Sentences with phrase «ricocheting off»

«For more than two decades,» Roberta Smith wrote in her review for The New York Times, «the work of this British artist has dazzled and discomfited, seduced and unsettled, gliding effortlessly between high and low, among cultures, ricocheting off different racial stereotypes and religious beliefs.»

The vibrations, as riley alludes to the title, are caused by the negative space ricocheting off the borders of the black stripes create a sense of vertigo as it sucks one into an endless horizon.

Mucus from a woman's nose, portrayed in exaggerated strokes of yellow, green, and blue paint ¬, has sprayed several inches before ricocheting off her open palms.

Still, Rocket Knight is a blast and you feel satisfied when you go ricocheting off walls and take out a line of enemies immediately after.

After countless attempts and a Tom - and - Jerry scale of my keyboard, I finally discovered Lilac's special ability which shoots her like a pinball, ricocheting off walls.

Frosty Hockey is a surprisingly well - done interpretation of air hockey, giving players a bit of control over the puck, rather than just ricocheting it off the striker.

Not only the klings and klangs from a bullet ricocheting off of a twisted piece of metal, but the musical score as well, if only briefly.

For red ghosts, use your proton blaster, for yellow ghosts, use your scattershot weapon, and for blue, use the last of your weapons which shoots out blue orbs that gain power by ricocheting off walls.

Besides the standard pistol, there are shotguns, machine guns, rockets, something along the lines of a buzz saw that has ammo ricocheting off of walls for more damage, and several more to keep things interesting along the way.

Ricocheting off the canyon walls, enormous and exhilarating and everywhere, is the clamor of thunder.

It was at that exact moment that the bullet had hit him, and instead of powering into his heart, it had entered his body half an inch higher, ricocheting off a rib and exiting horizontally under his left arm.

To the deep credit of both Day - Lewis and newcomer Krieps, this love story reverberates with real feeling, emotions ricocheting off the claustrophobic walls.

«Bring back the magic lantern,» mutters one respected scientist as a cherished slide reaches escape velocity as it flies across the audience, ricocheting off several elderly members of staff before finally embedding itself in the guest speaker's dentures.

The fluid absorbs the impact of light blows, but big hits can send the brain ricocheting off the walls of the skull, damaging cells throughout the brain.

The detectors are designed to be either very cold or very sensitive in order to record the small heat or energy deposits from dark matter particles subtly ricocheting off.

For years, he came home from school ricocheting off the walls.

The bullet that pierced her back had ricocheted off the concrete ground after it was fired by Garcia Zarate from a handgun belonging to a federal ranger that had been stolen four days earlier.

In returning its verdict Thursday afternoon on the sixth day of deliberations, the Superior Court jury also pronounced Jose Ines Garcia Zarate not guilty of assault with a firearm, finding credence in defense attorneys» argument that the shot that ricocheted off the concrete ground before piercing Steinle's heart was an accident, with the gun discharging after the defendant stumbled upon it on the waterfront on July 1, 2015.

When messages ricochet off him to others, the leader may invite the senders to speak directly to the intended receivers.

One Eagles fan threw it, and it ricocheted off the head of every Vikings fan both living and dead.

The only disturbing event of the day for the Pirates was the temporary disablement of their fine young left fielder, Bob Skinner, who wrenched his back slightly and suffered minor cuts and abrasions when he ricocheted off the fence while taking an earlier bid for a home run away from Aaron.

Abraham Landis was performing an amputation during this battle when a nearly spent Rebel cannonball ricocheted off a nearby tree and into Landis's leg.

During Friday's play at Augusta, Woods hit his third shot to the green at the par - 5 15th and the ball ricocheted off the flagstick into the water fronting the green.

The last one was the ricochet off Kos hand, we all might believe it was the right call but you can not say 100 % it was sure to be given, refs are too yoyo like to think this.

As Willis attempted a risky recovery, his ball ricocheted off the root and went backward, rattling between his legs and feet.

However, the rebound ricocheted off the falling Ba at just the right angle to then lob into the net.

A great thing about baseball is that you always think you've seen everything it has to offer, and then a line drive ricochets off of two people in the field and allows a double play to happen.

Arsenal definitely benefitted from the vague handball rule as Koscielny obviously didn't intent to use his arm in that situation, but the ball would never had gone in had it not ricocheted off the forearm.

The Brazilian saw two stunning strikes ricochet off the cross-bar during the first period, but he was third time lucky as he curled through the opener which Marc - Andre Ter Stegen could do nothing about.

A ricochet off a corner put the ball perfectly for Pierre, and he did what he does best.

The shot ricochets off the inside of the post and safely away.

Other photons from the laser beam would ricochet off the electrons and be boosted into high - energy gamma rays.

Roughly 50 kilometers east of Baton Rouge, La., lasers ricochet off mirrors that dangle at the ends of a 4 - kilometer - long, L - shaped vacuum tube.

Ordinarily, electrons flowing in a metal lose energy as they ricochet off defects in crystalline material.

The electrons flew into the vacuum chamber, where some of them ricocheted off the dissociating methanes.

Working at the ESRF in Grenoble, France, they bombarded ice with powerful x-rays and studied the scattering patterns when the x-ray photons ricocheted off the electrons in the hydrogen bonds.

As blue and UV photonsstream through this billion - degree foam, they ricochet off itshigh - speed particles and are thereby boosted to X-ray energies — thewhole band of X-ray energies, what astronomers call a continuumspectrum.

Further, the wound would have been much more damaging had the bullet ricocheted off the inside of her skull or if it had remained lodged in her brain matter where it could «migrate around» and cause additional harm, Black says.

The fang didn't just ricochet off the armor, it shattered, the team reports online in Advanced Engineering Materials.

For example, a bullet gains speed when it ricochets off an approaching artillery shell, but looses almost all of its kinetic energy when shot into a wooden block.

DOWN THE DRAIN Water ripples can ricochet off a vortex (shown), gaining energy.

Some pulses rebound off the forest canopy, while others slip between the leaves like raindrops and ricochet off the ground.

This effect tends to freeze the ball at the rim and greatly increases the chance that it will tip into the basket rather than ricochet off.

Instead of water, liquid sodium is typically used as a coolant because the sodium atoms are so much larger and heavier than neutrons that when they collide the neutrons simply ricochet off the sodium atom - much a like a small bullet ricocheting off a thick plate metal.

The way the light bounces from the ground and ricochets off of the buildings creates a beautiful golden hue that is heaven sent.

VIOLENCE / GORE 6 - A man breaks through a hotel room door and holds a gun on a woman as they yell at each other, he holds the gun to his own head and under his chin, he slams her into a mirror, she kicks him in the crotch and runs away, he shoots at her and the bullet ricochets off a car and grazes her cheek (we see blood on her face).

The sarcastic, scathingly witty insults that harmlessly ricochet off characters in most comedies hurt as much as bullets with these unusually sensitive child - men.

The fact that bullets can ricochet off surfaces means that you can take advantage of your surroundings to reach seemingly out of the way foes.

About mid ways through, folks are exposed to a new weapon, one that shoots out disks that ricochet off walls and alive through enemies.

However, they now ricochet off lava as well.