Sentences with phrase «riffling through»

She remembered for no reason — recollections came to her more and more without prompting now; some other Gladys operating inside her, riffling through the cards in the catalogue, fixing on this or that moment in the way a crow's eye will be caught by a bauble — she remembered a house that they had occupied in which there was a fireplace in the bedroom and how Harold would complain at having to get out of bed on cold evenings to poke it and feed it, and how she had said to him, time and again, if he would sleep in the nude he was going to be cold.

I was riffling through the #JeffKoonsRetrospective hashtag when I saw it.

Photographer Walead Beshty was equally welcoming, riffling through lush prints and talking»80s - era postapocalyptic films.

But riffling through to establish such judgments seems immensely easier to do with an actual bound book than with the page - by - page limitation of a reading device.

I would not have dared to bring as much of my strangeness or my buried love along with me, had I not had their example: giving long analogies that lost us all, in sweaters just a size too small; riffling through lost pages of a meticulously planned lesson; bridging the world of mistake, and the world where no mistake is worthless.

He's able to learn a foreign language by riffling through a textbook.

But because the DVD offers instant» chapter» access, the sheer pleasure of riffling through the scene - selection menus and sampling standout sequences like 45s on a jukebox can't be beat.

Smithsonian researchers stumbled upon Bassaricyon neblina, also known as the «olinguito,» while riffling through museum specimens and old field notes in search of information about other members of the Bassaricyon genus — commonly known as olingos.

«We wanted to map the ridge to see where vent fields were likely to be,» Baker says, riffling through the multicolored maps of the seafloor that clutter the desk in his Seattle office.

Riffling through a stack of journal reprints and computer printouts, Perlmutter fishes out an article titled «Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High - Redshift Supernovae.»

I'm moving soon, and so I'm riffling through the files I've accumulated in my decades as a science writer and chucking those I'll never (I hope) need.

Touring the magazine rack, riffling through periodicals devoted to antiques and home decorating, was the 33 - year - old de Bruin, wearing a long - sleeved white shirt (no collar, tails out), faded dungarees and sneakers.

Riffling through old cookbooks at our mom's house one Christmas, we came across a newspaper clipping from over 30 years ago.

An inspired Shallenberger riffled through the three - ring binder in which Rug World kept its wholesalers» invoices.

For starters, riffle through some titles.

From pools and riffles through flats and «pocket water» to bends, undercut banks and plunge pools, he points out just where to drop a fly with the best chance of hooking a fish.

But, out of the blue, late in the first quarter, Bull Cyclone summoned Bradberry from the bench, riffled through the deck and dispatched him to run one play.

She calls up the black - and - white images on her desktop computer and riffles through the slices, zooming from the left side of my skull to the right.

That voice inside my head said to do something a little different... so I riffled through my stash not even quite sure what I was looking for.

During the past few months, I've pondered over the idea, riffled through my fabric stash, wandered a few fabric aisles... all the while not feeling even the tiniest bit enthusiastic.

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Each summer, principals would come to the central office to riffle through piles of applications, often while sitting on the floor.

And I always get a lot of «Yes, But» responses to that and so today I thought we'd take a riffle through some of those yes but responses from members of the Mark Steyn Club from all around world who've made various objections to my thesis or tried to nudge...

You swipe up to return to the home screen, or swipe up and hold briefly to riffle through open apps.

Yes, it is true that these little handy software applications make the job for a recruiter and HR professional — who otherwise have to riffle through 100's to 1000's of documents — a little easier; but to what extent are these professionals truly locating the best of the best in the tremendous pool of applicants if an ATS is missing or re-organizing valuable candidate information?

I took the time to riffle through everything and found some gems!

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But their defenders say that's exactly the point: you may be able to simply swipe through a document, but the riffle of virtual pages is reassuring to newbies.

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Riffle Select is a new service for authors and publishers who are looking to reach new readers through limited - time ebook deals.

Along with Neil Baptista (CEO of Odyl / Riffle) and Nancy Martira (VP, Social Strategist, Ketchum), Morgan will speak at Publishing Perspectives» Reaching Readers Conference (May 28, NYC) about how publishers connect with readers through social media.

I was thrilled to see another sow with dark brown yearling cubs working the riffles for bright red salmon as the morning sun broke through the clouds to light up the river.