Sentences with phrase «sounds akin»

Her personal mantra, «rhythm and repetition,» sounds akin to the very principle of abstraction.

It's loud at start - up with its big clutch fan making sounds akin to a small plane, but underway, the 5.7 - litre spools out power in a smooth, linear way.

For longtime acne sufferers, that sounds akin to a quantum leap — one that just may help ensure that we never have to turn to toothpaste as a skin care treatment again.

You sound akin to the National Socialist Party of Germany 50 + years ago.

Ditto books on elimination communication devote at least half the word - count to making nappies and conventional potty - training sound akin to waterboarding.

First, the sound of the wastegates for the engine's twin turbochargers frenetically working, a dragon's snuffle behind your ears — a sound akin to a Bugatti Veyron but with its own characteristic resonance.

The controller vibration feels a little to harsh with an almost hooting vibration sound akin to other Switch titles.

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While such an aircraft would traditionally create a sonic boom, NASA expects the new aircraft to create a sound of less than half the noise level — or more akin to the sound of a closing car door.

Online education startup Coursera may have finally found a way to give students an education more akin to a college degree — and in the process, put itself on sounder financial footing.

The British pronounce it with a short «a» sound, akin to the word «trap,» says Charles Boberg, a professor of linguistics at McGill University.

Your beating heart, the sound of the blood rushing around your body, the rhythmic in and out of your every breath created a comforting cacophony somewhat akin to the roar of a vacuum.

;) BTW, it sounds like their process as you've described it is something akin to the «potty learning» that comes before «potty training.»

It's a strangely satisfying sound... something akin to the embroidery needle poking through linen.

In many ways he sounded more akin to Lord Alton lecturing on how best to bring about peace in the Korean Peninsula than any neo-con wishing to merely contain or disarm Iran.

Writing a legislative paper to encourage the creation of innovations akin to Facebook or Twitter sounds utterly ridiculous, but that's still how attempts to improve NHS services take place today.

The programs guessed at words and sentences based on the statistical probability of someone uttering a certain sound or phrase, akin to autocorrect on smartphones.

They were able to see that words that were different, but sound the same, like «hare» and «hair» activate different neurons, akin to accessing different entries in a dictionary's catalogue.

Many described hearing loud or disconcerting sounds before the onset of symptoms, or pressure sensations in their ears akin to the baffling that occurs in a moving car with the windows cracked open.

To those who have never experienced it — roughly a third of the population, according to recent surveys — déjà vu may sound like an outlandish phenomenon, akin to seeing ghosts.

«The sound of the first crack is similar to popcorn popping, while the second crack is more akin to the sound of the breakfast cereal Rice Krispies,» explains Wilson.

It often is more akin to historical detective work than to climatology and can involve long searches in dusty archives, the ability to read archaic scripts and handwriting, and even Latin translations (for instance, when going through the archives of the Paris Observatory)(sounds like a recent bestseller, only less lucrative, no?).

Especially, when adorned with none other than... LACE This dress is really not as daunting as «akin to lingerie» may sound.

A female trio whose sound is a carefree, pop - oriented, and occasionally foul - mouthed mix of rap and rb — akin to a junior hybrid of solange, electrik red, and nicki minaj — stooshe features karis anderson, alexandra buggs, and courtney rumbold.

* 1/2 / **** Image A Sound A - Extras B + starring Chow Yun - Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Jurgen Prochnow screenplay by Ken Sanzel directed by Antoine Fuqua by Bill Chambers Chow Yun - Fat, the Asian Cary Grant (even their jawlines are similar), is so suave that he wore a white tuxedo to last year's Hong Kong Awards, a black - jacket affair akin to the Oscars.

Even so, the costumes still look like costumes, the sets like sets, and the many accents sound inauthentic, to the point where The Mummy gives the vibe of people playing dress up and making a movie based on what they think a North African treasure hunt must be like based on old movies rather than in trying to represent anything akin to reality.

It sounds like just another example of Hollywood cashing in on an established franchise, akin to the decision to make a movie based on the board game Battleship.

Yes, those details sound sappy, but this series has been something akin to action soap opera for years now, and that doesn't stop here.

Something more akin to a music video or (trying my hardest not to sound like a wanker here) «Liquid narrative».

While I don't mean to make it sound like the plot is akin to The Tree of Life where the filmmaker has purposefully made his point difficult to get at, or maybe the point itself was... Continue reading «MOVIE REVIEW: VOLVER (2006)»

«Brothers» has a nice rhythm for how home improvement projects are undertaken, laughter rises again and life goes on (even as Thomas Newman's atypically awful score sounds more akin to a CMT video than a tough drama).

Like a Porsche 911 GT3, it really does feel akin to a race car that has been lightly disguised for road use, and although it sounds daft, you can easily imagine yourself rolling through the gates and parking it on the start line for the N24.

But, while this all sounds very promising, rather being a lighter more focused (but ultimately slower) C63 the driving experience is more akin to that of an Mercedes - AMG A45 where grip, pace and safety dominate the experience.

The men (and women) of Maranello know better than to opt for a sad cop - out akin to the latest BMW M3, which uses a «synthesizer» to replicate the engine sound and then pipes it into the cockpit via the stereo speakers.

Likewise, while accessing your entire catalogue of music and playing it, via Bluetooth, through an epic sound system is akin to a miracle, there's great charm in listening to old music in an old car on some long defunct music format.

Sound levels are dramatically louder outside of the leather and carbon - lined cabin, more akin to a scream than a whisper.

The noise that this aluminum block engine makes at full bore is akin to the world's angriest, largest vacuum cleaner being unleashed — but that just means that Land Rover didn't waste a lot of time making things sound pretty.

Unfortunately, timing your shifts in anticipation of a corner is tricky using either method and, once you get the revs up, you're punished with a sound that's more akin to a video game approximation of what a V - 8 engine should sound like than the growl of the performance variant of a premium sedan.

It sounds just enough like a semi to make my inner child go «wheee,» and the combination of torque and hewn - from - billet chassis solidity make acceleration akin to being fired from a cannon in slow - motion.

This month's selections are akin to a poetry petting zoo: Kids can get up close and personal with poems that represent everything from sound and meaning to simple rhymes to haiku.

Basically, it turns comics into something more akin to an animatic with a sound track instead of static graphics on a page.

Since this is very akin to cryptography, and it sounds cool, the name stuck.

This being a zombie game, you won't just be battling other players, and you may actually want to team up with them (for a while, at least) in what sounds something akin to The Division's Dark Zone.

Turnover also excels in the audio / video department, with brilliant sound effects that capture the mood and meaningful environmental storytelling akin to the Bioshock games» ability to tell stories based solely on art.

It certainly sounds like it's more of a bite sized and portable experience, more akin to Unit 13 than a lengthy plot - driven campaign.

But coding is now leading the way in controlling these sounds in real - time according to RPM and load with some serious time - stretching and synthesis akin to something like Melodyne — we are manipulating set - piece recordings of car behaviours to match the players» driving,» says Bartlett.

This all comes together to create a sound more akin to swing or big band than anything else.

In reality it is much more akin to a strategy game that requires sound squad - based tactics if you are to succeed at it.

What sounds like the epitome of a boring game mechanic, in practice makes for a mind - melting activity akin to learning a foreign language or working through mathematical problem sets.

The demo also acts as an introduction to Racenet, Codemasters» new online service now available in beta form that allows you to track races, rivals and rewards which sounds rather akin to Need for Speed's Autolog.

Alongside War Mode is «Headquarters», which sounds a tad confusingly like a social hub akin to Destiny's The Tower.