Sentences with phrase «tidal waves sweeping»

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.

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And in each case, when the tidal wave of modernity hit, it swept all before it within a generation.

Their frequent challenges to «the way things are» can feel overwhelming to the most patient of parents, and their sometimes epic meltdowns when all of that extreme energy explodes out of their small frames can act like a tidal wave of emotion that gets everyone swept up in the maelstrom.

Once again, New York has led the way for equality and justice, and what began as a ripple has become a tidal wave of equality sweeping the nation.»

The large contingent of Scottish Lib Dems was, like Scottish Labour, swept away by the SNP tidal wave.

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.

Last November, the blue tidal wave of Democratic support swept throughout Westchester County and extended into the City of Peekskill, where a Democratic mayor and three Democratic councilmembers were elected.

Then Thatcherism swept all before it; the Labour opposition fractured; the trade union movement — the backbone of the left in the broadest sense — was pummelled; and then the Soviet collapse unleashed a tidal wave of capitalist triumphalism that swamped even democratic leftists who abhorred Stalinist totalitarianism.

The earthquake and tsunami knocked out outside power to the reactor complex and the tidal wave also disabled backup diesel generators, whose fuel tanks were swept away.

Multiple sclerosis, lupus, arthritis, even psychiatric illnesses would all be swept away under the tidal wave of the stem cell cure.

A «tidal wave» of cancer is sweeping the world.

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Yoga, or more specifically the asana or physical posture component of yoga, has swept through North America like a tidal wave over the past few decades and I say, thank goodness for this wave!

It wants us to experience this universally intangible concept in all of its glory, be that a tidal wave of centuries that sweep by in the blink of an eye or a tragic, almost voyeuristic long take of Rooney Mara drowning her grief by consuming an entire pie in front of us.

The wave of Anglophilia sweeping Hollywood has reached tidal proportions with Robert de Niro now poised to move to London and take a West End stage role.

As a result, the tidal wave of reforms that swept across America involved almost nothing that was threatening to the teacher unions.

It's like being picked up and swept away by a silent force, a tidal wave perhaps, and you feel your eyeballs squeeze against their sockets and your brain press against the back of your skull.

She dealt with domestic rebellion, foreign wars, and the tidal wave of political change and violence churned up by the French Revolution that swept across Europe.

Theoretically, DRM protects publishers from the tidal wave of piracy that swept away much of the music industry by preventing readers from sharing the books that they've bought with friends, or on file - sharing sites.

In the situation where the tidal wave of eBooks and new service providers has swept across the ocean of publishing, it is hard to predict where the wind will blow.

After a tidal wave fifteen feet high swept the already beleaguered city and the rest of the storm passed, the death toll rose to 2,500 and very little was left standing.

Here is where the rub begins: too many people get swept up into the tidal wave frenzy of technological formulas that simply, mechanically and impersonally push their career message into a robotic scenario whereby the job search is thwarted.