Sentences with phrase «occasional bursts of»

Autumn in general is a perfect example of neutral, drab colors with occasional bursts of vibrance.

Rhythmic tones with occasional bursts of discord are played at various stages of the exhibit, imparting a disruptive sense of ritual.

Have you ever been sitting playing games or watching TV late at night and heard muffled squeals and occasional bursts of baritone opera coming from your sofa cracks?

Colours are neutral and natural: grey beige taupe with occasional bursts of blue white striped wallpaper to keep you on your toes.

Much of the story seems preoccupied with the base - level joys and torments of being a teenager, content to float along with occasional bursts of levity from some nonessential but fun minicomics by Bosma.

The hallways that teachers describe as «chaos» four years ago are now quiet, save occasional bursts of laughter.

The civil war is kept offscreen, occasional bursts of gunfire and nighttime artillery bombardments notwithstanding, and it's displaced onto the domestic realm.

The holes in the plot are gaping, and the lack of logic in the story's development is obvious, suggesting that director Allen Hughes and editor Cindy Mollo made conscious decisions to retain the wisecracks and occasional bursts of action rather than worry overmuch about the dramatic structure.

There are occasional bursts of well - observed comedy in Comet «s largely insipid script but they are too few between the dreary dialogue and occasional badly judged observations on subjects such as rape and eating disorders.

The movie does have a certain amount of star power and occasional bursts of inventive mise en scene, which do a good job of diverting us so we don't realize that not much else is going on.

Our Sun is active: Not only does it release a constant stream of material, called the solar wind, but it also lets out occasional bursts of faster - moving material, known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.

On February 5, millions of people plopped down in front of their televisions to watch — in between occasional bursts of athletic action — one of the world's great competitions: the tournament of Super Bowl commercials.

In New York he still displayed touches of ball - playing genius, just as Muhammad Ali, if dragged into the ring right now, might be able to show occasional bursts of life.

To maximize his cash - based growth, Donovan takes care to protect his business from risk and utilizes promotions to infuse the academy with occasional bursts of new revenue.

Everything was reduced to a moody, muted palette accented by an occasional burst of color from, say, a swatch of confetti - colored dahlia blooms.

The oats give you something to sink your teeth into, and the occasional burst of flaky salt makes them utterly addictive.

Everyone else have been honest 4th place battlers with the occasional burst of brilliance but too often injry prone and form dips.

Then I added in the occasional burst of neon pink to make sure the room didn't take itself too seriously.

A hairy chest, a huge appetite and the occasional burst of wind may be enough to make many metropolitan men blush, but giving a glimpse of your inner caveman can be a big turn on for a lot of women!

While largely dialogue - driven, the audio for Se7en makes extensive use of both subtle detail (which is spread across the available channels in a very unobtrusive way) and music, as well as the occasional burst of audio fireworks.

The Darwin Awards isn't without merit, as it does feature a few nice performers, a zestful energy, and an occasional burst of cleverness that actually seems genuinely inspired, but all in all, perhaps Taylor should have trust his characters and interesting premise more, instead of throwing everything at us he can muster in terms of celebrity - dropping and forced slapstick shenanigans.

Still there is enough humor and even an occasional burst of belly laughs to be found in a movie which finds the writer - director sharing the stage with Chris Rock.

«Life is nothing but the occasional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief,» he informs us, which may be true enough, but does little to set the mood for a romantic comedy.

Needless to say, the attempts at scares are basic: doors slamming shut, weird noises, an occasional burst of violence, and the malevolent being popping up out of nowhere.

But Big Blue is a domesticated animal, a 2009 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible, designed for cruising and the occasional burst of power.

AutoBlog.com — Nov 15, 2012 «The C - Max is a lot more competent for the occasional burst of enthusiast driving than plug - ins like Prius and Volt.»

He could also hear the occasional burst of gunfire that echoed outside the walls.

A Mediterranean inspired haven, the suite's interiors comes alive with a neutral palette of cool browns and creams punctuated by the occasional burst of vivid coral turquoise, completing the look and feel of this peaceful sanctuary.

The sound will also struggle during large events, with the sound effects for guns and more simply vanishing, leaving you in a strange world of semi-silence that's punctuated by the occasional burst of gunfire or a scream that comes out of nowhere.

Paul Theriault paints directly onto scanner beds and then scans the composition, allowing for the occasional burst of scanner light to peak through the «painting.»

An occasional burst of light illuminates the apex of the jump, leaving the floating after - images of levitation attempts in the eyes of the audience.

Cottage style is usually characterized by weather - worn surfaces, but an occasional burst of shine will personalize the look.

Not exact matches

For all its occasional parochialism and its periodic bursts of cultural nativism, American literature at its most original and adventurous is also the most international, the most cosmopolitan, the most Western of the literatures of the Western world.

We will get a mixture of warm spring days, rain, sunshine, the bursting of green grass and also the occasional dump of snow.

The temperature of its workaday environment ranges between 50 and 65 degrees Celsius, and occasional bursts from the vent will subject the worm to a scalding 90 degrees C and above.

During periods of high solar activity, CMEs often burst from the Sun as waves of particles and plasma, triggering auroras and occasional electronic chaos when they wash over Earth.

Finally, when you do allow your family the occasional indulgence, make sure it is bursting with nourishing fats — coconut, avocados, cream, butter, nuts, egg yolks — to slow the absorption of sugar, and dish up fat soluble nutrients essential for regulating the effects of sugar in the body.

Elements of religious iconology juxtapose against the occasional (and actually quite restrained despite the film's reputation) bursts of violence, and by revealing the killer's identity with some running time left switches the focus slightly in a refreshing way.

Gamecube - era classic The Wind Waker comes closest, with its seafaring world, but where the open ocean that game offered was largely a wide blue expanse with the occasional semirandom encounter, Breath of the Wild's world is, and I can't repeat this enough, bursting at the seams.

So it's a little bit of «Room,» a little bit of «War of the Worlds,» and producer J.J. Abrams» involvement ensures some dashes of unexpected humor (whether you believe the levity in this context or not) along with director Dan Trachtenberg's facility for occasional, brutally effective bursts of violence.

During the Interstate 5 portions of a holiday weekend drive in the Accord EX from San Francisco to Southern California, we cruised at 80mph to 85mph with occasional bursts up to 100mph and were impressed at the effortless way the Accord handled those speeds, turning just more than 3,300 rpm at 100mph.

Keeping with the bull and bear imagery, he suggests calling a range - bound market cowardly lion, whose «bursts of occasional bravery lead to stock appreciation, but are ultimately overrun by fear that leads to a subsequent descent».

The varying greens of the sea of paddy fields, coconut palms, and banana trees were broken up by a burst of brightly coloured flowers, and the occasional blue flash of a kingfisher or orange blur of a dainty dragonfly.

Gamecube - era classic The Wind Waker comes closest, with its seafaring world, but where the open ocean that game offered was largely a wide blue expanse with the occasional semirandom encounter, Breath of the Wild's world is, and I can't repeat this enough, bursting at the seams.

There are occasional leaps away from the monochrome world she generally inhabits into sporadic bursts of colour, especially silver and gold.

Visually anchored by winding areas of yellow and crimson on the right and left respectively, the painting bursts with cadmium red, olive and forest greens, light gray, and the occasional dash of deep blue.