| 单词 | airless |
| 例句 | Like, Park would be driving to work and he'd see a girl with red hair standing on the street, and he'd swear for half an airless moment that it was her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Even so, it was better here where he could see than down below locked in some airless cabin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then she patted black Mary’s shoulder and let out a long sigh that made the airless room feel alive again. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It was going to be as hot and airless as yesterday had been. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He could almost see her, waiting in one of the dark airless rooms in the little grim house’s impregnable solitude. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z My name spread like smoke in an airless room. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The reek of the babies’ bedding was overpowering in the airless thicket. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I see myself getting trapped in an obvious airless pocket. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In the summer’s stifling heat, the room seemed airless and threatening. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Cramped and airless, with some foul liquid that smelled like rotten eggs dripping from the ceiling. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It's airless and hot inside and musty, like dirty laundry. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She slept under the eaves in a windowless passage, which was hot and airless even in late spring. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A towering cliff of a black, basaltic rock cut off the sunlight, and the deep night shadow of an airless world surrounded them. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z A young woman was standing in the doorway, a woman of such breathtaking beauty that the room seemed to have become strangely airless. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z She steers Felicia down an airless passageway lit on one side with red votive candles set on wooden tables coated with hardened wax. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But gradually, as the months and years went by, if they’d not been placed elsewhere, they were shunted farther and farther back, to the dark, low-ceilinged, airless rooms at the tail of the house. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z But Triphena meant Mistress Cutler as well as that lonely, airless attic. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A few blocks from Lake Michigan, the three-story red brick building was grimy, the halls airless. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The living room is hot, airless despite the open windows. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “We could flood the mines, if this weren’t an airless asteroid.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The trees and earth were moon-dry, silent and airless and dead. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even if they had to leave Earth, and I had to follow them into airless space, I’d hold on to them and suffocate, but at least I’d have held them close. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I turned and with my last bit of strength I ran out of the room and down the airless hallway and out their front door. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I’m at three airless minutes when he says, “Well, then. The matter at hand.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z I felt her presence in the dark, hushed, airless room. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z I was shown into another room, smaller and stuffier still, windowless and airless. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z But she had noticed how fast he learned the very first day when she gave him oral and written tests while Master waited outside the airless room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z They were as cramped and airless as coffins. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z That the poorer areas of Philadelphia—those mean, narrow alleys with their run-down, airless houses—had suffered the worst did not escape attention. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Enslaved Africans crossed the stormy Atlantic chained together and packed into airless cargo-holds in groups of four to five hundred. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Then, one by one—as we would be summoned to judgment after death—we entered the airless confessional. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The waiting room was warm and airless, and I felt as though I couldn’t get enough oxygen into my lungs. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Later, she read his online posts on Nigerian Village, all of them sour-toned and strident, under the moniker “Igbo Massachusetts Accountant,” and it surprised her how profusely he wrote, how actively he pursued airless arguments. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The sight of Kuda in a cage in a dark airless room made him sick. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z They were bronzy gleams of smooth motion against the shadowy crags of the airless asteroid. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Near the central star there may be a retinue of dead worlds, the remnants of planets once full of life and now airless and ocean-free, bathed in a wraithlike luminance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark and Merry could see nothing as he lay on the ground rolled in a blanket; yet though the night was airless and windless, all about him hidden trees were sighing softly. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It was airless and hot in the car. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Every single window has been opened and yet, even while we’re moving, the carriage feels airless, a locked metal box. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he leads Mama and me to an airless room with benches on both sides of a low table. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Inside, the windows are boarded over with wood veneer, and an airless, pearly light seeps through the knotholes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The doghouse was a small, sealed cell like a dark, frozen, airless tomb. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Rowan knew they were slicing through the countryside now, but the darkness could have been the airless expanse of space. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She was some kind of wild tiger unleashed into the airless room. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z My chest tightened and I couldn’t draw enough air; I’d stand there, gasping in my own little airless bubble of atmosphere. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nearly all the adults entering the airless dining room were nauseated by the prospect of a roast dinner, or even roast meat with salad, and would have been content with a glass of cool water. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Mercury isn’t really airless,” explained Powell, in absentminded fashion. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Until now, I’d constructed my existence carefully, tucking and folding every loose and disorderly bit of it, as if building some tight and airless piece of origami. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The long, airless tunnel that stretched to a pinpoint before them brought home forcefully to Powell the exact magnitude of the task accomplished by the First Expedition, with their crude robots and their start-from-scratch necessities. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “It gets very airless in there,” said the policeman, “there’s been complaints about it often, but nothing’s ever done. We’ve had ladies fainting in there before.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They found themselves in a tiny substation, empty, airless, ruined. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I was still making those awful airless glugs. Breathing 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z And it’s a highly partial — airless — view of ballet’s interior workings. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z That scene, restored to conventional sequence, will be repeated at the end, 90 airless minutes later. Theater Review: ‘Grace,’ With Paul Rudd and Michael Shannon, at Cort Theater 2012-10-05T02:00:00Z What works against him is the curiously airless, antiseptic nature of the enterprise. Review: ‘The Hatred of Poetry’: Let’s Count the Ways 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z After weak coffee and a room-service croissant, I boarded the elevator, as cramped and airless as a sarcophagus. How I found the perfect koshary — an Egyptian delicacy — in Cairo 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The film is deliberately airless and suffocating, letting viewers feel how trapped Priscilla is in her situation. "Priscilla": Sofia Coppola delivers a sympathetic but ultimately suffocating portrait 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z His billing on festival lineups is equal to those of the biggest rock bands, his musical collaborations the dream of every producer in an airless, timeless studio. Clubs picks of the week 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z By comparison his four centerpiece albums sound not only overexposed but often bland and airless. Books of The Times: Why 1970 Deserves Its 15 Minutes of Fame 2011-06-23T21:59:42Z While much of the respected music in those days was intellectual and a bit airless, “George was a maverick,” Mr. Kalish said. His Music Full of Echoes, a Maverick Composer Turns 90 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Though not covered in the exhibition, those insights led New York to ban dim, airless tenements and mandate light courts and “wedding cake” building setbacks to deliver sunlight and breezes to streets and yards. Epidemics: A Force for Life-Changing Innovation 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Mad Men is "static and airless", "rusty and unsubtle", "melodramatic rather than dramatic", its plotting "haphazard and often preposterous". Waiting for the Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn – review 2013-01-06T00:08:39Z You probably discovered these songs on the airless Internet, but now it’s your job to complete them in real life. Review | Did everyone go to Trillectro just to hear ‘Mo Bamba’? 2018-09-23T04:00:00Z It’s airless and smelly, with diesel and sweat. Why Oscar-Winning Director Kevin Macdonald Decided to Make a Submarine Thriller 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Production designer Simon Rogers and his team had conjured up the airless, gothic hellhole that is the opposition's headquarters within a blameless country house near Ruislip. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z To me, the brightly colored letter-size drawings disturb as much as they compel because they so vividly convey the sense of a man locked in an airless room with his childhood demons. Outsider Art Fair, Smaller This Year, but a Model for the Future 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Our “guardian,” a shirtless, chunky guy sporting a Hello Kitty charm on a chain, led us down a dark, airless passageway. Driving the Seam of Hispaniola 2014-11-28T05:00:00Z But one wonders if that isn’t preferable, on a show that’s a comedy, to a smooth and airless acceptance with absolutely no comic point-of-view. A Coming-Out on 'The Simpsons' Shows How Toothless the Show Is 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z A documentary focused on him might be fascinating, but “Beyond the Lighted Stage” strives for airless balance. | 'Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage': On VH-1, Prog-Rock Wizards Onstage, Maybe Angels Off 2010-06-26T00:47:00Z The September afternoon on which the book opens in a “dim hot airless” room is described as “long still hot weary dead.” Riff: How William Faulkner Tackled Race — and Freed the South From Itself 2012-06-30T04:00:04Z More than 3.6bn miles distant from the Sun, the moon – which orbits the dwarf planet, Pluto – was first observed closely in 2015 when the US probe New Horizons swept over its freezing, airless surface. Kubrick’s 2001: the film that haunts our dreams of space 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z Headphones on, face set in a frown: such is my fear of 10 airless hours trapped in conversation with a stranger. Look who's stalking: the new breed of creepy male film leads 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Reviews of the original New York production of “My Children” 23 years ago suggested that the play itself was as schematic and airless as an academic exchange, heavy on instructional monologues. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ at Signature Center 2012-05-25T02:00:01Z Lapid’s workmanlike direction illustrates his airless script efficiently, and sometimes engagingly, but unimaginatively. Movies 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z Down from Glasgow on promotional duties in the middle of last summer's heatwave, Kennedy was staying in a flat at the top of several flights of airless stairs. AL Kennedy and the perils of the pen 2012-08-15T17:30:01Z In this one regard, the mini-series can be considered an improvement on the book, where the characterizations of the central players were a bit abstract and airless. Review: ‘Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell,’ a Battlefield Where Magic Is the Weapon of Choice 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z It doesn’t look very good — an airless, stylized period piece, the kind of movie Sachs would never make himself. ‘Passages’ Review: A Toxic Ménage 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z “Neverland” was partly shot on location in Ireland but more often has the airless, artificial look of the green screen and the empty soundstage. Television Review: ?Neverland,? a Mini-series on Syfy - Review 2011-12-03T00:22:08Z The concentrated 90-minute focus of “Since she” is both appealing and airless, impressively crafted and curiously unmoving. Two Choreographers at Work in a Pina Bausch-Haunted Land 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z The show has a clean, airless, sun-sterilized, Southern California look—as if Oscar and June are trapped under glass, and we are meant to study these specimens of modern life from a pitying remove. “Forever,” a Big-Hearted Satire Bolstered by the Brilliance of Maya Rudolph 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z A numerical comparison of the achievements of the two craft is instructive: The shuttle worked for 19 years and ran through tens of millions of miles of airless space. How Was Polynesia Populated? Two New Books Explore the Pacific’s Mysteries 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Spend some time with them and they become creepy and airless. Artist of the week 132: Andrew Grassie 2011-04-01T10:35:10Z The idea that a moon might support advanced life may seem strange to humans, given the barren, airless nature of our own moon. Is there life on moons? 2013-01-13T00:05:45Z As exacting as the synchronized movement strives to be, this airless work lacks detail; the dancers’ imprecision is a constant source of irritation, as are Christian Joy’s unitards, which sag in all the wrong places. Review: At American Realness Festival, Mirrored Movements and a Nearly Naked Yvonne Meier 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z But both Teddy’s mind and the world of Shutter Island are closed, airless systems, illuminated with flashes of virtuosity but with no particular heat, conviction or purpose. Movie Review | 'Shutter Island': All at Sea, Surrounded by Red Herrings 2010-02-18T15:49:00Z Reading this overwrought and strangely airless book, one would never imagine a different way of viewing things, one that rejects Caldwell’s ultimatum to “choose between these two orders.” Did the Civil Rights Movement Go Wrong? 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Was the batter always so pasty and airless? With Haenyeo, a Trailblazing Korean Chef Turns to Seafood 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z I'll be waiting for that, with a hope to be found nowhere in this handsome, airless movie. 'The Illusionist': Better Than 'Toy Story 3'? 2010-12-25T11:10:00Z Two hit men wait in a gloomy, airless room — a kind of subterranean boiler room in Robert Dahlstrom's oppressive set. Theater review: 2 excellent one-acts open ACT Pinter Festival 2012-07-30T22:51:02Z It is an improbable extrapolation from the present, and the novel's worldbuilding is airless and unconvincing. 2121: A Tale from the Next Century by Susan Greenfield – review 2013-07-11T08:00:00Z His method is a slow, careful formalism — so slow and so careful that his film can feel airless and overly aestheticized. Movie Review: ‘Alms for a Blind Horse,’ Gurvinder Singh’s Look at Life 2012-08-21T21:20:41Z But the show offers merely an airless hall full of mirrors; there is no vision or thematic content to this show aside from scene-setting. We get it, you love the ’80s! John Hughes nostalgia trap catches “Red Oaks” 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Then, finally, we have to endure René nattering on about the loss of innocence, a theme we can smell like mildew as soon as we enter this airless novel. Salman Rushdie launches a novelistic attack on Trump 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z My wife and I, along with a few others, were dragged into a small, drab, airless room. “It’s like looking in a mirror — a pretty funny mirror”: I was Bill Murray’s stand-in 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z This was a difficult and meticulous job, but it was necessary to achieve the thick, throbbing, airless sound the band favored. Solving the Riddle of Metallica 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Thirty percent of the Dr. Dennis Gross Skincare line is sold in airless packaging, up from 21 percent six years ago. How Anti-Aging Creams Get Old Too Fast 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But that’s as it should be because this is a story about nostalgia and the way that sweet elixir can turn rancid in the airless confines of a man’s heart. ‘The Gargoyle Hunters,’ by John Freeman Gill: A love letter to New York City 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z He said in an email that he sees Rovelli’s style as “highly compressed without ever becoming dry or airless.” Searching for What Connects Us, Carlo Rovelli Explores Beyond Physics 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z “Gone Girl,” in which a villainous female protagonist escapes her airless marriage by faking her own death, takes that metaphor to its logical conclusion. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z Nice as it would be to herald Tusk as a return to Smith’s bold early period, the movie has a lurching tone and an airless atmosphere. Review: Tusk: The Human Walrus, the Crazy Carpenter and Hey, Isn't That Johnny Depp? 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z Name brands tend to be packaged in airless pumps, and generic brands in tubes, she said. How Anti-Aging Creams Get Old Too Fast 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z The point is that he forces everyone into his environment, this airless, silent aquarium he’s created. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: David Cronenberg on Adapting Unadaptable Books 2012-05-27T15:32:28Z “Talk Dirty” established Mr. Derulo as something more than the airless Auto-Tune warrior of early singles like “Whatcha Say” and “In My Head,” by showing him as someone willing to take risks with his production. Review: Jason Derulo Glides Across Genres on ‘Everything Is 4’ 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z Ten minutes before the meeting began, Terry directed me to a long flight of stairs heading up to a windowless, airless room. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z The airless “Asphalt” was little more than coloring within the lines. Critic’s Notebook: Trespassing on the Proving Ground of the Next Generation 2013-07-28T21:30:12Z You know a comedy isn't working when it's too airless to even be thought of as indulgent. Showtime's "Moonbase 8" has all the right stuff for glory but never gets off the ground 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z The binge was lovely and absorbing, and I felt glad that I’d waited: “Girls” was a different, better, funnier show than its obsessive and often airless coverage had made it out to be. On Finally Watching “Girls,” a Different and Better Show Than I’d Been Led to Imagine 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z However thoughtful and well-intentioned, this debut feature is too airless and long-winded to excite. ‘Rubikon’ Review: Waiting to Inhale 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z Her life is airless, packed with stultifying tasks: “Japanese motherhood and its attendant housewifery is a cult,” says Mizuki. In Tokyo, a Trapped Wife Seeks Excitement 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z The end result felt airless and tense, light both on policy specifics and on signature style. On TV, Trump’s Inauguration Made Him Seem Small 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z He organized the standard sections of the Mass and the parts added specifically to a Requiem into 10 movements, often presenting stark juxtapositions of subdued, airless utterances and grand blowouts. A Requiem So Big That Performing It Takes a Multitude 2011-02-06T02:08:04Z These are faux pas, and so is the airless, joyless production — it is as sonically uncommitted as it is apathetic. Kendrick Lamar, Mortal Icon 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z “Yet its mood of airless bigotry is quite effective, portraying the Klan’s influence with officials and the police as an ingrained stain on the fabric of the town.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘Resident Alien’ 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z Though that was, effectively, how moviegoers responded to “Batman v Superman,” which was widely panned for its gloomy, airless depiction of its title heroes and their convoluted grudge match. Who’ll Save the World? Maybe the Misfits of ‘Suicide Squad’ 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z He dreamt he was standing in a dark, airless desert, sinking in quicksand. Arthel 'Doc' Watson dies 2012-05-30T02:19:00Z "I'm on a pack-and-a-half a day at the moment," he says, as he ducks out of an airless, windowless rehearsal room that smells, in the opinion of the Observer's photographer, "of actor". Stephen Daldry 2013-02-10T07:00:19Z While many diehard “Doctor Who” fans from the last decade adore Gold’s work, I find it airless, charmless, and far too on the nose. The Music of “Doctor Who” Makes a Glorious Return to Form 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Plus, for a product that contains more natural ingredients and less preservatives, which I am always looking for as a consumer, an airless package is essential.” How Anti-Aging Creams Get Old Too Fast 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But unlike Jill Soloway’s Amazon series “Transparent,” which embeds gender transition in a dense and detailed weave of family relations, “The Danish Girl” takes place in the airless, elegant atmosphere of quality filmmaking. Review: ‘The Danish Girl,’ About a Transgender Pioneer 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It was a sweltering morning, and I decided to do T’ai Chi in the hotel’s airless gym. Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z When he tries to be turned up, it feels inert and airless. Review | Post Malone is the perfect pop star for this American moment. That’s not a compliment. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The results are small, enigmatic and airless, like icons. Review | These painters found calm in an age of distraction — more than a century ago 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z However, he was extremely unhappy when, in a cramped, airless space heated by volcanic gases, reached by a narrow, 2,000-year-old passage, he met a scorpion. Miles of tunnels under Naples uncovered in BBC documentary 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z But then I might be the one who's airless and a little grim. Summer TV season high on comedy shows but sadly short on actual comedy 2012-05-29T17:33:08Z I had people standing on all sides of me in the airless heat, drinking and perspiring. The summer afternoon Frank Sinatra tried to beat me up 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Meticulous but only rarely precious, it’s an album distantly haunted by Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, a luminous mesh of acoustic and electric guitars, bass, piano and organ, with airlessly thudding drums. Playlist: New CDs From Blk Jks, Deer Tick, Dr. Lonnie Smith 2010-06-04T20:27:00Z The fourth season of “Arrested Development,” on Netflix, which arrived seven years after the show’s cancellation by Fox, was narratively inventive but still felt oddly airless and flat. Some Thoughts on the Planned Return of “Twin Peaks” 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Yet the touring experience is portrayed as a grim, airless death march under fluorescent lights — lonely airport-tram rides, painfully awkward record-company grip-and-grins, inane interviews, live performances that punctuate but don’t alleviate the gloom. Jonny Greenwood, Radiohead?s Runaway Guitarist 2012-03-10T20:47:20Z Visually, the grim background abstraction demands the same attention as the airless foreground. Review: Marius Bercea at Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z By outward appearances, Pentatonix is a coed assortment of five cheery humans, but their arrangements and production yield an unnervingly airless experience; they often sound as if they were straining to pass the Turing test. Review: Straight No Chaser and Pentatonix, a Cappella Sounds 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z We used to mock music that felt this airless by saying it sounded focus-grouped. Perspective | Imagine Dragons and the scourge of the rock-and-roll grave blockers 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Kosoko’s own presence is penetrating, but his choreographic material is often rambling and airless; though in “Virus:2010,” the solo that opened the program, he is too obvious. Dance Review | Kosoko Performance Group: Dancers Compelled by Words of a Poet 2010-02-19T23:16:00Z In fact, the only time she lets rip when we meet in the airless setting of a plush London hotel suite is when I ask her what's wrong with Hollywood. 'I never wanted to be an actor,' says screen star Neve Campbell 2011-04-07T21:05:01Z Karla: For anyone who’s missed the last few years’ media coverage of this phenomenon, “vocal fry” refers to an airless, guttural tone of voice, mostly associated with young women. Work advice: Want a side of vocal fry with your order? 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Its handsome yet airless world-premiere production, directed by Christopher McElroen for the American Vicarious, appears to mistake soberness for seriousness of purpose. Review: ‘Pushkin’ Squanders a Russian Poet’s Real-Life Drama 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Although “Succession” was set and shot in beautiful spaces, those spaces were typically rendered airless, sterile. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z But what has come before has been so long and airless and self-congratulatory that it doesn’t provide much relief. Review: In ‘Gluten!’ the Fashion Is in the Hazmat Suits 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z “Tight, narrow, airless spaces that would inform the performances.” The Carpetbagger: The Laser-Focused Director 2013-01-03T15:00:54Z Carefully replicated and filmed on a stage set in London, the studio that the writer Jean Genet reportedly described as “a seething dump” feels airless and artificial. Review: ‘Final Portrait’ Watches Giacometti’s Paint Dry 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z The bell jar's sense of wistful remoteness — of nature trapped inside an airless Victorian prison, where it is clinically scrutinized rather than luxuriously experienced — is the sculpture's most compelling feature. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z But the selections this year, the festival’s sixth, reflect the airless despair that hovers over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict these days. Other Israel Film Festivtal Explores a Fractured Nation 2012-11-07T23:31:57Z But with Mao’s rise came an emphasis on physical culture as well as physical labor, and there could be no better game for an airless factory setting. Books of The Times: ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy,’ by Nicholas Griffin 2014-01-02T22:23:15Z “If you’re looking for maximum efficacy from anti-aging ingredients, it’s probably best to use something like an airless pump,” Dr. Hale said. How Anti-Aging Creams Get Old Too Fast 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z Realizing the idea would require him to exist in an airless vacuum - a feat beyond even Blaine's prowess - he adapted the idea to instead use Tesla coils. Magician David Blaine readies for million-volt stunt in New York 2012-10-03T01:19:31Z And it occasionally prevails amid the elegant décor of this airless show. Art Review: ?Sherrie Levine: Mayhem,? at Whitney Museum - Review 2011-11-10T23:15:08Z I’ve been finding it hard to banish that first, icy image of Three, seen as if at the end of an airless and light-stripped tunnel. Review: A Fantasy Town Builds a Wall Against Time in ‘Ballyturk’ 2018-01-14T05:00:00Z From the start, the stories collected here are airless and numbing. Review: ‘Let Me Tell You’ Collects Early Works by Shirley Jackson 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Last year, that meant the Gothams were the first to attempt a big awards show over Zoom, and like the telecasts that would follow, the ceremony was airless and full of baffled cues. The Gotham Awards Find a Big Winner in ‘The Lost Daughter’ 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Recording a lengthy audiobook is two or three full days of nonstop reading in an airless recording booth. He’s Played Churchill and Lear. But for John Lithgow, Audiobooks Test His Mettle. 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z A desperately creaky, stuffy, airless period piece, based on the Colette novels. Every Stephen Frears film – ranked! 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet its mood of airless bigotry is quite effective, portraying the Klan’s influence with officials and the police as an ingrained stain on the fabric of the town. ‘Burden’ Review: A White Supremacist’s Change of Heart 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Resnais denies that he was ever so airlessly single-minded an intellectual. Alain Resnais: vive la diff?rence 2010-06-22T21:00:00Z The recital reached a high point with the austere, penetrating beauty of Copland’s slow movement, but the usually stirring finale emerged somewhat airless, despite attempts to inject a little breath and charm. A lot riding on Hilary Hahn’s bow at Strathmore 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z Taking place almost entirely inside computer-simulated global locations, “Retribution” moves closer than ever to its airless video game roots. | 'Resident Evil: Retribution ': ‘Resident Evil: Retribution,’ With Milla Jovovich 2012-09-14T23:01:20Z He returned to the subject at the end of his life, producing a painfully awful picture — an acutely detailed, this time sunny panorama of inert, airless little color patches. Getty exhibition makes a case for the enduring power of Theodore Rousseau 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z The film is deliberately airless and suffocating, letting viewers feel how trapped Priscilla is in her situation. "Priscilla": Sofia Coppola delivers a sympathetic but ultimately suffocating portrait 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z When she started writing, Ireland's deepest and darkest passions were obscured from view by its airless relationship with the Catholic church. Doyenne of Irish fiction 2011-02-06T00:05:42Z He acknowledged that he loved the smell of a tennis court, too, though not perhaps at Midtown Tennis, which felt airless and mildewy that morning. Caleb McLaughlin of ‘Stranger Things’ Slays Tennis Balls 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The movie, at that point, goes into lockdown, as the talents of a number of superb actors are stifled by an airless, by-the-numbers story. | 'Conviction': Her Brother?s Keeper, No Matter the Cost 2010-10-14T23:03:00Z His characters can often seem aimless and airless, when they should be pointedly animated. Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Knows Its Good Angles 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z As you get deeper into the book, My Friend Dahmer gets darker and darker and more and more airless, until it feels like you’re watching the action deep underwater — but you can’t stop watching. My Friend Dahmer: The Unspeakable Horror of Life in the 1970s 2012-03-28T10:45:09Z Does a fetid air, for me, infuse the whole – the suffocatingly deferential class system, the airless orchid house of its quest-for-grace storyline, the rottenness at the heart of the English stately home Arcadia? Your next box set: Brideshead Revisited 2012-08-30T15:01:00Z The album’s center of gravity, always, is the Hadens’ vocal blend, which isn’t seamless or airless but rather a series of alert, intuitive micro-negotiations in the realm of intonation and timbre. New Music: New CDs From Broken Bells, Toni Braxton and Babyface 2014-02-03T22:25:14Z A level of madness that is all-encompassing and terrifying in its airless, emotionless void. Newtown is my hometown 2012-12-19T17:29:00Z At the end of last Monday's Das Rheingold, enthralling and vital despite the airless, sweltering temperature, Donner, god of thunder, swung his hammer and called up a "flashing storm" to sweep the heavens clear. Proms 14 & 15: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-27T23:07:04Z And so, holding my breath, I walk into the windowless, airless room. I am cuckoo, but hope is coming 2012-12-12T21:01:00Z Sometimes prolixity gets the better of the band, rendering the barrage of words and sounds airless and unreadable. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Lenses Alien ? review 2011-08-18T20:59:01Z The dancers in Ballet de Lorraine have a similar quality: efficient yet airless. Review: Rebel Yells and Chants of ‘Adieu!’ From Ballet de Lorraine 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z The answer may lie in the seductive but airlessly self-contained visions of those directors. Christopher Nolan: from superheroes to Dunkirk’s small tales of heroism | the Observer profile 2017-07-22T04:00:00Z On a recent and especially airless summer night, a friend and I were discussing the loneliest things in the world. A Visual History of Rock and Roll, Room by Empty Room 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Watching a filmed version of a theatrical performance can be a strangely airless experience. Christopher Plummer is thrilling in ‘Barrymore’ | Movie review 2012-11-30T06:57:53Z The movie is lovely, but airless and bolted with scraps that barely hold together. ‘Bombay Rose’ Review: Nostalgic Ruminations 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z New York undertook a variety of reforms, including restricting airless, underground apartments; requiring windows to the outdoors; and providing more space between buildings. The New War on Bad Air 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z Although Lucy is a well-drawn character, her sadness and loss tip the film’s trauma scale and, at times, lend the picture a kind of airless quality. Review: 'Mend the Line' casts a familiar but effective story about remedy and redemption 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The chamber itself will be packed into two larger metal containers—one canister filled with liquid nitrogen, within another airless container, which acts like a thermos. How Much Does ‘Nothing’ Weigh? 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z When the astronauts actually wear the suits on the lunar surface, they’ll be white because they have to be: White reflects more sunlight, an important feature on the moon’s airless surface. NASA unveils a new spacesuit astronauts will wear on the moon 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Anna, who is seven, is a bright spark in an airless dark basement. Ukraine war: Borrowed time for Bakhmut as Russians close in 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z The East River Homes were designed to help poor families fend off tuberculosis, a fearsome, airborne disease, by turning dark, airless tenements inside out. The New War on Bad Air 2023-06-17T04:00:00Z "This planet very well could be an airless body that has lost any atmosphere that it once had," said Dr Jacob Lustig-Yaeger from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, also in Maryland. James Webb telescope traces arcs of dusty star formation 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Rocket-ship billionaires foretell a future so hellish that the airless desert of Mars seems beckoning. Opinion | Artemis says, to the moon! But it might simply prove our human limits. 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z They are preserved on the Moon’s airless surface, whereas Earth soon erases the imprints of past impacts. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Goodyear, which was also involved in NASA’s Apollo missions, will employ the airless tire technology it uses here for autonomous shuttles and other passenger vehicles. New lunar rover in the works as NASA moon mission advances 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Though she keeps the blinds closed and a fan whirring in the corner, her home feels stuffy and airless. ‘It’s like an oven’: Life in Britain’s hottest neighbourhoods 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z But if the result is too often forced and airless, at least Fielder can boast once again that he’s created another singular series that doesn’t resemble anything else on television. Review | Nathan Fielder continues to elevate the prank show in ‘The Rehearsal’ 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Nuru was happy to return the favour, but she wasn't prepared for what she saw: the eight of them were penned into a tiny, airless room, baking in the unforgiving Mombasa heat. Trans rescue: A future refuge for those fleeing violence 2022-07-05T04:00:00Z Because its airless surface preserves events that happened long ago, the Moon provides a window on earlier epochs of solar system history. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z It required talks to go into 36 hours of overtime, delegates squeezed into airless rooms, denied a glimpse of the picturesque lakeside terraces. WTO agrees deals on Covid vaccines and overfishing 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z What's remarkable, though, is the car is sitting on four airless tyres - made by Goodyear, the US manufacturer. Could flat tyres soon be a thing of the past? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Earl’s home is an airless, tidily ordered sanctum of records and movies fussily cataloged on index cards. Review: Andrew Holleran should be a giant of queer literature. His new novel on aging proves it 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z A laminar-flow faucet delivers a slower, airless flow of water into the sink. Faucet fixes for a splashing sink 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Note how black the sky is on the airless Moon. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Hawkes is especially eager to develop jumping bots for space exploration; he points out that his device could soar to even more impressive distances in an airless, low-gravity environment. Record-Breaking Jumping Robot Can Leap a 10-Story Building 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z On the other hand, airless tyres have a greater contact patch with the road, increasing the drag. Could flat tyres soon be a thing of the past? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The possibly limited-on-purpose characterizations in favor of a systemic focus — in conjunction with the many, many stories “We Own This City” takes on — leaves the series somewhat didactic and airless. Review | ‘We Own This City’ is an ambitious but uneven companion to ‘The Wire’ 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Why would a cultural icon such as Palin ever want to go to the Senate and have to sit through hearings in some airless meeting room? Opinion | No, really: Sarah Palin belongs in the House 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z But for the casual reader, it’s an airless enterprise that imparts none of the frisson of wealth. Rags-to-Riches Stories Are Actually Kind of Disturbing 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z It was overcrowded and airless, and the city centre had not been hit. Ukraine: Six weeks of devastation and defiance as world grapples with the crisis 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Not all this tech need be exclusive to airless tyres, or course. Could flat tyres soon be a thing of the past? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Or an actual moment of anger? — seemed to linger, sucking the air out of a room that seemed increasingly airless. Moira Macdonald on the Oscars’ very weird night 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z If scientists can find the impact crater, they could learn more about the precise way it created the lunar surface of pulverized rocks on the airless landscape. A piece of space junk hit the Moon. Oddly, scientists are elated 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Mars’s thin atmosphere, 100 times as tenuous as Earth’s, will make the launch unlike any on our planet—or from the airless moon or asteroids, where previous successful sample-returns have taken place. The First Rocket Launch from Mars Will Start in Midair 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, “the airless moon cannot protect itself from incoming debris like Earth does, where most objects burn up on reentry in the atmosphere,” says Hannah Sargeant, a planetary scientist at the University of Central Florida. Looming Rocket Impact Forecasts Trouble for Future Lunar Exploration 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Heavy battery weight means airless structures are particularly suited to electric vehicles. Could flat tyres soon be a thing of the past? 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Such “secondary” craters are common on airless moons and planets, but previously have never been identified on Earth. News at a glance: African vaccine factories, centipede-inspired robots, and Antarctic pollution 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z The pace and performances may be breathless but the film is airless and dull with no sense of narrative heft, or a clear idea of what it wants to be. Review: 'The King's Daughter' puts a dim mermaid spin on the Sun King 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z "I found it so hard to sleep as it was so hot and airless," he said. Waves roared like jet engines as we rowed the Atlantic 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z Frantic scenes like this were playing out in apartments throughout the 19-story building, as parents and children sought escape from homes that were suddenly black and airless. ‘We Were Just Trying to Breathe’: Frantic Rush to Escape the Smoke 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z I'm called into Room 5 - an airless, white room with bare walls. How my pregnancy led to a life-changing diagnosis 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z That difference could result in tempestuous winds if the planet has any semblance of an atmosphere, but most experts believe GJ 367b’s extreme stellar proximity long ago rendered it airless. Heavy Metal Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The Roys’ jokes are on the same scornful wavelength as Mencken’s, and they reinforce the allure of transgression, especially when trapped in an airless room full of human bow ties. Perspective | ‘Succession’ takes us behind the scenes of an anti-democratic conclave, and the sights are terrifying 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z For the coming hours these words will be pored over, mauled, unwritten and rewritten many times in airless rooms by exhausted masked negotiators in Glasgow. Cop26 live: UK called out for cutting aid before summit 2021-11-13T05:00:00Z Orion has been designed to get the crew back to Earth safely with an airless cabin. Nasa's Orion spacecraft: A guide 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Astronomers are already able to discern between atmospheric and airless planets in a few select systems, but currently they have no reliable ways of measuring a small world’s magnetic field. ‘Auroral’ Exoplanets Could Help Boost Searches for Alien Life 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z It’s underwritten yet over-stuffed with songs, and the production itself feels chintzy and airless. Review: This 'Cinderella' has more hustle than heart 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The room where he was speaking was, from all reports, hot and airless; Giuliani was sweating. He Was the ‘Perfect Villain’ for Voting Conspiracists 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z She predicted that without action, the future for Athens would be bleak and airless. Athens Is Only Getting Hotter. Its New ‘Chief Heat Officer’ Hopes to Cool It Down. 2021-08-21T04:00:00Z But it also does well in airless institutional settings. What makes 'Reservation Dogs' the most radical teen show on TV 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z The intensity of their mutual concentration filled the room, making it feel momentarily airless. What If Everything We Know About Gymnastics Is Wrong? 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z We've all sensed when eyelids start drooping in an airless room. Covid: Fresh air 'key to safer classrooms' 2021-03-04T05:00:00Z If someone on board developed symptoms, they would be banished to a cot in the forepeak, a grim, airless crawlspace at the very tip of the boat normally used for storage. Much of America's seafood comes through this city. Here's how it controlled COVID-19. 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z I RSVPed for one of these events a few weeks back because I wanted to move from the claustrophobic confines of my home to the airless interior of my automobile. Oscars season is still unsettled ... but the Emmys are going to be fabulous 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z After “some trial and error” to determine the best metal compounds to use, Rees says, the team placed them with the bacteria in a mostly airless bottle. Metal-Breathing Bacteria Synthesize High-Tech Material 2020-11-30T05:00:00Z Instead of being transparent and airy, like a view through a freshly washed window, they’re airless, angular, slightly resistant. Perspective | Inside out 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z Devoid of people, the Hammer’s conventional, white-cube galleries seem rather airless and aloof. Review: Extreme alienation reigns in the Hammer Museum's (unopened) biennial 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z On Renegade Breakdown, they are starkly exposed over wheezing vocals and gothic folk: the airless, ominous Lead Sister examines the poison of perfectionism through the story of Karen Carpenter, with whom Davidson feels a kinship. Marie Davidson: ‘We were the under-under-under of the underground’ 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z He would write until 2 or 3 in the morning, exhausted, in constant fear of discovery, near collapse in the airless room. A Secret Diary Chronicled the ‘Satanic World’ That Was Dachau 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z Vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris was placed in an airless tomb of a room that looked like there should have been a catafalque where the podium was. Taking Biden from one basement to another 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z As the long moments passed, the room seemed to get smaller and quieter, more and more airless. Why our restaurant critics aren’t dining in — plus their expert advice on what food makes the best takeout 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Whether you are pro- or anti-carpet, Moore’s willingness to show the details of her bathroom/erotic podcast studio is a break, at least, from the airless neutrality of a tastefully anonymous bookshelf. Naya Rivera: a gleeful cheerleader for all those coming out | Rebecca Nicholson 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z It’s pricey but not to be used every day, and the airless pump keeps it fresh for several months. The best soothing serums 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z We cannot tiptoe around that issue while engaging in airless hair-splitting debates about the ethical dimensions of what disenfranchised people are doing in the streets. A nationwide police riot: Is our outrage about "violence" pointed at the real perpetrators? 2020-05-31T04:00:00Z But there it was for 120 awful minutes anyway, two crabby guys in their late 70s locked in an airless quarantine in the network’s Washington bureau. Dem debates reach calamitous conclusion 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z “Not on an airless, lifeless, chunk of iron.” Alien, go home 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z This information is an important clue in the puzzle of understanding why early Mars, which was warmer and wetter, turned into the cold, barren, almost airless place it is today. From Dubai to Mars, With Stops in Colorado and Japan 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z By contrast, a team apparatchik can sit in an airless office and stare at the television screen and decipher those same pitching signs. Astros Fire Two, but That Won’t Clean Out Baseball’s Den of Thieves 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z She also made peace with her mother, who moved into Ms. Rajput’s apartment, a gray, airless room with a communal bathroom and just enough space for a bed. ‘My Loneliness Keeps Me Going’: Fighting for Equality in India 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z It was a little before 4 A.M., on an airless morning in June 2018, when the arms depot in Baharka, Iraqi Kurdistan, blew up. Climate Change May Be Blowing Up Arms Depots 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “It would be completely dark, probably completely airless, no sanitary facilities, possibly freezing temperatures, with the likelihood of death from freezing or suffocation enormous,” McKenzie said. British authorities launch investigation after 39 bodies are found inside truck 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z That uniquely airless sense of sadness and melancholy is one of its primary draws. Watchmen’s endless Easter eggs show how it isn’t like the comic 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The aliveness of the atmosphere contrasted with the slightly airless brilliance of the Berlin Philharmonic that night. Kirill Petrenko’s Unadventurous Début at the Berlin Philharmonic 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z It would be just me and my keys and/or food bar and/or wallet, alone in an airless room until the end of time — wouldn’t that be a fun way to live? Judge John Hodgman on Spousal Chocolate Theft 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Yet often in our interviews his face slips, and you see the boy trapped among the plants in that airless, empty house six years ago. Enslaved on a British cannabis farm: ‘The plants were more valuable than my life’ 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The Moon beckons astronomers because it is dry, airless, and seismically quiet. Could humanity’s return to the moon spark a new age of lunar telescopes? 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Armstrong and Aldrin unfurled the Stars and Stripes and erected the rod that ran along the top to keep the flag taut in the airless, windless atmosphere of the moon. AP’s Apollo 11 anniversary book chronicles journey to moon 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z It was, after all, no casual afterthought that Armstrong was standing there in the airless lunar day with a camera in his heavily gloved hands. The greatest photos ever? Why the moon landing shots are artistic masterpieces 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z Once the data start flowing back, Sim expects to use them to compare space weathering on the Moon with that on other airless bodies, such as Mercury. These young scientists will shape the next 50 years of Moon research 2019-07-09T04:00:00Z In an airless old building by the train station, the shortlisted young artists on the Arles Discovery Award compete in a prize dictated by a public vote. Stolen phones, British homes and wine for breakfast – Arles photography festival 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Heightened but airless, this “Castle” is like a checklist of the novel’s peculiarities, rather than its singular soul brought to life. Review: ‘We Have Always Lived in the Castle’ never comes to life 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Emerge from the airless parking catacombs beneath the mall. Review: Sushi master Morihiro Onodera reappears at hidden Inn Ann 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z The housewife and mother of five decamps from her airless concrete home to catch the breeze in a simple wooden shack by the water’s edge. 'One day we'll disappear': Tuvalu's sinking islands | Eleanor Ainge Roy 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Instead, the stadium felt quiet: a heavy, airless quiet, the sound of hearts sinking. Its Joy Ripped Away, Manchester City Fades in Crushing Silence 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z For all the obvious majesty of the subject, environmental politics has always had a slightly airless quality. Jay Inslee Wants to Be a Presidential Candidate for the Climate-Change Era 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z Eons spent entombed in a dark, airless, silent matrix, barely eating, barely breathing, barely moving, barely living. Inside Earth, Microbes Approach Immortality 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z Cup’s third round that the lesser lights have the chance to bloody the noses of the great and the good, when the coddled elite come unstuck in airless, ramshackle stadiums and on haphazard, mud-ridden fields. The Fleeting Magic of the F.A. Cup 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z If the delicate cargo can be encouraged to germinate and hatch in the moon’s low gravity, they may form a complete biosphere — a tiny oasis of life on a cold and airless world. China lands spacecraft on the far side of the moon, a historic first 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z Deep in the dark, airless chute, Stone heard him say he didn’t think he was going to make it. When workers are killed on small farms, OSHA’s hands are tied 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The futuristic composite Nera E-Bike was constructed from just 15 parts, and features airless tires that were also printed with a matrix design to provide cushioning. 3D-printed motorcycle is like nothing you've seen...yet 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z “Overheating” is as exactly as uncomfortable as it needs to be, with its gusts of roiling and airless sounds. Review: L.A. Phil's Green Umbrella takes on the European avant-garde - Los Angeles Times 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z This “background conversation” involves gathering in an airless room of a ministry or a party headquarters with a group of favoured colleagues and some alpha politician who then tells you what’s what. Is Germany’s media to blame for the inexorable rise of the AfD? | Ben Knight 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z That’s why, ironically, Herzl’s ideal Jewish state, which he laid out in his novel “The Old New Land,” from 1902, looks much more like Squirrel Hill than like Bennett’s airless settlements. In Pittsburgh, Naftali Bennett’s Presence Highlights the Debate Between Netanyahu’s Government and American Jews 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z If the drama feels somewhat studied — though it would be more accurate to say that it simply feels thought through — it is never airless or constricted. Carey Mulligan gives a career-best performance in sharp marital drama 'Wildlife' - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Planet Earth really does seem to have been left behind, leaving only a dark, airless void, a zone of desolation and wonder. Review: 'First Man,' starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, thrills, moves and perplexes - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Green, a filmmaker of Puerto Rican and African American descent, brings a distinct quality of observation to a narrative that might have otherwise seemed airless and schematic. Review: The tense, contemplative ‘Monsters and Men’ examines the aftermath of a police shooting - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z It is a brilliant premise, let down only by airless, edited-to-death American presentation. Gravity-defying dessert, $195 mac’n’cheese and Beyoncé’s guacamole: the tastiest food TV 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z In 2013, Musk published his “alpha paper” which theorized that aerodynamic aluminum capsules filled with passengers or cargo could be propelled through nearly airless tubes at a velocity close to the speed of sound. WARR Hyperloop pod hits 284 mph to win SpaceX competition 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z “People are there long hours, in that kind of rarefied airless environment — it just seemed so perfect.” Megan Abbott talks TV projects, Raymond Chandler and women-centered crime fiction 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Mount Street is a perfect microcosm of the exquisite, sometimes airless, increasingly separate world that How to Spend It has helped construct for the rich since the 60s. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Summer heat can plunge the reader or viewer in an instant into an airless fug. From Do the Right Thing to Swimming Pool: culture's hottest heatwaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z So she had to begin going airless: She’d jump into the spring — through a cylindrical hole beneath the mermaids’ dressing room — and do a piece of the choreography. These ‘mermaids’ dance underwater for half an hour at a time 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z But collaboration, even when it’s difficult, can sometimes yield a richer, stranger document; work generated and realized in perfect solitude often feels airless. Paisley Park, Prince’s Lonely Palace 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z For much of the year, this warren is insufferably hot and airless, but December is cool and bearable, and at this time of day, before dawn, it’s still quiet, too. Duterte Harry's drugs war: how one family was destroyed 2018-06-10T04:00:00Z “I suspect,” he says, “that in order for that method to work for a planet, it'll probably need to be airless.” Exoplanet Everests May Be Detectable When Giant Telescopes Come Online 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z None of which applies to Flight of the Conchords, perhaps the unlikeliest act ever to reach those airless heights of the comic stratosphere. Kings of loser comedy: how Flight of the Conchords took off 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z The hyperloop aims to remove even more friction from the equation, propelling electromagnetically powered pods through an airless tube at theoretical speeds of up to 760 mph. Black Panther’s Wakanda is a transportation utopia with a dash of reality 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z But Garland’s film more closely resembles Denis Villeneuve’s recent science fiction hit Arrival, another slow, airless, fascinating film pocked with moments of sudden explosive action. Annihilation is the most thoughtful science fiction movie since Arrival 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z Can we imagine ordinary people like ourselves having influence that is more meaningful than the garbled and stuttered input we offer in these airless rooms? Talk is cheap: the myth of the focus group 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Where corsetry created a static, airless ideal of a womanly shape, Alaïa worked with seams, stretch and drape to create a sex appeal that was raw and muscular. How Azzedine Alaïa changed the way we see women's bodies 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z It is Monrovia in the dry season and we are gasping, airless under the climbing sun and waiting for President-elect George Weah. Ex-footballer George Weah faces his toughest challenge 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z It has been nearly 20 years since Mike Judge's "Office Space" set a tone for narcotic workplace stories, set in airless, drab, low-ceilinged, cubicle-filled, soul-sucking expanses through which characters drift hollow-eyed. Clever and cutting 'Corporate' mines comedy from cubicle culture 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z We witness consequences of their mindlessness every day as hundreds of unfortunate souls perish in the waters, sands and airless trucks and shipping containers. Opinion | Mr. Trump, Meet a Hero Whom You Maligned 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Your driverless car might use this airless, nearly indestructible tire in the future. Go Ahead and Feel Bad About Your Failures 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z But even when it finally gets to productions, further hurdles remain for Michelin’s vision of airless tires printed from biodegradable materials. Michelin wants to reinvent the wheel for the driverless age 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z The calls for rescue, when they finally came, kept coming in gasps all that long and airless night. At Florida nursing home, many calls for help, but none that made a difference 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Off I went, in a cheesy rental car, ugly as a fire truck, on airless tires that rattled over every road seam. On a road trip up the coast, I linger too long over lighthouses and eat way too much pie. Surprised? 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z On this date in 1920, many residents of Tucson found themselves stuck with thousands of dollars worth of worthless stock in an airless tire company. Today in Arizona History 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z Fall’s freshest breath of air transports viewers into airless outer space on “The Orville.” 6 picks from this fall’s not-so-prime-time TV crop 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z The longer they are in freezing, airless conditions the higher the alcohol levels in the fish become. Fish sauced? Goldfish turn to alcohol to survive icy winters - BBC News 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z That was unlikely given that the moon is an airless, waterless, and thus likely sterile place. Why NASA Is Right to Hire a 'Planetary Protection Officer' 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The nearly airless tube was depressurized down to the equivalent of air at 200,000 feet above sea level, the company says. The hyperloop just had its fastest test yet, nearly hitting 200 mph 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z According to prosecutors, refugees were “often carried in closed, dark and airless vans unsuitable for passenger transport, in crowded, inhuman, excruciating conditions”. Trial begins over deaths of 71 migrants in refrigerated lorry 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Most of that hour is a sharp exploration of Offred’s airless circumstances: she plays Scrabble; she flirts with Nick; her doctor offers to impregnate her. A Cunning Adaptation of “The Handmaid’s Tale” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z A karaoke machine from the Philippines is plugged in to the television, projecting idyllic vistas of home into the airless room. Israel’s Invisible Filipino Work Force 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Wearing chèches and tribal robes, they sat at two long tables in an airless meeting space at the Regional Council’s headquarters. The Desperate Journey of a Trafficked Girl 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z The visitors found Dr. King in an airless railroad flat in a slum, talking to 40 or 50 young gang members about nonviolence. Roger Wilkins, Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 85 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z None of it, in the airless, affectless world in which they spend almost all their time, seems to matter. Our greatest peril? Screening ourselves off from reality | George Monbiot 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Andrew Geraci’s equipment, on the other hand, comprises a glass bead 300 billionths of a metre across, held in a lattice of laser light inside an airless chamber. Searching for particles on a benchtop 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z The giraffe—looking desiccated but not disfigured—was put on display in a clear, airless box. Killing Animals at the Zoo 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z HOW easy it is to dislike chain pubs: those samey, cheap, airless booze hangars that uglify the High Streets of the nation like a slick of vomit up the side of a taxi. The parable of JD Wetherspoon 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z A little locking mechanism attaches to the bike, which features airless tires and bright orange wheels. Beijing lost its crown as the bicycle king. Some well-funded startups want it back 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z The airless heat inside the tunnels is palpable; so, too, are the tunnelers’ dismay, exhaustion and fear as they hear border guards above them and cope with flooding along their routes. Digging to freedom: tales of escape from behind the most famous wall in history 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z It wasn’t just the grungy setting — a dimly lit, airless basement where the 31-year-old refugee with a cherubic face slips on plastic gloves and digs into trash-filled containers. Syrian refugee transitions from child bride to sole provider 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z It was like driving at night without headlights, a sojourn into the unknown, a journey into an airless, enveloping darkness. What will Donald Trump do about Hillary Clinton’s wars? 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z In the hot and humid city of Bujumbura, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika, the poor live in airless, dusty and tight-knit grid systems, clustered around the centre and to the north. Murder in Burundi: the man who knew too much | Jessica Hatcher-Moore 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z It is always the case, too, that there is a sharp peak in the lunar brightness when full, thought to be due to the way light reflects from its pitted airless surface. Deflating the supermoon hype 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z On an airless recent morning, a train carrying soldiers bound for the Pakistani border pulled in—and barely moved for the next three hours. Fixing Indian Railways, the Not-So-Little Engine That Could 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z He called the final mix – a bludgeoning, airless wall of noise – “an utter disgrace”. ‘Flattened by the cocaine panzers’ – the toxic legacy of Oasis’s Be Here Now 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Even by those standards, the Trump we saw during the Hofstra University debate this week seemed like a man trapped in an airless chamber talking to himself. In the Trump Matrix: The GOP nominee is a hopeless narcissist, living in his own fantasy universe — but maybe that’s what Americans want 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z The nearly airless planet is typically around 140 million miles from Earth and landing the first humans there, after a six to nine month journey, is an extremely ambitious goal for anyone. Elon Musk outlines plans to put humans on Mars 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z If The Simpsons nails what some would describe as Trump's brand of slippery, crowd-pleasing bluster, then Veep skewers what Clinton's critics see as her airless world of advisers and spin doctors. Trump v Clinton: Debate lessons from TV and film - BBC News 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z They found her buried under a garage earlier this year, her small body perfectly preserved in an airless, metal casket. A girl with two graves: The past haunts a city that evicted its dead 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z Mr Hassan led us to an IS jail, where prisoners were kept in cells little bigger than a wardrobe and as airless as a tomb. Is Mosul heading for a last 'apocalyptic' IS stand? - BBC News 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z In the airless dark between two underground rail stations, we have gone from one state to another in more ways than one. Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Hundreds are trapped here in what amounts to an airless mini-prison, women and children among them. Nameless dead of the Mediterranean wash up on Libyan shore - BBC News 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Gove’s idea of perfect happiness is sitting on a wooden bench listening to Wagner in an airless concert hall in Bavaria. Brexit: A Very British Revolution 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z For just 25 cents, anyone could go watch him work at the 5th Street Gym, an airless, low-ceilinged hotbox up a wood staircase in a slummy part of Miami Beach. When Ali was still Clay, the old white sportswriters didn’t know what to think 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z The cell they were put in was unbearably hot and airless. Generation revolution: how Egypt’s military state betrayed its youth | Rachel Aspden 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z It’s a great idea and looks wonderful, but it’s just airless and void of suspense in execution. Review: ‘Alice Through the Looking Glass,’ a curious sequel 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z Though sex can be taken, it can also be given, as Claire proves in the airless secondary plot that fuels “Faith.” 'Outlander' recap: Claire loses Faith 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z These adolescents could be making their choices against a backdrop of chaotic migration and conflict, or within the airless confines of a forced marriage. Unsafe sex threatens girls’ health worldwide. The prescription? Feminism | Zoe Williams 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z Some of this is surely attributable to the Swedish superproducer Max Martin, who favors a punchy, airless, symmetrical approach to rhythm. 25 Songs That Tell Us Where Music Is Going 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z And often doesn't go back The fashionable jetset mostly deserted Palm Springs in the 1970s and 80s, since when it has reified into a rather airless golfing retirement village. Two pools, 13 bathrooms and 300 for dinner: the modernist fun palaces of Palm Springs 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z But are there parallels to being locked in an airless room with little but a bathtub and skylight for company? If Hillary Clinton is 'Spotlight,' is Donald Trump 'The Revenant'? A presidential-Oscar guide 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z The beam is split in two, with each part bouncing off mirrors perched at the end of perpendicular, airless tubes about 2.5 miles long. A brief history of gravity, gravitational waves and LIGO 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z Although affecting and well acted, the family drama "Bad Hurt" is too airless and depressing to fully engage. A thin slice of life makes up 'Bad Hurt' 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z There was no hot water, stuffy airless rooms with windows that didn't open, broken showers, and a faulty ventilation system. The downside of being a property guardian - BBC News 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Capsules would float on a thin cushion of air and use magnetic attraction and solar power to zoom through nearly airless tubes. 3 tracks planned to test ‘hyperloop’ transportation idea 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Capsules would float on a thin cushion of air and draw on magnetic attraction and solar power to zoom through a nearly airless tube. Hyperloop to test super-rapid transport in North Las Vegas 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The blending of the personal, the political and the corporate that came to characterise the airless world of global sports administration has been perfected by Coe. Sebastian Coe must feel his dream IAAF job is already turning into a nightmare 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Within half an hour, he was drenched in sweat—the deeper reaches of tombs in Luxor are hot and airless. Radar Scans in King Tut’s Tomb Suggest Hidden Chambers 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z On arrival at the centre, Davis said he was drug tested and escorted into an airless room where detainees were brought in two at a time for 30 minutes. New Zealanders held on Christmas Island so angry they may riot – Labour MP 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z They seemed so full of life, so far from surrender: Why would any one of these people enter an airless meat truck in which they risked near certain suffocation? Reporter’s Notebook: 71 Migrants Dead in a Truck. Why? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Seventy-one migrants, four of them children, suffocated within about 90 minutes after they squeezed into the truck’s airless refrigeration chamber more than 24 hours earlier, investigators concluded. Migrant Suffocations in Truck Near Hungary Reveal Tactics of Smugglers 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z The airless heat and the single road in and out of town adds to the sense of cloying menace. Altar, Mexico: how the 'migrant oasis' for would-be border crossers became a trap 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z Climate of fear Not everyone sweats the summer away in airless rooms. 'More dangerous than Isis': power cuts leave Iraqis boiling with rage 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z At the same time, there is something airless and artificial about the pilot. 'Life in Pieces' on CBS takes its family comedy seriously 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z It led to a question of human psychology: What force compelled so many people into an airless refrigeration chamber? Reporter’s Notebook: 71 Migrants Dead in a Truck. Why? 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Last week, Austrian police rescued 24 Afghan teenagers who were trapped in an airless van. Afghan People Smugglers Profit From Migrant Crisis 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z On airless summer nights, neighbors slept on their rooftops. Israel’s Favorite Palestinian Calls It Quits 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z Austrian police said 71 people likely suffocated in an airless truck and authorities estimated 200 people drowned off the Libyan coast when two overloaded boats bound for Europe capsized. Europe's migrant crisis brings tragedy by land and sea; biggest movement since WWII kills 100s 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The scene was familiar from a dozen science-fiction novels, but this was no poorly pressurized dome on some airless future world. Science fiction: Cosmology boot camp : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z The clinging shirt, the scrape of chairs, the drying lawns and leaky biros; the airless rooms and fly-smudged windows sing of summer and the end of term. Tell your crush how you feel – it may be relevant information | Nell Frizell 2015-07-10T04:00:00Z Despite presumably being designed as a masturbatory aid, the whole thing felt airless and cold, like a museum exhibit. How virtual reality porn could bring about world peace 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z That means it’s possible for clouds like these to be circulating above other rocky, airless planets, too. The Moon has a big, weirdly shaped dust cloud on its surface 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The concept pulls together several proven technologies: Capsules would float on a thin cushion of air and draw on magnetic attraction and solar power to zoom through a nearly airless tube. SpaceX announces design competition for Hyperloop 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z You could walk into an airless, windowless cubby and be interrogated like a criminal suspect. When Your Interviewer Is A Jerk, Do This 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z After a few moments, they’re obliged to rush down to an airless conference room where they sit, hour upon hour, debating fine points of uranium enrichment, banking sanctions and plutonium reprocessing. Venue for Iran talks is a gilded cage under constant surveillance 2015-03-30T04:00:00Z Dust appears to be getting blown along the surface - a surprise finding on an "airless" body like a comet. Rosetta comet wind mystery 'solved' 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z The Court has been the poorer for that lack—the more airless, the more mired in sterile abstraction. Mario Cuomo: A Miscarriage of Justice 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Vehicles on construction sites tend to get a flat tire weekly; the airless Tweel doesn’t get flat and can be retreaded several times, Selleck said. Michelin making airless tires at its 10th SC plant 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The pulverizing, near-constant sonic boom of the sound design modulated by periods of haunting, airless silence? ‘Interstellar’ movie review: There’s a lot, but does it add up to anything? Yes, Rising Damp was set in a Leicester boarding house, but Leicester is merely outside landlord Rigsby’s airless rental kingdom, an absence keeping its counsel. Crap towns: why are British cities given such a bad name in sitcoms? 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Nearly 30 toddlers and their carers are crammed into the airless room at a makeshift malnutrition clinic atop a hill in Bahon, northern Haiti. The west's peanut butter bias chokes Haiti's attempts to feed itself 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The previous night had been a "peculiar", airless evening during a hot, dry summer, said Mr Stow. The night York Minster was on fire 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z But, as is true with so much of Haggis’s work, “Third Person” suffers from an airless, too-neat lack of connection with organic life. ‘Third Person’ movie review In India, illiterate young slave girls work in airless cotton factories breathing in a dust that is known as the "horror of the white cloud". Forced labour laws to be tightened 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z On a cloudless, airless morning in May, when it's already 30C by 9am, every corner has a sentry of hard-luck cases on crutches and men with teeth like a crossword puzzle. Jack White: 'I'm like Larry David, Alan Partridge and Chris Rock in one person' 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z Planted on July 21, the flag, held by the crossbar, remained permanently snapped to attention in the moon’s airless atmosphere. Jack A. Kinzler, 1920-2014: Jack Kinzler, Skylab’s Savior, Dies at 94 2014-03-15T03:17:13Z Hunt for an apartment in New Delhi’s wealthy neighborhoods and this immediately becomes clear: Spacious homes feature tiny, airless spaces known as “servants’ quarters.” Letter From India: A Maid’s Pay and Choices of Morality 2014-01-28T16:54:30Z When at last we came to a corner and turned, I felt a momentary surge of relief to be escaping the airless tunnel; but of course there was no escape. A Journey Into World's Deepest Gold Mine 2013-12-13T19:10:17Z Just like the moon, Mercury is a desolate, rocky and airless body, albeit a bit bigger than Earth's satellite, said Sean Solomon, the principal investigator for NASA's Messenger mission to Mercury. Does Mercury Hold Clues to Birth of Earth's Moon? 2013-10-17T17:15:05.127Z We are hovering in one of its many airless, pointlessly large halls, waiting for a conference on sustainable tourism to finish in the never-ending room next door. A lost city captured on film 2013-10-04T23:24:24Z The phenomenon, which prompted a notebook sketch by Apollo 17 Commander Eugene Cernan, was unexpected because the airless moon lacked atmosphere for reflecting sunlight. New NASA spacecraft to investigate moon mystery 2013-09-04T21:34:46Z Every bit of that hardware is still there — untouched, unchanged on the airless, windless, weatherless moon — as are the very footprints of the men. National Parks on the Moon? It's an Excellent Idea 2013-07-20T21:20:30Z Of course, the big difference between Mars and the Moon is that the latter is an airless body. Europe's 'seven minutes of terror' 2013-06-21T17:09:48Z Mercury and Venus were stillborn—one a dry, airless, roasted rock; the other suffocated by a dense, overheated atmosphere that ruled out life before it could even get started. The Great (and Recent) Martian Flood 2013-03-11T11:50:00Z In fact, given how airless the show can often seem, the fact that A Question of Sport still exists is little short of a miracle. A Question of Sport reaches its 1,000th show – but is it past its sell-by date? 2013-03-04T13:02:00Z Instead, scientists refer to these environments as exospheres and hope that understanding the moon's gaseous shell will shed light on similar pockets around Mercury, asteroids and other airless bodies. New NASA spacecraft to investigate moon mystery 2013-09-04T21:34:46Z It is what happens on the Bernabéu pitch that matters, not an airless room in the bowels of the stadium the night before. Sir Alex Ferguson wants Manchester United to attack Real Madrid 2013-02-12T21:18:58Z There are so many fantastic opportunities for new vistas and airless landscapes that nobody’s ever seen before. [Multimedia] Cover Stories: New Frontiers in Scientific Imaging 2013-01-17T19:25:02.157Z Trends 2030 reflects that all-American reality, which is why it’s less like entering the future than getting a guided tour of the airless corridors of Washington’s collective mind as 2013 begins. National Intelligence Council: U.S. is a “global security provider” 2013-01-03T15:32:00Z This is, let's face it, a man accustomed to oligarch-level trim, a loiterer in the airless calfskin-upholstered world of football's billionaire periphery. Eriksson the latest familiar face to return and haunt England 2012-12-18T11:39:31Z He devotes many pages to privacy, a word that does not exist in the Russian language, or in the airless human mass that forms when Russians wait in line. Moscow Journal: Book Gives Russians Close-Up of American Minutiae 2012-12-10T22:54:51Z Too much time in front of a screen in an airless space numbs the mind. How to Live With Jet Lag: 7 Tricks 2012-08-22T19:41:28Z It is an airless, lazy day in mid-August. Britannia Unchained: the rise of the new Tory right 2012-08-22T17:01:51Z Wednesday’s match started at 9:45 p.m., but while the heat had dissipated somewhat, Metalist Stadium was as airless as the Dutch attack for most of the game. Germany 2, Netherlands 1: Euro 2012 — Germans Put Dutch on Brink of Elimination 2012-06-13T21:22:50Z July passed away into August, and Sylvia, buried for so many hours in the airless Hall of a Thousand and One Marvels, was flagging visibly. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Larger tents than those with which we were supplied might well be taken in order to prevent the depressing headaches that follow from sleeping in a confined and airless space. Mount Everest the Reconnaissance, 1921 2012-04-12T02:00:28.417Z They passed across squalid streets, built in haste to meet the needs of new factories, under tall chimneys the smoke of which darkened the sky without hindrance, by vile courts, airless and almost sunless. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z We had seen them and shuddered, for they were merely rough carts with matted floors and close airless canvas covers. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z Slyne blanched a little, in spite of himself, and at that moment a stifled shout came from behind some closed door at the end of the alleyway outside the airless saloon. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Windowless, often airless, slightly grubby off-white walls with pale wood panels; the court had the feel of justice at its most municipal. Harry Redknapp: there's something about Harry 2012-02-08T19:00:00Z This done, he drew the broom back and took it down with him to the dark and airless chamber below. Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad 2012-01-31T03:00:13.130Z That's where the Jews are crowded; an evil-smelling place you would call it, close and airless, with narrow alleys and houses huddling together, and a reek of rancid cookery. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z Up steps we went or down steps, getting hotter and hotter in these airless depths as in single file we "ducky-daidled" after our laconic conductor. The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza 2012-03-21T02:00:34.053Z I ordered the carriage to an obscure street in the city; a narrow, dark, and airless lane. Discipline 2012-01-08T03:00:17.620Z As he passed through the crowded streets, his chief desire was to be quickly free of the old muffled buildings and airless alleys with their clinging atmosphere of other days. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z First it was the Moon, airless and lifeless. The Lonely Ones 2011-12-16T03:00:11.443Z It was at the side of the bed, and he could not see it; but he felt an almost imperceptible vibration in the airless stuffiness in which he lay. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Sooner or later — in the year 2030, it says here — humans will return to that gray, airless landscape. On View: ?Beyond Planet Earth? - Museum Review - Oh, the Places We Could Go 2011-11-14T23:17:22Z Crowded, airless, dim, Where toes are trod and strained eyes smart, We watch a wand of brightness limn The old heroics of the heart. Chimneysmoke 2011-10-27T02:00:25.953Z Together they visited tombs cut in the solid rock, hot airless corridors, and huge, dim, vaulted chambers underground. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Next, the airless, rocky asteroids, and frozen Saturn with its swirling ammonia snows. The Lonely Ones 2011-12-16T03:00:11.443Z She was no longer a pale, useless, discontented girl, cooped up in an airless London house with two self-centred, elder women whom she secretly despised for immolating their sister. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z To her highly wrought nerves the utter darkness, the airless pressure of her sanctuary were terrible, and she found and held the knob that at the first stillness she might slip out. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z There came an afternoon, airless, close and heavy until near evening. The Cassowary What Chanced in the Cleft Mountains 2011-09-24T02:00:16.927Z An airless Court in a London back Street. Puppets at Large Scenes and Subjects from Mr Punch's Show 2011-09-19T02:00:13.900Z The gates had clanged behind me, and I was in a long, low room below ground level, airless, ill-lit, filthy with tomato skins and bits of bread. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z She led the way into an airless little parlour, in which a case of wax-fruit, a dusty stuffed dog and a clothes-horse hung with the familiarities of Mrs. Hopton's laundry, first struck the eye. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z On the airless, windless, weatherless expanse of the lunar surface, a scratch in the soil made in 1972 will still be fresh years, millennia and epochs later. New Pictures of the Apollo Landing Sites 2011-09-07T09:00:00Z Thoroughness has always been one of the great German virtues—so he reminded himself while sitting in the rather airless ambulance, and listening to his high-born patient's fretful remarks. The Red Cross Barge 2011-09-05T02:00:20.603Z In filthy, airless, overcrowded holds, they perished of disease and starvation; there are accounts of men so hungry they gnawed their own flesh. New York Story: When Memorials Outlast the Sentiment Behind Them 2011-09-03T00:01:28Z “But that wasn’t really what I came about,” she went on, looking longingly at the closed window, for the airless room was beginning to make her cheeks burn. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z The cabin was deep down in the bowels of the ship, dark and airless. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z The airless darkness around her seemed full of noise, hot gasping breathing, and snapping teeth. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Unlike , though, which is airlessly ironic and alienating even to its fans, Lucky Peach is powered by the fiery ardor and violent attachments of its presiding spirit. David Chang's 'Lucky Peach' Magazine Is Deliciously Hip 2011-08-17T09:40:00Z The cave was as cold as winter inside, in spite of the tropical heat without—cold and yet airless, as if the spell of an enchantment held the place in thrall. Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage 2011-07-18T02:00:23.520Z There is reason for thinking that the moon is not absolutely airless, and, while it has no visible bodies of water, its soil may, after all, not be entirely arid and desiccated. Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z The hut was full and airless, but a few men were sullenly hanging back in the doorway, drawn thither, but arguing if it was worth it to step inside. Barnaby A Novel 2011-07-12T02:00:39.777Z And somewhere in that airless box, probably at her feet, lurked a long unburied cigar. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z I at once perceived it to be only as a glass bell, which shut me up in the exhausted, airless space: one bold stroke to break the bell in pieces, and thou art delivered! Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-06-22T02:00:23.137Z Slowly, silently, the moon at the window darkens, as a shadow blossoms through the airless space, and in her dream the form becomes the ancient babalawo of Pernambuco, hovering above her. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z All round were well-chosen plants and shrubs, looking well and happy, though in a confined and rather airless space. Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur 2011-06-02T02:00:22.983Z Even in the outer regions of our atmosphere, the cold is probably very many degrees below freezing, and in the blank and airless void beyond, it may be colder still. The Plurality of Worlds 2011-06-01T02:00:23.787Z Why didn't he seal them up behind double windows in an airless, sunless, hot and unhealthful home where the dear things could keep warm? Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z "You've got all these airless moons, and all of a sudden there's Titan." Titan's Atmosphere Spawned by Impacts? 2011-05-08T18:00:00Z He had been below to the main-deck where the heaviest guns were carried, and below that again to the lower deck that was dark and airless as a pit. The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR 2011-04-25T02:00:10.333Z I crawled into the tiny, airless cupboard and eventually fell asleep there. Surviving Gbagbo: Escape from Ivory Coast 2011-04-11T12:40:00Z “When I came into this apartment yesterday afternoon, its stuffiness struck me much the same as you girls said: ‘Close and airless.’ The Woodcraft Girls in the City 2011-03-27T02:00:11.007Z The night fell stifling and airless, unfortunately favorable for the kidnapers, as the sky was covered with clouds and the country wrapped in a thick darkness. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z This is a moderate and rather airless attack on the great social upheaval of recent times, despite the universally fine performances. Margin Call ? review 2011-02-11T17:03:41Z Crammed into an airless conference room at Washington's National Press Club, the standing-room crowd was energized and eclectic. When a Vulnerable GOP Senator Tries to Tame the Tea Party 2011-02-08T05:50:00Z The awful, airless, panting night through which the Chesterfield furnaces flamed, lay upon the queer, crooked black city like a menace. What Not A Prophetic Comedy 2011-02-09T03:00:50.423Z Whether from the explosion or the scorching sun in that airless place, I know not, but those six men were, as he said, literally black—black and reeking and hideous—and the flies...! The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z The researchers needed to find the bacteria that worked in airless environments like a cow's insides. Bovine bellies yield clues for new biofuels 2011-01-27T19:44:13Z Each hallway was like the one below; narrow, dusty and airless, with its blue spurt of gas giving us just light enough to find our way without groping. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z But the bizarre fascinations of the gym – the airless, repetitive flexing and relaxing, the determined pointlessness, the feverish generation of sweat – none of this was even conceived of until the 60s. The gym is a genius con we should be ashamed to fall for 2011-01-05T20:30:00Z The explicitly cartoonish execution, with broad caricatures and papier-mâché features, sends the obvious message that unlike Bergdorf’s perfect, airless fantasies, these windows are meant as comedy. City Critic: Holiday Windows Can Be a Harsh Mirror 2010-12-05T03:40:00Z To keep away the awful reek we went about for a little in the old gas-helmets, but the heat and burden of them in the hot, airless trench was intolerable. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z But as the doors closed and the train lurched into motion, a tiny voice rose through the airless car. Metropolitan Diary 2010-08-30T02:30:00Z On a sweltering, airless night in Lausanne, some athletes, including Russian high jumper Ivan Ukhov, complained about the noise of the vuvuzela, which a handful of spectators adopted from the football World Cup. Bolt returns from Achilles injury to win Lausanne 2010-07-08T20:37:00Z Because of her small size, she worked in the airless hulls of ships. Anna Walentynowicz, Polish Provocateur Who Spurred Communism?s Fall, Dies at 80 2010-04-13T03:00:00Z It’s a volume that never quite warms in your hands, packed perhaps too airlessly with what Ms. Carter describes at one point as “backstabbing, intrigue and muddle.” Books of The Times: Miranda Carter?s ?George, Nicholas and Wilhelm? and World War I 2010-03-23T21:40:00Z They were bulldozed in 2007, and the students were transferred to hot and airless prefabricated classrooms. Soccer Stadium Highlights Tensions in S. Africa 2010-03-12T14:42:00Z However, a bit disappointingly, I am led into an airless room where two vast ice-cream mixers are whirring away. 2010-01-16T12:05:00Z My imprisonment included a starvation diet and 24/7 lockdowns in overcrowded, airless cells. 2010-01-02T18:32:00Z These underground kitchens must eventually die out, and our children will wonder why we used such airless, lightless places. Household Organization Black, airless punishment cells—"never used nowadays," the warden had said lightly, and had been corrected by a low murmur from the keeper; two of them were in use at the moment. Manslaughter For ease a passive moment and a little painful, airless sobbing would suffice: soonest, best. The Unknown Sea He lay there, his suit blending with the cold and airless landscape. By Earthlight Usually it would be shining with wet, but sometimes it would be dry and airless. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Cer-tainly not; nor one too hot and airless, as you say—he! he! he! The Haunted Pajamas In the first warm September days he imagined the leaden, airless heat of cells. Manslaughter Already he felt heavy upon his heart a presentiment of airless days, of tortured nights. The Preliminaries And Other Stories There was a low, cracked wall on the other side of the hill, and beyond the wall stood the roofless ruins of a stone house, silent and gray in the airless scene. The Secret of the Ninth Planet The countrysides have been laid waste, but what of the men and women who were thus driven from the wide, wind-swept spaces to stony streets and airless barracks? Stand Up, Ye Dead Following Sergeant Zebedee's broad back the Major stumbled down three steps into a small, dim chamber, very close and airless, lighted by a smoky rushlight. Our Admirable Betty A Romance After the hearing they lunched downstairs in the airless basement in which the Fathers of the Senate are provided with excellent Southern dishes, served by white-jacketed negroes. Manslaughter My refusal brought the group again round me, and I was forced down the stairs, and through a succession of airless and ruined vaults, until we reached a massive door. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 The layer of dust, the consequences of an airless world exposed without protection to the endless fall of cosmic particles, was indeed not the level, undisturbed surface it should have been. The Secret of the Ninth Planet Their own gardens and nurseries are empty; but they would keep the children alive in airless, foetid closes. Stand Up, Ye Dead With trembling fingers I fumbled in my pocket, drew out my match-box, and, in the airless night, struck a match. Bye-Ways In close, dank, airless folds, the heavy mist still lay around—dark, impenetrable as a curtain. A Veldt Official A Novel of Circumstance The out-rushing air spun him outward like a balloon into the awful airless cold and naked silence. The Victor A thin layer of cosmic dust lay over the surface, such as would be found on any airless world. The Secret of the Ninth Planet When he tapped on the door and stepped into that airless cabin I could smell the fans and the generals and the Federal Building all over again. Cue for Quiet But what "they" said never stopped Case Damon, whether it was a matter of theatre tickets, or of opening a new field on a distant airless planet. Beyond The Thunder At that moment the sun's rim appeared at the landscape's jagged edge, and on this side of airless Vesta complete night was transformed to complete day, as abruptly as if a switch had been turned. Asteroid of Fear In only a few thousand years, it will be too cold, too dry and too airless to support life. The Telenizer Moon instruments claimed no decrease whatsoever in the amount of sunlight reaching the arid, airless surface of the Earth's only satellite. The Secret of the Ninth Planet Small round glittering thing of death, curving light and graceful through the airless gloom. The Legion of Lazarus Rounding a turn, he saw that the cavern enlarged, became a huge grotto; seated around its walls, staring at one another in the uncanny silence of this airless place, were many of the giant life-forms. The Giants From Outer Space In contrast to the airless desolation outside, the interior of this five-acre greenhouse was the one most desirable place to be. Asteroid of Fear In a way, I wished I could have gone, too; but, after all, the shadows in Etl's background were far more intriguing than the dead and airless craters and plains of the lunar surface. Stamped Caution These were aimed away from the Sun into the dark airless sky and toward the other planets. The Secret of the Ninth Planet But in airless space, of course, no sound was transmitted. Big Pill The Elephant's Child rested on the surface of the asteroid Oasis, a waterless, airless, cold and gray ball as uninviting as any solid body in the universe. The Giants From Outer Space Around him, under the airless sky of space, stretched desolation that he'd of course known about beforehand—but which now had assumed that special and terrible starkness of reality. Asteroid of Fear Dalton, lingering, found himself watched only by the millennially sightless eyes of the man who lay in state in an airless glass tomb. The Record of Currupira He must go back, must bear the consciousness that was Martin Black back from this airless, cratered sphere! The Psilent Partner Like swans that had been asleep in the airless sunshine, lo! where from every shady nook appear the white-sailed pinnaces; for on merry Windermere—you must know—every breezy hour has its own Regatta. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) The real ridge rose ahead, thickly forested on the lower slopes, then strewn with rock and granite like the landscape of an airless, deserted moon. The Planet Savers On this airless piece of a planet, an enemy could sneak up on you, almost without stealth. Asteroid of Fear Suppose I take a bent glass-tube, and fill one arm of it with airless water. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 For a moment the latest dream eluded him and then the sense of airless cold, a bleak, cratered landscape, stark stars staring in a lunar night swept coldly across his mind. The Psilent Partner Phobos is an airless world, and yet so small that rockets are impractical. B-12's Moon Glow He was complete, perfect, a tableau of cold, airless death. Master of the Moondog Sluggishly the electrolysis apparatus broke down the water, discharging the hydrogen as waste through a pipe, out over the airless surface of Vesta—but freeing the oxygen under the plastic roof. Asteroid of Fear The moon is airless, waterless and lifeless, days and nights are two weeks long, temperatures range from that of boiling water at noon down perhaps to that of liquid air at midnight. Astounding Stories, July, 1931 It stood gloomily in the half-light of the shop, which, like all suburban drapers' shops, had the air of a crowded and airless cavern full of stale adornments. Coquette Just the tiny disk of Deimos peering over the sharp peak of the nearest ridge, the black velvet sky outlining the curvature of this airless moon. B-12's Moon Glow He wasted no time in discussion until the ship was airborne and had nosed through the big dome-valves into the airless Lunar sky. Master of the Moondog The moon's prisoner, a captive in her airless caves; alone on her dead white plains; searching for ever in vain for the governess; wandering alone and terrified. Jimbo A Fantasy It is hot to-night, and has been airless all day, and I am out of sorts, and my work sticks, the devil fly away with it and me. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) I still can see the alabaster white face, with its pronounced vein-markings; the straight, thin form, outlined beneath a sheet, in that tiny, low-ceiled, airless garret. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The Moon, after all, is another World, smaller than ours, to be sure, and airless, but still another World. The Asses of Balaam It was somewhere over the Lunar Appenines and the sun bored down from an airless sky like an unshielded atomic furnace. Master of the Moondog Between the wheat fields and the massive cork-oaks, a stream shone, and refreshed—the eye at least—on an airless morning. Letters from my Windmill The vast empty sheds, the empty store, the airless, hot, long, low rooms, the claps of wind that set everything flying—a strange uncanny house to spend Christmas in. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) If the hold was airless, it was likely that the engine room was, too, and there was no need to worry Al-Amin any more than necessary just now. Hanging by a Thread He took no pains to avoid making noise, for he knew Ku Sui could not hear him through the airless space between. The Passing of Ku Sui His own arrival may have frightened off the claim jumpers, but too late to help the victim, who sat so straight and hideous in the airless tomb. Master of the Moondog And the air struck down with terrific weight, then left them in an airless void that seemed to make their bodies swell and explode. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 Above, in the airless space, they learned to operate the guns that were controlled from within the air-tight rooms. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 The death of the innocent, through oppression, child labor, dirt diseases, or airless tenements, ought to arrest the attention of the community and put the social cause of their death in the limelight. The Social Principles of Jesus On one side were the massive doors studded with rusty knobs, of airless cells; on the rough, spider-webbed wall opposite, against which leaned an iron ladder, were fixed iron rings at varying heights. Dreamers of the Ghetto The evening came, the close of a hot and airless day. Love and Lucy A blast through the inner porte—through the little pressure-lock—a wild rush out to the airless Moon. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 You cannot see stars in the daytime on earth, yet you could see them in the daytime on the airless moon. Common Science And I saw that the darkness down on the rocks was almost gone now, dissipating in the airless night. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 How she could live and breathe and have her being in such an airless box will always be a mystery to me, for we were gasping for breath in our open carriage. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Uninhabited, with its bleak, forbidding, airless, waterless surface, the Moon––even though so close to the Earth––was seldom visited. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1930 Clear-cut and golden was half the circle; the rest glowed faintly in the airless void. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 Tracks and ore-carts along the ledge stood discarded, mute evidence of the weeks and months of work these helmeted miners had undergone, struggling upon this airless, frowning world. Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 I whispered into the audiphone—whispering by instinct, as though out here in all this airless desolation someone might overhear us! Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 |
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