Sentences with phrase «pinpricks of»

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.

The pinpricks of pink flowers, and the wild trees I wouldn't have expected to see side by side with a beach.

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.

The little toe on her left foot (or her right foot), inside those delicate little knuckles, delivered zigzagging pinpricks of pain.

She tried to tamp down the pinpricks of panic.

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

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.

The tiny moons Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx are no longer pinpricks of light but textured, misshapen balls of ice that look...

When Shiv Kaushal clicks a mouse button, pinpricks of light begin to glow on a video wall.

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.

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.

A WORLD NEXT DOOR Proxima Centauri casts a reddish glow over the surface of Proxima b (illustrated), the closest exoplanet to Earth, while two companion stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, appear as bright pinpricks of light.

The doctor was the guy with the excessive white nose hairs who put the cold stethoscope on my back once a year and drew a Pac - Man around the pinpricks of my tuberculin test.

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.

The patch never made it to market, but Holmes quickly redirected the company with the creation of «Edison» — a machine that could test for a variety of disease using a single pinprick of blood.

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

As long predicted, the meteor's initial pinprick of light spreads into a curved bow shock as it plows into the upper atmosphere at supersonic speeds of 71 kilometers per second.

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.

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.

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.

Those two goals converged a few days before New Year's, at a remote ranch outside Cisco, Tex., a pinprick on the prairie that happens to be one of the main sources of income for the push to make Cruz President.

«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!

It revealed yesterday that Operation Concord had received «a number of calls from members of the public» concerned about damage, including «possible pinpricks», to infant formula packaging.

The beans were a medium roast, with a sheen of oil and some pinpricks.

That's why she had her mom and aunt keep track of every pinprick and every IV, the numbers scratched into a notebook.

«Yet now the sport is a pyramid with an enormous base [of youth players] and a little pinprick at the top [college and adults].

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.

Against sarin, none of the corpses display the severely contracted pupils (to pinpricks) characteristic of nerve agents.

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.

Though all the pulses were of equal strength, volunteers reported that some of them felt like pinpricks while others were painless.

For example, just a pinprick - sized droplet of the nerve gas sarin on the skin is lethal.

This explains the mystery of the remembered pinprick: Claparède's patient lacked the ability to form declarative memories, but she had a functioning amygdala that kept the memory alive, albeit unconsciously.

When he arrived the next day, his patient greeted him with the usual blank welcome — no memory of yesterday's pinprick, no memory of yesterday at all — until Claparède extended his hand.

Anesthesia to pinprick pain lasted an average of 29 hours with proliposomal ropivacaine injection, compared to 16 hours with plain ropivacaine.

The smallest slivers of glass, on the other hand, might deliver the casualty equivalent of a pinprick, but there are so many of them, and they are so hard to spot, that the total amount of damage they cause stays high.

Because of our nurses» expertise, there is only a tiny pinprick sensation when entering the vein.

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.

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.

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.

The attendant 5.1 DTS - HD MA track is similarly stunning, translating a handful of showcase action sequences so that pinprick details are not smothered by the general cacophony.

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 new movie, which held its premiere here Tuesday night ahead of its Paramount release this weekend, is alternatively an abduction thriller, monster flick, science - fiction reverie, character comedy, horror pinprick, apocalyptic drama, duct - tape - and - chewing - gum chamber piece and alien - invasion movie.

The attendant 5.1 DTS - HD MA track is a pinprick - clear rendering of an inoffensively bland, dialogue - heavy mix occasionally moistened by Carter Burwell's musical themes.

Display resolutions have increased manifold, bringing the size of a pixel down to a mere pinprick, even on the largest of displays.

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.

It's piecemeal; it's small - group action, teams of northerners, daring or crazy, making pinprick raids into the Hard Four, grabbing people up and hustling them to freedom.

Most dogs barely react to injections with these small gauge needles and the benefits of keeping the allergies at bay far outweigh the small pinprick your pooch will feel.

Affected dogs may be identified soon after birth by their lack of response to acral pinprick or compression.