Sentences with phrase «sudden lurches»

Sudden lurches of climate in the paleo studies is meaningless for CO2 sensitivity.

SpaceShipOne itself suffered several such problems in its three space flights, including the loss of its navigation system, a sudden lurch that carried the ship some 30 miles off course, the buckling of the aircraft's skin from the rocket motor's heat, and an uncontrolled wobble that spun the craft around at high speed some 20 times before pilot Melvill — he flew the first prize - winning flight, Binnie the second — stilled it, possibly just in time to prevent a fatal tumble.

Starting with not enough pedal off the line and ending up with a hair too much throttle when the gasoline engine kicks in, resulting in a sudden lurch of acceleration.

Not exact matches

Everyone was afraid to make a sudden move or speak above a whisper for fear that even such slight disturbances could cause the craft to lurch against the sharp rocks that lay hidden just below the waves.

Some of these sudden policy lurches may have been sensible, some of them disastrous.

To the extent that there's anything like an actual narrative, it starts with four men trapped in a primitive submarine and lurches randomly from there, with the sudden appearance of a (very) lost woodsman played by Quebec star Roy Dupuis.

One should also mention the orchestral smear heard on the soundtrack: a nauseating lurch of Psycho-esque strings provided by Under the Skin's Mica Levi, who expresses the movie's theme of sudden change better than anyone.

The engine's stop / start feature only activates in «C» mode, and sudden throttle can produce abrupt lurches from a standstill; it's best to ditch Eco mode if you prefer quick, smooth getaways.

I did catch the transmission flat - footed once, as some quick acceleration changes at low speeds, necessitated by traffic, led to a sudden, lurching downshift.

The doves rose from the opposite rooftop in a sudden gray and scattery cloud, and as the floor lurched under me and two panes of glass shattered at my feet, I ran screaming for my father.

This ties in to the Hockey stick of course which recorded this sudden downwards lurch with a terrible summer in 1358.