Sentences with phrase «with brief bursts»

These audio artifacts can extend into games with brief bursts of sound, such as gunshots, menu pings and the tail end of cymbal clashes in music.

The bulk of the film focuses on that time period, with brief bursts of violence bridged together by quieter, character - driven moments.

So a 0 -60-mph sprint starts with a brief burst of wheelspin at launch as the turbo boost rises but is quickly shut down by the electronic watchdogs.

Not exact matches

Diplomats also noted some palpable discomfort among senior Cuban officials with the burst of capitalist bling that marked the easing of US commercial restrictions — a Chanel fashion show, a free Rolling Stones concert, the brief takeover of Havana streets to film scenes for a new «Fast and Furious» movie.

If you've spent the past few years building up your thumb strength and agility while keeping up with which bars have good drink specials (as I wrote the original version of this article, I was looking at a friend's message from the previous night that said, and I kid you not, «CcCome to bedinbl» — Jen had maybe been at a barstool a little too long...), you already know that text messages are an efficient way to get a brief burst of information in front of a lot of people at once.

IN A TENT in one of the many primitive camps in Monguno, a formerly small town now bursting with tens of thousands of people who have fled Boko Haram, a mother sits with her baby on her lap while a health worker scribbles a brief case history.

Killer whales have complex vocal repertoires made up of clicks, whistles and pulsed calls — repeated brief bursts of sound punctuated with silence.

Those time spans coincide with known stellar behavior: once a year, for example, a red giant pulsates in brightness, an event astronomers think is linked to an episodic shedding of gas; likewise, every 5,000 years the helium in an outer layer of the star ignites and burns up in a flash, and the star undergoes a brief burst of expansion.

This workout incorporates challenging and effective isolation exercises, along with compound exercises, and brief cardio bursts, to maximize your muscle toning and fat burning benefits.

Cathe has incorporated challenging and effective isolation exercises, along with compound exercises, and brief cardio bursts, to maximize your muscle toning and fat burning benefits.

It should be focused more on high - intensity interval training, with short bursts of high intensity work, either from brief sprint exercises or from weight lifting.

Furthermore, that brief burst of intense energy sparked a small «growth spurt» in the muscle, making it even stronger for the next encounter with the next lion — a true survival adaptation.

She burst onto the scene with a memoir about her brief career working as a stripper before winning an Oscar for her work on Juno, one of the finest films released in a great year for cinema, 2007.

Later that night Thel's former lover (Gabriel Byrne)-- who happens to be Dickinson's son — bursts in and, after a brief exchange, shoots her dead and seriously wounds Blake in the chest with the same bullet.

Faces Places received one of the liveliest audience reactions that I have seen since working with FF2: on multiple occasions everyone in the nearly filled theater burst out laughing all at once and a brief, but tangible, sense of community arose.

Do not forget that the history of American education is checkered with examples of short - lived surges of zeal for reform, most of which died after brief bursts of spending accompanied by earnest talk.

But somehow, in spite of its shortcomings and some questionable design choices, Solatorobo's spirit and charm mean it still manages to entertain, especially when played in brief bursts — the focus on short missions really proves to be a wise choice and the constant signposting doesn't grate nearly so much when you've been away for a few days and your brain could do with the nudge.

The intense battles of the world war 2 era games are relocated to the sand - blasted alleyways of a middle - eastern dictatorship, with tense spec - ops raids that reign in the action to brief bursts of gunplay, relying on atmosphere and deftly - weaved scripts to keep the player invested.

The player is also equipped with a glide ability to bridge certain gaps or terrains, and they have the option engaging a Turbo mode for a brief burst of speed.

A professor of electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Edgerton in the early 1930s perfected the stroboscope, a tube filled with gas that produced high - intensity bursts of light at regular and very brief intervals.

Low energy prices, the distraction of the first Persian Gulf war, and a temporary cool spell following the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines all helped tamp down global warming as an issue through much of the 1990's, outside the brief burst of triumphant proclamations with the 1997 negotiation of the Kyoto Protocol, a stricter addendum to the faltering 1992 climate pact.

Far too many games these days are built to be played in small bursts: brief encounters, designed for a world with too few hours in the day and too many digital distractions.

It's remarkably easy to set up the system: you unplug the satellite speakers, place them where they're going to sit in your room, plug a small black microphone into the main soundbar, and then run auto - calibration, which will fill your room with short bursts of loud and unpleasant white noise for a brief period.

There were only two other times since the Fed began doing the survey in the late 1980s that income at the top declined — the survey covering 1989 to 1992, which corresponded with a recession — and the survey from 2001 to 2004, coming out of the bursting of the bubble in tech stocks and brief recession.