Sentences with phrase «of a splash on»

Maybe it was the fact that it debuted two years after the 2000 original, or maybe people chafed at the addition of a way too on - the - nose subtitle, but Deus Ex didn't make much of a splash on PS2.

There's no denying that Huawei's Honor brand has made somewhat of a splash on the market by offering a premium experience at an affordable price and the Honor 7 is certainly no different.

Not exact matches

The next time you slip on your Beats by Dr. Dre or splash on some of Justin Bieber's Girlfriend cologne (OK, maybe not), remember that Kiss was there long before licensing was cool.

The Chinese are on a week - long public holiday break now and splashing billions of dollars traveling internationally.

The next time you slip on your Beats by Dr. Dre or splash on some of Justin Bieber's Girlfriend cologne (okay, maybe not) remember that KISS was there long before licensing was cool.

MasterCard is offering banks a holy grail: The company isn't charging them anything to use its system beyond the small cut of each credit card transaction that it's always been getting and it's letting the banks splash their own branding on the apps.

Aldrin, a fairly prolific presence on social media, recently posted a few tweets looking back at the mission, including photos of the forms that he, Armstrong and fellow crew member Michael Collins filled out when they arrived in Honolulu after splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

I mean, it wasn't like the housework was hiding; a few piles of laundry sat plainly on our bedroom floor, splashes of water and who - knows - what sat dried on our bathroom mirrors, and the dust on our wooden floors was too thick to ignore.

But it has given the sleepy nonprofit world a brief, bracing splash of cold water — and brought home the idea that social media and fun, easy - to - do challenges can have a big impact on social causes.

Just because fans watch sports from the comfort of their couches doesn't mean they're going to splash out on season tickets.

Last year Xi made a splash on the eve of Trump's inauguration.

When animal welfare activism comes up in conversation, it's only natural to think of angry protesters waving gruesome photos on the street or a bucket of red paint splashed on someone's brand new fur coat.

But its modest price of $ 200 makes it an attractive add - on for those already planning to splash out on the latest Samsung phone.

That seven - second messy splash of reality comes to us via San Fran DWP's Twitter feed, because of course it's on Twitter.

It highlighted a number of healthier and on - trend drink launches on Thursday, including its at - home drink system, Drinkfinity, and Lipton Iced Tea with a Splash of Juice.

Snap Inc appears set to make a splash next week with the biggest tech stock debut since Facebook, but history suggests investors shut out of the initial public offering would be better off waiting a bit to chase this unicorn on the open market.

It's also a lather that doesn't take much rinsing once you're done; a quick splash of water on your face and razor and you're good to go.

Virgin America Inc., the low - cost airline partly backed and fully branded by British entrepreneur Richard Branson launched on Wednesday with a splash of publicity, but found its first flight delayed by a midsummer New York storm.

Now Tuft & Needle, one of the most popular mattress makers on Amazon, is making a splash in physical retail — with the help of Amazon.

Many men think they understand what is wet shaving, but the truth is most of us simply splash a bit of water on our faces before getting started, real wet shaving requires a bit more preparation and work.

On February 18th, Actavis made by far the biggest drug splash of the year when it announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Forest Labs for a whopping $ 25 billion in cash and equity.

While the trip to the London Olympics has sticker shock, it is small potatoes in comparison to the Government of Alberta's $ 14 million splash at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, where Premier Ed Stelmach and cabinet ministers hosted Olympic attendees on a $ 499 per ticket luxury train to Whistler and showered them with gifts that included iPod Touchs and White Cowboy Hats.

The Dropbox IPO may have created waves, but it was perhaps Spotify's Wednesday IPO announcement that made the bigger splash Spotify, a popular music streaming company, announced their $ 1 billion IPO this week — with the notable exclusion of underwriters on the announcement.

Eagles roost on tall pines, muskrats burrow in mounds of mud and straw, and black ducks splash in a pond.

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Or in dry hot summer, when clouds dark and heavy gather on the hill, soon thundering like a herd of buffalo across the valley, making glad the gardens and sending out the children to splash in the puddles?

But, of course, by the end of the final week of the games, I became the calloused Olympic viewer, watching with a bowl of ice cream on my lap as a Chinese diver jumped three stories into the water, rotating three and a half times on his way down, only to be critiqued by me — ice cream lap girl — for making too big of a splash.

Now I had an authoritative source on everything domestic from scrambling eggs (Martha recommends adding a splash of milk) to planting a bulb garden.

As he was walking up to my apartment he had flowers in his hand and a bucket of water and started splashing the water on me.

If, on the other hand, you imagine yourself inside the body of the swimmer, such that your arms are moving in front of you and water is splashing at your sides, you are assuming a first - person perspective.

and splash some of this wine on them»

It's a splash of cold water on the face that says, «Get a grip, man!

He took it home and put it on a shelf where the sun would strike it and splash rainbows of color across the room.One day, a holy man entered the house, saw the rock on the shelf, and exclaimed, «That's a diamond!

The smell of sin hung foul on them; the mire About their roots was trampled filth of flesh Horrid with rottenness, and splashed with gore Curdling in crimson puddles; where there buzzed And sucked, and settled, creatures of the swamp, Hideous in wing and sting, gnat - clouds and flies, With moths, toads, newts, and snakes red - gulleted; And livid, loathsome worms, writhing in slime Forth from skull - holes and scalps and tumbled bones.57

«My prayer is that you'll read these pages first curled up on your couch or in bed or in the bathtub,» she writes, «and then after that you'll bring it to the kitchen with you, turning corners of pages, breaking the spine, spilling red wine on it and splashing vinegar across the pages, that it will become battered and stained as you cook and chop and play, music loud and kitchen messy.

The Milwaukee Bucks forward Jabari Parker splashed photos of himself donning a Kaepernick Jersey, which is currently the best - selling jersey on the market.

If they could only have cast their minds further back, perhaps they might have recalled a lost paradise: green and yellow meadows stirred by tender winds, umbrageous forests and emerald groves, glass - blue mountain peaks melting into azure skies, glittering bays whose diamond waters break in jade and turquoise surges on sands like powdered alabaster — where the rain falls gently, and is transformed by the setting sun into shimmering curtains of gold — where, beyond verdant valleys and limestone caves, lies a palace filled with every delight the senses can endure, enclosing garden courtyards where crystal fountains splash in porphyry basins, intoxicating perfumes hang upon the breezes, undying flowers of every hue shine out amid the greenery's blue shadows...

Instead of a million monkeys banging at random on a million typewriters, imagine a million, indeed billions of blind painters each sprinkling a few splashes of color on billions of canvases, one before each painter.

Buddhist ascetics splash cold water over themselves at the end of their 100 - day austere Buddhism training to pray for peace in the world at Nose Myokenzan Betsuin temple in Tokyo on February 15, 2013 on the anniversary of Buddha's death.

why do the priests play dress up and wear gown and hats and carry around golden stuff and burn incense and ring bells and sing «let us proclaims the mystery of the faith» and splash water on people and eat horrible tasting bread pretending its a human body — sounds like some crazy middle eastern cult

In my own moves into «ministry» (btw, ministry literally means service) I am hoping to avoid the big - splash approach and rather concentrate on doing a «little for a few people» rather than getting a lot of attention but not making contact with the people behind the need.

This sounds like some sort of ancient pagan ritual where the worshippers splashed blood on themselves as they went into the temple to worship their pagan god.

They kept the original recipe but expanded on it a bit by adding a splash of «vino de Tequila.»

You see, they had a spin on the classic cosmo — one of my go - to cocktails of cranberry juice, vodka, orange liquor, and a splash of lime — that featured pomegranate juice and grapefruit juice instead of the cranberry and lime.

I did take a bowl out and «play around» a bit with some local raw honey, a splash of pickled ginger liquid, and some chopped pickled ginger on top it was delicious and certainly satisfying!

and then later on in the morning I had my new favorite smoothie: mango, pineapple, banana, and strawberries all mixed together with a splash of almond milk!

Finely chop the onion and fry on a medium heat with a splash of oil for about 5 minutes, then add two cloves of minced garlic and 2 mushrooms chopped into small pieces (1 / 2 cm cubes).

Pour in a splash of almond milk and two tablespoons of maple syrup, then blend on medium speed until everything is fully mixed and has a creamy consistency.

I honestly love this oatmeal all on its own with nothing more than a splash of cream and a sprinkle of sugar.

I just sprinkle on some more cinnamon, add a splash of coconut milk or almond milk, and a drizzle of maple syrup.