Sentences with phrase «only slivers»

By contrast, squares are flattened in Block Party (2013), maxing out the picture plane and yielding only slivers of a mid-afternoon sky blue surrounding large fields of hot - brick red and a summery white - gray.

The poor and the rich get only slivers.

This Bad Lieutenant abuses his power in the most unrelenting and disturbing ways, offering us only slivers of insight into his conscience.

That's about one quarter of all non-U.S. companies that have listed here, but only a sliver of the 181 total IPOs for the same time period.

But this is only a sliver of the story.

This razor type uses a double - sided blade covered by a guard that exposes only a sliver of the edge, preventing major cuts.

But traction is slow and fee - based VAs are still only a sliver of overall VA sales, which are overwhelmingly sold via commission.

In some cases, the companies are sharing only a sliver of their tax - cut windfalls.

Most concerning, the VIX ETPs that caused last week's flash crash are only a sliver of the algorithmic universe built to depend on low volatility in the era of QE.

Only a sliver above it is acting out of a desire for personal reward.

Atul Gawande has written about «the callousness, inhumanity and extraordinary suffering» inflicted on the severely ill, «with only a sliver's chance of benefit.

We watch until only a sliver is left.

It is still scarce, and only a sliver of the many restaurants claiming to serve it offer the real thing.

But the reality is that Brooklyn will have a very small say in the candidate selection process, since only a sliver of the borough in included in the district, which contains all of Staten Island.

But only a sliver of the more than $ 350,000 he received in contributions during the first half of the year came from the real estate industry, according to a review of campaign finance records by The Real Deal.

Alas, the vast majority of Puerto Ricans don't, with proposals to that end getting only a sliver of the island's votes.

His proposal completely ignores private school students, sets credit - hour requirements that will render some ineligible, does nothing to help alleviate current college debt, and is available to only a sliver of New York's total student population.

But even with that expansion, renewable supplies will provide only a sliver — roughly 5 percent — of the nation's energy needs by 2030, according to the EIA.

A simple organism with only a sliver of RNA couldn't possibly build such a complicated container for itself.

«The results for the patients it helps are absolutely spectacular, but those patients are only a sliver of the population with the disease,» says Munos.

As you get older maybe only a sliver of skin and no belly button.

My favorite trick for wearing crop tops is to hike up the skirt way high so that only a sliver of skin, usually the non-squishy zone right below my ribs, is being exposed.

There's only a sliver of hope for TSN now.

Most of the time, the movie featured concise, accurate elements, as only a sliver of softness ever occurred.

While Tim Burton's original version of the film boasted a much darker, gothic look at the man behind the mask, his two films contained only a sliver of the darkness that Nolan manages to squeeze into «Begins,» which plays out much more like a film noir crime thriller than your average summer action movie.

Tomorrow's list represents obviously only a sliver of the faculty across the nation who are tackling education or education policy.

This may be due in part to policy, or the fact that while a significant majority of charter schools in NYC participate in the climate survey, only a sliver of L.A. charters do so.

However, it takes a while to open and close, and there is only a sliver of usable trunk space when it is down.

In our minds, the Focus ST and RS are solid 9s for performance, but account for only a sliver of sales.

Goodreads» power users make up only a sliver of its user base of 20 million (and that base should increase drastically when Goodreads is integrated into the new Kindle Paperwhite this holiday season.)

The last one was completed less than a year ago; bondholders converted all remaining non-bank debt to equity, with previous equity owners retaining only a sliver of the recapitalized company.

The rumour is that two brothers inherited a parcel of land, but when one brother went off to fight in the Civil War the other built a large home, leaving only a sliver of land.

Survival throws an endless gauntlet of matches at the player, where only a sliver of health is regenerated between each stage.

In Street Fighter 5 you can block special moves all day with only a sliver of health remaining and you will not lose the round.

Here, O'Keeffe focused her attention westward, with the wine - tinted Adirondack Mountains dominating the upper portion of the canvas, allowing only a sliver of sky.

While New Orleans isn't a small city, the area most impacted by tourism is only a sliver as compared to the city as a whole.

Within the work on the edge of the muted white wash, the true color is exposed — only a sliver revealed but directs the viewer's eye to the outer edge none - the-less.

«The Forever Now» is big, but still only a sliver of the present.

Recognize that «practising law» represents only a sliver of the many legal employment options that will be available to you from 2020 to 2060, and that many of the «alternatives» will wind up being more engaging and fulfilling than you might currently imagine.

Although the article shares only a sliver of all we worked through, it sheds light on the journey we've made.

Not exact matches

And so, overall, only a tiny sliver of the money paid for such a vacation goes to the shareholders of the airline and of the company that owns the resort.

But whiskey shipments to Japan only totaled $ 72.9 million last year, a tiny sliver compared to the more than $ 1 billion value of annual global exports.

The main reason that safety razors don't offer the same precision as straight razors is due to the guard, which is the very thing that makes the design «safe» by only exposing a sliver of the blade and restricting the angle at which it glides across your skin.

«You're only seeing a tiny sliver of all the interesting stuff that your colleagues are finding and sharing,» Ayyappan said.

Only «slivers» of bitcoins are mined when you exercise.

You'll keep getting burned and only a fraction, a sliver, of time will have occurred in the eternity that you stay there.

Cruz also followed Huckabee and Santorum in losing New Hampshire because he only appealed to a tiny sliver of that state's non-evangelical voters.

I was worried about the measurements using only almond slivers (crust recipe calls for slivers, filling recipe for almond slices), but it turned out not to be an issue.

As well as a celebratory glass of Pimms, we finished up with a sharing dessert platter which was responsible for us only managing a sliver of cake when we got home!

(Hearty, shameless slices now, not posh party you only get a sliver)