Sentences with phrase «of his fingernails as»

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

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.

My friend Adele describes fundamentalism as holding so tightly to your beliefs that you fingernails leave imprints on the palm of your hand.

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.

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.

Fred Taylor of Ohio State sat filing his fingernails so intently as he listened to this that it almost seemed he planned to scratch his way to victory.

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.

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.

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.

Some of us even get a fresh coat of baby poop on those fingernails on the daily as well - yummy I know.

The anger will build to a full rage as you progress through cleaning poop from undies, fingernails from children who think they can wipe their own bottoms, and tearing apart car seats because your child has an accident as you pull out of the driveway.

That is precisely what Gordon Brown wants - his last throw of the dice is that the Conservatives will fall into this trap, allowing him to portray them as the enemies of the masses and thereby cling to power by his fingernails.

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

Political resignations range from ministers hanging on by their fingernails - to the sudden departure as part of a plot to bring down a leader.

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

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.

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.

Turtle shells are made of keratin, like your fingernails, and this flakes off and changes shape as a turtle grows.

Lab - on - a-chip designates devices that integrate various biochemical functions on a fingernail - sized chip to enable quick and compact biological analysis or medical diagnosis by processing a small volume of biological samples, such as a drop of blood.

(Think of zero as the shoulder - blade spot where the alien's fingernail starts out.)

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.

As a result, the disease generates age - like conditions: It wipes out affected individuals» bone marrow, predisposes them to a variety of human cancers, and gives them splotchy skin, ratty fingernails, and prematurely gray hair.

baleen A long plate made of keratin (the same material as your fingernails or hair).

3) Indigestion and constipation because food is not being digested properly 4) Skin conditions such as Acne, Rosacea, Urticaria, Eczema Dilated blood vessels in the cheeks and nose (in non-alcoholics), this is called «Rosacea Acne 5) Vertical ridging on the nails because of inability to absorb nutrients from food, Weak, peeling, and cracked fingernails.

Continue that pattern for the rest of that nail, as well as for the pinky fingernail.

Focus primarily on washing under your fingernails as this area harbors a lot of bacteria.

It seemed like a good idea to check out the new local dinner theater to see a hot movie like District 9... but as soon as the main character popped off his bloody fingernail to his (and our) great surprise, I regretted having just taken a big bite of pizza.

When he was fired as the head of Universal's Focus Features unit in 2013, he vowed to «get my fingernails dirty» again as a producer.

Solondz is the bamboo splinter beneath the fingernail of that shame — his manifesto lies in the decision to confront the ultimate causes behind our embarrassment with fetishism, our horror at the recognition of racial difference (suggested by George Bush Sr.'s boldly insane, «I don't see colour»), and our inability to treat people with physical disabilities as anything other than children or objects of pity.

After all, one person's quirk is another's fingernails on a chalkboard, ripping scorching holes in your head as the sheer bafflement of what is going on cause you balk and run for the Woods.

Aside from an excruciatingly mannered early scene in which Angela and Ricky's Aunt Martha (Desiree Gould) comes on like Parker Posey chewing tinfoil while scraping a knife against a glass bottle with one hand and dragging her fingernails down a chalkboard with the other, the rest of the film is pretty plain: Sleepaway Camp is shot like a 1970s TV sitcom, and as a look back at anno domini 1983, it has a documentary quality.

SOUND DESIGN: A fascinating documentary narrated by sound designer Gary Rydstrom, who reveals the secrets of the sound effects in A Bug's Life as things as diverse as raw crab crackling, fingernails on a chalkboard, flapping 35 mm ends on reels, kazoos, blowing on playing cards, and on and on.

On that Tuesday in January, when her life changed forever, Martine Rhodes woke with a headache, developed a sour stomach after washing down two aspirin with grapefruit juice, guaranteed herself an epic bad - hair day by mistakenly using Dustin's shampoo instead of her own, broke a fingernail, burnt her toast, discovered ants swarming through the cabinet under the kitchen sink, eradicated the pests by firing a spray can of insecticide as ferociously as Sigourney Weaver wielded a flamethrower in one of those old extraterrestrial - bug movies, cleaned up the resultant carnage with paper towels, hummed Bach's Requiem as she solemnly consigned the tiny bodies to the trash can, and took a telephone call from her mother, Sabrina, who still prayed for the collapse of Martie's marriage three years after the wedding.

They got a shiny little set of tools they use, sharp as witches» fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray.

Gloria swam with a tiny, fastidious stroke he saw as typical of the way she did everything; her brothers, intent on speed, thrashed through the water like outboard motors, but she swam carefully, held each hand carefully, pointed like a dart, her gleaming red fingernails leading the hand, the angled hand slicing neatly into the water with no splash whatsoever.

It is plucked with a false fingernail on the right ring finger and is known as «the instrument of the heart» because the open gourd is held close to the musician's heart.

The misuse of juju creates a psychological fear - personal objects such as hair or fingernails are combined with a promise that has repercussions if not kept.

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.»

I guess I have been spoiled, too, by touch screen interfaces (but, since I hate smearing them up, I actually prefer the cheaper resistive screen tablets that respond well to a stylus or fingernail, such as the S7, Archos 5, and PDN, instead of the capacitive type's need for full fingertip like the Archos 70).

For example, getting the plastic cover that conceals the microSD card slot up is a test of patience as well as fingernails.

Most people think of hooves as being like a fingernail, a tough outer covering that protects structures underneath.

Well, those chewed - up fingernails are growing in just fine since the city announced the appointment of Tawny Hammond as chief animal services officer in late May.

When you cut your own fingernails, you will go pain - free as long as you don't cut the part of the nail that is still attached to your skin.

I'm simply a courier, here to deliver a simple message to the legions of PlayStation followers out there who may be chomping their fingernails in nervous anticipation as developer after developer seemingly exits Sony first - party:

Also, in a divisive decision, titles can either be purchased as old - school boxed games in the new PS Vita flash - card format (which, rather nicely, you can make game saves on), or downloaded from PSN to a tiny proprietary PS Vita memory card half the size of a Monopoly house, both of which are inserted through the most fiddly, fingernail - cracking access ports known to tech.

«His fingernails,» the artists note, «are painted as if they were the screws that hold that mass of thin, delicate hair in place.»

Both the title of the exhibition and a new body of work, Fingernails on a black board investigate how voice acts as the embodied medium of speech.