Sentences with phrase «skitter into»

Mice nervously skitter into view, then pop back; a cat slinks through the cluttered studio, its eyes a swarming, phosphorescent white; the eyes of an animal smolder beyond the studio's sliding glass door.

Not exact matches

According to research published online in August in Nature Neuroscience, the mammalian brain seems to do the same, collapsing the world into a flat plane even as the animal skitters up trees and slips deep into burrows.

Especially giant spiders — giant spiders with spiny legs that skitter around on needle - point claws, meticulously working bone - crushing chelicerae framed by sharp, venom - filled fangs, peering into your soul with their glassy, alien stares of desperate hunger.

This isn't quite as classic or convincing (the special effects are limited to extreme close - ups of grasshoppers matted into live action footage or, even better, skittering up and sliding down photos of Chicago skyscrapers) but where else can you see Peter Graves machine - gunning a giant grasshopper with teeth gritted as in a comic book drawing?

Because the film is told — in narration and in its cinematography — from the point of view of Ma's five - year - old son Jack (Jacob Tremblay), who has lived his whole life within the space, Abrahamson was able to focus his lens on the minutiae that feed a child's imagination: dust swirling in sunlight, eggs being cracked into a bowl, the novelty of a rat skittering across the floor.

For instance, a basic chat at a bar turns into a nausea - inducing presentation as the image jumps and skitters.

This morning, as I drove to work in a light rain, I was bemused by the GT's severe shuddering and skittering at the rear when I tried to accelerate into a hard left - hand turn at the end of an exit ramp, but this might get old pretty quickly.

At first it's fun — mesmerising in fact — to tuck into the F40's wake and watch it skitter and lunge up the road, tyres hunting for traction under full boost, then brake lights burning even when the road is straight as Wallace cries enough and takes a breath.

And trailing them, outrunning them, skittering along the gutter and the sidewalk and the low gray steps of the church, banging into ankles and knees and one another, scraps of paper, newspapers, candy wrappers, what else?

Circles fracture into dipping scimitar arcs and parabolas, and skitter off like the tracks of escaping particles.

And this he does by way of a deceptively simple brushstroke that unfolds under scrutiny into skittering, uneasy gestures.

One of the best shows to be seen in New York since the turn of the century, it proves that contrary to decades of received opinion, Picasso didn't skitter irretrievably into an abyss of kitsch, incoherence or irrelevance after this or that high - water mark....