Sentences with phrase «whirling round»

I spent months with some small but exciting ideas whirling round in my head..

Galaxies are whirling round faster than normal gravity alone can explain, so 80 per cent plus of the universe's matter is in a form neither we nor, so far, our detectors can see.

They could cause a major recalculation of how stars live and die, how galaxies continue whirling round, and even how they come to be in the first place.

But instead of orbiting sedately, hundreds of millions of kilometres from their stars, the first crop were frantically whirling round in close orbits, blistering in hellish heat.

Highlights included: a senior partner buying all the drinks all night; being whirled round the (by then) dancefloor by that same person with a rose between his teeth; the UK and Ireland marketing reprobates belting out New York New York and getting the whole bar to join in; the smirks on our tired but happy faces in the conference each day afterwards, knowing that there were fellow human beings among us.

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I miss the old merry - go - rounds, the ones you could lay out on, full stretch, while someone swung you round and round, faster and faster, and the clouds blurred and you felt immortal and wild and still in the whirl.

As many as 5,000 NVA soldiers, 10 to 12 battalions, had massed in the jungles surrounding Ripcord, and by July 21 they were lobbing more than 600 rounds a day on the firebase, sending the deadliest salvos whenever U.S. helicopters whirled in with ammo and soldiers raced for the helipad to carry the shells on their shoulders up the hill.

There was Roddick, cramping as the 17 - year - old Chang had in the»89 fourth round against Ivan Lendl but blasting un-Chang-like 129 mph serves and then whirling like a scarecrow on a stick as his body buckled in pain.

Gionta, a 5» 7», 170 - pound whirling dervish who was drafted by the New Jersey Devils in the third round in 1998 and is often compared with the New York Rangers» rambunctious and talented Theo Fleury, spent most of last weekend being dogged by opposing defensemen, who limited him to only one assist in the two games.

Back to the Future is a whirling merry - go - round of a movie, in which everything is precisely machined but nothing seems quite safe.

It's one of those seminal moments that movies provide the culture with now and again, like the swoop up a little rise to an impossibly fresh John Wayne in Stagecoach, or the intervention of a fortuitous steam vent in The Seven Year Itch, this introduction we have to Audrey Hepburn as she's whirled around in a barber chair in William Wyler's Roman Holiday to reveal the pixie - cut heard «round the world.

(1) its very heavy (2) horror story interior (3) brittle ride (4) it uses a GKN twister derived AWD system as found in the Evoque (5) its not quick, Automovil put one round the Inta circuit in spain and it was slower than an EVO X MR SST and only marginally quicker than the old GV STI (6) Top Gear give the RS a whirl against the Golf R and A45AMG, the RS was knocked over by both in the «drag race» (7) likewise Car and Driver found that the RS did the 1 / 4mile in 13.4 at 105mph whereas the VA STI did the same 1 / 4mile in 13.4 s at 104mph

He looked like a lump, and sometimes Molly told him that, whirling suddenly from the big stove and rounding on him, laying into him without mercy.

This show may not offer any big new revelations about the nature of the circle, but it brings together a magnificent, occasionally mad cornucopia of rounded works, from the London Underground sign from Oval station to magical pieces of Zen Buddhist calligraphy, created during a single exhalation of breath; from Marcel Duchamp's Anaemic Cinema, a whirling «psychedelic» animated film from 1925, to Chicago artist Theaster Gates's A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, in which a stuffed goat on a tricycle, originally used in Masonic ceremonies, runs noisily round a circular railway track.