Sentences with phrase «of a mirage on»

To explain their technique, Smith and Schurig invoke the example of a mirage on a hot summer road.

Previous works have explored the verbal descriptions of the sound of the Northern Lights and accounts of images seen as a result of mirages on the Great Lakes.

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From a match turning into a sunrise to a man appearing out of a mirage to a spectacular train crash, you can thank «Lawrence of Arabia» for some of the most indelible images ever created on film.

Buffet has been recycling the lack of intrinsic value argument since 2014, when he first dismissed Bitcoin as «a mirage» on CNBC.

It seems clear now that the evangelical wing of conservative Protestantism has been built on a theological mirage.

But must not this event on Bultmann's own premises once more assume the character of a mirage instead of a fixed point on the landscape of history?

What I am trying to get out of this is, what Mata did was a mirage of what Gervinho could have done, or inter-change with Walcott on a more regular basis in order for Bosingwa and Cole to have a difficult time in man marking.

When our young people do not see a future in their countries, and cross the Sahara desert on foot and drown in the Mediterranean Sea, in a desperate bid to reach the mirage of a better life in Europe, no amount of beautiful lyrics will change our image,» he bemoaned.

Ghana's enthusiastic efforts of becoming an economy less dependent on cash in the West African sub-region will be a mirage...

This is the most common type of mirage, the one we see all the time on highways on hot days.

The golden outline of Shwe Myitzu Pagoda — a pilgrimage site for local Buddhists, accessible only by boat during most of the year — shimmers on the horizon like a mirage.

On this gray, drizzly winter morning, the California coastal mountains in the distance look like a mirage hovering over a flat swath of fields at Russell Ranch, a 300 - acre experimental farm in the Sacramento Valley.

There on the screen was the huge, rotund universe of the female egg cell, its internal jelly, or cytoplasm, smooth and evenly grained, and there, just below the equator, two ghostly yolklike circles around the male and female DNA, mere mirages of genetic material, in close proximity, nearly nuzzling.

Because of the fact that we disclose much more and require others to disclose more to us in an open online atmosphere, the mental mirage of actually liking someone more can actually be what's going on.

Battles take place on a circular stage, where flamboyantly dressed teens call upon otherworldly beings known as Mirages to help them fight ghoulish versions of Fire Emblem enemies like Dark Clerics and Bloodwing Knights.

Among the other fiction films to look for in theaters or on VOD: John Michael McDonagh's Calvary, in which Brendan Gleeson gives a beautifully modulated performance as a dedicated priest who is no match for the disillusionment of his parishioners and the rage of another inhabitant of his Irish seaside village, determined to take revenge against the priesthood for the sexual abuse he suffered as a child; the desultory God Help the Girl, the debut feature by Stuart Murdoch (of Belle and Sebastian), all the more charming for its refusal to sell its musical numbers; Tim Sutton's delicate, impressionistic Memphis, a blues tone poem that trails contemporary recording artist Willis Earl Beal, playing a character close to himself who's looking for inspiration in a legendary city that's as much mirage as actuality; and two horror films, Jennifer Kent's uncanny, driving psychodrama The Babadook, with a remarkable performance by child actor Noah Wiseman, and Ana Lily Amirpour's less sustained A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, which nonetheless generates some powerful political metaphors.

As Greenspan and his confederates built an ideology of limitless growth on quicksand, several insiders were sharp enough to see through the mirage — and they were outsiders among their blind - sided colleagues.

Its mirage - like quality recalled for me the lighthouse ship scene in The Age of Innocence (1993), another great adaptation, where Newland spots both Ellen and a ship racing towards a lighthouse on the horizon, and promises himself that he will break societal constraints to be with her if she turns around before the ship passes the lighthouse.

Lann and Reynn are the only two human characters, with captured Mirages, monsters based on Final Fantasy classic creatures, making up the rest of the party.

Yet like a mirage of mountains on the horizon, I still have a long way to go.

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«Next to this screen is the screen named — Hello, this is Watson, and this is my mental map superimposed on the mental map of the author and all each and every individual adjusting the existence of this Watson and of this and that chainlet of each and every interconnection and of the analysed text of mirroring and mirage, and this Watson suggests to name this process collective mental engineering superimposed on the individual view of inlets and outlets, may it help us to understand each other, one another, such a marvelous cosmic flower for you for us.»

Page, known to be one of the most forthright publishers, willing to concede challenges where others dissemble, also contributed the phrase «mirage of stability» to one of my own London on the Ether columns for The Bookseller.

After four hundred years on the wrong side of prejudice, intolerance, poverty and even witch hunts, all she really wants to do with her fifth life is hide out on a mirage with a bunch of cats.

In Icahn Takes On Kerkorian in Big Las Vegas Showdown (subscription required), The Wall Street Journal reports that Carl Icahn has built a large position in the bonds of MGM MIRAGE (NYSE: MGM) and i...

Trudeau also set his sights on the NDP's Tom Mulcair, denouncing his promise to raise the minimum wage as a «mirage» that wouldn't apply to 99 % of minimum - wage workers in Canada whose pay rates are set by the provinces.

Our belief is that, rather than focusing on the alluring mirage of a high headline income yield, investors would be better served focusing on a more sustainable level of income.

There was a lot of turnover this month due in part to posts up including a Q&A with Mebane Faber on shareholder yield and and a post up on the «mirage of financial literacy.»

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Approaching the vast Thar Desert aboard the Palace on Wheels, the city of Jodhpur shines like a mirage among the arid desert landscape.

With the infinity edged pools embedded into the stone floor, a mirage reminiscing of the Floating Gardens in the ancient Babylonian legend comes to mind; Elevated above the world, with nothing but the sky above, beautiful blue waters edge on the surface, looking down on the rest of existence.

Instead you fight using the mirages you capture, which join you in the form of a stack, with different sized monsters balancing precariously on top of each other.

The other thing that Jump reveals is the new Water Frog mirage that can cast negative buffs on enemies and can boost the team's magic defense through a spell called «Song of Spirit.»

As noted, you collect mirages, up to four of which are then brought into battle to fight alongside (or, more likely, on top of) you.

His photography gives a new clue to the fundamentals in his work: as light reflects through windows or glass and moves through translucent objects, the artist snaps at small mirages but is only focused on the reality that hides behind the apparent misrepresentations of the mind.

It complicates its own most obvious readings of racial and sexual identity by cutting across love, sex, lust, and longing to illustrate and embody the excruciating surfeit of words — spoken and written, etched on porcelain in notational shorthand (in Valerie Piraino's wonderfully ruminative series «Simone,» from 2010), and silk - screened ever so faintly on canvas (in Pendleton's Concrete, from 2004, which ticks off evocative phrases such as «the smell of your neck in August» and «somewhere between forgiving too easily and not giving in at all»)-- that prop up and then ruin relationships, pure verbiage as a cruel mirage.

Rickards» two - screen film is based on spoken accounts of a displaced image of a city seen over Lake Michigan as the result of rare temperature inversion mirages.

Rather than pointing to the specifics of any place in particular, WE SPOKE MIRAGE focuses on the sensory effects that these imagined places cause for the viewer.

Focusing on the concept of representation and the power of language, especially gestures, he researches instances of elusive theatrical moments that call attention to the perception of transformation through the image of the mirage.

The stripes and notches of the Copper and Aluminum works conspire to create relief - like mirages of projecting and receding planes, something the proponents of absolute flatness in painting — who relied on Stella as a touchstone — certainly did not have in mind.

The monumental Living Pyramid rises from the lawn of Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City like a futuristic mirage, with a base thirty feet on a side.

Nurturing the idea of a mirage, these visuals are more focusing on the harmony rather than the content, triggering optical illusions and deceiving the eye.

Opening February 25, 2017 as a part of Desert X, a site - specific contemporary art exhibition curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield, MIRAGE will remain on view after the exhibition closes through October 31, 2017.

Though an accomplished draftsperson, in her recent paintings she chooses to project her photographs and work them on the canvas with little or no preparatory drawing; the image is a short - lived mirage and her paintings are manipulations of pure light.

The simplest change would be to replace coal + CCS with nuclear (the UK government now seems to be chasing the mirage of Small Modular Reactors) but that is only marginally less unrealistic than CCS (a new post on this shortly, I hope).

Australia should consider the promised post-2020 agreement as a distant last priority unless the implementation date is brought forward, because it is extremely misguided to focus on the mirage of a possible future agreement to be implemented after the critical decade is over.

What once seemed a mirage is becoming a reality: The world can now glimpse the prospect of an economy largely dependent on abundant, inexhaustible, affordable clean energy.

After 10 years of study, I realized that relying on renewables for electricity is a mirage.

While chasing the mirage of a game - changing renewable energy source in the form of industrial - scale solar plants capable of powering hundreds of thousands of homes, the federal government has turned its back on a better, cheaper form of energy from the sun: distributed solar power generation, sometimes known as rooftop solar.

Consensus on SegWit (Segregated Witness — ForkLog protocol) with the support of about 30 % of the miners seemed nothing more than a mirage.