Sentences with phrase «of blind alleys»

The tall seating position of a crossover is a godsend for seeing over and around parked cars when easing out of blind alleys into traffic and 360 - degree visibility is good thanks to the airy greenhouse and large windows.

He put it like this: «Only when the end of the blind alley of ecclesiastical humanity has been reached is it possible to raise radically and seriously the problem of God.»

The trouble is that to make the book true to life, and I have found that life takes me up a lot of blind alleys and into dark places and trackless jungles where what I would like to have added on just doesn't get added on, and the explanations I am dying to find never appear.

5) Rule 57.07 is not intended to allow the frustration of the opposing party's counsel to be taken out against a counsel personally because he or she went down a series of blind alleys with his or her clients» instructions or approval.

To give one classic example, which in fact answers Fr Marsden precisely (see his article in theJanuary 27th Catholic Times in which he said, «There should exist thousands of blind alleys and dead ends in the fossil record.

As a gene tracker, he has collected data on more than a billion DNA sequences in a lonely search that has taken him down dozens of blind alleys.

An artist makes a movie that is so labyrinthine and obscure, such a road map of blind alleys, such a turgid challenge to sit through that it sends most people skulking out of the theater «Äî except, that is, for a cadre of eggheads who hail the work as a visionary achievement.

There are hints of last year's fascinating Her and the classic play / movie Sleuth in Garland's screenplay, with the viewer constantly lured into all sorts of blind alleys wondering just who's playing who and what everyone's motives are.

After considerable deliberation, a number of blind alleys and one or two changes of heart, I've settled on... a Porsche.

I've had my share of blind alleys up that route.

Exhibit A of a blind alley, which Bezos cited when I interviewed him in Seattle this summer, was the invention of «locations» in Kindle books.

«Of course every once in a while,» he said yesterday, «one of those blind alleys opens up into a broad avenue — and that's really fun.»

Of particular use were the front bumper cameras, which displayed 90 - degree views off of the front bumper when nosing out of blind alleys or parking spots, and the rearview camera with dynamic trajectory overlay, for obvious reasons.

When Frank starts spending nights out watching diva films and visiting odd ascot bars hidden at the ends of blind alleys, Cathy strikes up a friendship with black gardener Raymond (Dennis Haysbert)-- both pastimes contributing to the Whitaker's auto - immolation and, worse, steady decline in the eyes of their gossip - hungry neighbours.

Muller's trick is to ghost into positions where defenders can not find him, yet in France he ended up in a series of blind alleys, and his lack of tactical discipline saw him come in for some heavy criticism back home.

The curb view allowed me to peer at the road beside the vehicle when parallel parking, for example, and the T - junction view allowed me to view approaching traffic as I nosed the big SUV out of the blind alleys and driveways surrounding CNET's downtown offices.

A few other tech options BMW included on this car were a surround - view camera system, useful for avoiding scraping the wheels against curbs when parking, and a front split - view camera, for pulling out of blind alleys.

The best of the tech comes as part of a $ 2,450 Driver Assistance package that folds in adaptive cruise control that works in stop - and - go traffic, a forward collision mitigation system with autonomous braking, lane departure alert and prevention with steering intervention, and Audi's corner camera mounted on the front grille that helps drivers to see around corners when easing the big sedan out of blind alleys or parking spots.