Sentences with phrase «sort of alien»

The principle enemies were called Wanderers, and are black - clad soldiers with the upper half of their heads missing and a red spike sticking out that looked like some sort of alien gemstone.

You are flying your ships inside some sort of alien being and the level culminates in a boss battle against a giant floating brain with two arms and one eyeball.

The game is very clearly unafraid to make its settings strange and kind of unsettling; sort of alien - but - on - Earth.

A sci - fi mash - up so dumb it makes Flash Gordon look like Solaris, this thoroughly preposterous yarn centres around a Russian - born toilet cleaner Jupiter Jones (Mila Kunis), who's suddenly informed that she's some sort of alien princess and actually entitled to rule Earth but members of her intergalactic family are trying to have her killed.

Tom Cruise will find himself living the same day over and over again, amidst some sort of alien war, increasing his skills a little bit at a time.

The difference between American Splendor and Ghost World is that with two solitary figures in search of completion, there is the possibility for recognition of sameness — but with two figures (underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar and his wife Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis)-RRB- who have found in one another a sympathetic orbit, a partner in life and lo, with a child dropped willy - nilly into their midst to tie up loose ends, there is instead a sort of alien, island of lost toys exclusion that makes for a further alienation of the very alienated audience to which Pekar's comic so appealed and, eventually, took for granted and pandered.

An oddly dimming star located 1,500 light - years from Earth is causing all sorts of commotion in the scientific community, leading some to speculate that it may be some sort of alien megastructure.

The high - tech building it resides in looms over the road to Albany's biggest mall like some sort of alien space craft and now construction has begun on a major expansion with a cool bridge doohickey that will eventually allow gear heads to safely cross over mall traffic in space age comfort.

At the AGM, a question comparing us to Germany was asked and Ivan again answered like it's some sort of an alien thing for a football club to care about it's fans.

After a while, anything «grain» sort of becomes sort of alien looking, like it doesn't belong in a plate...

he's lookin» at me like I'm some sort of alien and I'm messin» with his mind.Seems like the sea conch effect took hold and he began to take on the look of belief, albeit a rather perplexing one.Apparently, his new awareness has also brought him the ability to hear the ringing without the phone, so I'm not sure if we're still friends

I love how through the whole article he uses «They» as if Christians are some sort of alien society.

Everything in the human world becomes artificial in the worst sense of the word; everything is divested of importance, urgency and interest; Christianity itself becomes no more than a sort of alien proliferation, without analogy or roots in the Phenomenon of Man.

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

The world feels endless, full of all sorts of aliens, characters, and environments.

While the scope of the game isn't to that degree, Subnautica is an underwater exploration game where you'll encounter all sorts of alien sea - life and construct items and shelter for survival.

I'm a little belated with this but it took me a while to recover... Sunday, November 24 was all sorts of alien awesome in the Household.

Not exact matches

Of course if it was some sort of «alien» life, that just begs the question - where did they come froOf course if it was some sort of «alien» life, that just begs the question - where did they come froof «alien» life, that just begs the question - where did they come from?

I also don't want to theorize what sort of religion these space aliens have, I was just choosing islam because that's a religion I have no intention of ever converting to, but in this highly unlikely event, it could change my mind.

Even if we accept that an «agent» started it, it doesn't have to be a deity, it could be some sort of very advanced alien.

As a way of learning how to take alien points of view, this sort of exercise is excellent, and some children do very fine things with it.

The church takes Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon's Resident Aliens as a sort of manifesto.

And, yes I think there is an actual «end - time scenario» — not exactly sure how these creatures will play it out... but you can bet it will be through a deceitful representation of themselves as either some sort of «aliens here to help» or forcing the world to take a united stand against them — contributing to a volunteer world government.

It still feels alien to me as no one in my family has either psoriasis or inflammatory arthritis of any sort!

Most of the youngsters who have been recruited or promoted to the first team has approached the manager's philosophy without the sort of baggage and hang - ups carried by many of the senior players, what with their years of service and past successes to argue over, all won through other, less alien ways of working.

Here in India, homeschooling is really an alien sort of concept.

The specialized immune - system function of dendritic cells is to sample proteins and serve as a sort of security guard, sorting out alien proteins from the home team.

As radio telescopes turned a hopeful ear to the stars and optical telescopes kept their eyes peeled for an illuminated alien pulse, a cavalry of citizens armed with personal computers sorted through jumbles of data.

Now this comes from a, this piece of it comes from a 2003 paper by a planetary scientist named Jack Wisdom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and what he discovered is that you can move, as you [were describing] through curved space by moving, [let's] say, your arms and legs, or if you're an alien as it is described in the article, a tripod alien — just for the simplicity of demonstrating how the movements are with, sort of, heavy feet and a ball at the end of the tail that helped to move the [weight] around, just to make it kind of simple to look through — you can move through curved spacetime without pushing against anything, and this is the key here.

The technology of VR is (and will continue to be) more advanced than Robotics, and as VR is not limited to the physical constraints of the atomic world, those inclined to non-traditional sex will prefer VR that runs the gamut from «real» partners to the outright «alien» with all sorts of hybrid possibilities in between.

It would be alien life on Earth, a sort of life scientists call «weird.»

The object's trajectory reveals that it came here from another solar system, and its weird, extremely elongated shape has sparked speculation that the rock could be an alien spacecraft of some sort.

The radio pulses followed a numerical pattern, encoding a sort of «introduction to Earthlings» for aliens.

After a meal containing grains, all sorts of peptides circulate around the body, which our immune system regards as alien intruders and tries to fight with inflammatory reactions.

As I was walking through the produce section at my local market the other day, I ran across this green vegetable that I'd never seen before; it looked sort of like an alien meets sea coral.

As I was walking through the produce section at my local market the other day, I ran across this green vegetable that I'd never seen before; it looked sort of like an alien meets sea...

Here, a science experiment on advance genetics, being conducted aboard a space station, goes horribly wrong, in a Ridley Scott's Alien sort of way.

The location is Mexico City, or rather, a grimly reimagined «Mexico City,» filtered through the sort of yellow cast and grainy imagery that made Traffic's «Mexico» look similarly alien and dangerous.

This Island Earth (I'm still not sure how the title applies to the story) starts off with an interesting premise — aliens posing (poorly) as a think tank of sorts to recruit Earth's best and brightest for the scientific good.

The location here is Mexico City, or rather, a grimly reimagined «Mexico City,» filtered through the sort of yellow cast and grainy imagery that made Traffic's «Mexico» look similarly alien and dangerous.

Still, it's fun, at least for a while, to watch the humans — who also include Keith Carradine as the town sheriff, Adam Beach as Dolarhyde's Indian cowhand, and Olivia Wilde as the requisite (sort of) love interest — go up against the aliens and be entirely mismatched.

«I have to say, this Alien: Covenant is going to be — I'm really excited to see it and everybody in the film was saying that there's a film that we all wan na see, it's much scarier than Prometheus, but it's got that sort of same scope as Prometheus, that imminent sort of disaster feel, that Alien had,» he continues.

This return is marked by Prometheus, a sort - of prequel to Scott's Alien.

High points include the implanted Ripley's recitation of the line «somebody's got to kill me» directly into the camera and the most genuinely unsettling finale of the series — an unrelentingly tragic denouement (featuring Bishop's return, sort of) which is redeemed spectacularly by the principal plot twist of Alien Resurrection.

It's an amazingly beautiful animated adventure set in a sort of hybrid magical / alien world.

I have seen a ton of movie aliens and creatures of all sorts, but these things — which appear to be all teeth and no face — are truly horrific.

It's interesting to see a film about a space alien that doesn't resemble anything we've ever seen before, as most others have some sort of humanoid appearance, (or reptilian, etc.) Indeed, it's a much more plausible depiction of an alien threat than most other sci - fi efforts have featured, almost the opposite in terms of story as The War of the Worlds which featured aliens defeated from exposures to germs and viruses of our own.

And how did he miss the dimension that could make the seemingly alien Wiseau a normal, everyday sort of guy?

Brendan Fraser and Rob Corddry voice two alien brothers who get into all sorts of hijinks when a...

Lacking a Bruce Willis or a Mel Gibson, Shyamalan makes do with the sort of blandness delivered in the «50s by the no - namers playing air force generals and government scientists faced with giant tarantulas or space aliens.