Sentences with phrase «of wrist action»

or maybe she could have shut down the whole industry with the flick of a wrist action motion?

Despite the ease of use via the 2006 Buick Lucerne CXS's head unit, we had more difficulty getting around the audio system using the controls mounted on the steering wheel, which allowed us only to skip forward, and required a deal of wrist action to adjust the volume via paddles mounted behind the steering wheel.

(This takes a lot of elbow grease and plenty of wrist action, but you can also use an electric mixer to make the job easier.)

Not exact matches

Being able to tap your wrist a few times to make one of these complex actions happen would be a huge boon for those looking to save time.

If he shows remorse for his actions and pleads that the injustice got the better of him and that he has learnt from his mistake, I'm sure that the FA will let him off with just a small fine and a slap on the wrist (warning)

But an astonishing burst of speed and strong wrist action from Sky News man Lewis Goodall turned the tables for the hacks.

Before opening the box, the researcher performed nonsensical actions over it, either rubbing the box with the back of the hand and doing a wrist twist in the air or tracing a cross into the top of the box and then tracing the edges.

The forearm is a very visible muscle group, comprised of many smaller muscles with different functions, such as generating the actions of the hand and fingers, wrist flexion and extension, and much more.

Your wrists are used every single day and play a huge part in taking out the trash, penning a novel, texting your wife, giving a high five, carrying your child, and even the simple action of drinking a glass of water.

Let's break this down: If you look at the weight and the hand action on this, it's the hands and the wrist that are critical because the rotation of the hands and the wrists is going to affect the balance through the shoulders and rotational ability through the thoracic spine.

In an assessment of the upper - body joints (shoulder, elbow, wrist, trunk and neck) of a group of 41 subjects (22 young male and female subjects aged 25 — 35 years and 19 mature male and female subjects aged 65 — 80 years), Doriot and Wang (2006) also found females to have significantly greater ROM in several joint actions.

The action sequences are brief but enjoyable, helped along by the mystery of Jake's wrist cannon, which comes to be a more effective tool in defeating the space critters than any earthbound weapon.

«You corroborate and prove and substantiate a fraud of this caliber that spanned for decades, and then essentially give the country that committed that fraud a slap on the wrist, allow 160 of their athletes to compete in those games, two of them found doping, and then immediately after the games are over — without that country ever accepting responsibility, apologizing for any of their actions or accepting that any of this was truth while they continue to hunt Dr. Rodchenkov — you lift the ban on that country.

Encourage students to use keystrokes rather than the repetitive action of using the mouse, trackpad or joystick, which puts strain on hands and wrists.

Players are also expected to get into the thick of the action — this means none of that flick - of - the - wrist nonsense.

This spontaneous activity was the «action» of the painter, through arm and wrist movement, painterly gestures, brushstrokes, thrown paint, splashed, stained, scumbled and dripped.

A flurry of ragged, peppy strokes in rainbow hues — plus black, white and gray — is rendered through evident gestures of the wrist and forearm but without the action of the entire body.

Perhaps he intended the work as a riff on process art, or an attempt to pun action painting's grand gesture with miniature flicks of his wrist, but ultimately, the sloppiness of the piece is annoying.

These distinctive shapes in a Pollock might appear to be the work of tightly controlled wrist - action, but scientists who study Fluid Dynamics say it is the result of a physical phenomenon (noticed by the artist in his experiments and then exploited in subsequent works) where the paint naturally forms coils as it lands.

In the latest development in the Apple vs. Samsung worldwide legal battle, Apple has received a significant wrist slap from Britain's Court of Appeal, requiring that Apple run a public apology for bringing the action against Samsung.

Pebble's great strength is that notifications work so well; the next step should be taking common actions and putting them a glance and a discreet tap of the wrist away, not adding another computer to your body.

Versa launches with Fitbit OS 2.0 for the company's smartwatches, including a new personalized dashboard that provides a more simplified, intuitive and holistic view of your health and fitness data, bringing the best of our mobile app to the wrist, including: ● Stats at a glance: See your daily and weekly health and fitness stats, historical activity, heart rate, and exercise summaries, action - oriented motivational messages, tips and tricks, and daily guidance all on your wrist.

And Moto Actions lets you launch the camera with a flick of your wrist.

The some of the actions work with surprising consistency — during testing, wrist flicking became my go - to method of launching the camera app — but others don't; a Tomahawk - like chopping gesture for triggering the camera was only recognized occasionally, in my experience.

It also has the gesture activated controls for the camera, allowing users to snap photos with the flick of their wrist or enable the flashlight with a chop, which are both part of the Moto Actions feature that's baked into the software.

Moto Actions uses gesture recognition so you can do things like launch the camera with a twist of your wrist or turn on the flashlight by doing a double chop while holding the phone.

When your friends, family, and co-workers try to get a hold of you, a quick glance of the wrist can yield an action to read or delete the message.

Manual wrist and finger dexterity and wrist - finger speed sufficient to perform repetitive actions for extended periods of time