Sentences with phrase «rather than rain»

A rain garden is an attractive landscape feature designed to capture, filter and infiltrate stormwater back into the soil — rather than rain running off your property or causing erosion, according to Carol.

As long as the air's cold enough to chill the warm wet stuff enough to snow, rather than rain over New England, warmer SSTs and air temps over the atlantic offshore of the SE states will lead to more severe nor» easters.

We've been struggling to come up with new material, but it's because of the heat rather than rain!

Not exact matches

I think I'd rather have the snow than this rain right now.

Something inside me has switched and is now tugging me backwards through time, rewinding through the heat and the rain and the thick humidity, rather than pulling me forwards into the chill.

They weren't the only people drinking, as the steady rain kept everybody inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, rather than exploring the US Open grounds as normal.

Got ta admit I'd rather treat him like a player than a meme, but I don't want to rain on anybody's parade.

So, rather than the all - consuming feverish horde that usually descends onto downtown on Opening Day, there was only a scattering of confused people trying to stay out of the rain and wondering how to celebrate the day when there was nothing to celebrate.

So we get to the most beautiful farm called Hilltop Hanover Farm and I am dressed for the rain that had been pouring when I left Boston rather than the 95 degree heat that was killing me.

Rather than telling her to get her rain boots, help her think it through on her own: «It is raining out.

Try to explain why they canít do something rather than just telling them no, for example: «You can't do this today because it's raining, but perhaps you can do this instead.»

Lock - inAfter a heavy session of «working late», I thought the best idea was to sleep in my office rather than trek home in the cold and rain.

Many clouds at mid-latitudes make rain by freezing water into ice crystals (which fall from the cloud then melt before they hit the ground), rather than by coalescing warm water droplets together.

They concluded that the heavy rains in Europe last year were likely due to natural variability in the climate system rather than climate change.

Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid — and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did

A new study confirms that thunderstorms are linked to outbreaks of asthma, and researchers suggest that the storms» airflow patterns are to blame rather than other contenders such as thunder, electrical activity, or rain.

But no one told the farmers, who continued to plant modern high - yield grains that need good rains rather than traditional varieties which can tolerate droughts.

And in rain forest cultures, related women tend to form the core of a community for a lifetime, rather than being shipped off to serve the expediency of marriage making.

Because of the absence of small - scale streams in the Martian valley networks, it is thought that the valleys were carved primarily by ground water flow rather than by runoff of rain.

However, with winters overall heating up because of global warming, the precipitation that falls during the season is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow in the U.S..

During a rain delay at the 2014 French Open, Novak Djokovic (who would go on make it to the finals) invited a stunned - looking ball boy to sit and rest with him on the sidelines rather than standing over him with an umbrella.

Rather than treat with antibiotics, which are ineffective against viruses, Dr. Smith opts for natural antibacterial agents such as Cat's Claw, an herb from the Amazonian rain forest.

I've heard of the saying «April Showers bring May flowers», but this rain feels more like the plant killing rather than the plant generating kind.

Rather than ruin yet another pair of sneakers, try these utilitarian rain boots instead.

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But though the doom and gloom is making it a bit hard to get good outfit pictures, I'd rather run through warm rain than snow right now.

At its headiest, it's like Singin» in the Rain with a souped - up engine, but even if Baby is the Gene Kelly of the getaway car, watching Baby Driver always feels like watching someone else do the driving rather than being behind the wheel yourself.

Despite various B - movie trappings (the killer in a hooded rain slicker; an atmospheric slasher movie score), Odar and a strong ensemble cast (led by Sebastian Blomberg as the haunted lead detective) maintain a steady intensity and a strong focus on psychology rather than exploitation.

The menu attaches score to the poster / cover image (which most would assume features rain rather than a store sprinkler).

I actually feel a little protective of The Devil's Rain; its failure is one more of incompetence than of cynicism, and that's really rather reinvigorating in an age where self - consciousness reigns supreme in horror films both good (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning) and bad (See No Evil).

Rather than going the Roland Emmerich «big tableaux of destruction» route, Pompeii reduces the disaster to a series of steeplechase set pieces, fiery debris raining into the 3 - D foreground as the characters scamper over bodies and ruins or try to outrun a ship that's been forced inland by a tidal wave.

This bland Brooklyn is as gritty as Singing in the Rain's Los Angeles, a scene - painter's chocolate box version, rather than a place teeming with noisy, smelly life.

Rather than Huayra commanding the waters of Lake Titicaca to rain down upon the parched earth, what we got Thursday at the mid-engine supercar's North American debut at Pasadena's Art Center College of Design was a good, close look at one of the most OCD roadburners this side of a Chip Foose streetrod.

Driving in the rain with the standard tires is rather unnerving as the car feels as though it is slipping and sliding rather than rolling smoothly forward.

You are always better being proactive rather than waiting for bad news to rain down on you.

If the rain causes a flood, that would fall under flood insurance, rather than under renters insurance.

If you live where rain showers tend to show up out of nowhere, take along a rain poncho rather than an umbrella.

Rather than worrying about carrying around a bunch of extra documents and photocopies (where they could be lost, ruined by rain or stolen), I know that I'm just one click away from printing out copies.

Rather than sneaking out of sewers and scaring the pants off some poor kid walking the street in the rain, like IT does, Adam the Clown appears in Dead Rising wielding two ear - deafening chain saws.

Rather than simply announcing the servers» imminent and permanent shutdown, Sony worked the four year old MMO's demise into the game's story, treating players past and present to blood rain, giant eyes, lightning bolts and more in a celebration worthy of the world's end.

This changes things immensely from the Souls game by actively encouraging you to rain down a flurry of blows upon your attacker rather than quickly rolling away and rehealing.

Light the torch there, and on the way back be sure to light every lantern as you go - if your flame is extinguished for any reason, like rain or accidentally sprinting, then you can just relight it from the nearest lantern rather than going back to the start.

Rather than interact with the environment, players are held on a leash and muzzled like poor disobedient puppies forced to lie in the pouring rain, gazing through the windows at all the excitement unfolding within the house.

Rather than reconnaissance runs or sneaky hit and run shenanigans, you'll hover menacingly over enemy bases and helpless infantry whilst raining high explosive ordnance down on anything that moves.

Whether rain or shine outside my window or inside my own head, SEGA's arcade «racer» — you're only ever really against the clock, rather than defined rivals, so inverted commas necessary — never fails: and that's largely because of those classically, artificially beautiful SEGA - blue skies.

The rain, in particular, is disappointing, and the on - off nature of the weather (rather than using some kind of transition system) is jarring.

Instead, the most important feature of Heavy Rain, the design choice that makes it more important than any other game in separating from rather than drawing games toward film, is its rejection of editing in favor of prolonging.

Yes, QTEs are seemingly everywhere but Heavy Rain introduced a wider array of input rather than depending on variations of «tap X repeatedly»; it also provided relatively effective use of the Sixaxis controller by integrating motion control and the use of analog sticks (both of which were reliable 95 percent of the time).

Perhaps, if we're being particularly generous toward cinema, we could count shifts in fixed - camera views in games like Heavy Rain and Metal Gear Solid as a type of jump cut, since the action is disrupted rather than continuous.

And it's the same reason why, locked in an intense ship - to - ship battle that was more Master & Commander than Pirates of the Caribbean, sailing through the wind, rain, and a booming thunderstorm overhead, that a member of your crew might stand on the bow and play a merry tune on any one of this game's musical instruments, rather than lend a hand that could swing the tide of battle: because you can, and it's bloody brilliant.