Sentences with phrase «of fingernails»

I have been known to say that the very word «networking» has the same visceral effect on me as the sound of fingernails dragging slowly down a blackboard.

Presentation also covers things like the way you style your hair, makeup selection and even the length and cleanliness of your fingernails.

Instruments can now measure the movement of continents — on average about the rate of growth of fingernails.

While the drawings and prints in the exhibition reflect the purity of his mark - making, his deadpan humor comes across especially in a series of drawn - on polaroid images of his fingernails.

But I've said it before and I'll say it again, Xbox and Playstation need a feature that allows us to filter out under 18s / 16s / anyone who carries the voice of fingernails scratching across a chalkboard, or sounds like they just left their mothers womb.

Often, people's false perception of declawing is similar to the trimming of our fingernails.

So, as Zane Grey said of one of his heroines «She'd climb the highest cliffs with just the tip of her fingernails if necessary.»

What was left of her fingernails were thick and broken, and it was laughable to imagine that someone like Ella would ever spend the time it would take to use a tiny brush to color such ugly things.

There came a light scratching of fingernails on the curtains, and Doc Muswell entered, along with the Mother Superior or some other bigwig, by the look of her.

But their mother never arrives, and despite memories of her mother's exhortations to «keep women a whole other hand away from the farthest tips of your fingernails,» August finds herself longing for the friendship of other girls, particularly the tight - knit relationship of three in the neighborhood: Gigi, Angela, and Sylvia.

They ply the children with promises, get them to surrender locks of their hair or clips of fingernails in a voodoo rite where they are bound to their «masters» on penalty of death.

The combination of fingernails on cardboard and crinkling plastic is a known ASMR trigger, but mixed with the capitalist euphoria of a new purchase, these videos are hits.

Pacino inhabits this guy Manglehorn right down to the blackened nubs of his fingernails that suggest he really has worked with metals and grease for 45 years.

The sound of chains dragging on a floor, the sight of fingernails scraping against splintered wood are hard to take, however beautifully these elements are executed; by this point, I started to wonder whether, for all its grace, The Eyes of My Mother is really that different from the brutish likes of, say, Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008; remade by Kevin and Michael Goetz, 2015).

Se7en (David Fincher, 1997) It's hard to think of a movie that did more short - term damage to the length of your fingernails in the»90s than David Fincher's Se7en.

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Why is the sound of fingernails on a chalkboard so painful?

Nail - Patella is an extremely rare inherited disorder that can result in improper development of fingernails or toenails, and absence or underdevelopment of the knee caps, among other symptoms.

Buerkle didn't win last year so much as Maffei lost with this kind of fingernails - on - chalkboard incessant whining.

I used to tap the tips of my fingernails against the underside of Jason's forearm to try to give him an idea of what I was feeling (bum deal for the partner — being able to feel the kicks from the outside is still a long way off), but it's more like an impossibly gentle and faint THUMP than a tap.

Blessed are the fathers who know how to get gum out of hair, ketchup out of carpet and green nail polish off of fingernails, for these are essential parenting skills.

I'd love to get my girls the starfish chew beads necklaces so they will chew that instead of their fingernails OR the new Thirsties Natural!

Listening to the game on Five Live (a preferable option to most Sky commentators), with around ten minutes to go, our 1 - 0 lead over Spurs was being described as the «surprise of the season», as if we were some plucky club leading a Premiership giant in the cup, hanging on by the tips of our fingernails.

I'm certain the undersides of their fingernails were absolutely atrocious.

Here's a great example of a final candidate who lost the job because of his fingernails.

In 1943, IBM's ibm Thomas Watson predicted «a world market for maybe five computers» — most likely because he was thinking about computers in terms of what they were (the size of a room) rather than what they would become (the size of a fingernail).

I keep it in a sealed glass jar at my bedside and it ALWAYS becomes solid again which requires the use of a fingernail to pry a chunk out.

The Brazilian complained of fingernail ache first at 12 am on New Year's day and has declared himself unfit to play for the foreseeable future.

Hold your baby's finger pressing the finger pad down and away from the nail, then gently snip following the natural curve of the fingernail all the while taking care that you don't go too low and nip the quick.

Scientists in Korea have designed a crablike robot that is smaller than the thickness of a fingernail and powered by contractions of cardiac tissue.

A hybrid approach combines the benefits of photovoltaic and solar - thermal technologies into a device the size of a fingernail

MIT researchers have developed a way to measure white blood cell levels by imaging the cells as they flow through capillaries at the base of the fingernail.

The device they built is about the size of a fingernail; because the area is small relative to the length of the edges, more heat is lost through inevitable dissipation.

And glued delicately to the tip of that pin is a jawbone the size of a fingernail clipping — all that remains of a small mammal that scurried beneath ferns and fallen logs 115 million years ago in what is now Australia.

Barely the length of a fingernail, the Southeast Asian liver fluke is a flatworm that thrives in the freshwater lakes and rivers of the Mekong basin.

They will then need to figure out how to assemble up to a trillion parts quickly, cheaply and precisely onto a chip the size of a fingernail.

To replicate the brain in miniature, Parker and his team started with an elastic substrate about the size of a fingernail, then added a layer of cells on top to mimic networks of blood vessels in the brain.

Baleen whales get their name from the frayed slabs of fingernail - like material they use to strain tiny crustaceans and small fish from mouthfuls of seawater.

Today's computer chips pack billions of tiny transistors onto a plate of silicon within the width of a fingernail.

Humans do have some regenerative capacities — for example, regrowing fingertips if a sizable portion of the fingernail remains.

She carries a sample of the mouse patch in a petri dish; it is about the size of a fingernail, with an array of needles, in rows 11 x 11.

VANCOUVER, Wash. — Why an insect the size of a fingernail has been compared to a great white shark is becoming more apparent as the brown marmorated stink bug accelerates across the Pacific Northwest.

«For these people, even just a tiny bit of trauma to the skin — like a scratch of a fingernail or the rub of a belt or a bra strap — can cause them to break out into hives a few minutes later,» says Dr. McGrath.

If you spot a vertical line in any shade of brown extending from cuticle to the tip of your fingernail, make sure to check in with your dermatologist.

The Fitness Travel Company's overseas trips are not for the faint of fingernail.

Step 3 — Get a small amount of Golden Rule Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure on the end of the brush, and gently dab it on the tip of your fingernail, making small dabs from left to right.

I'm a big fan of your fingernail polish reviews, but especially this OPI Samoan Sand one!

The — and + and HOME buttons on the Pro Controller sit flush with the housing, so they can be somewhat hard to press unless you have a bit of a fingernail to bear down on them.

(We needed to use the side of a fingernail.)

It is sometimes painful to turn pages because you need to be extra firm or have to use the tip of your fingernail.