Sentences with phrase «mushroom cloud»

If you want to see mushroom clouds in the eyes of the police officer who ends up citing you, aggressive driving will get you there.

Only those who flew in aircraft through the nuclear mushroom cloud have received any form of compensation.

Others captured a frame or two every minute in order to record how mushroom clouds evolved over longer periods of time.

Because falling buildings have replaced mushroom clouds in most of our nightmares, the movie must thrive purely on its entertainment value, and it does.

The explosion's mushroom cloud traveled 30 miles into the atmosphere.

He's talking about the actual power of the attack of course, we best not count on being able to be a walking, talking mushroom cloud generator.

What relates mushroom clouds to mushrooms, other than shape?

Their divorce has exploded into a giant mushroom cloud of hatred.

Mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki meant that a new era had begun.

Baj's works included images reminiscent of atomic mushroom clouds and devastated urbanscapes.

Conner, in one fine example, uses his skillful way with collage to merge a figure wearing a military jacket with an iconic image of mushroom clouds from the first underwater atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, reanimating (and giving a psychological dimension) to an image of power and destruction that might not seem as safely far in the past as it used to.

Some of its excesses land with hilarious aplomb (a parade of literally hundreds of human heads popping like mushroom clouds, set to the patriotic standard «Land of Hope and Glory»), while others fall flat (an out - of - left - field sexual provocation involving a Scandinavian princess).

An equivalent modern threat would be: «We will flatten all your cities with mushroom clouds that darken the sun and turn the moon red.»

Subodh Gupta (born 1964) agglomerates everyday Indian household objects such as cooking utensils into monumental entities such as mushroom clouds or skulls, often sabotaging the fiction of intrinsic value through witty inversion and conjunction.

Einstein would be one of the West's potential Horikoshi corollaries — and if Miyazaki had done Albert's biography, I'd expect to see mushroom clouds illustrating his fantasies of relativity.

«The Stakes» punctuates a string of scary Al Qaeda pictures with a big mushroom cloud, implying anything is permissible as long as the other side kinda did it once.

Regarding Rushdie's claim against Hamas using mushroom clouds on their flags, it is the apartheid state of Israel that is making Gaza unlivable through bombardment and sanction.

In this video Salman Rushdie claims Hezbollah and Hamas was using mushroom clouds as their flag (1:31).

But the change has been so sudden that writers recently attending The Writers League of Texas Agents» Conference were shocked when keynote speaker Jane Friedman began her speech on the state of the book by showing an image of a giant mushroom cloud.

That's the period that left us images of bright, sky - piercing mushroom clouds like the one at the top of this article, and footage like this of the devastation these weapons could wreak.

Fearful about the water we drink, the air we breathe, the great mushroom cloud looming over us, we get by as best we can and grab what we can.

The thick mushroom cloud that my visitation engineered is still permeating the political skies of Northern Nigeria.

A huge poster of a nuclear mushroom cloud surmounts the scene, with the inscription oh zionists, if you want this type of war then so be it!

Fusion reactions release lots of energy, hence their usefulness for lighting stars and making mushroom clouds.

Science and history get equal play hereits impossible to marvel at the wonders of physics without simultaneously shuddering at photos of mushroom clouds ballooning over Hiroshima.

A gigantic mushroom cloud billowed over Nagasaki, Japan, when an atomic bomb was dropped on the city in 1945.

It's a place where every explosion is rendered as a cutesy mushroom cloud and the public speeches always include haiku.

If sumo wrestlers, haiku poetry, Kabuki theater, sushi, taiko drums (courtesy of composer Alexandre Desplat («The Shape of Water»), cherry blossoms, and symbolic mushroom clouds are your thing, however, you have come to the right place.

Moreover, Bardem is as angsty as ever, Lawrence comes through with a dually volatile and vulnerable performance that reminds of why she won her Oscar, and the twisted symbolism of Aronofsky's screenplay mushroom clouds in the pic's homestretch.

There's a great moment when the Granite Mountain Hotshots sit on a peak watching a fire burn out on the horizon; as enflamed trees tumble off the side of the mountain they slip through the fog and crash to the ground with a boom, setting off mini mushroom clouds of flame and fire as they do.

Before what looks like an atomic mushroom cloud wafts towards the unfortunate Scott Carey, lightly coating him in glittery fallout...

When the scientists, looking utterly shocked, blow up the bomb, a fiery mushroom cloud grows ever larger over several pages, and the book ends joltingly with a spread of featureless black, before a concluding author's note offers additional information about the bomb and its ultimate effects.

If perception is reality, then marketing speak is the plutonium that fuels cultural mushroom clouds.

It has also seen its founders Jason West and Vince Zampella, leaving under a vast mushroom cloud of controversy and recrimination, taking many veteran staff with them, to the new horizons of Respawn Entertainment.

But ever since the first mushroom cloud entered our consciousness, many artists have taken a far more considered approach to the notion of human - triggered annihilation.

The granite mushroom cloud by Higuchi seems violent and evil (a reference to the sunny day in August 1945 when a small object fell from the sky and covered a city in smoke and ashes within a radius of 7 kilometers.

Milk Crown and Mushroom Cloud raises the important question not of how far we can go, but of how profoundly we may consider life and its surrounding and fleeting environment.

Highlights include Shonibare's mushroom cloud comprised of footballs decorated with African textiles.

In BISHOPBUDD (2009), a nest of twisted metal strips sits atop a huddle of larger contorted planes of black and white steel — the robust, doming form recalling both an elegant tree and a menacing mushroom cloud.

For instance, Line of Control (2008)-- a colossal mushroom cloud constructed entirely of pots and pans prominently displayed in the last Tate Triennial — created an overarching symbol through small and commonplace items.

Clock faces, film stills, and silhouettes of figures receding into hazy darkness all resonate with Conner's stark self - portrait silhouettes REFLECTION and NIGHT LIGHT, as well as with the morbidly beautiful mushroom clouds in his atomic bomb prints.

Conner obtained this government - shot film from the U.S. National Archives and with minimal interventions (editing and, most notably, the addition of music), turned it into a resonant meditation on the apocalyptic sublime, rendering the familiar nuclear mushroom cloud strange again.

Mushroom clouds emerge from under the ocean, expand over the horizon, and churn up the environment in violent upheaval.

So expect a few mushroom clouds out of downtown...