Sentences with phrase «number of twists»

Different knots are produced by strips with different numbers of twists.

It has a straightforward plot with the expected number of twists and it includes strong, believable, even relatable lead characters who are portrayed with an acceptable level of competence.

However, experiments carried out by mechanical engineer Pedro Reis and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge showed that the theory came unstuck for greater numbers of twists.

Its plot seems to be following a requisite number of twists and expository moments interspersed with some truly horrible scenes of sadistic violence.

The rural archipelago encompasses several hundred islands, rocks, and reefs — thus creating a nearly equal number of twisting shoreline miles that are perfectly suited for exploration on sea kayak tours.

I am disheartend by the various psudoscientific justifications that religions use, or worse, the incomprehensible gap between fact - based science and fringe, religion - tainted beliefs such as creationism, or how life is too complex to have occured through evolution, or seeing a stone - age family romping next to a dinosour, or any number of twisted attempts to subvert science to a particular religious viewpoint.

It is also, I would argue, a manifestation, and blunt imposition, of a number of the twisted pathologies of our current culture — or «anti-culture,» to use my preferred term.

The table certainly does take a number of twists and turns but I can't help but disagree with the statement made by Arsene.

Still, this has been a saga with a number of twists and turns, with the Daily Mirror just recently claiming Paris Saint - Germain may have moved ahead of City as favourites for the deal.

They then wrote down a formula for the pulling force in terms of three (known) variables: the thickness of the wire, its stiffness, and the number of twists.

Nevertheless, he hopes that it can serve as a stepping stone to theories describing more complex knots, and that in the future it might allow surgeons, for example, to tune the strength of a knot by altering its number of twists.

The detective story offers a number of twists and turns.

The narrative of Unknown is propped up by a number of twists.

As you can imagine, both chaos and some long overdue father - son bonding ensue, with a number of twists and turns threatening the two men's relationship and the planned ceremony.

It has a number of twists and turns.

We learn more about his life and the emotional quotient increases, but there are also a number of twists and turns preventing the viewer from knowing what will happen.

Brett Ratner's contribution centers on a just - dumped, involuntarily chaste high school boy (Star Trek's Anton Yelchin), whose avuncular pharmacist (James Caan) sets him up with his wheelchair - bound daughter (Juno's Olivia Thirlby) for a long prom night that ends with a number of twists and thrusts.

The number of twists and turns in Lemaitre's novel is incredible.

When renewed (oxygenated) blood leaves your pet's left heart ventricle, it encounters a valve and a number of twists and bends as it exits.

There are a number of twists and turns along the way, so don't expect a straight forward conclusion.

There are bound to be a number of twists and turns that you will not be expecting.

I've always had a penchant for this genre, with friends from college still referring to me as an idiot savant when it comes to effortlessly working my way through any number of twisting, trap - filled corridors.

As for the game itself, XBlaze is a visual novel with a number of twists on the formula.

The story includes a number of twists and turns along the way, but several of them are telegraphed and none of them are particularly surprising.

Parasite Eve 2 featured a number of twists as well, both in terms of the general story but also for the individual characters.

Born in 1913, Philip Guston's fascinating career is marked by a number of twists and turns.

BroadQualm has been filled with a number of twists and turns, coming to a chaotic head this week with the end of the deal.