Sentences with phrase «tremors of»

Brokerage firms are beginning to feel the tremors of what may be a radical industry shake - up.

Homes made of wood, for example, are more flexible and are therefore able to withstand the tremors of an earthquake better than are homes made of brick.

Recently, residents of Ocean City, MD thought they felt the tremors of an earthquake and were relieved to discover that the jolting was the result of a sonic boom.

Homes made of wood, for example, can better withstand the tremors of an earthquake than homes made of brick can.

The tremors of his hands are unrelated to the tumor and are likely inherited.»

Beginning by hand drawing graphite lines on gessoed surfaces using strings stretched tautly across the canvas, she enacted each line as a balancing act, requiring intense concentration and halting progress, evident in the visible tremors of the obviously hand - made final product.

He wanted to merge ghostly abstraction with concrete immediacy, the sensuous world with tremors of the vast unseen.

The Tremors of the World.»

As Guston and de Kooning walked out of Guston's 1970 Marlborough Gallery show, Guston began to feel tremors of discontent.

In a country still suffering from severe shortages of food and clothing, the young Polke felt even slight tremors of the culture of consumerism soon to come.

Yet, as tremors of the French Revolution rumbled to the surface, these sorts of extravagances would soon find themselves on the chopping block like so many of the period's doomed aristocrats.

These dogs might lose consciousness, they might «zone out» for a while, or they might have tremors of the face or display a repetitive action such as snapping at invisible flies.

It picks up tremors of volatility in the markets and adjusts portfolios accordingly.

But the tremors of change are already being felt here, and more are coming.

He glosses over dramatic housekeeping and fixates on tremors of emotion.

Ms. Rowling is capable of remarkable shifts in tone, gliding from comic observations of daily life at Hogwarts to tremors of absolute evil with a sure, deft touch.

A new study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

When the electric current is turned on, the rigor and tremors of this movement disorder disappear instantly.

Euphoria overtook the science world on March 17, when members of the BICEP2 team announced the discovery of gravitational waves that represented the «first tremors of the Big Bang.»

Scientists have for the first time shown that a grid of holes in the ground can act as a kind of seismic wall, a development that could lead to technologies that protect buildings from the dangerous tremors of earthquakes.

A recent study in Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems strongly links methane leaks from the seabed off Western Svalbard with tremors of the Earth.

During this process small tremors of the same signature, so - called «repeaters,» occur at distinct recurrence times.

The vast majority of events detected by the system are natural — earthquakes and seismic tremors of various sorts.

A recent example was the series of tremors of magnitudes 2.01 - 2.55 that occurred in Mariana, Minas Gerais state, three days before the collapse of the Fundão tailings dam owned by Samarco, resulting in the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history.

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, LIGO, searches for the tremors of cosmic dustups such as colliding black holes (SN: 10/28/17, p. 8).

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The tremors of the dull draw between Real Madrid and the newly promoted Sporting Gijon could be felt as far as North London.

So when these figures fall — in the most final way possible — the tremors of sadness aren't just about the loss of a favourite performer, but the failure of a role model.

A wave of selling washed across the financial world Thursday, driving the stock market down, interest rates up, and bringing new tremors of concern that the forces that have been propping up growth are starting to fade away.

Last spring, Toronto - based Klick, a privately owned marketing agency focused on the health care industry, unveiled a wearable device that digitizes the tremors of someone suffering from Parkinson's disease then recreates them for someone else to feel first - hand.

Instead, we faced a blank final page — leaving the Yooks and Zooks face to face, about to destroy each other either by intent or by the tremor of an aging hand.

The dilemma of art and propaganda is essentially a tremor of the seismic human dilemma of living in a divinely created but fallen world.

I love the sacraments, I love Scripture, and I know that my faith, my understanding of God, is cerebral and it's strong; in my spirit and it's awake; in my heart and it's love, but here in my body it's all earthy and sensual, it's the catch in my throat when I sing the words I've sung a hundred times, in the creak of my knees when I hit the floor, unable to stand any longer, in the tremor of my hands when I tremble, in the strength of my voice singing out ahead of my own life.

Young Thurman felt the tremor of the snake's struggle as it vibrated up his leg and through his body.

I have had a tremor of bliss, a wink of heaven, a whisper, And I would no longer be denied; all things Proceed to a joyful consummation.

Like William James, who was uncharmed by the virtues of the «block - universe,» I have difficulty grasping why the slightest trace of contingency, the faintest tremor of ambiguity about the future, would upset science and ruin everything.

The pastor who preached the sermon we call the Letter to the Hebrews felt the same tremor of terror in his own congregation.

The book draws on a wide terrain: for example, he sees the popular response to the death of Diana as a foreshock or early tremor of the coming Brexit as «the people» distanced themselves from the «establishment».

Between two and three in the afternoon of April 11, a European observer in the village of Surakarta (Solo) noticed «a tremulous motion of the earth, distinctly indicated by the tremor of large window frames; another comparatively violent explosion occurred late in the afternoon.

This time, the subtle tremor of spacetime that signaled the merger also revealed a key feature of the black holes: their spins, which were out of kilter.

In 2015, after a decades - long quest to find the waves, LIGO finally succeeded, registering the tremor of two black holes that merged in the distant universe some 1.3 billion years ago.

These guys, independently of one another, figured out that the so - called Triple AAA mortgage bonds were built on a foundation of ready to collapse at the first tremor of panic.

After a huge gunfight in which at least five cops are killed, the squad gets back to work that afternoon without registering the faintest tremor of loss.)

When he walked into the morgue long after midnight and saw Malachy Griffin there he felt a shiver along his spine that was to prove prophetic, a tremor of troubles to come.

A tremor of anxiety rifled her neck and she felt her upper teeth pressing into her lower lip.

After all, you may have felt the first really deep tremor of storytelling's new cinematic leadership in February when Amazon Publishing created its Topple Books imprint in direct collaboration with Amazon Studios and the activist - filmmaker Jill Soloway (Transparent, I Love Dick, Six Feet Under).

Seizures (classically starting with snapping or tremoring of the jaws that progress to convulsions of the whole body.

Many resemble containers that hold nothing but a distant tremor of undefined resonance.»

I like to imagine that it was the literal instability of that situation that helped her wait until after the dust settled to make some bonafi de and still killer paintings: at the opening of her 1995 solo exhibition in Los Angeles I had written down «paradigm shift» in response to what I took as one powerful tremor of a debut exhibition.

I'm reminded by the naming of lives spent intensely, sometimes joyously, but you know, just lived, and the naming is really to do... it was a kind of diary that when I go back I can, not so much relive the experience, but have the tremor of knowing that that experience existed.»