Before long the gravity-defying pound may be brought down to earth.
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As her husband was brought down to earth, he embraced her and passionately kissed her.
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Big dreams that have bloated beyond possibility are brought down to earth as Jupiter squares off with Neptune.
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She believes her bankruptcy is a temporary blip in the system and that she's been brought down to earth.
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With a light joke or a slapstick gag, even god-like figures like Wonder Woman and Thor are brought down to earth.
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Schadenfreude because banks — seen as whipping boys since the 230 financial crisis — were delighted to see a tech giant brought down to earth.
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And, for much of the bout, those who were watching must have thought they would see Eubank brought down to earth with a bump.
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Biden's opponents hammered away at those potential vulnerabilities, raising the prospect that the candidate who looked so formidable just weeks could be brought down to earth.
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That is apparently my kink: Fantasy that is brought down to earth in such a way that the mundane elements of it lend to extraordinary believability.
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Mushrooms, brought down to earth from above the bar, are drenched in a strong sauce à la grecque, and the tuna Niçoise is overpowered by the olive.
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Entitled Blood and Opulence, it was unisex and featured greatcoats and gowns with the grandeur of the Russian Revolution, brought down to earth by blood and mud.
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But they were immediately brought down to earth by the head porter, Douglas Millin, who complained that he had been promised four Yanks, but had been sent only three and a half.
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The clean and efficient food-growing system was brought down to Earth and successfully introduced to the kitchens of small apartments and homes that still wanted to enjoy home-grown herbs and vegetables.
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Moving outdoors to a field near Storm King's main building, the whiteness of the final six borrowed pieces is that of a cloud brought down to earth but still straining at its anchor.
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Before he can be swept off, he is brought down to earth by Jack ( Lin-Manuel Miranda ), a friendly sort whose job is to light the city's lamps, and who happens to be passing by.
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The high-flying company was brought down to earth both domestically and internationally, largely because of its heavy reliance on debt to fund an ever-increasing stable of projects, which mostly failed to pan out.
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To hundreds of millions of Hindus, in India and around the world, the Ganges is not just a river but also a goddess, Ganga, who was brought down to Earth from her home in the Milky Way by Lord Shiva, flowing through his dreadlocks to break the force of her fall.
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"For some reason on [ABC's] TGIF we would just do these [episodes] that were like full on dramas and nobody seemed to notice," said Strong of famous Boy Meets World episode "Cult Fiction," in which a lost Shawn gets brainwashed by a hug-happy cult, only to be brought down to Earth when his guardian Mr. Turner (Anthony Tyler Quinn) gets into a near-fatal motorcycle accident.
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A runaway barrage balloon has to be brought down to earth - along with Captain Mainwaring.
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Brought down to Earth by his friend's death and Ruth's grief, Joe heads back to Los Angeles where he is met by Ophelia and hopes to start his acting career afresh.
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Bacillus stratosphericus is a microbe commonly found in high concentrations in the stratosphere. It is commonly found in the atmosphere but brought down to Earth as a result of atmospheric cycling processes. Scientists have successfully engineered it to create a biofilm which produce electricity.
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During his dream about future gridiron triumphs, Alfalfa is brought down to earth when he envisions himself being disqualified from the inevitable "big game" due to his lousy grades. Awakening from this nightmare, our hero vows to put football on the back burner in favor of cracking the books.
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Garson Kanin described what he called "the formula for a Hepburn success: A high-class, or stuck-up ... girl is brought down to earth by an earthy type, or a lowbrow ... or a cataclysmic situation. It seems to have worked time and time again."Kanin (1971) p. 80. Due to this repeated character arc, Hepburn embodied the "contradictions" of the "nature and status of women",Britton (2003) p. 8.
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Sienna Guillory, who played Arya. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Eragon holds an approval rating of 16% based on 125 reviews, with an average rating of 4.08/10. The consensus reads "Eragon is a fantasy epic that lacks any magic, brought down to earth by unconvincing world-building and a litany of stars who seem bemused by the material." The Seattle Times described the film as "technically accomplished, but fairly lifeless and at times a bit silly".
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"One is that stage romance and fantasy should be brought down to earth with reminders of prosaic reality. The other is that real life should take on some of the romance and fantasy of the stage." Crowther notes that in the play, the "supernatural" fairy and demon speak in a more natural manner than the mortals, who Gilbert calls "unnaturals". The play shows the tension between Gilbert's love of the harlequinade and his disapproval of the morality that it portrays.
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At a dinner party only one week later, Eyde told Birkeland that there was an industrial need for the biggest flash of lightning that can be brought down to Earth in order to make artificial fertilizer. Birkeland's reply was, "I have it!" There were no more attempts to sell the firearms company, and he worked with Eyde only long enough to build a plasma arc device for the nitrogen fixation process. The pair worked to develop the prototype furnace into a design that was economically viable for large-scale manufacture.
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As so often happens with high-sounding principles, they have to > be brought down to earth. They have to be applied in a work-a-day world. I > venture to suggest that it would do the Muslim community no good - or any > other minority group no good - if they were to be given preferential > treatment over the great majority of the people. If it should happen that, > in the name of religious freedom, they were given special privileges or > advantages, it would provoke discontent, and even resentment among those > with whom they work.
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Sri Lanka won the match, their first ODI win in seven matches, and went on to win the second as well thanks to 56 from Wettimuny. Two matches were rained off, and so Sri Lanka won their first ODI series, but they were quickly brought down to earth as Australia won the Test match by an innings and 38 runs. Wettimuny made 96 in the second innings as Sri Lanka were bowled out for 205. The ODI fifty against Australia would turn out to be his penultimate – indeed, he only passed 35 once again, in the 1983 World Cup against Pakistan.
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In 2016, although courted by high spending Tampines Rovers as well as MSL clubs Pahang and Selangor, Faris signed for Home United for the 2016 S.League campaign after the LionsXII was disbanded following the conclusion of the 2015 MSL season. However, following the heights of 2015, Faris was brought down to earth by a disappointing 2016 as he was constantly plagued by injuries. Although he was once again wooed by some MSL sides, Faris chose to extend his contract with Home. He started the 2017 season in sensation form, scoring 3 goals in 4 appearances in the league for Home.
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Their meeting sparks an unexpected series of explorations – of their own lives and the life of the city, and of the way artwork can reflect and shape daily experience. The museum is seen not as an archaic institution of historical artifacts, but as an enigmatic crossroads in which, through the art, a discussion takes place across time with vital implications in the contemporary world. The "conversations" embodied in the museum's collection revolve around the matters that most concern us: death, sex, history, theology, materialism, and so on. It's through the regular lives of the guard and displaced visitor that these heady subjects are brought down to earth and made manifest.
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Abbey church interior According to the German art historian Cornelius Gurlitt, "the abbey church of Wilhering is the most brilliant achievement of the Rococo style in the German-speaking world."Cornelius Gurlitt, 1886-89: Geschichte des Barockstils, des Rokoko und des Klassizismus, Stuttgart (3 vols); cited in Guby (1920), p.14; translated It gives the impression that more decoration, colour, sculptures, paintings and stuccowork could not be found in a single place. The Baroque dream that heavenly light-heartedness and timeless happiness can be brought down to earth, a dream which in the Rococo period reached its nearly unrestrained climax, has come true at Wilhering.
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However they were brought down to earth when they lost 26–6 to arch-rivals Leeds Rhinos after a sublime display from fullback Iestyn Harris. Bradford were soon back winning points as they ground out a hard-fought 11–4 win against Sheffield Eagles. The Bulls managed to get their 1st back to back wins of the season as they struggled against Hull Sharks but just about scraped a 26–24 win. May 1998 The Bulls won their next game 18–4 against St. Helens however the week after Halifax Blue Sox beat Bradford 21–16 in a thrilling encounter. Bradford bounced back though by stuffing Castleford Tigers 52–10 and then dispatched of London Broncos 17–14.
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Section 102(d) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 calls for "the establishment of long-range studies of the potential benefits to be gained from, the opportunities for, and the problems involved in the utilization of aeronautical and space activities for peaceful and scientific purposes." Because of this mandate, the Technology Utilization Program was established in 1962 which required technologies to be brought down to Earth and commercialized in order to help the US economy and improve the quality of life. Documentation of these technologies that were spun off started in 1976 with "Spinoff 1976". Since then, NASA has produced a yearly publication of these "spinoff technologies" through the Innovative Partnerships Program Office.
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The precise origin of the Grey as the stereotypical extraterrestrial being is difficult to pinpoint. In the 1893 article "Man of the Year Million", science fiction author H. G. Wells envisioned the possibility of humanity transformed into a race of grey-skinned beings who were perhaps one meter tall, with big heads and large, oval-shaped pitch-black eyes. In his 1901 book The First Men in the Moon, Wells described Selenites (natives of the Moon) as having grey skin, big heads, and large black eyes. He also briefly describes aliens resembling Greys brought down to Earth as food for the Martians, who were the antagonist characters in his 1898 novel The War of the Worlds.
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Agnes chronicles the adventures of an elementary school-aged girl living in an Ohio trailer park called "The People's Court" with her kind yet weary grandmother (whom Agnes refers to as “Granma”). It has not been revealed what happened to Agnes' parents or how she came to be in her grandmother's custody. Agnes is poor and not what one would consider a classical beauty, yet is a dreamer and schemer, whose limitless imagination and ambitions are constantly brought down to Earth by her limited resources and social standing. Agnes is constantly confronted with the harsh realities of the life of the poor working class but still manages to find the optimism to carry on, frequently with a bit of sarcasm and wit using surprisingly sophisticated vocabulary.
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Like The Marriage of Figaro, the action takes place over a 24-hour period, involves a domineering spouse, and ultimately results in a marriage saved through the servants' machinations. Like Così fan tutte, the story is set in a villa in Naples and involves a woman being brought "down to earth" by an oriental impostor (in the case of La capricciosa, a servant in disguise). Rousset also points out that Da Ponte follows Goldoni's practice of giving the characters names which evoke their personal traits. The name of the capricious woman of the title, Ciprigna, is a double word play on "La Ciprigna" (an Italian epithet for Venus) and the word "inciprignire" meaning "to become angry and embittered", while her hapless husband's name, Bonario, evokes goodness.
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An engraving by Felix Bracquemond of the ending of La Fontaine's fable, 1886 Although there is no known source for the story as such, it has been suggested that La Fontaine had in mind the French proverb la fortune vient en dormant (fortune comes while one sleeps),Andrew Calder, The Fables of La Fontaine: Wisdom Brought Down to Earth, Geneva CH, p.150 used of those who grow rich without exerting themselves.French Wiktionary A pictorial emblem was dedicated to this proposition in Guillaume Guéroult's Le premier livre des emblemes (1550), a book that is considered the source of several more of La Fontaine's fables.French Emblems at Glasgow Emblem 16 has the title Fortune favorise sans labour (Fortune favours those who labour not) and points out in an opening verse that the blind and inconstant goddess disdains those who work hard in her pursuit.
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During Goodwin's tenure as CEO he attracted criticism for lavish spending, including expenditure on the construction of a £350 million headquarters at Gogarburn outside Edinburgh opened by Her Majesty the Queen in 2005The Scotsman, 14 September 2005, Queen opens £350m bank HQ (described by one commentator as "comically expensive",FT Alphaville 18 April 2008 Sir Fred Goodwin 2001–2008) and $500m headquarters in the US begun in 2006Slate, 1 December 2008 Who's the World's Worst Banker? as well as the use of a Dassault Falcon 900 jet owned by RBS leasing subsidiary Lombard for occasional corporate travel.The Times, 6 April 2004, Banking star brought down to earth over jet-set perk Under Goodwin, "access to the RBS Executive Wing used to be extremely difficult, even for those who had enjoyed long careers at the bank". His "penthouse-style office on the top level was a staggering 20 metres long", being "so large that it has since been split in two [after Goodwin's departure) and still comfortably accommodates the bank’s current chairman Sir Howard Davies, CEO Ross McEwan and their staff".
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After Zambia's disastrous CAN 1998 outing in Burkina Faso where coach Bukhard Ziese was 'suspended' and George Mungwa was installed as caretaker coach for Zambia's final group game but he expressed no interest in having the job on a permanent basis. Obby Kapita took charge for 3 games and then Fighton Simukonda also coached the team on a temporary basis for 5 games, winning that year's COSAFA cup with a 1–0 victory in Zimbabwe. Simukonda was however brought down to earth when Zambia drew their opening CAN 2000 qualification game with a 1–1 draw with Congo DR in Lusaka. FAZ then appointed Bamfuchile as coach and Zambia won all the remaining games, including a 1–0 victory away to Congo DR where Zambia had never won before, finishing the qualifiers with the best record in Africa. Bamfuchile also took charge of the U-23 team during the All Africa Games in Johannesburg in 1999, losing the first game 4–1 to Cameroun but recovering to reach the final where they lost to Cameroun again but this time on penalties after a goalless draw and Zambia went away with the silver medal.
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