Sentences with phrase «which clings»

The camera sits magnetically in a circular plastic cradle, which itself clings magnetically to a round metal mounting plate with two screw holes.

We see these beautiful co-adaptations most plainly in the woodpecker and mistletoe; and only a little less plainly in the humblest parasite which clings to the hairs of a quadruped or feathers of a bird;... in short, we see beautiful adaptations everywhere and in every part of the organic world.»

The Hours (Dawn, Noon, Twilight, Night)(2014) is one of the most striking; though among the smallest paintings on display, this four - panel work fragments two of the pieces into dissimilar compositions, leaving a pair of small panels seemingly connected by a shared beetle — a symbol of time's passage, life or mortality — which clings to the top of the two works.

The core systems of the game are simple to understand, but the interactions between them are surprising and create a layer of tension that permeates the entire experience, which clings even to victories and positive outcomes, preparing the player for the inevitable coming losses.

The centerpiece is the hotel's heated saltwater pool, which clings dramatically to the hillside overlooking the yacht - filled harbor below.

Now listed as a UNESCO Heritage Site, Geirangerfjord has some of the steepest cliff sides of any of the world's fjords and is uninhabited for much of its stretch as a consequence save for the small village of the same name, which clings precariously to the shore edge.

Much has been made of the terrifying impact of his guerrilla warfare commandant, but the most masterful moments of the performance are as he loses dominance over his child soldiers — the impotence with which he clings to his his blind warpath lingers after the chills.

The only possible objectionable scene shows Rai coming out of the river in a wet tunic which clings to her body.

Barely visible to the naked eye, Symbion pandora — the species name — seems to live exclusively on the mouthparts of a Norwegian lobster, which it clings to with an adhesive disk.

Even with the full beam on her, the glowworm continues pumping out her green charge, illuminating the strands of birdsfoot treefoil on which she clings.

In no area of existence does the «sin which clings so closely» stick tighter or cause more havoc.

If a man must say that he can not find God in the reality of his own present life, and if he would compensate for this by the thought that God is nevertheless the final cause of all that happens, then his belief in God will be a theoretical speculation or a dogma; and however great the force with which he clings to this belief, it will not be true faith, for faith can be only the recognition of the activity of God in his own life.

For many years I have struggled with deep seated doubts about Protestantism which clings so blindly to the Reformation's Sola Scriptura overreaction which gained its foothold at a time when «enlightenment» was only just beginning to teach us how to sign our names other than with an «X».

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

«Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us.»

We can learn from these past mistakes, and in a spirit of deep humility and penitence before our God acknowledge the guilt of past generations which clings to us who strive today to bear the joyous message of Christ.

Surely this is what the writer of Hebrews intended when he wrote, «Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us» (Heb.

Nor are the works of Horkheimer and Adorno free of a nostalgia which clings to early bourgeois media.

The storm may still rage around us, but we can know that the anchor to which we cling is secure.

On the accidental level, however, to say that Socrates is shrewd or homely, is not to attribute to him extrinsic qualities which cling to him in about the same way as his cloak.

It is his bare promise to which we cling and this is faith.

The result in Europe has been a mass exodus from the traditional churches which cling to the orthodox views, while in America there has arisen a much stronger fundamentalism.

But the beliefs to which they cling can not have equal status in the church with those that come into being through Christian thinking.

It may have become our profession — as in my case — or simply the commitment to which we cling to define good and evil, progress and retreat.

It is the reality to which we cling in a broken, confused and threatening existence.

Rockett paused, allowing the effect of his story, which clung to our table like a grim vapor, to dispel itself, but soon he continued: «Two years earlier we had another heroic pioneer, though he was French, not English.

Indeed, it was the theme to which they clung as if to a rock when being hammered by the media storm of Andrew Mitchell's resignation and entirely false accusations surrounding George Osborne and a certain train ticket.

Red - eyed tree frog eggs, which cling to vegetation overhanging ponds and swamps throughout Central America, often succumb to hungry predators, dehydration or drowning.

The land here is arid and open, except for hardy stinkwood and wild olive trees, which cling to existence in small patches.

Wellington and her colleagues detected the dormant cells with fluorescent - labelled antibodies which cling specifically to S. typhimurium.

We too were once children, we too have, or had mothers to which we clung (or at least wanted to).

I love the little rubber grippers on the heat strip which cling to my stainless steel vessel to be held in place.

Because the Depression occur, the delicious realm of Hollywood movies taken the American imagination, popularising slinky screen - siren gowns which clung to each curve.

There are three leather options, each of which cling to the back of the ereader magnetically and fold into a stand: they're offered in Midnight, Saddle Tan, or Merlot.

Most traders give up early on in the game and close their accounts because of one loss which they cling on to.

We visited the Fray Jorge rainforest on the north coast, and walked among tiny purple and yellow flowers and clammy creepers which clung around our ankles.

They are large, quiet canvases of clean, clear stripes, which cling to the edges, leaving the centre of the composition empty, but for a dappled field of thin paint.

In her own poetic words, Fleming is compelled to make visible, «the glimpse of the strangeness beyond the world to which we cling, opening a place where thought becomes tangible, history leaves a trace and information exhales form.»

But this general writing advice never fully penetrated legal writing, which clung to its Asiatic roots.

The mother had her story and the father had his story which they both clung onto as self - justification for their past actions.

Not exact matches

Both are drastically new politicians: Strikingly young, they have shattered not only the age floor, but the hidebound rules and assumptions to which previous generations have clung for decades.

Despite the changing landscape of buying behavior, however, most vendors and their salespeople cling to old habits, which were annoying 10 years ago and are downright offensive today.

There is still only one Good Phone that is genuinely compact, and that's the iPhone SE, which itself partially exists to wring upgrades out of legacy iPhone owners clinging to the past.

He has clung tenaciously to the dream that someday his company, which has been banned in China since 2009, will be allowed to compete again there.

But McDougal is the odd one out, clinging as she does to her cloying simulacrum of «wholesomeness,» trying to will herself into a world in which Donald Trump would build her a golden cage, treat her kindly, and call her «Beautiful Karen» for all the rest of her days.

If you can cut free of impressions that cling to the mind, free of the future and the past — can make yourself, as Empedocles says, «a sphere rejoicing in its perfect stillness,» and concentrate on living what can be lived (which means the present)... then you can spend the time you have left in tranquillity.

Instead he stubbornly clung to his story which gave Notley another opportunity to make her case for increased corporate taxes.

It's an okay, kind of whiny album that has a few moments you'll cling to for the rest of your life, which is pretty much the adolescent / young adult experience anyway.

the man «clings to the woman» in an attempt to regain half his flesh, which God took from him once he was placed in Eden.

Yet we cling to this method because of the way in which the claims of blacks have been most successfully pressed during the civil rights era.