Sentences with phrase «spiral toward»

For billions more of our planet's inhabitants who qualify as working poor or middle class, it means a downward economic spiral toward lower and lower living standards, less opportunity, and less job security.

As my April Fool's post may indicate, I mainly just play Final Fantasy gacha games on my phone, in my continual spiral toward self - destruction.

Otherwise, all book prices would continue their downward spiral toward free and $.99.

He made his job descriptions sound like a steady upward spiral toward success.

Nissan has finalized the buyout of a majority stake in Mitsubishi Motors Corps Thursday for $ 2.3 billion following a fuel - economy scandal that caused the latter company to spiral toward demise, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Jack Nicholson and Bruce Dern play estranged siblings David and Jason, the former a depressive late - night - radio talk show host, the latter an extroverted con man; when Jason drags his younger brother to a dreary Atlantic City and into a real - estate scam, events spiral toward tragedy.

Their concept catches on, with underground «fight clubs» forming in every town, until a sensuous eccentric (Helena Bonham Carter) gets in the way and ignites an out - of - control spiral toward oblivion.

Although buoyed by fine acting (even from the supporting cast), The Light Between Oceans drags on too long with a clumsily handled backstory flashback (concerning the girl's birth family) and a downward spiral toward soap opera melodrama as nature struggles with nurture once the biological mother arrives.

Although buoyed by fine acting, The Light Between Oceans drags on too long and a downward spiral toward soap opera melodrama.

Seimetz takes her time playing out the multiple twists whereby her protagonists spiral toward their respective fates, maintaining a strikingly placid mood that is nevertheless almost unbearably foreboding — a marvel of plotting and affect, considering the film's relatively short running time.

This illustration shows the merger of two black holes and the gravitational waves that ripple outward as the black holes spiral toward each other.

All objects unfortunate enough to get caught in a black hole's eddy give off radiation as they spiral toward the abyss.

In this view, newborn planets can interact with the disk of material from which they form, causing them to spiral toward the central star.

But it is due for a burst of activity any day now, as a large cloud of gas and dust continues to spiral toward the heart of the Milky Way.

The second time you meet your thesis adviser, the relationship begins its downward spiral toward the inevitable «All I want is this ass - monster's signature on my thesis defense form and then I can get the hell out.»

For she isn't sharing in the sleepless nights, strained relationships and overall emotional roller coaster, as some days your company is destined to IPO and other days it's spiraling toward bankruptcy.

All year we have been watching these two titans slash through the competition, basically on a crash course, spiraling toward one another..

Irma spiraled toward Tampa after inundating Miami and the Florida Keys with a dangerous storm surge and ferocious winds.

By timing the pulsars, Taylor and colleague Joel Weisberg demonstrated that they are very slowly spiraling toward each other — as they should if they're radiating gravitational waves.

As gas spirals toward the neutron star, it spins faster and faster until some unknown trigger produces powerful, coherent radio beacons.

Previous search at a resolution of 200 AU only found a flattened envelope spiraling toward the center and a hint of a small dusty disk near the protostar.

If an addict cuts treatment short, all it takes is one «taste» of heroin or fentanyl to send them spiraling toward a potentially life - ending relapse.

Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski is best known for his anguished monster flick Possession, which featured Sam Neill and Isabelle Adjani as a married couple spiraling toward domestic meltdown.

Nowhere have the cuts hit harder than in public schools, where rankings in teacher pay and per - pupil funding have spiraled toward the bottom of the 50 states.

Felix is also spiraling toward a potentially hazardous fate.

«The evidence is overwhelming that hundreds of the native bees we depend on for ecosystem stability, as well as pollination services worth billions of dollars, are spiraling toward extinction,» says Kelsey Kopec, a native pollinator researcher at the Center and author of the study.

As a result, hundreds of bird species are spiraling toward extinction.

Other species were also spiraling toward extinction in the late 1800s, but the destruction of the passenger pigeon happened on full public display.

Not exact matches

Investor sentiment toward Iceland had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation could spiral out of control.

It scrambles up and onward always by spiralling round whatever stands in its path — drainpipe, porch pillar, / lawn chair — but then, once anchored, corkscrews round itself, amassing braided cables of self - hugging self - satisfaction, the conquering hero's doublejointed pat on his own back, the unbridled ego trip impelled by the uppity sap from deepest root to farthest outflung tip, ecstatically, imperially quivering toward its vegetal entelechy.

By his leap toward trust, the alcoholic breaks the vicious cycle in which he has been trapped, the cycle of spiraling anxiety, isolation, anger, and grandiosity.

Now roll the sides you just folded lengthwise toward the center to form a double - spiral log with a seam running down the middle.

«Interference in the earliest hours, days, and weeks, often by hospital staff or well - meaning relatives lead toward the downward spiral of low milk supply,» she says.

He then tried to pivot toward substantive issues, saying the state is in a «death spiral» and «many in our legislature are crooks.»

The spiraling text reaches out toward the larger park, where chairs and tables foster passive recreation.

One of these is that the pressure gradient of the gas in the disk would create a headwind that would spiral the pebbles and boulders inward toward the young protostar, where they would be destroyed.

Much as hair collects around a bathtub drain, the most massive objects in the Milky Way tend to spiral downward toward the center.

Since the 1950s astronomers have solved this problem using «kinematic distances,» calculations that treat objects in the Milky Way a bit like pieces of flotsam spiraling into a whirlpool; because things tend to move faster as they approach the center, measuring how fast an object is moving toward or away from us yields an estimate of its distance from the galactic center — and thus from our solar system.

Now new maps reveal in 3 - D how the path of that water, called the North Atlantic Deep Water, spirals southeastward and up toward the surface around Antarctica.

When the ice giant spiraled outward, it carried nearby smaller icy bodies along with it, shepherding them toward the edge of the solar system.

Rieke notes that our solar system contains a faint debris disk of its own — micrometer - size dust particles slowly spiraling in toward the sun.

This is considered a standard model, as dust is formed during asteroid collisions far from the star and then spirals inward toward the star so that it is evenly distributed throughout the system.

The Messenger mission calls for a Delta 2 rocket to send the probe off in the same direction as Earth's orbit and have it spiral inward toward the sun.

Start with two, spiraling in toward their sun.

When smoke hits the leading edge of the Flapper's wing, you do see a vortex form, but that vortex immediately takes a sharp turn and spirals out along the wing toward the tip.

In fact, both twins might try cocaine experimentally, but only the more vulnerable one would begin to show changes in the brain and behavior that would enter that twin into a downward spiral, toward a severe addiction.

Magnetic fields of different strengths make those electrons spiral in particular ways, and that spiraling changes the orientation of the light as it travels toward Earth.

But Fox suspects that other giant spirals also get replenished when gas - rich satellites fall toward them; we just happen to live in one of the few galaxies where this process is occurring today, giving astronomers a ringside seat on the refueling of a giant galaxy.

And once matter crosses over the point of no return, the event horizon, it spirals helplessly toward an almost infinitely small point, a point where spacetime is so curved that all our theories break down: the singularity.

When left - handed nano - spirals are illuminated with clockwise polarized light, the amount of blue light produced is maximized because the polarization pushes the electrons toward the center of the spiral.