ground or midair), attacking, or guarding - Awakening: Fixed bug where attacks at very close range came from unguardable angles; these can now be guarded - Dash Combo: Fixed bug where Tag Combos weren't counted for achievement purposes unless landed on a foe who was incapacitated by a Tag Combo - Brynhildr (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Ares (Summon Special Move 1): Removed hitbox between Ares and spear that appeared right after throwing a spear - Odin (melee mode, neutral melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Odin (melee mode, side melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Grim Reaper (Special Move 2): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time for zombies when targeting foes as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Grim Reaper (Down + Special Move 2): Fixed bug where dog zombies occasionally didn't face the correct direction while moving - Grim Reaper (Awakened, Character Ability Power) Added fire effect to characters who take damage after being hit by a zombie ball when Grim Reaper is in fire zombie ball mode - Ra (bomb mode, Special Move 1): Bombs can now be destroyed by enemy attack - Ra (ranged / bomb mode, Special Move 1): Changed reload when out of ammo to constant reload - Slayer (Melee Attack, Down + Melee Attack branch): Reduced freeze time upon landing on the ground - Slayer (upper Melee Attack): Reduced movement speed when pursuing foes - Slayer: Reduced turning radius when moving to attack - Loki (Special Move 1): Fixed bug so Grim Reaper's Special Move 1 zombies, Ra's Special Move 1 bombs, etc. are now drawn in - Loki (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Loki (Special Move 2): Fixed move so that Loki isn't motionless while charging.

When Ronan comes to, he stumbles to his feet only to see his motionless body lying on the ground.

When her other work is edited out, what's left are films of the artist's prone nude body on the ground, or motionless in a river, or its outline bursting into flames; in one video, Mendieta digs a body - shaped hole, pours vivid red paint over a rock where the heart should be and then lays atop it.

During sleep or when sitting nearly motionless, the numbers would be in line with reality.

Doze now has two stages: one is when the screen is off and the phone is unplugged, and the other is when the phone is also motionless.

When it came to it re-locking, I found that if my device had been lying motionless for about a minute, then it would have its lock screen security enabled when I went to useWhen it came to it re-locking, I found that if my device had been lying motionless for about a minute, then it would have its lock screen security enabled when I went to usewhen I went to use it.