Sentences with phrase «sharp turn toward»

Along the way, Keystone XL became a political football and (though my bosses hate to hear me say this) a political symbol: a clear choice between continuing on our carbonated kamikaze mission or making a sharp turn toward the clean energy future.

After those, the series took a sharp turn toward «safe imagry,» or rather, worlds that are no longer scary.

In one analysis, NASA's Timothy Hall and Columbia University's Adam Sobel found that Sandy's sharp turn toward New Jersey is expected to happen only once every 714 years, based on the history of Atlantic storms.

If you take a long view of adolescence, this sharp turn toward needing respect makes sense: As adults, we all need to solicit respect or status among our peers in order to make things happen and function effectively in a group.

Yet shortly after the council, the high culture of the West took a sharp turn toward an aggressive and hegemonic secularism that now manifests itself as Christophobia: a deep hostility to gospel truth (especially moral truth) and a determination to drive Christians who affirm those truths out of public life and into a privatized existence on the margins of society.

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After the first four checkpoints, the drones fly out toward the center of the stadium before a sharp turn takes them into a neon - lit tunnel in the lower bowl.

When smoke hits the leading edge of the Flapper's wing, you do see a vortex form, but that vortex immediately takes a sharp turn and spirals out along the wing toward the tip.

VIOLENCE / GORE 4 - A super-villain has a woman chloroformed and kidnapped: he ties her to a chair, lowers spinning wheels from the ceiling toward her (they contain by turns a chainsaw blade, spiked boots, sharp blades and a flamethrower), he opens a sliding floor to show snapping alligators that we see twice, a spider lowers on a strand of webbing, the villain says it's deadly, the woman blows it into his eye and he screams.

Chicago also has a long native tradition of formal abstraction that, like Imagism, finds inspiration in the turn of a sharp eye toward overlooked corners of everyday life.