Sentences with phrase «pinpricks in»

While some beauty treatments change the appearance of skin by removing the surface layer of skin, micro-needling leaves several small pinpricks in the treated area.

In addition to taking 1,100 years to complete its orbit around the sun, the object is blisteringly chilly, which makes sense seeing as it's located in the Kuiper Belt where our sun is no more than a bright pinprick in the sky.

I've been catching up on my reading on deep - ocean drilling in trying to assess efforts to stanch what could be a months - long flow of oil from the pinprick in the Gulf of Mexico seafloor.

Not exact matches

«We can perform hundreds of tests, from standard to sophisticated, from a pinprick and tiny sample of blood, and we have performed more than 70 tests from a single tiny sample,» a representative for the company told Tech Insider in April.

«Beyond such information, there is emotion in what we are offered, which, even more than the lack of logic, keeps us in a permanent state of masked shock... after so many of these pinpricks, which are like the drops of water on stone, we too shall crumble into fragments.»

Because it is true is overwhelming... So look up, be absorbed in the light until the pain of death becomes a pinprick; and fear but a vapor... Exponential love awaits us all!

There are only three pinpricks of land within 1,000 miles of the Hawaiian chain, and so the islands have a constant surge around them, a surge that is often mild but at times strong when the violence of remote storms awakens again in the shoaling waters.

Fortunately, the process is quick and the pain a mere pinprick that's over in seconds.

But deftly and sure - footed, the Buhari administration is building a new foundation for the economy, erecting an edifice that will stand the test of time, not a bubble that collapses with just a pinprick, not a will - o - the - wisp that vanishes in the midday sun.

Astronomers haven't been able to find the pinprick of light from a glowing orb in the middle of the debris.

But as Clauser knew well from his radio - astronomy work, apertures in the real world are always wider than a mathematical pinprick.

On the front is a black dial pierced by six holes ranging in size from the width of a pencil lead to a mere pinprick.

Countless galaxies vie for attention in this dazzling image of the Fornax Cluster, some appearing only as pinpricks of light while others dominate the foreground.

Each of the 14,370 pinpricks of light in this x-ray image is a hot, young star in the Carina Nebula — a giant cloud of gas and dust some 7500 light - years from Earth where new stars are being born.

If you use that analogy and work your way backward in time from now, you end up imagining everything coming from a point — a pinprick.

The international probe trained its gaze on Earth in 2013, producing an incredible photo that shows Earth, Mercury and Venus shining as pinpricks of light behind Saturn.

Most of us are forced to stargaze with just our eyes, searching for pinpricks of light in the vast black night.

Options include breath testing, skin pinprick, a stomach gastroscopy, an intestinal biopsy, stool analysis, skin sample analysis, electrical current testing, muscle testing methods, and more — and there is lots of controversy in the medical and nutrition community about which test is best.

But the princess of prints picks a dress with pinprick polka dots for the Magic in the Moonlight N.Y.C. premiere.

Though Akel and Mass share writing credit, Chalk was actually shot in a loose, improvisational manner in the mode of Christopher Guest's films, and its best set pieces are like devastatingly effective pinpricks puncturing the Hollywood hot - air balloon of inspirational teacher / coach melodramas.

Day - Lewis traces the arc of his character from remote tyrant to willing slave with a majestic command — his immersion in the role, down to the pinpricks on Woodcock's fingers, is total.

The pinprick of her village lay closer to the borders with Poland and Latvia than she'd ever known; the whole country was but a slither in a howling world.

Stars everywhere in diamond pinpricks.

In Image Problem, he comes to grips with past perspectives: The solution may therefore be / to narrow the zone of reaction to a pinprick / and ignore what went on before, even when we called it life.

Leaving the church, she felt the wind rise, felt the pinprick of pebble and grit against her stockings and her cheeks — the slivered shards of mad sunlight in her eyes.

They grow very quickly, from pinprick size to several inches in diameter within only 30 minutes.

Clutching my wind - up flashlight in the darkness, I walked beneath the pinpricks of unfamiliar stars to the Gunyah, an indoor - outdoor wood - and — corrugated - iron restaurant that serves as the hotel's centerpiece.

In Empathy Bubble, 2011, the cloud is black, the face's lips distended, its eyes only pinpricks.

While the mirrored façade of Diamond Sea (2007), pinpricked by flashed of light, is evocative of the sun catching the spontaneous ripples in the sea.

The deceptively rough appearance of the marks is countered by Baldridge's use of rennaisance cartoon transfer techniques which include the laborious process of working and reworking each image through thousands of tiny pinpricks, as well as flawless technical abilities in serigraphy and draftsmanship.

His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on «the residual space of the American / Vietnam War» (comprising works on the squatting body as counter-architecture, military desertion as askesis, and surfing); a video essay on the site / non-site dialectic instigated by Robert Smithson's reception of Edgar Allan Poe (with a little help from Yvonne Rainer); a reconsideration of Marcel Duchamp's oeuvre as an discourse in ethics (as seen through Étant donnés); and «squatting projects» in various cities (Berlin, New York, Chicago, Vienna, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), where the squatting body, as a heuristic cipher, is conjugated by an interpretation generated by the conditions of each location.

I thank all those from the glittering metropolitan fleshpots of New York and Toronto to imperial pinpricks like the Falklands and the Cook Islands who've helped keep me in the game by swinging by the SteynOnline store or picking up one of our gift certificates.

Too many people forget that no matter how good in theory such instruments are, we are measuring mere pinpricks.

The guidelines for diagnosis require pinprick sensations to be tested in each dermatome (an area of skin mainly supplied by a single spinal nerve), and further measuring the strength of ten pre-selected muscles on both sides of the body.

Elsewhere, however, tenants pushing back against rising rents may be the pinprick that pops the bubble in property prices, according to John Beaney, senior vice president for retail tenant services at Colliers International Inc. of Los Angeles.

Some of our products have hidden holes, which means they don't have the little route holes through the slats that let in pinpricks of light.