Sentences with phrase «tidal waves»

The film has a lot going for it, with humor, family drama and of course, massive CG tidal waves that destroy a beach - front city center.

Handsomely shot by Steve Yedlin, Rian Johnson's regular cinematographer, and boasting a typically likable Dwayne Johnson as its star, San Andreas nonetheless struggles to drum up tension or interest, even as skyscrapers topple like Jenga towers and massive tidal waves sweep through San Francisco Bay.

Purple flowers blossom in underground caves, tidal waves crash into the shore, and flying ships foreshadow upcoming dangers.

The plotline involves a supposition that the global warming apocalypse that many scientists have been predicted is finally here, and in an accelerated example of such disastrous events, much of the Earth's northern hemisphere suffers from severe flooding, tidal waves and an ice storm that threatens to wipe out practically all life as we know it in those affected regions.

Then, in an obligatory feel - good finale to all the carnage, the earthquakes, tidal waves and mass destruction simply... stop... and the survivors sail peacefully into the sunset towards a habitable destination.

The person - on - person violence has been scaled down this time out, as most of the Hunger Games challenges involve computer - programmed «Fear Factor» perils such as poisonous fog, lightning storms, a congress of mutated baboons, manufactured tidal waves, etc..

Partly ethereal, heavily rhythmic, and filled with tidal waves of surging volume, Goldenthal's score was the product of many back - and - forth consultations with the finicky director.

In his latest film, The Day After Tomorrow he subjects the Big Apple to a new Ice Age as enormous tidal waves flood the city and then freezes over.

Another reason for Woo's reduced role is undoubtedly the extensive, lavish special effects: the film works wonders not only with a crashing helicopter but also with the rolling earth tremors like tidal waves that follow a nuclear explosion.

After some red shirts die, the remaining members we follow find that the island is segmented into 12 pie slices, comprising a huge clock with timed challenges that include a poisonous fog, deadly monkey - like creatures, voice - mimicking bats, tidal waves, and others.

Don't expect to have tidal waves of money rolling in at the city's start.

If you're a woman all you have to do to get tidal waves of attention is post a photo.

Tidal Waves Strike: An earthquake near the northern Japanese provinces of Iwate, Miagi and Aomari sent a giant tidal wave (now called a tsunami) sweeping ashore.

This created gravitational tidal waves in the disk, leading to faster accretion, which in turn led to the explosive outflows.

There are at least 100 volcanoes on the islands, 35 of them still active, and the islands are often hit by earthquakes and tidal waves.

The planet's swooping flybys create tidal waves on the host star, which combine with the gravitational tug of its companion star to pull on the planet in unpredictable ways.

We are inclined to agree with her captain in his belief that many smaller and less stoutly built ships which have disappeared utterly at sea, may have been sent to the bottom by the crushing in of their decks under so - called «tidal waves» of these dimensions.»

In Bangladesh and Thailand, coastal mangrove forests — important buffers against storms and tidal waves — are giving way to ocean water.

Hundreds of people living along the coast of the Ellembelle, Jomoro and Nzema East districts in Nzema of the western region were on Sunday 17th April 2016 displayed by tidal waves.

The Member of Parliament for Ellembelle constituency in the western region who doubles as Ghana's Petroleum Minister Dr Emmanuel Armah Kofi - Buah provided relief items to the tidal waves victims.

This is not the first time the Ankobra community has been affected by the tidal waves, every year its happen to them.

As it turned out, many of these opposing candidates sank under the tidal waves of the votes, while Obiano sailed home on top of the waves.

Hundreds of residents in Horve Havedzi at Keta in the Volta region have been rendered homeless following tidal waves that swept away homes on Friday dawn.

Crappy Papa is in the bathroom with them to make sure they don't drown each other or crash tidal waves across the floor.

A meteor hits, a volcano erupts, an earthquake happens, tornados, tsunamis, tidal waves.

Released February 2017, Get Out sent tidal waves throughout the film and entertainment industry, the Twittersphere and around kitchen tables and water coolers across the country.

He caused tidal waves which washed the cars and trucks into the water and drowned the people.

Above all, there is image after image of the planes crashing into the towers, the ensuing infernos and structural cataclysms, and the infernal clouds of black smoke and debris surging like tidal waves into the surrounding urban canyons.

Moreover, there are random cruelties in nature — tornadoes, hurricanes, tidal waves, disease — that seem easier to bear if no good God is posited.

Storms and tidal waves and earthquakes and droughts and valcanos shall be the instruments of bloodshed against those who are cowardly and afraid, who do wicked deeds against the brave and disarm them to get their deeds done.

And, though Buscher had seen the place safely through multiple floods, tidal waves, and Hurricanes Iwa and Dot during her tenure, the immense damage done by Iniki closed the Coco Palms for good.

Many entrepreneurs can attest to this; once ideas start flowing, they usually come in tidal waves.

This is thanks to the dual tidal waves of the need for a way to monetize jewelry to pay the bills for many of our neighbors and the desire to exploit the bull market in gold by some of our other neighbors.

Within a year of launching Slack in 2013, Butterfield was surfing a frothy tidal wave of interest, with the user base growing by a stunning 5.5 % per month.

So we're seeing this tidal wave of female founders.»

When England's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) asked the public for name suggestions for their new $ 300 million state - of - the - art polar research vessel, RRS Boaty McBoatface won by a tidal wave.

«Somehow, we didn't get hit with a tidal wave of selling that many expected... despite all the sturm und drang about little Rocket Man in North Korea or the sheer impotence of Congress or Trump's tweets that often seem, let's say, out of step with folks like Washington, Jefferson [and] Lincoln, to name three of our more presidential presidents,» the «Mad Money» host said.

It would be easy to dismiss this as the latest boomlet in an industry famous for its cycles, were it not for a demographic tidal wave — the so - called silver tsunami — that has already begun: The retirement of America's 76 million baby boomers.

«The tidal wave of plastic pollution will only start to recede when they turn off the tap.»

Artificial intelligence is coming like a tidal wave.

The tidal wave of children crossing the border has reignited intense passions around the core question of whether immigrants are entitled to receive costly government benefits and services.

That meant she was, in effect, sitting in a lifeguard tower when the financial - crisis tidal wave made landfall.

Aside from the tidal wave of leaks, reports from Blass, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, and others have pointed to two phones with curved OLED displays, the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chipsets (in the US), a new voice assistant named Bixby, and 3.5 mm headphone jacks, among other features.

After the initial tidal wave of emotion had passed, I invited my 12 former teammates to my house.

«What makes a great entrepreneur success story is when you find something that doesn't make any sense to you but no one else sees it, so you're fighting the big tidal wave of the established market,» he says.

And given the practical hurdles that already make it difficult to prove discrimination, a tidal wave of «excessive litigation,» as the NFIB warns, seems more theoretical than real.

Critics unleashed a virtual tidal wave of criticism on Komen's Facebook page, expressing shock and anger and pledging to drop their support of the organization.

Almost a tidal wave.

«I think across industries there is a tidal wave of need coming and there is an ongoing shortage of talent coming into the space,» Wallace said.

Then, Twitter went ahead and changed its favorites icon from a star to a heart, prompting an immediate tidal wave of reactions both positive and negative.