Sentences with phrase «of fingernails in»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Serious Materials is a dirt - under - its - fingernails business situated among such giants of the virtual as eBay and Yahoo.

In the past three years, Guinness has seen world - record attempts spike 250 percent, but it's not because of crazy individuals growing out their fingernails or holding their breath.

For my fellow members of the self - employed set, some reading and planning will go a long way toward sanity, greater productivity, and fewer fingernail gouges in the arms of your office chair.

In fact the horn is made out of keratin, the same protein that makes up your hair and nails, and the amount of keratin given through the medicine is equivalent to chewing on your 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 fingernailIn 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 fingernailin terms of what they were (the size of a room) rather than what they would become (the size of a fingernail).

I am a Christian because of the sacraments, which Kerlin describes as «faith under our fingernails,» and where Jes says «abundant life is not only personal, but communal,» experienced in bread, wine, water, words, touch, sound, and smell.

In praise of deep breaths and slow kisses, of long hold - on - to - me hugs, of children draped on my lap begging for slow back scratches with my fingernails while watching television.

Her sign reminded me of the quirky movie, Juno, in which the protagonist, a young teenager, decides not to abort her child after hearing that it has fingernails.

Concern with material continuity also fed theological and artistic speculation about the fate of cut fingernails and hair, the condition and presence of genitals, the age and stature of the resurrected body, the bodies of the saints, the fate of relics, whether bodies in hell are reassembled as completely as those given eternal life and how and whether digested body parts are regurgitated at the resurrection.

A mark like this...» And, using his fingernail as a claw, Mussolini gouged a scratch in the back of a chair.

This theological tradition was able to portray a striking and even heroic faith, a sort of holding on by the fingernails to the cliff of faith, a standing terrified before the enemy - God, present to man as terror or threat, comforting only in that he kept us from the worse terrors of life without him.

When would have been a more convenient day for your fingernails to catch on the pavement and slightly delay the progress of the civilized world dragging you kicking and screaming in to the light of modern day?

Using a fingernail, rip a strip down the inside length of the banana, and then the rest should come off easily in almost one piece.

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.

I foolishly rammed the chip into my mouth, hot - sauce - corner first, so when the thing was completely in my mouth and I crunched it, the hot sauce grabbed the back of my throat, as if scraping the soft flesh of my tonsils with sharp fingernails.

SoupAddict forgot to do two things: (1) she forgot to put the meat in the freezer when she got home from her half day of work; and (2) she forgot to trim her fingernails.

It thrusts you into the thick of the action, leaves you perched precariously on the edge of your seat, fingernails bitten to the quick, mouth hanging open and heart pumping as the ball spins in slow motion towards the net, and then elated by the deafening roar of the crowd or deflated by another crushing defeat.

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.

We seem to hold them in a different regard from say fingernails or hair clippings (both of which are often recycled into other products like garden fertilizer or wigs) On the other hand, there is a definite ick factor for some people.

As I was weeding and getting the dirt under my fingernails and noticing that many of my strawberry plants have flowers on them, and the kids were playing in the dirt beside me, I began to feel alive and good and once again had the desire to garden.

You will get shit under your fingernails, find yourself scooping a turd out of the bathwater at the speed of light, or something else that you would've found beyond disgusting in your pre-baby life.

I am dismayed, appalled and yet, at the same time, somewhat interested in a consumer sense because the fact of the matter is that my 6 - year - old daughter would probably trade her pet fish for Fantastic Fingernails.

Clipping your baby's fingernails is an exercise in courage and takes nerves of steel.

It feels so good - this setting down of more literal roots in this place we love, the work of breathing fresh air and living with dirt under our fingernails, the promise of goodness to come as these trees mature.

Mother of one 8 - month - old Playards - YES Bassinet - NO (used the pack - n - play) Swaddle Blankets - YES (Aden + Anais) Crib - YES SnuggleU - HAVE N'T USED Rocking chair / glider - NO Activity gym - YES Bouncer - YES Bumbo - YES (I didn't have one, but I have tried it and would get one on sale for my next baby) Exersaucer - YES Jumper - HAVE N'T USED Front Carrier - YES Stroller - YES Wet wipe warmer - NO (I haven't actually used one, but I didn't use one and diaper changes were fine) Changing table - YES Swing - YES Lilly Padz - HAVE N'T USED Nursing pillow - NO Milkies - HAVE N'T USED Nipple cream - YES Nursing nightgown - NO (I slept in nursing tanks and they were fabulous) Bottle warmer - NO Bottle dishwasher basket - YES (also good for small toys and various things) Bottle drying rack - NO Highchair - NO (used a booster from the start) Booster Seat for Meals - YES (we used this instead of a high chair) Burp cloths - YES (I still have the littered strategically around the house) Baby bathtub - NO Nasal aspirator - NO (I use the free one from the hospital, but I wouldn't buy one; I haven't found them to work so well) Baby fingernail clippers - NO (I use adult cuticle clippers and they are wonderful) Video monitor - YES Audio monitor - HAVEN «T USED Gas drops - NO Gripe water - YES

When your baby innocently pulls her father's chest hairs or swipes at your face with sharp fingernails, or bites you while nursing, the very change in the tone of your voice when you say «Ouch!»

I actually remember spotting the craziest of items in a baby catalogue after having my first child - things like magnifiers on the end of baby scissors to see baby fingernails better and two mirrors for your car so you can drive and see your kids in the back (I nearly flipping bought that shizz too)- my calmer husband talked sense into me!

The soap will quickly cover their palms, wrists, underneath their fingernails, in between their fingers, the tops of their hands — all the essential places that need to be covered with soap to get your hands clean.

Just thinking of trimming those tiny fingernails can be scary at times and that is why the baby nail clipper you buy in the grooming kit should be a quality one to avoid self being paralyzed with fear while doing the nails for fear of hurting the baby.

There is always a diaper bomb in the middle of the night, and by using your digits to check, you are just inviting tiny nuggets of poop to lodge themselves under your fingernails.

But when a baby starts developing fingernails in utero, its arm movements run the risk of breaching that membrane.

This common skin infection occurs when one of two types of bacteria (streptococci or staphylococci) enters baby's system through a break in the skin (e.g., a bug bite, a little scrape, a fingernail scratch, or a chickenpox blister).

Voters in Barrow - in - Furness don't bite their fingernails worrying about the ethics of Britain's nuclear deterrent.

But when you hear him liken Gordon Brown to an uncle who appeared to be building something amazing in the shed for 10 years, only for us to peep through the windows «and all you could see were screwed - up pieces of paper and fingernails» you realise his country still needs him.

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

As the turtles grew, those isotopes left deposits in the shells» thick keratin, the same stuff our fingernails are made of.

When I come in from a hard day of zombie hunting, it won't be just dirt that I'll need to get out from under my fingernails.

Inermorostrum evolved its unusual feeding style just 4 million years after the toothed whale lineage split from the branch of the family tree that includes the ancestors of today's baleen whales such as humpbacks, which filter their food through frayed sheets of keratin, the same material in human fingernails.

She'd much rather be wrapped in Gore - Tex, wavy brunette hair in a bandana, her dirt - ringed fingernails turning purple on the cold, dry tundra of Ellesmere Island.

Encompassing the period of time in question was a 26 - foot - thick column of fossilized ferns, a species so small it can fit on your fingernail but is capable of doubling its mass in two days.

Since his discovery by two hikers at the Austrian - Italian border in 1991, Ötzi has been a worldwide sensation: Europe's oldest known natural human mummy has attracted thousands of admirers and scientists who have examined every inch of the «Iceman's» body — from his fingernails to his intestines.

«Everyone knows that fingernails keep growing, but no one really knows why,» says lead author Mayumi Ito, PhD, assistant professor of dermatology in the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology at NYU School of Medicine.

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.

In Part 1 of this series, the Savvy Psychologist covered 5 ways to get to your destination without leaving fingernail marks in the armresIn Part 1 of this series, the Savvy Psychologist covered 5 ways to get to your destination without leaving fingernail marks in the armresin the armrest.

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.

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.

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.

In essence, microarrays are fingernail - sized chips embedded with snippets of known DNA.