Sentences with phrase «striking turn of events»

I mean, crushing, but quite the striking turn of events.

Not exact matches

It struck me, as I watched dozens of ticket holders get turned away from the oversubscribed event, that there was perhaps no better symbol of the speculative mania we've been witnessing in recent weeks than the sight of 70 would - be attendees sadly zip up their rain jackets, reverse course, and trudge home from an event that, not so long ago, would have been attended by few people.

«When a tragedy strikes in the form of a death or a life - changing illness or an accident, or when our lives are suddenly turned upside - down due to a divorce or other major life event, we need to grieve the loss of our old lives, our old «normal,» our younger, more carefree, and unwounded selves, so that we can embrace our new normal and learn to live fully and joyfully again.

In the Upper West Region, Assistant State Attorney Saeed Abdul Shakur who had gone to court to file a case expressed frustrations at the turn of events following the strike.

However, when electromagnetic pulses of lightning strike the area, the strange event turns out to be the beginning of an alien invasion, and Ferrier must now protect his children as they seek refuge.

Again (Ben) Affleck proves no hack: He says he wanted the audience, whom he'd conditioned to expect narration, to feel as though the climactic turn of events had struck Patrick dumb.

Harvey Weinstein's Statements Have Taken a Striking Turn — Megan Garber traces the mogul's words, from denials to apologies to claiming «a different recollection of the events.»

JL: And I wanted to ask you, actually: one thing that did strike me about the Burrito Blade, was even as I was reading it and I'm like, «yeah, these guys are still learning and putting things together,» I was also like, «damned if you didn't nail down, here's the end of the page and here's the event that happens at the page turn.»

Event cards are simply a case of doing whatever the text tells you to do, but enemy cards in the combat zone will strike player's each turn, forcing them to draw a card from the strike deck that alongside doing damage could carry other negative effects.

In a shocking turn of events surprising no one, Resolution-Gate strikes again!

The result turned out to be precisely a sawtooth, which struck me as both a simple way of accounting for this three - way coincidence (frequency, amplitude, and phase) and one that (as Greg himself has pointed out) naturally occurs in geophysics as a result of sudden events perturbing equilibrium followed a return to equilibrium that may be far from complete when the next such event occurs.