Sentences with phrase «tuned as an antenna»

These are normal incidents for a standard coming - of - age picture, but Gerwig and Ronan redeem them by making their heroine as finely tuned as an antenna, always quivering with signals about the new selves she might momentarily try on.

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To fine - tune his smoldering - waif antennae, Heaney employs 75 high school girls as «trend spotters.»
Sayward described Belanger as a charismatic and magnetic campaigner with a finely - tuned political antenna.
The diagram in Figure 2, shows the parts of a crystal radio: antenna, tuning coil, diode (labeled as «detector»), earphones, and a connection to an electrical «ground.»
The 8.9 inch version of the Kindle Fire HD also shares a lot of similarity as its 7 inch brethren which includes the same Dual - band, dual - antenna Wi - Fi setup, Android 4.0 ICS operating system that is tuned to the Amazon eco-system and so on.
Maintaining a strong relationship with the business is a crucial part of Eschbach's success, as he explains that he has needed to fine - tune his «social and cultural antenna», which has consequently made him a true partner of the business.
When I first tried to find an optimal position for our antenna, I struggled to tune in the ABC and NBC stations from one position of the antenna just as I had with the original Eclipse.
Guest Blog Post By Andrea Wachter, LMFT Fat Chat & Your Child's Body Image As an eating disorders therapist and woman who spent the majority of my life in the grip of a weight and food obsession, I walk around with my antennae tuned in to whatever might help me understand how we got ourselves into... Read the rest...
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