Sentences with phrase «over precipices»

Smaller and mid-sized works like New Mexico, If You Want Blood and Morning invite us to peer over precipices into an undulating abyss of rich textures and color.

You can also use a softer pull to use the lightning arc like a rope to dangle and swing over precipices, or change the direction of your jumps and dashes.

But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice.

You place yourself in the hands of strangers who ask you to do foolhardy things, like walk backwards over a precipice with nothing but a rope around your waist or climb a sheer rock face with your fingers and toes.

Apparently we are all about to go over the precipice together.

A fish can swim near the edge and safely slip away — unless it gets too close, in which case it will be dragged over the precipice no matter how hard it resists.

«Japan in crisis» screams the newspaper headline, alongside cartoons of a bullet train rushing headlong over a precipice and a hysterical «salariman» committing hara - kiri.

There's more room for manoeuvre, but spend too long leaning over the precipice and you're tempting fate.

Just imagine the thundering roar of the 275 waterfalls cascading over a precipice almost two miles wide and 250 feet deep!

The roar of rushing water that builds louder as you approach; the sheer power as a river plunges over the precipice and downwards into a deep pool below.

About fifteen miles uphill from the town of Catskill on the Hudson River, Kaaterskill creek drops dramatically over a precipice and into a basin that forms a hidden pool, then falls again over a second tier before continuing to tumble a bit more gently down towards the Hudson River.

The slashing attack of Krasner's painting finds stiff echoes in Brice Marden's «6 (Course)» (1987 - 88), which immediately follows it, introducing a room in which we see Marden's linear compositions turn fluid, though not nearly as fluid as a Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997) from 1983 - done at or over the precipice of his descent into senile dementia.

The growthers all seem intent on making sure we use only enough brakes to stop with our toes over the precipice.

As I peered over the precipice, I felt thankful that I had given up downhill skiing when I was 14.

We seem oblivious to the danger — unaware how close we may be to a situation in which a catastrophic slip becomes practically unavoidable, a slip where we suddenly lose all control and are pulled into a torrential stream that hurls us over a precipice to our demise.

Chief Planner Jennifer Keesmaat was recently asked by Past Chief Planner Paul Bedford when did she think she would push too far and step over the precipice; She mused that she would find out when she did.

Plus I wasted 45 minutes power - walking to an inspection of a house on a busy road with a pool built precariously over a precipice that Husband will never let us buy, despite it being a total bargain.

Not exact matches

We both feel that America because of the current political / social climate is on a precipice and likely to topple over at any time.

«Mankind today is on the brink of a precipice, not because of the danger of complete annihilation which is hanging over its head... but because humanity is devoid of those vital values for its healthy development and real progress,» he wrote.

There might not be a more devastating injury possible in baseball, considering the precipice the Rangers were already teetering over.

While you're exploring, don't miss the spectacular precipice of Nuuanu Pali — some 2000 feet of sheer rock over which King Kamehameha I drove his enemies in battle.

Given the current US situation, another joke comes to mind: «In 1945 [the year communists took over power] Poland was standing on the edge of a precipice.

Nixon as Hamlet, Nixon as Lear, Nixon as Blanche DuBois, Nixon as Krapp — clutching every last tape to his breast with the wild fury and despair of a man on the precipice... Nixon in his study, poring over his past, gazing at his own multiplied mo...

Her world - weary expression looking over life's precipice — in endless close - ups — will make a poster that demands attention.

And in the second half of the picture, «Unbroken» simply sways between what feels like Zamperini on the precipice of spiritual defeat and then his second - wind of resolution, over and over again.

I came up with this notion of Harry just looking at Voldemort while they're on this precipice, and pulling him over.

It takes courage to engage this system and just crawl over the edge of a precipice with your foot off the brake, but it will not fail you.

The commanding vista from Glacier Point, a 7,214 - foot / 2,199 - meter granite precipice that dramatically reaches out over Yosemite Valley, takes in the park's most famous landmarks — Half Dome, Clouds Rest, Liberty Cap, Vernal and Nevada Falls, and the surrounding High Sierra.

Whether it's a door just past a tiny crevice that Samus can't quite fit through yet, or a precipice that's a bit too tall for her to leap over, Super Metroid is speaking to you constantly.

I can't tell you how many times Pandemic has had me and my friends sweating, debating the merits of one move over the other and trying to plan some sort of long - term strategy while we stand on the precipice of destruction.

First up is news that PSN's long wait is over for Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain - Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One.

If you accidentally tumble over the edge of a precipice, your character will bust out a pretty little parasol and float slowly to safety.

If the system hasn't already gone over that proverbial precipice, it is very close.