Sentences with phrase «walking skeleton»

And how does she convince herself that looking like a walking skeleton will make women feel empowered, beautiful and confident?

China looked like a miniature walking skeleton, riddled with persistent infections and skin conditions.

With all she eats, I keep hoping but so far she still looks like a walking skeleton.

He looks like a walking skeleton.

But to the extent that it ignores the finger Lincoln points at the Civil War — to the extent that it forgets the decimation of a generation of young Americans at the beginnings of manhood; to the extent that it forgets the windrows of corpses at Shiloh, the odor of death in the Wilderness, the walking skeletons of Andersonville, 623,000 dead all told, not to mention the interminable list of those crippled, orphaned, and widowed whose pensions became the single largest bill paid by the federal government for the following half - century; to the extent that it ignores how the war cost the United States $ 6.6 billion, rocketed the national debt from $ 65 million to $ 2.7 billion, retarded commodity growth for the next thirty years, and devalued its currency — then the call for reparations opens itself up to a charge of willful forgetfulness so massive that resentment, anger, and bitterness, rather than justice, will (I fear) be its real legacy.

Because let's face it, no matter what the fashion magazines say, walking skeletons are just not that sexy.

The workers at the camp, «walking skeletons,» approached the new arrivals.

One witness called it a «horrific» scene, with pig corpses, walking skeletons and thirsty, starving animals roaming wildly in debris - strewn fields.

«We had walking skeletons and others so weak that if you touched them, they would fall over,» she said.

When I started practicing, I saw many cats looking like walking skeletons and was taught that these symptoms are a common part of renal disease.

Shambling corpses make up the majority of the zombie army, of course, and come with plenty of neat little decorations like a knife stuck in the skull and such, but other variants exist including very speedy suicide zombies and walking skeletons.

They aren't old enough to remember the early 1980's, when you could see walking skeletons all up and down Christopher Street in NY and the Castro district in San Francisco (my hometown) and they haven't seen lots of friends die, because people who are HIV - positive now get on antiretroviral drugs well before they begin to waste away.

Not exact matches

Restaurants must maintain a skeleton staff to be ready to serve walk - in customers even on days when there aren't enough customers to justify the base payroll costs.

I am sorry but when I was a child I walked into the Smithsonian and there was a skeleton of a Wooly Mammoth.

Baby is forming the skeleton that he will use to stand, walk and run later in life.

a small, nattily dressed man walks over to the giant Diplodocus skeleton in the entrance hall of the British Museum of Natural History.

Some researchers are even producing full - length virtual skeletons to which they can attach virtual muscles and make the ancient hominids walk again.

«If the animal is walking, every time the foot hits the ground it's going to send a little jolt through the skeleton, and that will show itself in the data,» Wilmers says.

Armed with a logbook, GPS and camera, Johnson walked 52.2 miles over four days, documenting everything, from the earthquake training area, which is now behind building 325, to a plastic skeleton in an elevator shaft in building 301.

Each skeleton has a slightly different network, affecting its ability to walk.

Now, a new skeleton of Poposaurus described by Nesbitt, Yale University paleontologist Jacques Gauthier, and co-authors in the current edition of the Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History confirms that it, too, walked like a dinosaur.

It was an emotionally draining exercise because the skeleton represents one of evolution's most iconic specimens; its spectacular four - foot - long skull gave humanity its first face - to - face glimpse of the most imposing and ferocious predator ever to walk the continents.

Forty years ago today, a young American paleoanthropologist named Donald Johanson made the discovery of a lifetime in the arid badlands of Ethiopia's remote Afar region: a 3.2 - million - year - old skeleton of a small - brained creature that walked upright like we do.

The pelvis from a partial Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological anthropologists Elaine Kozma and Herman Pontzer of City University of New York.

Evolutionary biologists reared air - breathing fish on land for eight months and found that the experience encouraged the fish to develop skeletons better adapted for walking.

When Johanson and his colleagues discovered Lucy's partial skeleton in 1974, it showed that she walked upright, confirming that our ancestors did so before their brains started getting larger.

Other highlights of the show include a full skeleton of the six - horned, saber - tusked Uintatherium and a model of the «walking whale,» Ambulocetus.

Our eight patients have all experienced walking in the exo [skeleton].

Ardi's partial skeleton that scientists have found shows that she could walk upright and easily climb trees and move along branches — traits more easily identified in monkeys or apes.

When the team pieced the skeleton together, it revealed a very early hominid that walked upright, yet still retained an opposable toe, a trait commonly found in tree - climbing primates.

«If you showed me the skeleton of this creature and asked me to make a bet on whether it walks or not, I would have bet it couldn't,» said co-author Neil Shubin, PhD, Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy.

A forty percent complete skeleton, many of her large bones had been preserved through fossilization and from these, and in particular the femur (thigh bone) and pelvis, we know she stood upright and moved about on two legs and it was claimed she walked in the same manner as humans today: a straight legged stride, knees extended, posture upright.

Other major finds included Sts 5, a superb fossil skull, and Sts 14, a partial skeleton which consisted of much of a pelvis, femur, and vertebral column and proved convincingly that australopithecines had walked upright.

May 22, 2017 3.3 million - year - old fossil reveals origins of the human spine Analysis of a 3.3 million - year - old fossil skeleton reveals the most complete spinal column of any early human relative, enabling efficient walking motions millions of years earlier than previously thought.

«It is much like being able to travel to a Jurassic Park and witness dinosaurs walking around, instead of trying to guess how they walked by examining a fossilized skeleton,» said Tanya Prozorov, an associate scientist in Ames Laboratory's Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering.

A man sits down in front of a camera on a tripod that is behind the audience's viewpoint, he talks about stress and pulls the pin on a hand grenade causing it to explode with a loud boom and a bright flash; the light clears to show a smoking skeleton and a clone of the man walks from behind the audience POV, stands beside the skeleton, and looks into the camera, ending the scene.

The world is great too... love the idea of a robot walking by a human skeleton, and him thinking its just another wierd robot.

There are also some really cool underwater shots where the skeleton pirates are seen walking on the seafloor.

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With the help of some magical realism, winds up in the Land of the Dead, where the deceased walk around as skeletons with eyeballs.

His spinal injuries, which left him confined to the use of an exo - skeleton to walk, were referenced in Doctor Strange.

Among the list of confirmed panelists are Shane Black (writer / director Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3), Jack Burditt (writer 30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt), Peter Craig (writer The Town, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Parts I and II), Chad and Carey Hayes (writers The Conjuring, The Reaping), Mark Heyman (writer Black Swan, The Skeleton Twins), Angela Kang (writer The Walking Dead), Todd Kessler (co-creator Bloodline), Simon Kinberg (writer Sherlock Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), Jenny Lumet (writer Rachel Getting Married), Kelly Marcel (writer Saving Mr. Banks, 50 Shades of Grey), Jonathan Nolan (writer Interstellar, The Dark Knight), Nicole Perlman (writer Guardians of the Galaxy), Mark Protosevich (writer Thor, I Am Legend), Issa Rae (creator The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl), Jason Reitman (writer / director Up in the Air, Thank You For Smoking), Phil Rosenthal (creator Everybody Loves Raymond), Terry Rossio (writer Shrek, Pirates of the Caribbean), Liz Tigelaar (writer / producer Bates Motel, Nashville), David Wain (writer / director Wet Hot American Summer) and many others.

Honorable Mentions: 22 Jump Street, Afflicted, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Big Bad Wolves, Blue Ruin, The Boxtrolls, Boyhood, Calvary, Captain America: Winter Soldier, Citizenfour, Cheap Thrills, Cold in July, Dead Snow 2, The Drop, Enemy, Escape from Tomorrow, Filth, Force Majeur, Frank, Fury, Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Guardians of the Galaxy, The Guest, Honeymoon, Housebound, The Internet's Own Boy, Interstellar, The Interview, Joe, John Wick, Locke, Magic in the Moonlight, Moebius, Neighbors, Nightcrawler, Noah, Obvious Child, The One I Love, The Overnighters, The Purge: Anarchy, The Raid 2, The Sacrament, Selma, The Skeleton Twins, Starry Eyes, The Strange Color Of Your Body's Tears, Stretch, The Theory of Everything, They Came Together, Under the Skin, A Walk Among the Tombstones, Wetlands, and Wild, so don't tell me there were no good movies in 2014.

When Stephanie inherits her uncle's estate, she also inherits his best friend: a walking, talking, crime - fighting skeleton.

They kept walking and behind the house came across the rotting skeleton of a leather sofa.

Meet Skulduggery Pleasant Ace Detective Snappy Dresser Razor — tongued Wit Crackerjack Sorcerer and Walking, Talking, Fire - throwing Skeleton — as well as ally, protector, and mentor of Stephanie Edgley, a very unusual and darkly talented twelve - year - old.

They say she walked the island without stopping, half - dressed and skeleton - like, for an entire year, and then disappeared.

«A Skeleton walked into a bar, and asked for a beer and a mop.»

Walk right up to a life size, 74 - foot Blue Whale skeleton.