Sentences with phrase «towering over them like»

Side by side, like at a wedding, they are standing before a mirror that, seen from their perspective, is towering over them like a wall.»

Inspired by the scale and appearance of an industrial dock, the huge eruptions of scaffolding tower over you like a quayside full of rusty cranes.

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And that boy of mine, he steps closer, towers over me, pulls me into a long hug, and whispers it like a benediction.

Note that they haven't toppled yet; they may right themselves, or like the Tower of Pisa, just lean over a bit.

I also feel it when I see people like the imperial swimming instructor at the YMCA — powerful people who delight in towering over some little twerp who is struggling and scared, and casting the terrible shadow of their just and perfect selves.

We reached the 1.5 mile marker and drove through a long Roman - like road with farms either side and, in the distance tall hills towering over the car.

I was living at a fire tower in Northern Alberta, over an hours drive away from anything store like and unable to leave the tower (on call almost 24 hours a day), I needed to think fast.

As a CB, this is also a necessity, someone who can bully in the box and tower over their defenders like we have seen players like Kompany, Cahill, Terry etc do time and again.

I would love to win the learning tower because my 14 month old and 3 year old like to help me cook and we always have to pull a barstool over for them to help, so this would be amazing!

He towers over the other kids in his class and eats like a grown man.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, a close Trump ally who huddled with the candidate at Trump Tower over the weekend, was the nominee's lone surrogate on national shows like Meet The Press and This Week.

Our state constitution is twice the length of the national average, a document carefully crafted over centuries like a towering edifice, brick by brick, with 200 amendments.

It looks like the battle over three new large - scale towers on the waterfront in the Two Bridges area is escalating.

The holdings were assembled over six decades in a father - and - son enterprise that ventured into the city rental market in the early 1950s and expanded into an archipelago of towers with names like the Pavilion, the Lucerne and Liberty Plaza.

Dozens of tower blocks are now being urgently investigated over fears they could be vulnerable to fire just like Grenfell Ttower blocks are now being urgently investigated over fears they could be vulnerable to fire just like Grenfell TowerTower.

To further investigate, researchers at the University of New Hampshire looked at seaweed populations over the last 30 years in the Southwestern Gulf of Maine and found the once predominant and towering kelp seaweed beds are declining and more invasive, shrub - like species have taken their place, altering the look of the ocean floor and the base of the marine food chain.

I was being particular fussy and knew i didn't want there to be a front platform part, like many of the wedges have these days (they make me look like a giant and i tower over everyone and feel stupidly big) I wanted an everyday pair and these Sainsbury's ones do the trick perfectly.

My husband is just a few inches taller than me and doesn't like for me to tower over him in heels.

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I've been convinced since day 1 that good things come in small packages (I felt like I was towering over Grace when we met)

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Las Vegas» faux Eiffel Tower is knocked over like it's a toy, and the Golden Gate Bridge is mauled.

And Creevy prowls through his world like the bastard son of John Woo and Michael Mann, towering over the streets with a brooding menace.

Clever surprises flow without strain into goofy jokes, parodic riffs into sad absurdities, and all seem light enough to blow away, never to be missed — as if they were the dandelion heads that tower over Matt Damon like the crests of palm trees.

The shimmering towers, bustling streets and sprawling grasslands of Wakanda, the fictional east African country presided over by our hero King T'Challa (a suitably regal Chadwick Boseman), look almost nothing like Star Wars or Blade Runner — and in the current Hollywood sci - fi canon, that makes its sights virtually unique.

But Best Picture is tricky and since the implementation of the expanded ballot a Best Picture winner doesn't usually sweep like it used to, it doesn't dominate like it used to, it doesn't tower over Tinseltown as the Big Champ like it used to.

The John Cooper Works edition of the Clubman towers over all with a 208 horse, over-boosted 1.6 - liter mill, which, like all versions of the wagon, can be paired with either a six - speed manual or six - speed automatic transmission.

Wi - Fi calling is pretty much exactly what it sounds like — calls that are connected over wireless internet, rather than conventional cell towers.

Once you've oohed and aahed over the local butterfly population (there's a sanctuary in the park — come in February to find numbers at their peak), you can climb the viewing platform, which looks like a transmission tower, and exclaim again over views of land and sea, before descending down to one of two secluded beaches — Bilasayaq and Ujung Tanjung.

The Scottish Parliament Building, a discordant ode to steel, oak and granite, and the streamlined neo-fortress of the Museum of Scotland are both comfortably embedded among precarious medieval buildings that teeter - like grey - stone Jenga towers over Old Town's cobblestone streets.

And if you like your entertainment more historic still, then you'll be interested to hear that Newcastle was founded over 2000 years ago, and is pretty close to Hadrian's Wall - excursions are organised there on a daily basis by the tourist board if you don't have a car, or you can visit Segedunum, which is an ancient tower at the beginning of the wall.

But those tiled roofs and narrow, labyrinth - like streets aren't the only things that attract people to the town; on a sunny day the Jade Dragon Snow mountains can be seen towering over the horizon and providing a dramatic backdrop to the antique timbered buildings of the town itself.

A large pointy formation known as the Sentinel, towers over Hout Bay pointing up to the sky like Pride Rock.

The first part of the trip is dominated by the magnificent Andes that, like towers over the deep valleys, meanders along the Huatanay River.

Sanctum 2, rather than just being another tower defense game, allows you to have almost complete control over constructing your own maze - like pathways with weapon towers to take out enemies as well as a number of different guns that you'll...

In 2004 Jami joined Sumea Interactive which was soon acquired by Digital Chocolate where over the course of almost eight years, he helped to create hit titles like Tower Bloxx and almost 200 other games on numerous platforms from J2ME to XBLA and everything else in - between.

Defense games span all genres, letting you protect dream locales from fantasy towers, like castle - defense game Kingdom Rush, to science - fiction bases, such as in Defense Fleet, to exotic locations all over the globe, including a tropical island overtaken by Northmen in Viking Warfare.

Not unlike tower defense games you've probably played, like Plants vs Zombies and Defense Grid, Protect Me Knight pits you against oncoming hoards of monsters, but unlike all those other titles this game gives you complete control over your character.

So in this review i will try to give an overview over the things i liked about the reatltime strategy (RTS) and tower defense (TD) genre mash - up: Comet Crash.

I could probably stretch out another hour to that playtime if I wanted to get the 6 achievements that are gained by beating certain levels a specific way, and a few more hours if I cared about getting the more grind - heavy achievements (like buy all of the stuff in the store & defeat over 10,000 dinosaurs) but there's no denying that Go Home Dinosaurs is a lot shorter than other favorite tower defense games like Plants vs. Zombies, Pixeljunk Monsters, Defense Grid, and Defender's Quest.

Being able to play in single player mode is one of the key features: while you will still be able to challenge friends in one - on - one competition, you can now unleash your word wizardry at whatever pace you like, anytime and anywhere: single player mode will guide you through the mysterious towers of Spellwood Academy, as you hone your wits to fend off over 90 adversaries with different levels and styles of play.

What I liked most about Spirit Tracks were the difficulty of the main dungeon, which is like an improved version of the Tower of the Ocean King, except you don't have to repeat the same parts over and over.

Also, once you free all the outposts, climb all the radio towers and do all the side stuff, there's no incentive to keep playing unless you feel like starting over (even though you can free - roam after you've won the game).

It's a vastly different story on iOS, of course, where that platform is over-saturated with examples of tower defence games, and indeed, which has served as something of an evolution chamber for it, with various features like hero units and upgradeable towers added over the years to the basic «plant down some towers to defend against waves of enemies» template.

Opening: Stefan Tcherepnin at Real Fine Arts Stefan Tcherepnin's last show at Real Fine Arts, in 2014, included large stuffed monster - like sculptures that were originally made for use in an abstract film and towered over viewers there to commune with them.

With venues like an abandoned office space towering over Times Square and the general hustle and bustle as collectors and dealers scramble to make a deal, sometimes the spectacle from the groupings of hundreds of galleries that make up Armory Week can take away from its actual focus: the art.

Richter's swiped - over twin towers, Dumas's crucifixions and portraits of Osama bin Laden and Phil Spector (looking like a creepy and ageing Ken Dodd) at Frith Street Gallery, and Sasnal at the Whitechapel: together these artists evidence a kind of mistrust and doubt, as well as a discovery that painting can be both revealing and critical.

And there are the usual heavy demands on one's interpretation of «art», as with the imagined architecture of piled planks, towered black boxes, and stacked bars of cement; boring interventions that wreak destruction on walls and floors; and the flurry of uncharming ephemera like a puddled black garbage bag and rags draped over sticks which inadvertently — given the current happening at the Metropolitan Museum - invoked punk.

The figure of the muse, Robert Graves's «Mother of all Living, the ancient power of fright and lust», became less burdensome as manifested in The Giantess (c. 1950), whose colossal central figure towers over the scene like a Madonna della Misericordia.

Towering over the rest of it, like the very star whose distance all the other works are trying to measure, is Agnes Martin's 6 - foot - square oil painting Cow.