Like an alternating current, the atmosphere of the reef flickers between urgent desire and cold, murderous cupidity. |
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His gaze flickers for an instant down at Tristan, whose shirt is now soaked with blood. |
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You get small flickers of different emotions playing in our golden playboy's eyes so he's not stone cold after all. |
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The fact that flickers did not defend feeding territories suggests that characteristics of their prey make it uneconomical to monopolize. |
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Unlike most woodpeckers, flickers spend a lot of time on the ground probing for ants. |
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When trees die, the Crouches leave them standing so that birds such as flickers and chickadees can feed on the insects that invade the dead wood. |
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The preserve, wild with birdsong, was thick with robins, flickers, grackles, blackbirds, catbirds, and doves. |
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Jays always initiated flock movement and, unlike other woodpeckers, flickers almost always followed the jay flocks when they moved. |
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Woodpeckers, flickers, chickadees and nuthatches are among the many species that benefit from it. |
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In late fall, there are red-shafted flickers, hairy woodpeckers, finches, chickadees, nuthatches, and, of course, jays. |
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Autobiography prevails over shop talk, and every voice flickers with creative passion. |
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The entire ship shudders from the massive shock and the power blinks off for a minute then flickers back on. |
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Despite all the rhetoric and unkept promises, a light still flickers in the darkness. |
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American kestrels, smallest of North America's falcons, migrate at about the same time as the jays and flickers. |
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The two gaze intensely into each other's eyes, while a blue laser light flickers within an eyeball-like plastic dome. |
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A quantitative comparison of the flickers observed in the two consecutive image sequences was performed. |
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In fall you'll see Northern flickers, herons, kingfishers, downy woodpeckers, and lots of ducks. |
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The painting depicts a calm, cerulean blue crater lake, ringed by craggy rock that flickers from lavender to cream, ocher to gray. |
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At first glance, Shannon looks apathetic but an emotion that could be taken for concern flickers in her eyes. |
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As firelight flickers across his craggy face and sweat runs down his ample forehead, you can bet he's laughing manically. |
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However, Josie's forked tongue flickers into persuasive mode and eventually convinces Tasha to keep schtum. |
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The picture on the 1.5in screen is surprisingly sharp, although it flickers when you walk. |
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His syncopated, rapid-fire freestyle flickers between abstract movements and pantomime, but he never loses the beat. |
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Thundering flickers of light flashed across the late night sky, the tattle tale sign of the oncoming storm. |
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Abruptly, the strange, unsteady flickers of light coalesced, solidifying as a small spark of flame grew within their depths. |
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We developed a new method to determine the amplitude of flickers in terms of millivolts of depolarization. |
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How the flame bickers, and quivers, and flickers, darting its eager tongues about! |
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The air in the hallway flickers for a moment then fades imperceptibly as the shield buckles under the pressure. |
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The undulations of the bilayer in those vestibules could obliterate the access to the channel causing brief flickers. |
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She was cloaked in black, only a few strands of blood red hair emerged like little flickers of flame from coals, dancing in the salty breeze. |
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The fire that permanently flickers in the hearth of the Saltersgate Inn near the Hole of Horcum on the North York moors is one. |
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The game I run flickers heavily when I run stereo mode on the a 120Hz LCD screen. |
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Audio Peak Indicator: This red light flickers when the audio signal approaches the overload clipping level. |
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Then rotate the gain control clockwise until the AUDIO PEAK light flickers during high output or the gain control is turned fully clockwise. |
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Adjust each channel level so that its Overload LED flickers only during very loud speech. |
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When this digital input is active, the luminous button on the cupboard flickers to indicate the presence of this alarm. |
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Continue rotating the gain control until the red PEAK light on the receiver only flickers when you sing or speak in a loud voice. |
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A little thrill flickers in my body as I see the sky darken to a deep purple over the horizon, and in the distance I hear a small grumble of thunder. |
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The little flickers of static electricity were turning into small jolts. |
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There appears to be a glint of gratitude that flickers through our foe's eyes as they gasp their final breaths. |
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There were some flickers, but as soon as bad news was announced, the lead was nullified. |
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But what makes him so truly scary is the quiet flickers of warped malignity that Ben Mendelsohn gives him. |
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And it all keeps moving, with a playful, elfin palette of colours and flickers of fantasy. |
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If the handheld TV screen flickers, then you will need to proceed to the next step to set up your TV out to PAL system. |
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Each hour, as the candles burn down in one part of the world, the wave flickers up again in another. |
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A projection screen flickers into life and Hope Of The States shamble onstage in that endearingly scruffy way that seems rather at odds with their borderline-highbrow music. |
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The frame jumps, shakes and flickers as if the film were badly spliced together, but this annoying defect only happens two or three times during the film. |
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Pigeons are predominant, but, as you explore, you see sparrows and bluebirds and flickers and blue jays and wrens and kestrels and starlings and robins. |
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It flickers through my mind cynically that we may see that patient again at their next attempt. |
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For all the accusations flying to and fro, very few flickers of hope might be identified. |
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Out in the bay the sun flickers on the gently lapping water as the scents of the offerings waft out to sea from the little lanterns and house doors. |
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Faint light flickers around hydrothermal vents deep on the mid-ocean ridges, far deeper than the faintest trace of light from the sun. |
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In fall and winter, look for bald eagles, American dippers, mergansers, red-shafted Northern flickers, red-tailed hawks, and Townsend's solitaires. |
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I have never watched a merganser commit suicide, but once, in Florida, I saw two flickers dancing at one end of a tin rain gutter to music supplied by a red-bellied woodpecker, who was drumming on the gutter at the other end. |
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One scene, in which Laurie — whose silent face flickers with contempt — suddenly breaks down, broke me down, too, but it didn't feel manipulative, as in a Lifetime sobfest, just cathartic. |
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For low sound pressure level applications, such as soft speaking, increase audio gain level by rotating the gain control clockwise until the red audio level LED on the receiver flickers only during the loudest sounds. |
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Receiver PEAK light flickers during loud sounds. |
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Although they are eyeless, these shrimps have an unusual organ on their backs that may sense heat or the faint flickers of light seen around vents. |
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Continue rotating the gain control until the red AUDIO PEAK light on the receiver only flickers when guitar is played loudly, or when you sing or speak in a loud voice. |
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Indeed, there have been some flickers of hope, though rare. |
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By slowly moving a lit candle, a smoke pen or a thin piece of paper along the edges of the walls, floors and ceilings along the perimeter of the house, you will notice an air leak whenever the object flickers. |
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To Increase Gain: Rotate the transmitter gain control clockwise with the supplied screwdriver until the red AUDIO PEAK light on the receiver flickers when the guitar is played loudly or when you sing or speak in a loud voice. |
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Now Dianamania flickers fitfully on and off like faulty neon while Beatlemania blazes stronger than ever. |
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What remains, for the director as for the novelist, is the quest not to change the world but to trap its flickers of brightness on the wing, and to make their descriptions unchangeably precise. |
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If a flame is held before the lips while these words are spoken, it flickers more during aspirated nitrate than during unaspirated night rate. |
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I began to see how memory flickers and flares like firelight. |
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A harsh sun flickers off iridescent cerulean and pink paint. |
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The milky yellow disc of the sun flickers high above in another dimension. |
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Black in grey in black flickers gently over the screen. |
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There are a good number of people who feel that the girl child's life in India is a 'candle' in the wind which flickers for a moment to be extinguished for ever. |
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Bluish flickers visible in ocean water at night often come from blooms of bioluminescent dinoflagellates, which emit short flashes of light when disturbed. |
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Birds that feed on hackberries include cedar waxwings, mockingbirds, American robins, bluebirds, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, northern flickers and quail. |
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I'm trying to enflesh it but it flickers, steadies, flickers. |
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Cavity excavation by northern flickers can take up to four weeks. |
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