Sentences with phrase «skitter of»

I ducked my head, hiding until the bat - wing skitter of attention had dissipated.

Together, though, they strike up a fun dialogue: the height of Bowling's paintings, together with the relative dignity of color field painting, lends them a kind of mute imperiousness next to the playful skittering of Berg's wheely - paintings.

Not exact matches

I can't have ridden far through the Christmas hills — maybe three or four miles — when I came over a rise and spotted one of the horses, skittering in front of a worn farmhouse.

You could do it over a sheet pan instead, for example, but the nuts sometimes pop out of their skins with surprising speed and skitter away from you.

Of course, the other way to deal with skittering thoughts is through baking.

When your skillet is hot enough that a drop of water will skitter across the surface, it's time to cook!

The pan or griddle is ready if a drop of water skitters across the surface, evaporating immediately.

Slowly, now, the line starts to take on more order — perhaps like the one that launched the great Oklahoma land rush — and most of the horses are skittering and nervously tossing their heads.

On lakes and rivers across the country, fleets of skinny boats will skitter over the water like giant insects, their wooden legs moving in unison.

(Liston's stalking style is, in fact, reminiscent of Louis», and Marshall, with his skittering, crablike mannerisms, is not unlike Walcott.)

Tom Feuer skittered around the San Francisco offices of Quokka Sports searching for a functioning computer.

The puck skittered away and the save keeps the Kings hopes of clinching the Cup at home alive.

Guentzel scored from nearly the same spot just over six minutes later, flicking a rebound off the end boards that hit Anderson's left leg and skittered in for his 22nd of the season.

Those runs must be deliberately wanted to cover just level, smooth surfaces, and awesome consideration must be taken in securing and cushioning the kid while you ran, on the grounds that the stroller tended to skitter each which route on the way because of its shopping basket wheels.

I always double stitch bean bags, for fear of thousands of little beans skittering across the floor, but you could get away with just once if you are braver.

The 5 - centimeter - wide green crabs, Bertness figured, would have no trouble kicking the smaller marsh crabs out of their burrows and making them skitter away.

When the insects have located a dense patch of flowers or a source of water, they skitter across the honeycomb in their hive in a pattern related to the direction of and the distance to the site.

Using a scanning tunneling microscope, the researchers observed the molecule skittering back and forth along the rows of atoms.

From the outside, people look like tiny space heaters skittering across the globe: six - and - a-half billion appliances each set to about 91 degrees, the average temperature of human skin.

Some observers have compared the waves of skittering crabs to scenes from a horror movie.

For this regimen, the animals were placed on little treadmills and required to sprint at a very rapid and strenuous pace for three minutes, followed by two minutes of slow skittering, with the entire sequence repeated twice more, for a total of 15 minutes of running.

Pulling up to a park on East Kelowna road, we took a few snaps there before skittering across the street to a little apple orchard (at least I think these were apple trees, I guess they could also have been pear) and nestling down among the newly bloomed branches for a few minutes in the light of a pale, serenely lovely late afternoon sunset.

There are montages of newspaper clippings and funny little animated episodes, with cutouts skittering across the image, as in a Monty Python sketch.

A dance syncretism made of menacing beats skittering from dark dancehall to mashed - up jungle, super-warped bass frequencies, stark anti-hooks, and a voice that is the most authentic to emerge in years.

As part of its generally welcome comic strategy, «Thor: Ragnarok» heckles itself for two hours and 10 minutes and lets Jeff Goldblum, skittering around as master of the death - match revels on the planet Sakaar, get away with murder.

A saturated picture that courses with the raw energy of found footage while still feeling artfully composed, a movie that punches with the skittering violence of dubstep but careens through L.A. with the unbridled freedom of bebop jazz.

Assumedly aware that he's making a movie about one of the less inherently cinematic of sporting events, director Janus Metz compensates with a lot of bombastic, jittery style, amplifying the crunch of flashbulbs to a deafening roar, restlessly skittering his camera around, generally taking notes from Ron Howard's Rush playbook.

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.

«Ant - Man» has been skittering around the development corridors of Hollywood so long, the earliest unproduced screenplays about the tiny superhero actually preceded the Disney film «Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.»

A booming chorus, thrilling symphonic suspense, skittering evil and an enticing sense of Egyptian doom fill this «Mummy,» revealing a whole new composer whose princess seeks musically biblical payback.

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.

Even the cliché tropes of action flicks come in for a good - natured ribbing, as Ethan skitters through the seamy backstreets of exotic locales, and dons a tuxedo for chi - chi society events.

It posits an Earth where the dinosaur - ending comet misses impact, leading to millions of years of evolved adaptations and ending, as the film begins, with the emergence of homo sapiens on schedule, but skittering around on all fours and howling at their saurian masters.

Where this disc truly distinguishes itself — indeed, excels — is in its DTS - HD MA presentation of the 5.1 remix, which better balances the dialogue, beefs up the bottom end, and facilitates a more transparent soundstage: now Chucky skitters around the viewer in seamless pans instead of occasionally popping up like a whack - a-mole in the rear channels.

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.

Our speeds are never high, but our angles of inclination are, as we creep up and skitter down steep grades, lean at extreme angles around banked turns, and cross V - shaped gullies.

Ford has done a commendable job in making the most of this arcane setup, but on broken back - county roads, the GT500's tail hops and skitters over road imperfections, resulting in a car that feels busier than it feels composed.

Over rougher surfaces, the Fit can skitter and clunk at times, but not nearly to the extent of the less stiff first - generation model.

The Power Wagon's suspension does a good job of smothering road artifacts that can set others skittering about.

ON THE COOL OCTOBER MORNING when Cayetana Chávez brought her baby to light, it was the start of that season in Sinaloa when the humid torments of summer finally gave way to breezes and falling leaves, and small red birds skittered through the corrals, and the dogs grew new coats.

From youth to old age when, «his mind no longer skittered,» but, «limped carefully from one anxiety to the next,» Shostakovich became more alive than an account of the sum of his experiences.

Pages and panels would rotate, spin, and fold on themselves and back again, all while distended genitalia would skitter along the gutters, having grown tiny limbs and minds of their own.

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?

«Interesting,» the ophthalmologist said, rolling away from Cynthia Barnes in his wheeled chair, like a water bug skittering for cover when the lights went on in the middle of the night.

Achieving both of those things without skittering to the wayside is hard, and some players start with an advantage.

The keyboard touchpad is also problematic, sending your cursor skittering around at manic speeds most of the time, but slowing to a crawl unexpectedly, and sporadically failing to register any input at all.

If you hate the thought of dog - hair tumbleweeds skittering across the floor, consider a short - coated breed.

Right off, Dave seemed special, a bug - eyed hummingbird of a dog, leaping up stairs and skittering around on feet that never seemed to touch the ground for more than a few microseconds.

They skitter about, waving their antennae, curious and unduly full of personality.