Sentences with phrase «rolling boulders»

Able to avoid booby traps, including giant rolling boulders, and survive strange accidents like plane crashes and collapsing bridges.

Primal Pursuit features fast and frantic races as up to 12 animals race for their lives through deadly courses full of unpredictable threats — such as gigantic rolling boulders that squash anyone careless enough to get in their way!

normally convince minivan drivers to turn back, but Fred plowed the Jeep Renegade over rocks and ledges, rolling boulders the length of the undercarriage as we descended.

So, straight from Mother Natureâ $ ™ s OMG collection, Â nailâ $ ™ d features spectacular terrain inspired by world famous locales such as Yosemite National Park and the Andes Mountains; however, reality has taken the day off to deliver 70 - degree slopes, massive air, bottomless chasms, giant spinning saw blades, crashing airplanes, platforms held aloft by helicopters, enormous rolling boulders, fire, white - knuckle rides and heart - stopping jumps into the unknown.

In between the curses you'll spit when dying again and again from falling totems or rolling boulders, you'll smile at the many clever ways in which Retro built these worlds.

Despite its poor balancing and short campaign, rolling boulders to smash known historical characters is a ton of fun.

Discussing various causes for the «linear virgae» on Saturn's moons, Adam Mann mentions grooves on Phobos produced by «rolling boulders»...

I felt like Sisyphus, the sinner condemned to roll a boulder uphill, only to watch it roll back down, again and again, for eternity.

It's sort of like rolling a boulder up a hill.

Entrepreneurship can feel such like a Sisyphean task of rolling a boulder uphill, that having a coach «in your corner» can be an incredible amplifier of continuous improvement.

However, with the recent sell - off to some, it feels like the entire precious metals complex is similar to the Greek myth of Sisyphus where the sinner is condemned to an eternity of rolling a boulder uphill then watching it roll back down again.

There were frequent times where my wife and I had to get out of the van to roll boulders out of the middle of the road.

They are just five games back in the AL East and 2.5 back of a wild card spot, so it's not ridiculous to think they might end up rolling that boulder up and over the hill before the season is out even with their problems.

The story of Antarctic marine conservation efforts often feels like the myth of Sisyphus, the Greek king who was condemned to spend eternity struggling to roll a boulder up a hill.

Having stagnant energy in your home is like rolling a boulder up a hill and having it roll back on you each time you stop to rest: Everything requires lots of force, and nothing is fun.

Its lead character tackles his world as if he's Sisyphus himself and stopped rolling a boulder up the hill long enough to pick up a guitar and watch that damn rock roll back down... only to do it all over again.

His touch shines through in the more carefully choreographed sequences of Clash of the Titans, but for the most part his nuance is drowned out by the visuals with all the subtlety of the rolling boulder in Raiders of the Lost Ark..

It's Jaws and the rolling boulder from Raiders of the Lost Ark and the setting and visitation of E.T. and the extreme backlighting of Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

And, if so, does this merely prove that the task of leading within our current system — or at least leading it to get dramatically better results — is like rolling a boulder up a hill?

In one of the rolling boulder levels, we were continuously flattened (I've never had any trouble outrunning these boulders in the past, so I think they may have been sped up a little), and after quite a few deaths we suddenly managed to outrun it so far that it was out of view.

Gameplay takes place in two phases: 1) Rolling your boulder through your enemy's defenses and slamming into their castle door with as much force as possible, and 2) Setting up your defenses to slow the progress of your opponent.

His punishment was to roll a boulder up a hill, but as he was about to reach the top, the boulder would slip from his grasp and roll back to the the bottom.

If players get hit by a rolling boulder, they flip over.

The stagehands will roll boulders, break bridges, and place explosives all in the interest of making the «show» more entertaining for the audience.

You can roll boulders onto Bokoblins from up - high, cook a variety of recipes for all sorts of stat and meter buffs, pick up a variety of weapons on your travels and explore scores of puzzle - ridden underground tombs.

There's not just a single player to Bigger and Boulder, there's also some decent offline and online multiplayer modes, including 2 - player co-op across the whole single - player campaign — where you both are able to create your defenses at the same time, on the same course and roll your boulders into the enemy structures.

Rolling a boulder into the hole reveals a Korok, who gives you a Korok seed, a nice currency you can eventually exchange for inventory upgrades, allowing Link to go into battle with a lot more in his armory.

Some fun environmental effects were shown, including Link rolling a boulder down a hill to take on some enemies in a valley below.

Rolling a boulder up a hill over and over again is neither destiny nor punishment but rather a self - made decision that I feel very comfortable with, because I succeed in seeing my subject (the glass) afresh each time — as if I were seeing it for the first time.

The guy who rolled a boulder up a mountain every day, only to have it roll back to the bottom before he could reach the top?

Not exact matches

But instead of the black and lifeless lake that lay impounded behind it just two years ago, now there is a firm, rolling meadow sprinkled with snags for hawks to roost on and boulders to create wildlife habitat.

We understand that position trading is not for everyone, but it does give one some advantages to see that boulder roll back down the hill AFTER taking some profits.

Truth is supposed to be like a rock you can stand on, not boulders rolled down to knock you off the path.

I also saw instances in which a farmer's olive trees had been uprooted, barriers put in his way of entry onto his land, and boulders rolled down on it by settlers on the hilltops above.

Those who really struggle with weight loss and maintaining healthy lifestyle choices can feel a lot like Sisyphus, the mythological Greek figure eternally doomed to push a giant boulder up a hill over and over only to see it roll to the bottom again and again.

There was a humble reminder that if the Warriors stumble, if Sisyphus turns the boulder over and watches it roll down the hill, the Warriors are still set up well for the future.

A decent head coach can push the boulder up the hill in Tucson, but one stumble, and it rolls all the way back down.

The boulder will roll down, crushing their feet, and they'll sigh and trudge back to the bottom, just like every year, whether it happens in the LDS, NLCS, or World Series.

Children can climb over logs and boulders, roll in the grass, make mud pies, observe nature, and dig for fossils.

As the daughter of a father from Crete (and of a Cuban - born mother), Nicole Malliotakis may be familiar with the Greek myth of Sisyphus, doomed for eternity to push a boulder up a hill, only to have it roll back on him every time.

To date, the robot has walked more than 2 kilometres unaided, crossing rolling, sandy terrain with metre - tall boulders, ditches and 30 degrees ramps.

I had no idea these cars could roll and pitch and shudder us across boulders, scree, grassland, and hills.

Mars scientists also revealed MGS images of a recent rockfall, in which many boulders broke free and rolled down a crater wall sometime between November 2003 and December 2004.

When was the last time that you did something that really scared the shit out of you... run from a lion... run from a dog... go bungee jumping... get on a roller coaster... go bouldering or rock climbing... take up an extreme sport... pick a fist fight that's worth fighting for... (I did this at the post office one day when a man was bullying a woman clerk, he retreated).

Right off the bat do Glazer's deconstructionist intentions become clear: As Winstone bakes in the sun with his healthy gut hanging over his Speedoed crotch, the symbolic boulder rolling down the hill toward him signifies we're a long way from the hard - bodied and likable Stathams and Caines that have populated the genre.

As the film opens, Gal's slice of utopia almost comes crashing down on him — literally — when a massive boulder rolls down a hill and smashes into his pool.

It is a gag that uses several side jokes to roll the humour into one boulder of a punch - line, feeling more like a reinvention of the films of old.

Like Sisyphus trying to roll a huge rock up a hill, first succeeding only to have the boulder fall back, Israel's political history consists of steps forward, sideways and backwards but always falling back to the place where the dance started.

Imagine shooting the boulder - roll opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark or lighting its snake pit scene with torches!

The open enrollment boulder has been rolling down hill for a longer period of time in Arizona.