Sentences with phrase «owning in the blink»

This leads to a frantic feel to everything you do, and it is very easy for marauders to vaporize a ship you spent a year working towards owning in the blink of an eye.

An apartment fire can take away everything you own in the blink of an eye, and they're frighteningly common.

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Indeed, to those who watch the space closely, there seems to be no shortage of ways to lose all your money in the blink of an eye, be it by investing in a sham startup or unwittingly sending everything you own to a hacker.

And in another few years, the blink of an eye, I'll be sitting in a house, alone: the laundry will be done at last, the house will be clean — and it will stay clean, and the floors will be quiet, no one will be asking me for anything at all, my time will be my own, and I will feel the full weight of The Ache for which I've been holding vigil at last.

The moment I realized I could write my own future, as I sat in an uncomfortable office chair, blinking at a bright computer screen full of numbers and symbols.

Then, bang, you and she are done, and her eyes are flashing to her day planner, the one she keeps gorging with duties, 10:25 appointments crowbarred between 10:15 s and 10:30 s. All etched in perfect calligraphy, this hand - to - hand combat with Time, with neat arrows pointing to peripheral obligations that she can attend to simultaneously, without assigning them a minute of their own, with key meetings underlined and very important appointments blinking exclamation points!!!! Soon Michelle and all her teammates are carrying day planners, opening them together at Pat's command to fill up a stray half hour here, a vagrant hour there, even to transcribe her annual reminder in late October: Don't forget to turn back your clocks one hour!

Immediately upon the green flag dropping, they will be nearly a half lap behind the leader and mired in traffic, especially problematic on a tightly confined track where things happen in the blink of an eye and it is easy to be swept into an incident not of your own doing.

One of the great things about Disney Parks is they don't blink twice about you bringing in your own food and drinks.

«The alderman can wave his hand and, in a blink of an eye, change our landscape and erase our history,» said Paddy Lauber, who for almost 25 years has owned a home on Kedzie Boulevard and is a member of Logan Square Preservation, which plans to send a letter to Colon this week asking him to back off his plan.

In the blink of an eye, it could've been my own family.

A mobile that spins and blinks lights in sync with classical music may look pretty tame to you, but to an infant, it's like having her own private laser light show right there in her crib.

I hope that you've been already a costumed with PANDORA jewellery previously and will take a look on their latest jewellery additions and if you haven't yet owned a piece, I hope that I have convinced you to give them a chance to make you feel like a Hollywood star in a blink of an eye!

He played lead guitar and sang in the band the Blinking Underdogs (who once opened for Green Day), and in 10 Years, which cast him as a successful John Mayer type, he performed his own songs, including the bittersweet «Never Had» (below).

A new clutch of kids roll into town, and it's not long before floorboards are creaking, light bulbs are blinking, doors are moving of their own volition and it's clear that evil hangs thick in the air.

But we also get a crumb of insight into the servant's own horrific past, done in the show's typical blink - and - you'll - miss - it style: their carriages to whisk people between plot lines might be unsubtle, but exposition in Penny Dreadful is always a welcome second place to its extravagant set pieces and colourful characters.

He mumbles to himself, he fidgets, he goes from comfortable to uncomfortable in his own skin in the blink of an eye.

Civil War introduces Chadwick Boseman's Black Panther and Tom Holland's Spider - Man, both slated to be the stars of their own movies in the near future, to the extent that Cap almost becomes a supporting player in his own movie: If it had been called Avengers 3, no one would have blinked an eye.

The film's chilling effect is perhaps best remembered through the one, blink - and - you'll - miss - it moment that caused collective gasps in every theatre where it screened: a man calmly slitting his own throat in front of an old friend.

In other words, Couples Retreat is just another hyper - conservative dick flick (all told, Walter Chaw already wrote the pre-emptive strike against this movie with his review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall) that instead features thirtysomethings in Nehru jackets who flounder at the suggestion of their own nudity and wait accordingly for the «LAUGHTER / APPLAUSE» sign to stop blinkinIn other words, Couples Retreat is just another hyper - conservative dick flick (all told, Walter Chaw already wrote the pre-emptive strike against this movie with his review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall) that instead features thirtysomethings in Nehru jackets who flounder at the suggestion of their own nudity and wait accordingly for the «LAUGHTER / APPLAUSE» sign to stop blinkinin Nehru jackets who flounder at the suggestion of their own nudity and wait accordingly for the «LAUGHTER / APPLAUSE» sign to stop blinking.

Nolan contrives a great scene: Cooper comes out of the hole to find that time has slipped forward decades while he's been away hours and 20 years» worth of backed - up video messages reveal that his little kids have turned, in the blink of an eye, into two middle - aged adults, played by Casey Affleck and Jessica Chastain: angry and embittered in their own ways by their abandonment.

The Avengers / Justice League / Suicide Squad - mocking team - up results in the films most inspired set - piece — involving a disastrous parachute jump and a blink - and - you'll miss it cameo from certain Hollywood A-lister — but its hilarity is sullied come the end of the movie by the realisation that this is also the film's own insidious way of setting up another team - based superhero spin - off franchise.

Wells's own participation in The Peacemaker likewise explains the presence of George Clooney (still trying to pop the balloon of A-list opener) and, later, of Clooney's «ER» replacement Goran Visnjic in an eye - blink cameo.

Left to its own devices it imperceptibly shuffles between ratios when you're pottering along yet it'll swap cogs in the blink of an eye when on a charge using the standard fit steering wheel paddles.

He blinked in astonishment as he caught his first glimpse of a civilization that was older — and perhaps more sophisticated — than his own.

And who better than my own wife to confirm the effectiveness of this strategy — she's marveled to me before I don't even blink at losing 20 grand in my portfolio, but I'd lie down & cry if I lost a 20 in the street..!

From the way the screen panels seem to disappear into the wall in the blink of an eye to private balconies - each with their own unique view of mother nature's splendor - this home is thoughtful: everything in its place, surprising you with form and function, never excessive.

It takes a rocky descent to access Cabo Blancas own sandy bay, but just hoping in a bus will see you in popular El Arenal in the blink of an eye.

In order to fight off «simulation sickness,» the team at nDreams have created their own movement system, from scratch, called the «blink» controls.

Your Blink can especially get out in a pinch, but can also be used to move around if your own assets have you stuck.

In the blink of an eye, everything is taken from you — your friends, your family, and even your own life.

It's a breeze to swish around the map and keep out of enemies» way only to pepper them with your own attacks in the blink of an eye.

Attempting to tackle an optional special ops mission with a large sentence reduction quickly taught me that I hadn't learned to play quite so well on my own as the story missions had encouraged me to believe — enemies are increasingly aggressive and your health can slide away in the blink of an eye.

From my own blinkered point of view — knowing art and poetry more than theatre and dance — «Under Glass» tackles issues of environmental concern and social isolation in an innovative way which is both serious and entertaining.

Any team that only ever plays behind closed doors to its own adoring fans is always in danger of a nasty shock when it eventually comes out blinking into the sunlight.

In the blink of an eye, your entire life has changed through no fault of your own.

In the blink of an eye, you may sustain a serious injury through no fault of your own.

Where, perhaps, government in the past has been too blinkered, has been by trying simply to squeeze more from the system for the same cost (or less, when factoring in the lack of inflationary increases) rather than addressing whether services are procured in the right way and properly understanding the drivers for rising costs (the latter when their own research has shown that government is itself a driver through legislation, the growing number of offences and the associated demand for legal aid).

This should have rivals including Ring and Alphabet - owned Nest worried, since between its own offerings and now Blink's, it has a lot to offer consumers in terms of cost and convenience benefits.

First is our own experience: Our two indoor Blink cameras in one of our test homes have continued to work for more than two years without so much as a battery change.

Amazon is likely working on a home security camera in the same vein as Nest, Canary, Ring, Blink, and other products, according to a newly - discovered product photo that's sitting on the company's own web servers.

Toronto Ontario CA, Detroit MI About Blog You already own the most valuable tool for achieving radical change in the blink of an eye - your mind and imagination!

Toronto Ontario CA, Detroit MI About Blog You already own the most valuable tool for achieving radical change in the blink of an eye - your mind and imagination!

In a message on its website, Blink said that «if you own one of our systems, nothing changes for now.