Sentences with phrase «vanishes like»

Which when I try to track it down, the $ 100 billion figure vanishes like a mist, along with the attention span of those who repeat the fable.

And though the idea of framing the bric - a-brac of his childhood memories is interesting, next to the more socially - engaged installations of his neighbors, Structure, Balance, Leisure II practically vanishes like a faded recollection.

- Jonathan L. Howard, author of the Johannes Cabal series «Enchanting, mysterious, and beguiling, The Rabbit Back Literature Society blurs the boundary between reality and mythology until it vanishes like the skyline in a snow - storm.»

Granted, he appears in the film's finest sequence; a muscular interrogation which offers up the single piece of Owen's prose with any anxiety and definition, but he soon vanishes like a flash in the pan.

Being attentive to detail, as behooves careful historians, we notice that the testimony is confusing and even inconsistent: the post-resurrection Jesus appears and vanishes like a spirit (Luke 24:31, 36 - 7; John 20:26), yet he can eat solid food (Luke 24:43); he can be touched (Matthew 28:9), and he can not be touched (John 20:17); it was indeed Jesus, but they do not recognize him at first (Luke 24:15 f; John 20:14, 21:4).

They'll vanish like smoke on a street corner.

@ Concert: «I believe like a child that suffering will be healed and made up for, that all the humiliating absurdity of human contradictions will vanish like a pitiful mirage, like the despi.cable fabrication of the impotent and infinitely small Euclidean mind of man, that in the world's finale, at the moment of eternal harmony, something so precious will come to pass that it will suffice for all hearts, for the comforting of all resentments, for the atonement of all the crimes of humanity, for all the blood that they've shed; that it will make it not only possible to forgive but to justify all that has happened.»

Mozart was divinely destined to die young, an impossible prodigy appearing and vanishing like a flash of lightning crossing the heavens, while it was ordained from everlasting that Haydn should enjoy a serene longevity in which to unfold his genius; Keats grown old would have been a drastic error of taste on the part of providence, while it was absolutely necessary that Wordsworth begin as a «lyrical» radical but end up a withered Tory sage penning sonorous banalities.

In his new novel «The Leftovers» (St. Martin's), the bestselling author of «Little Children» and «Election» follows a group left behind after something called the «Sudden Departure,» a Rapture - like event in which millions of people suddenly vanished like smoke.

But the cult of such men dies with the earthly cities which they have made flourish through some accidental invention (vanishing like the epidemic that it has wiped out) without much regard for their true personality.

I have a truck now, so I am fully able to vanish like a ninja in the night.

Heritage Park is in the business of preservation, but sometimes relics of the past vanish like time itself, and must be recreated.

Operatives brought chemical weapons into a crowded airport, through security, committed a political assassination, and vanished like ghosts before anyone even knew what happened.

We sat down today with presumptive District 1 Council Member Margaret Chin and were sad to see that her effusiveness, which had so charmed us when we first interviewed her, had vanished like the snows of yesterday, replaced by the closed - mouth delivery of stock responses characteristic of the professional politician that she now is.

2,200 words they are working overtime and I wonder how many «Phone Calls» Andrew «Cesare» Cuomo has made and how many of those «Pin to Pin» texts that vanish like a puff of smoke.

The premise of the film is in the future, smart people have vanished like the passenger pigeon or the great auk.

Hard shards of sunlight roam across a sleeping face, appearing and vanishing like sprites.

Amid natural splendor, young men appear and vanish like ghosts.

FilmNoirBlonde is also a place to connect with tough guys and wily women — such a challenge because we ladies of ill repute can be hard to actually locate, what with traveling incognito, making quick getaways in 5 - inch heels, vanishing like puffs of smoke, puffing smokes and seducing hapless chaps in dimly lit bars.

It also helps that Blofeld gets a decent final fight, rather than just vanishing like he did in «You Only Live Twice».

«Enlighten people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.»

Three good months of my life that I am never going to get back just vanished like that.»

The head is the easiest lost in breeding — it can vanish like a dream.

Only 15 minutes playing with your pet make you smile and all the troubles vanish like smoke.

It will vanish like a dream if you do.»

You can lose it, though: in fact should you make one major mistake Port Royale 3 can be a harsh mistress, your money suddenly vanishing like it's being sucked into a black hole.

It looks like the continuously delayed Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 has finally gone gold and has procured a solid release date (which is quite fortunate because I started to think the game was going to vanish like a ghost itself!).

They don't just vanish like the walls of your house in The Sims.

How can such a clear secular trend vanish like that?

And then how that device was supposed to have turned into the Galaxy F, which in turn vanished like a startled vampire...

Not exact matches

This may seem like a lot of extra work, but it's actually easy to pull off, because you'll be calling or texting or messaging these contacts anyway in the weeks before you vanish.

It's one thing to be high - minded about your journalistic principles, but it's another to do so while outlets like CNN are raking in billions of dollars for their wall - to - wall Trump coverage, and you are trying to keep the lights on as your ad revenue vanishes with breathtaking speed.

Not to worry: The Knick looks great, and the talkative Soderbergh hasn't completely vanished from the film world, giving snappy interviews like this.

Like many other magazines, Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money have battled vanishing advertising revenue and declining circulation.

The oil production cuts and healthy oil demand growth have helped the global inventory surplus to nearly vanish and it certainly looks very much like OPEC and allies have a Continue Reading

They like to be prepared for anything, be it a natural disaster, depression, or apocalypse and humankind vanishing from the Earth.

In other words, God takes 14 billion years to place the Universe into existence and men's lives are like unto a «vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.»

But again we would be looking in vain for any precise point - like limit; this is why James speaks of the «vaguely vanishing backward fringe of the specious present.»

Why do we have articles like this which really bear no good or bad to society when Obamacare has mysteriously vanished off the face of the earth...

Yet one has to admit that the minister's wife who once read books like mine and who attended anxiously and diligently to the «duties» imposed on her from without belongs to a vanishing species.

I've had these thoughts and at once it felt like I thought it purposely and don't feel that way at all and all of a sudden the thoughts just vanished away, like I'm sssoooo scared that God or Jesus has given up on me because of that thought that I felt like iv» e thought purposely

But if this is the case, the reminder will vanish instantly like a tiny atom in the eternal potentiality which was present in his soul, and which now becomes a reality, but again as reality eternally presupposes itself.

For there is a faith that disappoints and vanishes; a faith that is lost and is repented of; there is a faith, which, when it droops is like death.

In fact, unity is a bit like humility: both vanish the moment you think you've achieved it.

Like my Park Service friend, we could profit by keeping our own photographs of vanished legacies before us, placed alongside the church budget report, as a reminder that stewardship has always meant more than fund - raising.

More generally, one is likely to be struck by the extent to which the book addresses itself to a world of male «female relations and childrearing that has been, for better or worse, consigned to the past, as vanished as the code of chivalry» although preserved in Freidan's book as (like Whyte's conformism) a summum malum ever to be guarded against.

Penn Gillette said something like «if all religion and science went away (vanished), man would invent different gods but science would be rediscovered exactly the same.».

Oftentimes, like their biological families, their church families vanished as a source of love and encouragement, leaving behind a terrible and dangerous void.

In her paparazzi - proof disguise, she blends in, chameleon - like in her ability to vanish into the teeming masses.

I've already been to Communion with my mother and I know people kneel here in great long lines to drink their grape juice from tiny glasses like eyecups, and taste the strange flat wafers, little circular discs that vanish on the tongue.