Sentences with phrase «mushroom cloud of»

Every time someone has told me or alluded to the fact that banks don't behave or process along logical lines, a little, sometimes not so little, mushroom cloud of disgust erupts over my head.

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

This explosive tension is represented by a mushroom cloud of footballs decorated with Shonibare's signature African textiles.

Campbell's subjects are drawn from both nature and the man - made: The paintings show the ephemeral light of rainbows and the radiance of young girls as well as the spectacular light of fireworks and the mushroom cloud of an atomic bomb.

I could practically smell the mushroom cloud of cigarette smoke belching out of the automatic doors of an air - conditioned pachinko parlor.

Y2K was not only the year we all worried about our computers going up in a mushroom cloud of silicon smoke, it was also the year when the Ford Escort was replaced by a hot little car called the Focus.

As the mushroom cloud of uncertainty settles on Washington, D.C., educators should understand that the game moved out of Washington a year ago.

The mushroom cloud of superheated air, water and fallout rose almost 130,000 feet into the sky, and spread to four continents.

Astorino's «atomic - bomb» TV ad showing an image of Cuomo in a mushroom cloud of corruption at least got people talking about a race many thought over in June.

A mushroom cloud of litigation blossomed.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

«Now shall you deal with me, O prince, and all the powers of hell,» she proclaims, as she rises in a mushroom cloud (the great symbol of unleashed evil in that Cold War era) to transform herself into an enormous horned and bat - winged dragon with Fantasia's Satan's gleaming, slitlike eyes.

And it was one of good Christians that tricked the media and Congress and the people into going to war with Iraq under a threat of a mushroom cloud.

In 1978, General Creighton Abrams was said to have interrupted a discussion about limited nuclear war «with an expletive, followed... by the statement, «One mushroom cloud will be reported as one hundred, and that will probably be the end of the world.

In a world of uncertainty and anxiety, a world in which we live in the shadow of the mushroom cloud, in this world our natural inclination is to gather security to ourselves, to hang on to what we've got, and to ask, «What's in it for me?»

If i did nt know what nuclear fission was and had no explanation for it, i could come up with all kinds of excuses to prove to other ignorant people why that mushroom cloud over their was GOD.

A more appropriate symbol would be the atheist «A» in the center of a mushroom cloud.

Its name is cloud funnel, a type of wild mushroom.

Yes, they're in the middle of a disappointing season that only recently turned into a mushroom cloud, but there's Evan Longoria, who has defined the franchise for a decade, during the ups and downs, and there he goes, representing the team in the All - Star Game.

A giant banner on the back wall bore the words, «Oh Zionists, Oh Zionists, if you want this type of war, SO BE IT,» surrounding Arabic calligraphy bearing the same message in the form of a mushroom cloud.

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.

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!

The level of expertise needed to build a radio is just a little less than that required to build a nuclear weapon, they argued, so just as a civilization starts tuning up its transmitters, some internal spat causes it to go off the air in a storm of mushroom clouds.

After the second pulse of light reaches its maximum, the bright white fireball forms the cap of the mushroom cloud.

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

Roughly 4.5 billion years ago, a collision caused our planet to mushroom outward into a seething, spinning cloud of vaporised rock that resembled a squished jelly doughnut.

Physicists can find the yield of the device by measuring how fast and how high the mushroom cloud rises, Spriggs says.

This gave the ash cloud the shape of a mushroom or an umbrella, with the still - erupting Tambora as the fiery shaft.

Tests like the «Bighorn event» display the mechanisms that lead to the formation of the iconic mushroom - shaped cloud.

«Now, if you see a mushroom cloud go off in New York City, you won't know who did it, or what kind of weapon they used.»

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

The round started a smoldering fire punctuated by whizzing skyrockets, a rain of incandescent fragments, and massive explosions that bloomed into 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.

The debris cloud from the merger mushroomed from about the size of a city shortly after the merger to about the size of a solar system after only one day, Kasen said.

And there's occasionally an admirable storytelling shorthand from director Marc Forster — glimpses of priceless works of art being loaded onto boats and nuclear mushroom clouds out of plane windows give a rich and rounded sense of a wider world (ending) outside the edges of the frame.

Sure, it's all terribly derivative, and it all looks like an Armani ad, but that's just his way, the adorably fetishistic director, but hey, if you're gonna fetishize anything, if you're gonna make love to your subject matter, it might as well be Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson instead of offshore oil rigs exploding into mushroom clouds or 18 - wheelers flying through the air to crash almightily on the freeway or whatever.

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.

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).

Key features of the dystopia — Megasaki as a play on Nagasaki, mushroom - cloud animations, and, most uncomfortably, the establishment of dog internment camps — refer to historical violence inflicted on the Japanese by the U.S.

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

There's a scene in a Chinese restaurant where someone pulls out a photograph of a mushroom cloud taken at a freshly - nuked Bikini Atoll and declares, solemnly, that it's a picture of the future.

They're not bad for set photos when you consider one of them shows a mushroom cloud going up.

is about the coming of the future in literal and figurative terms and how Mannix finds himself at a crossroads between taking a job with Lockheed Martin (the mushroom cloud) or staying in place doing, as he describes, something very difficult but that feels very correct.

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.

Swim into a cloud of tropical fish or discover unique mushroom - shaped coral formations.

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.

During the events of the Arson Desk, a huge explosion, complete with mushroom cloud, rocks the city.

The Steam Cloud Balloon was destroyed when it got sucked up by a Mushroom Kingdom Twister, and was hurled into a tower of the castle.