Sentences with phrase «other blows became»

Their loneliness, drunkenness, disease, the early deaths of or abandonment by their fathers, the tauntings and beatings they took from their schoolmates: These and other blows became the fundamental truths about the world and the stuff of their poetry.

Not exact matches

I've written before about how Twitter has a tendency to become an echo chamber, where certain points of views on issues are blown up while other perspectives aren't heard at all.

At 16 years old, I was a full - blown drug addict who was completely throwing his entire life away by living a life with no meaning and surrounding myself with others who degraded my potential and ability to become the best version of myself.

Citigroup, however, the bank that spectacularly blew itself up with toxic derivatives and subprime debt in 2008, became a 99 - cent stock during the crisis, and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. financial history despite being insolvent at the time, today holds more derivatives than 4,701 other banks combined which are backstopped by the taxpayer.

Once you have your gelatos made, these really are one of the easiest treats to create and I promise you, not only will your significant other be blown away by your creativity, but they will also remember this Valentine's Day as the day their life became better.

However, as you become more comfortable maneuvering her on the ball and as she becomes stronger, you can place yourself in front of baby to make therapy ball tummy time even more interactive and fun as the two of you establish eye contact, make funny faces, stick out your tongue, or even blow raspberries at each other (depending on how old she is, of course).

Short separations help her adjust to other people and become more socialized — and may even help «inoculate» her against full - blown separation anxiety before it hits.

In the traditional scenario for speciation, a population of animals becomes isolated from others of its kind, say by being blown onto a far - off desert island like one of the Galápagos.

While she ultimately becomes COMPASSIONATE through her concern for Nell (who is targeted by the house when other people aren't around), Theo fails to look even remotely frightened as major portions of the house are blowing up in her face or chasing our hapless heroes.

In fact, they don't even start offing each other right when the threat becomes real — which it to say, when a few employees are randomly sacrificed, their skulls blown open by the supposed «tracking devices» implanted in them by corporate.

As I hammered the base coupe through the twisties in the shadow of a towering volcano, two other 911 virtues became strikingly clear: (1) the car brakes like an F - 18 catching an arrestor cable, and (2) the grip will blow your mind.

The fear of rejection becomes reasonably powerful when it blows into our personal confidence that we are lesser than others or reduced than the image we feel bound to project.

These steps, and others, resulted in Book Two becoming a Hot New Release during the week leading up to its launch, and Book One blowing up the Amazon rankings during its 99c promo (reaching as high as # 192 overall).

Other problems include the sub being at 0 % hull on returning to it, bad framerate drops, rocks not blowing open correctly, getting stuck in scenery and becoming rooted to a spot because you ventured too far off the edge of the map.