| 单词 | pinprick |
| 例句 | Now he became aware of an entirely new sensation: pinpricks? The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Everyone in the courtyard seemed to be holding their breath, A pinprick of light appeared in the Governor's palm, like a hovering firefly. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z It was like hurting in retrospect, each repetition of it a pinprick. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z So the only light came from pinprick holes in the walls, and from a sketchy rectangle that outlined the imperfectly fitted door. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z On clear nights, the stars shone, and their pinprick light comforted Edward in a way that he could not quite understand. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z The spots above my eyebrows, which were the size of pinpricks last time I checked, have now grown into real spots. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Pong could just make out the tidy rows of buildings through his pinprick window in the basket. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Her words dig under my skin like pinpricks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Her pupils were pinpricks, barely visible in her dark brown eyes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z There were illuminated points in her vision, little pinpricks, as though the worn fabric of the visible world was being held up against a far brighter light. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The city lights recede to pinpricks, until they look like earthbound stars. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z They were swollen with hundreds of red welts, pinprick bruises that would grow into a blue stubble across my skin. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I rested it on the floor and allowed the pinpricks of blood to tease their way back up my leg. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z The only pinpricks of joy in the vast, empty desert of my existence are the few remaining days of editing the movie I have made. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Pong could make out hazy pinpricks of light beaming from the houses lining the riverbanks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The sky was black as pitch, without even the pinpricks of stars in the darkness, and the faint illumination from the back side of the sun was dim and cold, more like mist than light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Dimple ignored the pinprick of guilt she felt at the uncharitable thought; Isabelle wasn’t nearly as awful as the guys. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The two eagles flew so high that from the ground they were the tiniest of pinpricks in the sky. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Even as I watched, a pinprick of light near the horizon erupted silently, pulsed with soft blue light, then spread outward. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The snake’s eyes, like deep dark pinpricks, gazed at the Black Tortoise. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z She saw the sweat on Kaz’s brow, the nearly invisible pinpricks of the tattoo on his forearm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Part of her reason for not going with them was that she couldn’t bear to see the boy hurt...not even by a pinprick. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He was just turning from the window when he saw a distant flash, a pinprick of light among the trees on the mainland shore. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z And when I peer very closely at my face under the bright lights, I’m sure that I can see pale pinpricks above my eyebrows. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z The ship vanished into a pinprick hole on my map. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Constance resembled a wet hen—same shape, same dour crankiness, and only slightly larger—but Kate smiled when he came in, and the sight of her sunny face gave Reynie a pinprick of hope. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She panted, and the pinpricks turned into the outer edges of a tunnel. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z On Monday morning I was able to leave at last, with a bottle of antibiotics and an arm full of pinpricks. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z With the sun and sky just a pinprick far above, the light around takes on a dimming azure shade. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I thought sweat was dripping down my chest until I looked to see pinpricks of red leaking through my shirt. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There is a cluster of lights ahead of us, some just pinpricks, like flashlights, and others round, like headlights. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If it weren’t for the feeling of uncertainty, pinprick of fear, he would have enjoyed sailing up the Chesapeake on this cold starry night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt a pinprick of nerves along his spine—he’d had no idea it was going to be so busy. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z My forearms were dotted red with pinpricks and my lungs were filled with hay dust. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The hole turns into a pinprick as the baby recedes from me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I could feel the water covering my ears so that I heard nothing but the blood in my head pulsing and saw nothing but pinpricks of light above. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I could feel the pinpricks on my back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My hands shake, and as I read, the world narrows to a pinprick of light, all sound fading away until only the roar of my heartbeat fills my ears. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z We lie silently under outer space, taking in all those pinpricks of light, and I too feel dwarfed by the massive universe. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Newt yelled for the Grief Serum; a minute later Thomas felt a pinprick on his arm. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z She becomes a tiny pinprick before everything goes dark. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z It was October 7, 2002, and like most days in Stokum, the rank little pinprick of a town where I was born and raised, the seventh of October unraveled in a completely unmemorable way. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Twelve times he clicked the Put-Outer, until the only lights left on the whole street were two tiny pinpricks in the distance, which were the eyes of the cat watching him. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The thought is a little pinprick of heat inside me—she must love me, to worry about me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It's like a tiny pinprick in the back of my mind. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Closer to him, she could clearly discern them, countless red pinprick wounds freckled all over his arms, neck, and face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Stars became visible, pinpricks of light on the silken sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The picture cut to an aerial shot of snowy hills, dotted like a war map with pinprick figures, Mount Cataract looming lopsided and huge in the foreground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z When she sees the tiny pinprick of light that means she’s near the end, she feels relieved but not relieved enough. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z David gets scared when people don’t answer him, and the first tiny pinpricks poke me, little guilty jabs whispering, “He’s doing the best he can.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He walked through England and Scotland tabulating “beauty”—secretly ranking the women he met as “attractive,” “indifferent,” or “repellent” using pinpricks on a card hidden in his pocket. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z They saw far beyond the lake a bobbing pinprick of light—a torch being carried along the drive—but they did not comment on it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I stare into the black pinprick that is his gun barrel. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z As she combs the emerald bushes, she looks for telltale signs—eggs no bigger than pinpricks, or leaf edges scalloped by the jaws of an inching worm. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Sophia's eyes are like pinpricks of ice as she addresses the guards. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Sayle raised the gun and took aim, his eyes wide, the pupils blacker than they had ever been, mere pinpricks in the bulging white. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z There was a heart-stopping, ruby-red pinprick of a beauty mark just beneath her eye. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Her name brings tiny stabbing pinpricks at the back of my eyes. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I doubted the pinprick had hurt it, but no one likes being stabbed in the eyeball. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z They studied the sky, searching for pinpricks of starlight through the drifting clouds. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I cringe, remembering the pinpricks like ant bites, and can’t help the side glance at the barrel of stasis gel right next to the pod. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z A snowflake accepted her invitation, and she felt a momentary pinprick of cold on the pad of her bare finger. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Cactus plant pinpricks of heat run over my face in vertical strips. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z She could feel little pinpricks of sweat on her upper lip. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z An ambulance careened into the alley and raced toward us, its headlights blacked out so that only pinpricks of light shone through. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z His eyes, round pupils the size of pinpricks, fixed on the light steadily. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The dreadful knot of cold fear in her chest chilled her arms and legs, urgent pinpricks that pushed her forward. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z His laugh was a pinprick: not sharp enough to cut, but deep enough to sting. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Staring into its pinprick eyes, I realized that my lying Tinder lover was the one who broke my emotional double. For 13 Days, I Believed Him 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z The fleshy rendering looks scarily real, perfectly capturing the slouch of the fabric, the pinprick holes in the performance fabric and Jordan’s famous signature, scrawled onto the number 23. Michael Jordan-obsessed fan gets 23 jersey tattoo across entire torso 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The room fell quiet, the string lights mere pinpricks in the darkness, and sounds of sleep filled the air. It’s a Sex-Positive Party, Not a Play 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Floating in close orbit, its solar panels fanned out among pinpricks of alien light, the structure resembles a deep-sea creature or a tropical insect more than a building in the traditional sense. The 25 Most Significant Works of Postwar Architecture 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z Particularly potent is Jake’s discovery of Yang’s memories, which are initially represented as pinpricks of light. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z In the early chorus “And He shall purify,” the sopranos’ rippling lines had the precision of pinpricks. Kent Tritle and Musica Sacra Bring ‘Messiah’ to Carnegie 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z Can her pupils be “opiated pinpricks”? This is the language of literature, not the language of life. Birdsong 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z And there's a tiny pinprick point in the middle where you're responsible for yourself, and you understand other people's responsibilities and rights. Alice Oswald on the Devonshire landscape: 'There's a terror in beauty' 2012-07-13T11:17:14Z “Their teeth were blunted too, by then, broached by pinprick holes, sketched by hairline cracks.” A Couple Self-Isolate for Seven Years, and Become One Person 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z It was one of the few times all evening the pinprick finesse of his playing wasn't covered by an ensemble. Masaaki Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan's impeccable taste shows at Disney Hall 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z The humble homes emitted only faint pinpricks of light. Travel: Mountain View, Ark., Folk Music Capital of the World Still, as the gliding camera keeps pace with this girl, a strange undercurrent disturbs the air, creating pinpricks of doubt about just how tranquil the scene is. Review: ‘American Fable,’ Pastoral With a Wolf Howling 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The ones that transmit superficial pain, such as a pinprick, are in the dermis. Ever wondered about your sense of touch? 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z The altogether incredible on-screen depiction of bloodshed provides little more than a pinprick to the eggshell in the brain. Lawyers and Secondary Traumatic Stress, or: On the dispersal of brain matter in a Kentucky trailer 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Its much-touted new blood testing system claimed to be able to perform tests on a “pinprick” of blood rather than a much larger amount drawn by syringe, which is the current best available method. Jennifer Lawrence to play Elizabeth Holmes in movie about Theranos 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The book, which tells the story of the Columbine High School massacre of 1999, opens with this understated answer: “It started with two births/ as quiet as pinpricks/ two translucent ripples/ in the Colorado River.” Review | Gun violence, loss, grief and love: Three poets grapple with emotional turmoil 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Starting this month, however, the theater district will start flickering back on, the small pinpricks of light growing bigger and brighter by the week. Well, hello, Broadway. It’s so nice to have you back where you belong. 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Mostly, he engages in Chekhovian talkathons that echo — sometimes with pinprick delicacy and, at other times, with needless overstatement — the carefully choreographed happenings affecting the story’s rich and poor, its men and women. ‘Red Army’ Is Among the Notables at Festival 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z The ring was a thick band of beaten platinum, set with dozens of diamonds in a pinprick design of a mountain range. Planning my wedding as a non-binary bride 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z Mostly, though, it allows the movie to get down to its unsurprising business: Cue the warm looks and fond memories, the booze and pinpricks of unease, some face-offs and a reckoning. ‘Alice, Darling’ Review: That’s What Friends Are For 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Using a viewer, Jake narrows in on different pinpricks, which then expand until they fill the frame, becoming movies-within-the-movie that he can freeze and replay. ‘After Yang’ Review: Do Androids Dream of Sheep, Babysitting, Being? 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z From the start, the pianist seemed to challenge the orchestra to a musical duel, playing with concentrated energy that extended from the Steinway’s rumbling sonority to faint pinpricks of sound. Pianist Emanuel Ax, NSO woo Wolf Trap audience with Brahms 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z The performances wake up whenever the characters jab one other with even a pinprick of sarcasm. Review | ‘Falsettos’ revival brings back an era of liberation and fear 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Only his eyes catch the light, two pinprick stars in a universe entirely without consolation. Review 2010-09-23T00:02:00Z Inky shadows shimmy all around, receding until they are merely pinprick figurines. Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirror Rooms at the Broad: A first look inside the 'infinite mysterious beauty' 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Nothing but an eyelash of spine, a pinprick eye, an amalgam of peach tissue and miniscule veins. Abortion, a love story 2012-08-25T01:00:00Z He doesn’t say much of interest but, over time, the blur transforms into a portrait of solitude, a pinprick of light in a long dark night expressively captured by the talented cinematographer Sean Price Williams. New Directors/New Films Festival Highlights Bold Narrative Experiments 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Similarly, it could also explain why the pinpricks of acupuncturists' needles do the same for some people. Why acupuncture is giving sceptics the needle 2013-07-26T09:31:00Z In the nightmare they grow me from a pinprick, an infinitesimal scrap of bacterium, study me through microscopes while wearing radiation suits and masks.” Books Of the Times: ‘The Panopticon,’ a Debut Novel by Jenni Fagan 2013-07-15T21:25:07Z “Tell” is sharply specific to its moment in time and to the pinprick that Deseronto makes in the map. ‘Tell,’ by Frances Itani 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The mouth looked like a pinprick at points, as the lighting supervisor occasionally appeared to miss the target. If you're going to see Beckett's late short plays, Lisa Dwan is the actress you want to perform them 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z The destruction, the corruption, the inflation of the New York bagel—its hole reduced to a mere pinprick, its taste made indistinguishable from a food-cart soft pretzel—is by now an established fact. Cynthia Nixon’s Cinnamon-Raisin Bagel and the Faux Food Faux Pas 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z Those first few weeks, that first month, was spent looking at the world through a pinprick. My son is no longer a baby – he’s a proper person 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z There are giggles and laughs, pinpricks of pain and storms of emotion. ‘C’mon C’mon’ Review: Are You My Mommy? 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z All the little pinprick injustices of middle school felt like drippy, cavernous, world war wounds. Science saved my life: Saturday’s march for science is personal, too 2017-04-21T04:00:00Z I want him to know that I used to be cool, that, before my universe narrowed to a pinprick, I was someone better, someone fun. 'I feel I might die any waking moment': can I escape the grip of PTSD? 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Under marjoram leaves and pinprick grains of Espelette pepper, the carpaccio is as good as you remember; the warm plate halfway melts the fattier bits of octopus into delicious goo. Seafood From Two Tapas Masters at Saint Julivert Fisherie 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Because of pandemic limitations, Zubieta recorded each part by himself; the edited piece, with its pinprick tinkles and squalls of booming rushes, now haunts the gallery at regular intervals. To Express the Sound of a Country’s Soul, He Invented New Instruments 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z A slightly elevated, shiny black oval in the center of the stage sometimes appears to reflect them with sparkling pinpricks of light; at other times it looks as smooth and glossy as a pond. Dance Review: From Japan, a Reminder That We Are Dust, and to Dust We Return 2010-10-06T21:44:00Z The two characters are equally defensive and mutually antagonistic; yet pinpricks of dry humor also make their belligerence seem more than a little absurd. ‘Compartment No. 6’ Review: Strangers on a Russian Train 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Musically, Ms. Monk’s language is built on translucent harmonies needled, here and there, by microtonal slips and pinpricks. Review: Meredith Monk Ends Carnegie Hall Run With Mystery and Mastery 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z As I ate, I felt a pinprick of pleasure from imagining their children and partners at home. The best place to feel lonely is in a bagel shop 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z Their patterns derive from bandannas — one belonged to Ms. Mays’s great-grandmother, another to Georgia O’Keeffe — whose decorative forms are reproduced via pinpricks in the obscurity of the darkroom. Surprise: The Upper East Side Turns Experimental (for Art) 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z The banter is believable, as are the pinpricks of disquiet and the weird suppurating wounds that increasingly mar this otherwise ordinary scene and its genial hero. ‘Candyman’ Review: Who Can Take a Sunrise, Sprinkle It With Blood? 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Her efforts are mostly evident in the sincerity of the performances, and in the heartfelt moments that punctuate the movie, creating pinpricks of warming light. ‘Eternals’ Review: When Super Franchises Walk the Earth! 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Winocour largely avoids showing that night’s visceral horrors, abstaining from gruesome spectacle in favor of shocking pinpricks: the sound of a gasping scream, an image of a shoeless foot. ‘Revoir Paris’ Review: Recovering Fragments of Memory 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z But happily that’s just not the case for these dozen locales, where as many as 15,000 individual pinpricks of light can be seen with the naked eye. The 12 Best Destinations for Stargazing 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z Initially the government sat largely idle as a small band of jihadists progressed steadily from pinprick assassinations to attacks on police stations and finally to the wholesale takeover of towns and army bases. Bringers of sorrow 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z One of Kitamura’s gifts, though, is to inject every scene with a pinprick of dread. ‘Intimacies,’ a Coolly Written Novel About the Arts of Translation and Power 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z That often means stark white galleries without windows, lofty ceilings and overhead pinprick spotlights that help draw out shapes and shadows that morph as the light changes throughout the day. Descanso Gardens' 'Elemental' exhibition looks at art in different light 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z This shot shows a blue planet, perhaps Earth, seen from outer space, with a red pinprick to its right. The Oscars: Manohla Dargis Looks at the Overture to ?Melancholia? 2011-12-30T17:03:44Z One of Kitamura’s gifts is to inject every scene with a pinprick of dread. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z Once you stepped inside, space became apparently infinite, with tiny pinpricks transforming its ceiling into a starry night sky. Artist of the week 123: Sheela Gowda 2011-01-26T13:02:41Z In “The Lighthouse,” a sly American Gothic set in the late 19th century, the director Robert Eggers lights and frames the actors to emphasize every bony plane, every facial crease, hollow and pinprick of stubble. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Outside, the fireflies start to light up the farm with their pinprick twinkles. At Just Right Farm, Plymouth Rock is a site for culinary pilgrims 2018-07-07T04:00:00Z Performers were shot in silhouette or in pinprick lighting, making the audience feel claustrophobically close in an ominous or intimate scene. - The Washington Post But Mr. Williams, the kinetic comic who has sometimes revealed a marshmallowy streak in movies, never indulges the audience’s hunger for displays of humorous invention or pinpricks of poignancy. | 'Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo': Ghostly Beast Burning Bright in Iraq 2011-04-01T02:01:01Z Even the darkest moments are illuminated by pinpricks of light stubbornly forcing their way into the room. See Casey Affleck in a Clip From "Manchester by the Sea" 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z And if all goes well, yeah, that tiny little pinprick in the middle of it is where it's all happening. Uncovering the "Secrets of the Whales," from beluga baby names to fascinating seafood preferences 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z What might prove the pinprick to the “everything bubble,” as doomers like to call it? Are You Ready for the Financial Crisis of 2019? 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Some participants wore continuous glucose monitors, usually worn by diabetics, to check blood glucose levels in realtime using pinprick probes inserted into the skin. The Silicon Valley execs who don't eat for days: 'It's not dieting, it's biohacking' 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z Thousands of pinpricks of light—most of them nameless far-flung galaxies—lurk in the background. Euclid Space Telescope Releases Stunning First Science Images 2023-11-08T05:00:00Z The shimmering lights of wedding halls cut through the gloom as night encroaches on Kabul, pinpricks of glitz in the darkness. From an old-style Afghan camera, a new view of life under the Taliban emerges 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “Orion’s Belt” features a thin black mountain range dividing a midnight blue sky and tumultuous ocean surface, both speckled with pinpricks of white paint. Painter and trailblazing drag queen Tabboo! on late-life art world success: 'I’m here, baby!' 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z When you sit at a campfire and look up at the stars, even the tiniest pinpricks of light that you see are massive furnaces, producing intense heat. Break Out the S’mores: This Star Is Cooler Than a Campfire 2023-07-13T04:00:00Z “For example,” he continued, “manual counters are forced to determine whether a pinprick point on a chad demonstrated an intent to register a vote.” Roy Saltman, Who Warned About Hanging Chads, Dies at 90 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z Telescopes turn fuzzy pinpricks of light into definite shapes, into planets with gaseous bands or dazzling rings. Advice | Teaching your kids to love the night sky, no telescope required 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z A person’s skin can also become discolored, and the pupils of the eyes sometimes shrink to pinpricks. How Over-the-Counter Narcan Can Help Reverse Opioid Overdoses 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z You know this to be true because a tiny pinprick in a plastic water jug is all you need to get water to flow out of a spigot. How your plumbing pipes work inside your home 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Flawlessly executed, the pictures employ both natural light — including the yellow pinpricks of fireflies — and colorized elemental forms to conjure a beguilingly multilayered universe. Review | In the galleries: Fragmented darkness with color and radiance 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But these are pinpricks compared with Moscow’s massive waves of strikes on Ukrainian cities and infrastructure. Your Monday Briefing 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z But these are pinpricks compared with Moscow’s massive waves of strikes on Ukrainian cities and civilian infrastructure like power plants, electrical pylons and hydroelectric dams. Russian Airstrikes Leave Ukrainians Few Options but to Endure 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z The Ukrainian attacks have been pinpricks compared to the widespread devastation Russia has wrought against Ukraine. Russian Air Base Is Attacked, as Ukraine Discounts Escalation Threat 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z The enormous pressure of the atmosphere pushes plenty of air into the tiny pinprick hole. How your plumbing pipes work inside your home 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Corio, an amazing discovery, somehow conveys these and countless other pinprick impressions without putting any of them into words. Review: 'Aftersun,' one of the year's great debut films, is a piercing father-daughter story 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z But they are no more than pinpricks of light to earthbound telescopes, making them hard to detect, let alone study. NASA’s unprecedented asteroid-deflection mission is more than ‘billiards in space,’ scientists say 2022-09-12T04:00:00Z The map showed 16 points of illegal devastation — pinpricks of red piercing an expanse of green and brown. Deforesters are plundering the Amazon. Brazil is letting them get away with it. Ever since the Walmart confrontation, Mangum said he feels pinpricks of doubt whenever he goes out shopping, feeling that he could be racially profiled at any time. Walmart ordered to pay Portland man $4.4M for racial profiling 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z Rather than counterattack with their own tanks, the Ukrainians used hand-held missiles such as the Javelin to carry out pinprick strikes, targeting trucks carrying supplies in particular. Opinion | Why Kyiv’s ‘thousand bee sting’ strategy is costing Russia dearly 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z On a map, the seven islands are just pinpricks in the vast Atlantic off West Africa. 'No one can stop them': African migrants aim for Spain's Canary Islands 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z The youngest stars appear as red pinpricks of light in the cloud. Behold, Some Hidden Gems from JWST’s First Images 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z As he talked, Cortes worked a head of grass between his fingers, collecting its pinprick seeds in his palm. Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z I joined her under the left wing, where she gingerly patted the Pitot tube, a bent finger-shaped object that determines airspeed by measuring air pressure through a pinprick hole. Learn to rise to the occasion with an intro flying course 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Eight years ago, after a routine pinprick on her newborn daughter’s heel revealed a rare nutritional disorder, Sarah Chamberlin worried about the costs and insurance wrangling that would lie ahead. Baby formula shortage life-threatening for some older kids and adults 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z The centre of the pain was a pinprick mark, and she realised she must have been a victim of needle spiking. Spiking victims hesitate to report invisible crime, say MPs 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z The area separates Belarus from the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad, a pinprick of territory that remained part of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Russian military move into Belarus poses risks to more than Ukraine 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z As I shifted myself into a new position, I saw pinpricks of light dancing on the sheets around me. Perspective | The night I started seeing sparks in my bed — and more stories from the edge of sleep 2022-01-09T05:00:00Z The now-disgraced Silicon Valley golden girl allegedly duped investors into thinking her company’s blood-testing technology could detect disease with a pinprick. Opinion | The false feminism of Elizabeth Holmes and Ghislaine Maxwell 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z She was seen by paramedics and the next day found a bruise by her hip and a pinprick hole in her jeans. Ipswich: Spiking by needle victim too scared to go out 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z A flat black circle, simple dye-sublimated letters, and a small LED pinprick to let you know that it’s on. It’s party time, smash the EXTRA BASS button 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z She woke up the next morning in hospital with a small pinprick on her hand, which later bruised and throbbed, she said. Home secretary wants police update on spiking by needles 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z The bark of gray, dead, towering trees is punctured by tiny pinpricks: traces of the European spruce bark beetle. On a Pacific Island, Russia Tests Its Battle Plan for Climate Change 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z "I think everybody should have it - I can't see a reason why not... it's only a little pinprick, it's nothing to be scared of." Covid: The Basildon theatre where booster jabs take centre stage 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The next day, she woke with a sore hip which had a purple pinprick mark in the middle of a bruise. Ipswich: Spiking by needle victim too scared to go out 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Hilleman worked his pinprick miracles at a time when Americans knew and feared the deadly terrors of communicable disease. Opinion | Maurice Hilleman was a vaccine miracle worker. Imagine what anti-vaxxers would have made of him. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z Questions, Cohen argues, are not simply a “psychological provocation, on a par with pinpricks and miracles, to the formation of assertions.” What Is a Question? 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z As you travel farther into the tunnel, the light falls away, a heavy silence sets in, and the far-off exit will look like a winking pinprick of light in the distance. Up for a spooky hike? The Snoqualmie Tunnel is over 2 miles of total darkness 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z One last pinprick: When, after his retirement, the Judge invited me to serve as interviewer for his official oral history, I called the chambers and asked why. What Thurgood Marshall Taught Me 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z There were pinpricks across Europe, where possible great-great-grandmothers might have been born. My Father Vanished When I Was 7. The Mystery Made Me Who I Am. 2021-06-15T04:00:00Z Just as we pay gasoline taxes to use the roads, we suffer an occasional pinprick to live healthier lives than our pre-vaccine forebears. Opinion | Maurice Hilleman was a vaccine miracle worker. Imagine what anti-vaxxers would have made of him. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z We fear its razor-sharp pinpricks, the ones that prevent us from sitting comfortably or sleeping soundly in our own stubborn ignorance. Perspective | The cleansing necessity of guilt 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z Then there were pinpricks of towns that looked as though they hadn’t changed in 150 years. Mississippi native with brain cancer fulfills boyhood dream 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z “Who wants to tell a story to a tiny little pinprick of a camera?” he wondered. See how Gather groups found ways to cope, connect after a year of pandemic separation 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z Asked at Monday’s briefing about comments by the targeted militants that the attack represented nothing more than a “pinprick,” Kirby said the operation had accomplished its intentions. Pentagon: U.S. strike on Syrian compound killed one fighter, wounded two more 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z Smaller grains also don’t produce the pinprick feeling of individual grains pressing into your skin. What Makes Sand Soft? 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z In June and July, thousands of people across England received a pinprick antibody test in the post. The coronavirus is most deadly if you are older and male — new data reveal the risks 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z Here, “O King” is now the skeleton, although discernible through mainly by the irregular pinprick sforzandos that punctuated the original movement. Born from the tragedies of 1968, Berio's miraculous 'Sinfonia' still resonates 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The rest sat in darkness, except for a few pinpricks of light. Earth's final frontier: the global race to map the entire ocean floor 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Distant traffic and overhead flights – tiny pinpricks of moving light in the night sky – disappeared. How a small Spanish town became one of Europe's worst Covid-19 hotspots 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z The study authors created the letters by stimulating the brain with electrical currents, thereby generating “phosphenes” — or tiny pinpricks of light that people sometimes perceive without any actual light entering their eyes. Blind study participants 'see' shapes via electrodes: study 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The study authors crafted the letters by stimulating the brain with electrical currents, causing it to generate so-called phosphenes — tiny pinpricks of light that people sometimes perceive without any actual light entering their eyes. Blind People Could ‘See’ Letters That Scientists Drew on Their Brains with Electricity 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z Somewhere in a dark tunnel, still — perhaps with a pinprick of light in the distance. Reopening the DMV: How officials will decide when to ease restrictions in Maryland, Virginia and D.C. 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z I am actually looking forward to a pinprick test while wearing a mask made in LA. Coronavirus antibody tests are almost impossible to get. Meet three L.A. residents who got them 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Do-it-yourself pinprick tests like the ones the British government ordered from China are far more complicated and much further off than such laboratory tests, researchers say. U.K. Paid $20 Million for New Coronavirus Tests. They Didn’t Work. 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z Participants supply a drop of blood via pinprick; when combined with a buffer solution, a number of lines appear to indicate the presence of certain antibodies. How far has the coronavirus spread? This quick blood test might provide some answers 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Several academic laboratories and medical companies are racing to roll out tests that use a pinprick of blood to detect infection-fighting antibodies to the virus. Blood centers begin collecting coronavirus antibodies from COVID-19 survivors 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Two drops of blood from a pinprick is enough to detect a virus. Fast, Portable Tests Come Online to Curb Coronavirus Pandemic 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Similar to a pregnancy test, it would use a swab of saliva or a pinprick of blood. UK to spend £46m on coronavirus research 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z Thousands of bright green pinpricks lit the otherwise black images. Patrick Mahomes takes Kansas City by storm, and big Chief Andy Reid finally reigns 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z People in the third group were particularly sensitive to pressure and pinpricks, and its members often reported pain akin to burning or electrical shock. The Unexpected Diversity of Pain 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z It was only a small exchange, far away from the debate stage: a pinprick in this political cycle. The Pete Buttigieg pile-on revealed: he is no political messiah | Richard Wolffe 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Schwartz likened the president to “a balloon with a small pinprick hole” that is constantly “leaking self-worth.” ‘It’s a horrible thing they did’: Trump now bears the indelible mark of impeachment 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z During this transit, Mercury will be visible as a tiny pinprick of darkness against the Sun’s surface. How to watch Mercury travel across the face of the Sun on Monday 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z With pinprick precision, the aerial strikes hit more than a dozen oil installations in Khurais and Abqaiq, which is widely considered the most critical single facility for oil supplies in the world. In Saudi Arabia, World Oil Supplies Are in Flames 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z To explore what else might activate these Schwann cells, the team exposed the feet of the mice to heat, cold and pinpricks and looked at their behaviour. Scientists discover new pain-sensing organ 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Our home planet will be just one world among many, and the sun that gives us life just another pinprick of light in the endless dark. Interstellar Probe, a mission concept for NASA, aims to travel 93 billion miles past the sun 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z Soon there are Sweeney Todd-like scenes at my kitchen table as I try to produce enough blood from a series of pinpricks to fill a vial. Looking for Mr T: the politicisation of testosterone 2019-07-28T04:00:00Z Using an app or pinprick to keep tabs on your health was last decade’s medical innovation at work. These tattoos could help track chronic diseases like diabetes 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z But at seven months, Lynette went to hospital after spotting a "pinprick" of blood. 'I lost my baby, then heard others crying' 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z At the top she was a pinprick in nothing. “Brawler” 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z But those are just pinpricks compared with the howitzer round that would have been a blast from Mueller. Opinion | What does the Mueller report mean for 2020? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z But as the cyberwarfare expert Thomas Rid noted, the Cyber Command operation was “more of a pinprick that is more annoying than deterring in the long run.” Opinion | Our elections are still vulnerable to Russian interference 2019-03-06T05:00:00Z Of Jean Harlow, he writes, she “had striven to look like a creamed pastry, a balloon inviting our pinprick.” Review | A confused critique, or celebration, of sex in Hollywood 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Thomas Rid, a strategic studies professor at Johns Hopkins University, described the operation to my colleague Ellen as “more of a pinprick that is more annoying than deterring in the long run.” Analysis | The Cybersecurity 202: CyberCom sent a message by taking down a troll farm on Election Day. Was Russia listening? 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z The logo map is not only misleading because it excludes large colonies and pinprick islands alike. How the US has hidden its empire 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Jean felt her hand device disengaging, and then the old woman was holding her hand tenderly, rubbing with her thumb at the aching pinprick where the interface entered the vein. A young journalist, an old lady, and a vintage e-pet reunion 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z A pinprick of a finger yielded a drop on a slide that, under the microscope, revealed a world of cells of different shapes, sizes, and colors. The History of Blood 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z The chorus members had little LED lights that clipped onto their music folders so they could see their scores in the dark; from the podium, they looked like a sea of distant white pinpricks. What Makes Superstar Conductor Gustavo Dudamel So Good? 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The US economy is the biggest in the world and can deal with many of the responses, which are a pinprick on its giant heft. The Guardian view on Trump’s trade wars: making a bad situation worse | Editorial 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z He compared the Canada Day tariffs to “a pinprick.” Trade War and Canadian Pride Mix in Retaliatory Tariffs Against U.S. 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z In Tracey’s MRI machine, my third-degree burn felt five points more intense than the initial pinpricks, but was it really only two points less than the worst I could imagine? The Neuroscience of Pain 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z That hurt, but it was more like a pinprick. Analysis | Trump has officially put more tariffs on U.S. allies than on China 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In 2013-15 she raised around $700m to fund her firm, which had supposedly developed a way to test blood with a single pinprick. The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, Silicon Valley’s startup queen 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Take Theranos, which pledged to perform tons of tests on just a pinprick of blood. Verily’s "exploding micro-needles" are a fix for a problem that doesn’t exist 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z That night, Caps eyes flicked, like patients enduring the pinpricks of laser eye surgery, when asked why they can’t win big home games in the playoffs — this year or almost any year. Perspective | The Capitals’ overachieving year threatens, again, to end in doom and gloom 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The next set of pinpricks felt as if I were being run through with a hot metal skewer. The Neuroscience of Pain 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z Device testing was conducted at a refugee camp in Kakuma, Kenya, where pinprick blood samples were examined for antibodies to measles and rubella. Shoebox-Sized Lab Can Diagnose Infectious Diseases from a Drop of Blood 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z But it’s unlikely that they will dissuade him from future atrocities, any more than the previous “pinprick” airstrike in April 2017 did. Opinion | Trump is drowning in scandal. He can’t focus on Syria. 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z Like a southern New Mexican, he's doubtful that all those pinpricks can add up to something. Joshua Wheeler aims to put overlooked southern New Mexico on the map in 'Acid West' 2018-04-13T04:00:00Z The Terminator Large but delicately framed, with a pinprick red eye that lights up when he enters a room. Opinion | If male authors described men in literature the way they describe women 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z The capsaicin patch hardly tingled, and I scored the first round of pinpricks as a 3, more out of hope than conviction. The Neuroscience of Pain 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z The team were studying a supernova known as SN Refsdal in a galaxy more than 9bn light years away when they noticed a pinprick of light that appeared four times brighter than in previous images. Hubble space telescope captures image of most distant star ever seen 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z But then the brave survivors of February’s school shooting in Parkland, Florida, delivered a pinprick of light in a seemingly impenetrable barrier. Let the new generation lead the way on stopping gun violence 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The photo shows a pinprick of a positively charged strontium atom illuminated by a blue-violet light on a black background. How a Student Took a Photo of a Single Atom 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z In the distance, two pinprick white lights emerge from the blackness. Life on the Rocks 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z In war zones and deserts in countries such as Iraq and Syria, the heat map becomes almost entirely dark — except for scattered pinpricks of activity. U.S. soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z In warzones and deserts such as Iraq and Syria, the heatmap becomes almost entirely dark – except for a few scattered pinpricks of activity. US soldiers are revealing sensitive and dangerous information by jogging 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z It takes you through the gossamer shell of the nebula and into the cavernous region where stars are born, and where pinpricks of light cluster like eggs in a nest. Take a 3-D Tour of a Space Cloud Full of Baby Stars 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z Time and again, it reduces the opposition’s sight of goal to nothing more than a pinprick. The Big Six and … Burnley? A Success Story Confounds the Statisticians 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z In the evening, a gigantic bowl with thousands of pinprick holes is inverted over the Earth—or so the thinking went. Spectacular Images Show How Our View of the Universe Has Evolved 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z "They are constantly making tough professional judgements based on fragments of intelligence; pinpricks of light against a dark and shifting canvas." MI5 boss warns of 'intense’ terror threat 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z The fireball showed up in the ninth galaxy photographed, as a new bluish pinprick of light in the outer regions of NGC 4993, a swirl of stars about 130 million light years from here. LIGO Detects Fierce Collision of Neutron Stars for the First Time 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z And then on the rest of my body I've got lots of little pinprick holes all down my arms and my legs from where they took skin. Me and my scar: It took me 45 years to love my body - BBC News 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Mary Halvorson has pioneered a new approach to jazz guitar that emphasizes short, brittle phrases of stuttering, pinprick notes that seldom resolve but keep stabbing at the theme. 7 hidden gems at the D.C. Jazz Festival 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z His pinprick bombing in Syria without even a glimmer of a long-term strategy shows his shallowness and thoughtless character, not his command of foreign affairs or considered strategy. Opinion | Trump’s foreign policy is thoughtless, not flexible 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Doctors lifted patients’ eyelids to reveal their pupils shrunken to the size of pinpricks, just like victims of the attack last week in the opposition-held northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun. Chemical weapons attack latest in litany of Syria atrocities 2017-04-10T04:00:00Z There are a couple of hundred in the stands at the Santa Maria bullring in La Gloria, Texas, a pinprick on the map 30 miles from the frontier with Mexico amid flat and forbidding ranches. Bloodless bullfighting in Texas frontier country: 'I call it the ballet of life' 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z “The assassination might not be the final pinprick, but we’re getting very close.” Myanmar Lawyer Had Sparred With Military Over Constitution Before He Was Killed 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z After a month-long offensive, government loyalists have surrounded the rebels in a tiny pinprick of territory of the strategic northern city. Aleppo evacuation deal for rebels shatters, violence surges 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Another, Theranos, promised but couldn't deliver on quick and cheap pinprick technology that it envisioned would allow people to bypass doctors for lab tests. HIV test on USB stick could be start of consumer revolution in disease monitoring 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z But such cowardly gestures are mere pinpricks compared to the damage Israel faces in the final days of the Obama presidency. Is Obama preparing a parting shot at Israel? 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Even pinprick cruise-missile strikes designed to hobble the Syrian air force or punish Assad would risk a direct confrontation with Russian forces, which are scattered throughout the key Syrian military bases that would be targeted. Washington’s foreign policy elite breaks with Obama over Syrian bloodshed 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z It was, as military operations go, one of those “pinprick” strikes armchair generals like to denounce as akin to putting a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound. U.S. Fires Missiles at Yemen and the 'Axis of Evil' Persists 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The United Nations calls the Syrian slaughter one of the worst since World War II, and yet our president is content with drone pinpricks and allied air patrols of quite limited effect. Syria’s tragedy and the United States 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The essence of it was that instead of having a vial of blood extracted from your arm, all that you needed was a pinprick’s worth. Beware sharp practices sailing under the tech flag | John Naughton 2016-09-11T04:00:00Z At that distance, sunlight reflected off its icy cloud tops takes nearly four hours to reach us, and the giant world is reduced to a pinprick of light that is invisible to the naked eye. This Week’s Night Sky: See an Eerie Pyramid of Light 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z “We check blood pressure and pulse, we do a pinprick to check red blood cells to make sure they’re safe—we don’t want to make our donors iron deficient,” Dr.Kreuter says. 7 Things to Know Before You Donate Blood 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z The public display of friendship seems to be a trial balloon, and many wondered when it would be burst by the pinprick of reality. Fear of a female administration? We’ll see 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Suddenly she can feel eyes like pinpricks on the backs of her legs, which are completely smooth. The secret life of a transgender airman - BBC News 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Its technology claims to be able to perform blood tests but with a pinprick of blood, rather than a traditional blood draw. Theranos could be banned from running labs for two years, regulators warn 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z In the film, the impact appears as a pinprick flash of light on the edge of the planet’s round face. See Jupiter Take One for the Solar System The word moni means “gem” in Bengali, but in common usage it also refers to something ineffably beautiful: the shining pinpricks of light in each eye. Madness Runs in the Family 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z There are too many daily pinprick stings to say that all of them devastate; if you were floored every time, you’d never get out of bed. A moment that changed me: it’s my third miscarriage and I’m losing the plot | Amy Swales 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z “Has anybody ever been where your whole world was black, and you got a little pinprick of light?” John Kasich Recalls Parents' Death in Appeal to Religious Voters 1461-05-18T05:00:00Z Soon, he could feel pinpricks in his right. Can an Unorthodox Operation Cure Paraplegia? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Amidst an onslaught of pinpricks, it's easy to see Trump dedicating his rambling campaign speeches, now focused largely on his poll numbers, to humiliating his Republican opponents in revenge. To Beat Trump, Treat Him Like a Loser 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z She was fascinated by the pinpricks of light in eyes. Madness Runs in the Family 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z My eyes scanned constellations and got caught on the pinprick outline of Orion, the hunter who heralds North America’s winter. A Job That Nourishes the Soul, if Not the Wallet 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z “The problem is, as Chairman Burr said, trying to use pinpricks with our airstrikes.” Republicans call on Obama to start defeating Islamic State 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z Consciousness boots up, a pinprick of light from far away, beckoning us closer. System reboot : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Theranos’s breakthrough technology claims to use just pinpricks of blood to get the results you used to need whole vials for. We should be suspicious of Silicon Valley unicorns and their exorbitant valuations | Mike Daisey 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Likewise, Warren’s victories, though a sign of the first-term senator’s clout, are pinpricks to an administration that’s getting what it wants on matters of much more importance to business, such as free trade. Elizabeth Warren is on the hunt again 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z He points out the president talked about a pinprick attack on Assad. Republican presidential debate: Trump and Bush clash but Fiorina stands out – as it happened 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Another wall shows the thousands of planes in the air above the United States as the attacks began, each represented by a pinprick of green light. A Long Road to a Place of Peace for Flight 93 Families 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z It was what many GOP colleagues criticized as a “pinprick” that did not win congressional authorization. Corker’s muddled argument against the Iranian nuclear deal 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z It uses the positions of stars to align itself, but gets confused when lots of new pinpricks of light appear. Scientists to get ringside view as comet 67P reaches closest point to Sun 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z The Wave is a small part of the wilderness area, a 2-acre "pinprick" in a special management area that has other breathtaking views and similar strata in the permitted area, says BLM spokeswoman Rachel Carnahan. Hike to richly colored geological upheaval along Arizona-Utah border not without danger 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z He points out the president talked about a pinprick attack on Assad. Republican presidential debate: Trump and Bush clash but Fiorina stands out – as it happened 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Experts said a simple pinprick test could give a diagnosis. Charities to launch hepatitis C testing campaign - BBC News 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z When Clyde Tombaugh discovered the planet in 1930, it was just a tiny glowing pinprick among thousands of background stars. See Pictures of Pluto Get More Amazing Through Time 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Up until the last few days, these tiny moons have only appeared to New Horizons as pinpricks of light in the distance. Humankind Reaches Pluto For The First Time Ever In New Horizons Flyby 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z The Martian day is 37 minutes longer than that of Earth, which will appear as a pinprick of light in a sky that contains two moons. Can Mars One colonise the red planet? 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z And the US military wasn’t built for a pinprick. Republican presidential debate: Trump and Bush clash but Fiorina stands out – as it happened 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z It need not be a pinprick - up to four or five millimetres across will still work. Eclipse: In sunshine or in shadow 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Little pinpricks of light — stars in a granite night — emanated from the headlamps of people waking up on high ledges, midway through private epics. The Heart-Stopping Climbs of Alex Honnold 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z To the north however, the image was dark, with one speck visible around the North Korean capital of Pyongyang and a few scattered pinpricks elsewhere. North Korea Touts Dark Satellite Photo in Editorial 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z And polyglot programs are a pinprick in a vast industry. Say what? 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z And the US military wasn’t built for a pinprick. Republican presidential debate: Trump and Bush clash but Fiorina stands out – as it happened 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z “The air operations alone are just a pinprick,” says Zinke, who believes boots on the ground will be necessary. A Different Kind of Service in Congress 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Instead of needles and syringes, test takers need only a pinprick to get the sample, much like an insulin test for diabetes patients. The Need for Better Ebola Tests 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z McCain, however, said Washington needed to revamp its two-month-old “pinprick” aerial bombing campaign by deploying special forces to improve targeting and to co-ordinate with Kurdish and Iraqi allies. McCain urges ground troops to defeat Isis: 'They're winning, and we're not' 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z But, for now, it appears to some the health care spending bubble may have experienced a pinprick. What's Behind the Slowdown in Health Care Costs 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Some of the seeds, such as slender penstemon, are the size of a pinprick. Zimmerman volunteers gather seeds, restore habitat 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z It was 2011, and Mann had his sights on inhaled insulin — a breakthrough that could spare millions of diabetics the pain of billions of daily pinpricks. At 88, billionaire inventor Alfred Mann's motivated by more than money 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z He was 5 years old, living with his mother, grandmother and brother in the pinprick town of Hayden, Ala. He liked to go crayfish hunting. With Intensive Swim Lessons, a Man Attacks His Fear of Water 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Relentless strikes would be far messier than the few pinprick air raids the U.S. has carried out so far—with the risk now of both massive civilian casualties and losing pilots to Syrian anti-aircraft missiles. How to Beat the Islamic State He is determined that America cannot act alone, but with the timid, as in the pinprick “offensive” now being waged “alongside others.” PRUDEN: Dealing with mad dogs 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z However, in an attempt to create the worst foreign policy in the history of the Republic, the Obama administration is engaged in pinprick strikes at select tactical targets. Obama Must Destroy the Islamic State in Iraq 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z Which explains everything since: Obama’s pinprick sanctions; his failure to rally a craven Europe; his refusal to supply Ukraine with the weapons it has been begging for. The vacant presidency It thinks the government is a colossal amoeba twitching mindlessly in response to tiny pinpricks of pain from an endless army of micro-brained interest groups. 1776 2.0: The Front Lines Of The New Revolt 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Even though circulation had long since stopped, blood has risen to the surface of the holes — glistening pinpricks that would, in a living body, gradually harden into scars. Sultan of scalp: one doctor peels back the skin to find a better cure for baldness 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z We slide one out and lift a fine screen to see thousands of pink eggs with pinprick eyes bobbing in the water. Why Won't the Government Let You Eat Superfish? 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z At short distances, the variation becomes extreme: Individual galaxies are surrounded by voids, and within the galaxies, stars pinprick empty space. Big Bang Secrets Swirling in a Fluid Universe 2014-02-21T16:00:00Z So there it is: comets are fuzzy, and asteroids are discrete pinpricks of light. Astronomers Puzzle Over Newfound Asteroid That Acts Like a Comet 2013-11-01T21:15:00.607Z And thus he said in his Tuesday-night address to the nation that the U.S. didn’t do “pinpricks.” Syria: What Have We Learned? 2013-09-12T17:31:00Z And thus he said in his Tuesday night address to the nation that the US didn’t do “pinpricks.” Syria: What Have We Learned? 2013-09-12T17:31:00Z Reacting to comments by Mr. Kerry that military action against Syria would be “unbelievably small,” Mr. Obama said any attack would not be felt like a “pinprick” in Syria. Obama Backs Idea for Syria to Cede Control of Arms 2013-09-10T01:23:54Z The Arizona Republican, who has pushed Obama to take more aggressive action against Syria, said during CBS’ “Face the Nation” Sunday that a U.S. strike there “can’t just be, in my view, pinprick cruise missiles.” Obama Meeting with John McCain on Syria 2013-09-02T14:50:24Z That would remind him of the cruise-missile attacks the Clinton Administration lobbed into Africa and the Middle East: “We used to refer to them as `really big pinpricks.’ The Careful Calibration of an Attack on Syria 2013-08-29T19:35:26Z Captured by the agency’s Cassini spacecraft, the image shows our entire planet as just a tiny pinprick of light, far beyond the rings of Saturn. Stunning Photos Of The Earth From Space 2013-07-26T17:45:00Z It does not harm normal tissue and other pain-sensing nerves, such as those that produce the feeling of pinpricks or pinches. Prickly Painkiller 2013-07-15T14:15:00.577Z “The U.S. does not do pinpricks,” he said in the NBC interview. Obama Backs Idea for Syria to Cede Control of Arms 2013-09-10T01:23:54Z There are two tiny pinpricks of light on the horizon, at least. Why does the games industry have such a problem with female protagonists? 2013-06-12T13:39:23Z Many in the cFES group recovered the ability to feel a pinprick or a light touch. Rewiring a Damaged Spinal Cord [Video] 2013-04-04T11:45:02.857Z Then he senses the robotic surgeon's pinprick of one of the fingers. How Artificial Arms Could Connect to the Nervous System (preview) 2013-01-14T12:45:19.283Z “It's like a pinprick on an elephant,” he says. Planetary disasters: It could happen one night 2013-01-09T18:21:41.740Z These are pinpricks compared to the problems facing the India side. Ease of England's victory means it is India's turn to tremble 2012-11-26T11:39:13Z She could feel tickles and pressure and distinguish a soft touch from a pinprick, but she couldn’t perceive extremes of temperature. Ashlyn Blocker, the Girl Who Feels No Pain 2012-11-15T17:52:47Z These were mere pinpricks, however, amid a raft of other measures – almost invariably justified by the fight against terrorism – that turned Britain into one of the most surveilled states in the western world. Finally Ed Miliband could recalibrate Labour as a party of liberty 2012-07-18T20:30:01Z Black holes, even the really hugely massive ones, are tiny – positively microscopic pinpricks scattered throughout the vastness of spacetime. Black Holes are Everywhere 2012-06-11T16:45:00.417Z The sensor — a chip of silicon with 96 pinprick electrodes connecting to a patch of neurons — transmitted those neurons’ firing patterns from this imaginary movement to a computer, through a wire. Paralyzed, Moving a Robot With Their Minds 2012-05-18T14:20:04Z In other words, the M's are doing something other than "death by a thousand pinprick singles" against opponents. Mariners showing improvement on offense one fifth of way through season 2012-05-10T18:00:08Z But as Clauser knew well from his radio-astronomy work, apertures in the real world are always wider than a mathematical pinprick. How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival [Excerpt] 2012-01-30T18:15:00.243Z No wound was visible, not even a drop of blood to cover a pinprick: but I could feel no beating of the heart; and the swift vanishing of the man in chain armour was ominous. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z It might have been a pinprick, and he dented the steel with his teeth. The Honour of Savelli A Romance 2011-12-10T03:00:15.560Z They are going to keep up the guerrilla war, using small units, pinprick operations, surprise hits on the military, and avoid direct confrontations. Give up or die, Santos tells Colombia rebel boss 2011-11-17T16:58:54Z Underneath bewilderment, misunderstanding, the pinpricks of pride, and the smart of old resentments, I had been happy. Mavis of Green Hill 2011-10-12T02:00:41.317Z Here and there, pinprick points of blood surfaced along the scar, active protests of dislodged threads, which shined conspicuously beside the ruddy incision. Through these Eyes The courageous struggle to find meaning in a life stressed with cancer 2011-08-14T02:00:18.947Z But a few drops of blood from a pinprick on the newborn’s heel can be analyzed with radioimmunoassay to identify babies at risk. Rosalyn S. Yalow, Nobel Medical Physicist, Dies at 89 2011-06-02T00:50:11Z They were above suspicion, and they just simply laughed and talked and pushed their pinpricks home, preparing the way for the d�nouement. The Son of his Father 2011-06-01T02:00:21.287Z The pain source was a "pinprick" sensation caused by the heat from a laser aimed at one of their hands. Why Crossing Your Arms Helps Kill Pain 2011-05-23T14:10:00Z In the modern world dictatorship relies on the darkness of ignorance and every text message, every e-mail and every satellite news broadcast was a pinprick of light. Lingering dread 2011-03-05T12:03:02Z On our most recent inventory we worked in a tiny pinprick of a vast landscape. Scientist at Work: Q. and A. on Peru's Northern Amazon 2011-03-04T17:27:48Z In the windows of Mandeleys little pinpricks of light were beginning to show. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z Suddenly the darkness was pierced by a faint ray of light emanating from a mere pinprick of luminosity. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z It is a tricky problem, but a pinprick compared to the difficulties facing Flower's peers in the Australia set-up. Andy Flower plots assault on summit of the game 2011-01-08T22:06:00Z Patches are blackened, and little holes—like pinpricks—burned through. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z Would a series of pinprick day strikes do the job, or were we in knockout, drag-out territory? Be wary of the walkout 2010-10-03T18:00:00Z The Cook dilemma is a pinprick compared to the problems facing Pakistan. A drop of indignity could help Alastair Cook regain his Test form 2010-08-14T23:06:00Z The group now wants to explore allowing American doctors to perform a ceremonial pinprick or small nick on young girls, if it would keep their families from pursuing circumcision. Has a U.S. Pediatrics Group Condoned Genital Cutting? 2010-05-11T17:20:00Z That ability is crucial to one of Hood's objectives: pinprick tests that diagnose disease in its earliest stages by detecting minute changes in a person's blood. Fremont lab suddenly a force 2010-04-06T04:57:00Z The countries near North Korea — Japan, South Korea, China — are ablaze with splotches and pinpricks of light, with beaming civilization. 2010-01-27T05:41:00Z The hour of departure for the Christmas festivities at Wood Grange came as a relief from the persistent pinpricks of unexplained emotion which tormented him. Man and Maid Each one of these incidents, trifling though they were in themselves, had been like pinpricks of humiliation to the little man whose geniality had been almost a byword. Jacob's Ladder On the glazed screen of his space-map the mirrored pinpricks of sun systems glittered like microscopic gems scattered over the curve of a gigantic black saucer. The Instant of Now The social pinpricks inflicted there had rendered her more alert, more cautious, than was her wont. The Silent Barrier Somewhere he could find a haven for himself and Ann, a pinprick of light in the high-arching firmament which the cartels had overlooked. The Cartels Jungle It was an era of friction and pinpricks, of bluster and retaliation. The Day of Sir Wilfrid Laurier A Chronicle of Our Own Time "Yes," said his father, still furious from the pinprick. The Quality of Mercy Such pinpricks were generally superficial, to be brushed aside and treated without undue consideration until such time as some resulting fester might gather and drastic action become necessary. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills They seemed to mock the motionless human figure, so tiny, so inconsequential, that stared at them, numerous tiny pinpricks of light, so remote. The Martian Cabal In the center of each the red spark that represented the Ertak glowed like a coal of fire; all around were the green pinpricks of light that showed the position of other bodies around us. The Terror from the Depths He knew not even the pinpricks of jealousy. The Rough Road Alína, my dear, do not pursue me with pinpricks and insinuations. The Light Shines in Darkness In fact, his policy of military pinpricks, while apparently wasteful and inconclusive, had prevented that concentration of the enemy's force which alone could ensure the capture of London. William Pitt and the Great War Occasional pinpricks of brightness showed and were gone. The Winds of Time The pinprick explosions of the Garnell shells dotted space around her—but never on her. The Ultimate Weapon He sat down to examine his ankle, on which four tiny pinpricks were visible. Sacrifice Somehow he felt oddly reluctant to inflict even a pinprick of pain on this particular patient. Afterwards It is a characteristic of that society that even its saints are suspected, and I go too far in saying that little pinpricks were not administered, in considerable numbers to her reputation. The Path Of Duty Used as he had become, the past two years, to pinpricks of this sort, his colour betrayed how much the present pinprick hurt him. The Brentons Thousands of feet below, like little pinpricks of red fire, they saw the lights of Monte Carlo. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo Two pinpricks, a quarter of an inch deep, stung in my palm. The Door Through Space In a purpling sky the stars popped out like pinpricks and the peace that passes all understanding came over us. Roughing it De Luxe Polly again had a pinprick of uneasiness in her heart, and a vivid recollection of the highest mountain which she was certainly not trying to climb. Polly A New-Fashioned Girl If I could have taken O'Brien with me into the other world, I would have died to save her the pain of so much as a pinprick. Romance The eyes of the man seemed suddenly like pinpricks of fire. Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo These individual strikes such as you're planning are just like pinpricks on the hide of an elephant. A People's Man When he laid his hand on the knob pinpricks played over his scalp and galloped down his spine. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story Sir Alfred, however, like the wise man he was, preferred to ignore these pinpricks, and invariably treated Rhodes with the utmost courtesy and attention. Cecil Rhodes Man and Empire-Maker After all, beside this great and important question of money what were these small worries but pinpricks. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town But if the financial return is adequate there will naturally be some compensation for all these pinpricks. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers I think that the first thing I said to you was that this strike, if it took place, would be like the pinprick on an elephant's hide. A People's Man He could bear sorrow like a man, but to bear pinpricks beside was almost too much to ask. 'Doc.' Gordon And if he had tender feelings himself—as he obviously had—why should he expect all the people he attacked with his pinpricks to have none? In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Her lips showed a straight line, and her eyes, beneath her white summer hat, seemed contracted to pinpricks. Lord of the World He could not have been wakened now by pinpricks or by cannon or by caresses. The Duel and Other Stories It reproaches Heaven with its thunderbolts and its pinpricks. The Man Who Laughs And finally his last service as President had brought him disgusts, pinpricks which probably wore more on his spirits than did the direct blows of his opponents. George Washington A great many of them were pinpricks rather than jokes; he only made them "to annoy." In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Death seemed to follow instantly the slightest pinprick of a bowman's arrow, nor apparently did one ever miss its goal. Thuvia, Maid of Mars A man with a crushed body does not feel pinpricks. The Burial of the Guns She is always giving little pinpricks to the Government over here, either about maritime law or one thing or another. The Pawns Count The offence itself seemed a pinprick beside the rankle of the wound to her pride. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution The Doulebovs tried all sorts of pinpricks and coarse insinuations; their companions followed suit. The Created Legend The sandalwood souvenirs from Mysore possess a delightful fragrance which time does not exhaust; a slight pinprick revives the odor. Autobiography of a Yogi Impatience and pinpricks were, indeed, the causes of popular irritation, rather than any such crisis as those of the autumn of 1914 or the spring of 1918. A Short History of the Great War He gave a little snarl as he felt the pinprick through his shirt sleeve. The Pawns Count To pinprick with rudeness a victim who answered back was entertaining; but there was small fun in baiting anybody who sat silently knitting with a half-smile of contempt at the corners of her mouth. Back to Billabong She was beginning to shoot out little pinpricks, but even that did not help her now; neither of them feared her. Growth of the Soil So many affronts, so many pinpricks, day after day, had made his heart quiver, lodging in it to sleep the sleep of lethargic vipers, and they now were awaking to shake and hiss with fury. The Reign of Greed On the other hand, if he'd addressed all his envelopes by pinpricks filled in with pencil lines, the post-office people might get curious and look into one. Average Jones First of all, the pinprick of light of a tiny electric torch seemed as though it had risen from the floor, and Hassan, pushing back a trap-door, stepped into the bare, dusty conventicle. The Pawns Count The cavalry horses and transport animals suffered from bursati, and even a pinprick expanded into a large open sore. The River War An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan As they scrambled along the Garple Dean a pinprick of light below showed where the tinklers were busy by their fire. Huntingtower It dulled their sense of justice and made them impatient under the pinpricks which came from the United States. Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty An ordinary sealed envelope, addressed in pinpricks connected by pencil lines. Average Jones Hence, during a period of twenty years, the ancient r�gime while attempting to grow easier, appear to be still more burdensome, and its pinpricks exasperate as if they were so many wounds. The Ancient Regime Besides, to shoot a mere amateur in Chouannerie would be as absurd as to fire on a balloon when a pinprick would disinflate it. The Chouans In 1911, another South African Governor authorized the publication of regulations in which, by prohibiting the employment of coloured artisans on the South African mines, the pinpricks were accentuated. Native Life in South Africa These pinpricks have stabbed me to the heart, and I have not the strength to bear it. Anna Karenina |
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