Sentences with phrase «past in the blink»

The first few months of a newborn's life are a hectic time that rushes past in the blink of an eye.

Mine flew past in the blink of an eye, and I can't quite believe it's Monday already!

It's going to whiz past you in the blink of an eye and the last thing you want is to be someone who wishes they would have believed in themselves a little bit more.

They can surf right past you in the blink of an eye.

Not exact matches

And now, some of the most unexpected news since 2001: a Blink - 182 album has managed to do what no album could do in the past nine weeks: dethrone Drake's Views...

In the Hawaiian Islands, geologists have found more than 25 individual collapses that have occurred over the past five million years — the blink of an eye in geologic timIn the Hawaiian Islands, geologists have found more than 25 individual collapses that have occurred over the past five million years — the blink of an eye in geologic timin geologic time.

And five instrument stations in a nearby estuary that transmitted real - time weather and environmental data blinked offline this past Saturday night as Hurricane Harvey roared ashore.

In other words, Swap says, the Amazon and the Bodélé may have blinked on and off many times in the past, always together, always to the same climate - driven drumbeaIn other words, Swap says, the Amazon and the Bodélé may have blinked on and off many times in the past, always together, always to the same climate - driven drumbeain the past, always together, always to the same climate - driven drumbeat.

What we think of as Lake Turkana has only been around for the past 200,000 years — the blink of an eye in geologic terms.

Somehow I blinked, the weekend is over and we are already past the halfway mark in September.

In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action - hero in order to survivIn the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action - hero in order to survivin order to survive.

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.

Some fans were wondering why Jamie Chung's «Blink» character in THE GIFTED series started with only one «birthmark / tattoo» marking on her face, while other iterations of the character, including Fan Bingbing's portrayal in «Days of Future Past,» had multiple markings.

Executive producer Allen Covert reprises his forgetful 50 First Dates character (one of a number of callbacks / homages to past Happy Madison farces) and Jonathan Loughran does his cross-eyed bit in a blink - and - miss appearance as an umpire.

In the first few minutes of the new X-Men: Days Of Future Past clip, mutants including newcomers Blink, Sunspot, Warpath and Bishop attempt to battle ruthless metal monsters using their special abilities, and some don't make it out alive.

This flaw is due in no small part to the blinkered nature of past research on the stability and heritability of IQ, which has relied heavily on studies of twins.

As I've written before, digital disruption is usually kinder to entertainment than to art, but blink, blink, blink: this alignment of commercial forces — a sea of self - produced romance - dominated content, publishers on the prowl for just such material, and commoditized concepts of fast - churn output — might actually present a much more toxic landscape to more serious work than we've seen in the past.

The fluidity of the paint itself results in gestures that often feel freshly made, suggesting that if you «blinked, you missed it,» or a constantly regenerating recent past and a continuous present.

Including film and video, it offers much to look at, but dwells too much in the past, becoming increasingly blinkered and cautious as it approaches the present.

Crafted largely from costumes and props left over from his past performances, the sculpture abstract his dancers» bodies down to their arms and legs, encased sausage - like in unitards, with disembodied hands reaching out to the viewer, all lit by a series of programmed lights that are liable to shift in the blink of an eye.

Shown on a small monitor in the next gallery, Yoko Ono's film Eye Blink (1966) is silent and almost half a century older, yet the artist's gaze, reflected back to us from what seems an impossibly distant black and white past, remains potent.

Any vista is only ever observed in brief, and in parts — between the blinks of our eyes — and yet we can fill in the whole by using our past experiences as well as, in the case of Aho's paintings, hundreds of years of art.

Some of those lights on the icons are blinking, hinting that Mr. Flavin could also have been inspired by the Pop Art movement, said Tiffany Bell, an independent curator and Flavin expert who has worked at the institute in the past.

It should also be apparent that we have sped up change with an amazing burp of CO2 into the biosphere over the past few centuries (a blink of the eye in the time periods being considered).

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).