Sentences with phrase «up as a desert»

If I was served one of these up as a desert I can tell you I would be thrilled.

Not exact matches

They have to bring everything they'll need to camp out in the desert and, at the end of their stay, clean up so that the desert is exactly as it was.

Chile is expanding its largest open - pit copper mine below the northern desert to dig up 1.7 billion additional tons of minerals, even as metal prices plummet around the globe.

In January 1990, as Operation Desert Storm was lighting up the skies over Iraq.

God started with a small party in a garden, moved on toward some pow - wows at alters in the desert, then moved into a moveable tabernacle (kind of like an Old Testament RV), then reigned in a temple (especially the God - cave of the Holy of Holies, then disappeared while giving the Jews the silent treatment for some 400 years, then came back to the temple, then traveled the highways and byways with anyone who wanted to join the fun and whooped it up with society's outcasts and wedding attenders, then moved on to some public forums, then into some clandestine home groups and a few jail cells, and eventually made his way into traditional church as we now know it.

If one is crossing the desert on a camel and a blinding sandstorm comes up, the thing to do is to dismount, lie face downward on the sand with his cloak over his head, and wait an hour, three hours, half a day, until the storm abates and he can go on his way as before.

Very well said Tim — You forgot to mention to have the unbelievers explain fish skeletons scientists have found over the years in the clefts of mountain top ranges, shark teeth discovered all in the Arizona deserts — Of course we know it was the flood — To a lot of non believers I speak to; it's sad because as opposed to looking / researching God's many evidences that He has left there are so many willfully ignorant in listening to modern man's (& I might add) opinion with nothing to back up evolution theories.

In your post, you seem to be referring to streams and deserts as the regular ups and down of life, the good time and the bad.

They thought it was more holy and righteous to avoid as much about earth as they could... many of them moved into desert caves, and gave up clothes, and most food, and cleanliness, and slept little, etc..

He is instead «the Lord God of Hosts,» as Mother Abagail, his prophet in The Stand, might put it, intervening directly in the lives of his people and demanding that they conform those lives to his will — whether it's the chosen few who survive The Stand's superflu and end up shepherded west to Boulder, Colorado, to form a new Israel set against the Babylon of Las Vegas; or the motley heroes of Desperation, King's finest 1990s novel, who coalesce around a «God - bombed» eleven - year - old to battle a demon called Tak, accidentally let loose in the Nevada desert.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

It occurred to me last night as I was sitting in the hot tub and watching the sun set over the desert, that if I could travel back in time twenty years and whisper in my teenage ear: You're going to be an author and have a wonderful husband and a firebrand, amazing child and you're going to get to travel a lot and one night you're going to find yourself alone in a hot tub in the desert, looking up at a glowing pink sky, I would have thought, That's a pretty f-ing cool life.

Desert: Snicker Salad (used the alternatives here, but as I couldn't find that candy this year, I am cutting up a EnviroKids Peanut Butter Panda Bar and tossing in a few GFCF chocolate chips to replace the snickers bar.

As summer heats up in the Arizona desert temperatures easily exceed 100ºF with an average summer temperature of 112ºF and warmer.

This election is a referendum on the incumbent, pure and simple... might as well burn the money up in the desert.

As revelations pile up day after day, allies will desert him and the Putz will find himself a very lonely man.»

A «strewn field» emerged: a stretch of desert roughly 10 kilometers long and a few kilometers wide strewn with pieces that fell as Black Beauty broke up in the final moments of its descent.

A storm in Africa's Sahara Desert brought a sandy fertilizer to the Atlantic Ocean on April 8, triggering plankton blooms that show up as blue - green swirls in this photo from the European Space Agency's Envisat satellite.

As night engulfs the desert and the cameraman's lights throw up huge, signing shadows, it looks as though language itself has become animate, as conversations play out in silhouette on the whitewashed wallAs night engulfs the desert and the cameraman's lights throw up huge, signing shadows, it looks as though language itself has become animate, as conversations play out in silhouette on the whitewashed wallas though language itself has become animate, as conversations play out in silhouette on the whitewashed wallas conversations play out in silhouette on the whitewashed walls.

She had furred - up arteries, desert lung (pneumoconiosis) caused by breathing in sand, osteoarthritis, a slipped disc, periodontal disease and possibly diabetes, as well as parasitic worms in her intestine and bladder.

It appeared on cocktail napkins («Real men don't ask directions») and became a staple of stand - up comics as well as jokes that made the rounds: «Why did Moses wander in the desert for 40 years?»

As he did in his delightful Sonoran Desert Spring and Sonoran Desert Summer, Alcock takes the latest research, as reported in scholarly journals, and explains it as he walks the reader up steep hillsides in 38 °C heat or through winter snoAs he did in his delightful Sonoran Desert Spring and Sonoran Desert Summer, Alcock takes the latest research, as reported in scholarly journals, and explains it as he walks the reader up steep hillsides in 38 °C heat or through winter snoas reported in scholarly journals, and explains it as he walks the reader up steep hillsides in 38 °C heat or through winter snoas he walks the reader up steep hillsides in 38 °C heat or through winter snow.

Rather I am standing alone upon the insane red Martian deserts (Martian in the utterly legitimate sense of Mars - like; you can look it up) of southern Utah, thumping periodically and in vain upon the Perspex porthole set into the outdoor air - lock door of a grubby white structure known as the Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS).

But as the water dried up and the area turned to desert, the pupfish became isolated in a smattering of springs.

Field studies of extreme environments, such as the martianlike Atacama Desert in Chile or the Arctic waters, might turn up organisms with a biochemistry vastly different from our own.

By analyzing variation in a specific bacterial gene in his samples — the greater the variability, the higher the variety of species — Fierer found that deserts contained up to twice as many bacterial species, roughly 10,000 per 10 square meters, as did acidic rain forest soils.

Ice - Capped Roof of World Turns to Desert Scientists warn of ecological catastrophe across Asia as glaciers melt and continent's great rivers dry up by Geoffrey Lean May 7, 2006 The Independent / UK

It was the first weekend I'd woken up before the sun in what felt like ages, and I was less than bright - eyed and bushy - tailed as I made my way downstairs for the final day of revitalize — mindbodygreen's annual wellness conference in the Arizona desert.

There is potential with this, if you don't want your lemon curd straight you could whip up the cream and fold in the lemon curd (i would prob start with half of what the recipe states and add more to taste) with some cream cheese to make a lemon mouse which you could then put on top of crumbled biscuits to make a cheesecake type desert as mentioned above.

When I was a college student in California, I prized my weekend trips to the desert city as an opportunity to, well, do it up «Vegas - style,» taking the city up on the debauchery waiting at every corner: swilling far too many cocktails, eating gourmet fried Twinkies and tater tot nachos, and pulling the blackout blinds in my hotel room to keep up my vampiric hours.

I sympathize: There's a letter from St. Jerome, one of the fathers of the desert, who gave up a prosperous live in Rome to live strictly as a monk in Bethlehem.

I make a point of heading outside as soon as I wake up although I started this more for SAD — even living in bright desert light, it feels too dark in winter.

You don't suddenly end up in the desert as you drive out of the mountains — the change is gradual, and there's a great deal of overlap.

I'll suds up some of my Desert Essence Thoroughly Clean Face Wash and massage it in for five minutes to let the ingredients penetrate my pores as much as possible.

Here below the pictures taken in downtown Milan, in the Galleria in front of the Duomo, a deserted gallery as never before (one of the benefits of waking up early for all the runways!).

Then began the shortish drive back home, but not without a stop at the Desert Hills Premium Outlets, known to locals as Cabazon, where I picked up a few gems at the J.Crew outlet.

As someone who grew up primarily in a desert environment, I'm looking forward to some dry, arid heat and blazing, pink sunsets (god, I miss those sunsets!).

A teen girl and teen boy enter a deserted trailer and cough at a bad smell as a dog whines and runs outside and they see the word «Hello» on a window many times in red; the teens find a bloody sheet propped up on a bed and the girl pulls it away to reveal the bloody dead faces and bodies of an elderly couple as the girl screams hysterically and then the teens run outside.

Setting off in a roundabout fashion for Alaska, (where he winds up camping in a deserted bus in a deserted valley) he erases as many traces of Who He Is as possible, burning money, ditching his car and changing his name.

But I'd challenge anyone to come up with many more ebullient, honest moments of uplift than the conclusion of that film (set to «Free Bird» of all things), as Zombie's miscreant clan makes a bid to let their freak flag fly in the middle of the American desert.

This is a period piece centering around a rugged western hero who decides to prove himself by being the first westerner to enter into a gruelling desert horse race in the Middle East, hoping ot prove that his American horse Hidalgo is just as good if not better than any of the Arabian horses he's up against.

He puts up with the name - calling (Pee - Pee, Guido, and other racist pejoratives) until, through circumstances so contrived they qualify as science - fiction, he is shipwrecked with her on a deserted island.

The story, which Wheatley pitches as a muscular crime flick in the spirit of Melville, Hawks, Scorsese and Walter Hill, charts the fallout from a gun - running hook - up orchestrated by Brie Larson in a deserted warehouse.

The visuals are decent at parts such as desert cliffs or city overpasses yet it all ends up feeling the same.

Mickey Rourke stars as a down - on - his - luck jazz trumpeter who flees into the desert after he sleeps with the wife of local gangster Bill Murray and ends up targeted for death.

The sound design revs up to meet its frantic imagery as drops of blood falling upon the desert earth are turned into deafening gunfire.

Once Dinesen begins his search, the desert that «devours everything» becomes the film's antagonist as it eats up time itself.

After cocky schoolteacher Phil (Bradley Cooper) phones Doug's bride from the Nevada desert to warn that her impending nuptials aren't going to happen, Phillips's story flashes back 48 hours to the lead - up to the notorious festivities, attended by Phil and weak - kneed dentist Stu (Ed Helms), as well as Doug's slow - witted brother - in - law - to - be Alan (Zach Galifianakis).

Hiding in a barn out in the desert, he's helped by an unrecognisable Stephen Merchant as Caliban, a sidekick with a name that conjures up all the philosophical portent and themes of nature / nurture that fuse the X-Men mythology with something deeper and more melancholic.

At the time it came out, Brian De Palma's TheFurystruck me as a serious misstep, with the director so caught up engineering his (often splendid) tours - de-force that he never got the logic of his own syntax straight, let alone that of the scenario; it seemed then as if everyone else was ready to climb on the De Palma bandwagon I was temporarily deserting, but TheFurywas curiously absent from most year - end accountings.