Sentences with phrase «skittering all»

Tatty curtains frame pom pom spiders that are skittering across the floor, beneath a table laden with perching blackbirds and glowing candles.

But on the wall, its materiality and scale send the eye skittering across the surface, often so dizzyingly that the composition appears to heave, swell and jitter.

Next to this skittering energy, the four - square boxes and grids of American Minimalism can look pretty flat - footed.»

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

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.

Julie Mehretu and her assistants work diligently on a vast painting, Mehretu's hand skittering across a surface, leaving a little trail of marks.

Or: it might be the hullaballoo of Buster Keaton skittering and sliding with his cardboard chimney over the roof of the flat - pack house that he must assemble in haste for his pretty new wife in the short film One Week (1920).

They send the eye skittering.

Likewise, new enemies are, by and large, variants on Souls archetypes — powerful knights, skittering insects, giants, surreal monsters cobbled together from random parts and, of course, dragons and their kin.

Sega's leathery oozing egg sac has slowly peeled open, and a pre-order trailer for Aliens: Colonial Marines has jumped out, all skittering and creepy.

Three generations of Lodgers have occupied the cabin, but lately, the walls seem to undulate, skittering unknowns shift in the darkness, and an unruly growl seeps from the attic.

This mechanical ƒ is a denizen of the mine I find myself in, just one of an endless spawning, skittering army that explode upon sensing an intruder.

that was all matrixy - looking My guess as to what happened: there's a hidden collision surface that covers the sides of that level to keep players from jumping up on the walls and turrets — you might have been skittering up the side of it.

As we struggled to reach the end of our journey, the sound of my mage's fireballs incinerating their target joined in chorus with the thud of massive hammers, metallic twang of steel and impact of our archer's arrows on seemingly endless waves of lethal, skittering Skaven.

You may even be lucky enough to see the babies being born and skittering down to the water if you visit during the main nesting season (June and July).

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.

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

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.

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

«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.

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?

A persistent skittering sound from the darkened space between floor and baseboard pulls Isabella from an uneasy sleep.

If you lose their trust, you may find your book skittering against the walls, removing the paint.

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

That's to be expected with payload ranges in the 635 -735-kg-range and not something that sends the rear end skittering about.

Driving through curves with midcorner washboard, wheel control is much improved with less skittering on the front wheels.

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.

The result is dark, skittering music that amplifies the film1s heart pounding tempo.

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.

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.

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?

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.

«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.»

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

Except, when it comes to Martian life, «spider» has a different definition, and it doesn't involve arachnids skittering all over the red planet.

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.

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

How to Hack a Moth Many robots take cues from nature, from slithering snake - bots to skittering six - legged (and relatively giant) robo - roaches.

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.

A bigger or more active baby could upend the swing, or send it skittering precariously around the floor.

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

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.

Thanks for the recipe (and sorry about the skittering).