"Although this flapping motion could not lift the dinosaur into the air at that time, the motion of flapping wings may have developed earlier than gliding."
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"The beach umbrella was flapping in the breeze," she read.
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"You can't leave him flapping in the wind," he said.
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A stiff breeze set the dog's ears flapping like flags.
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"You don't want your jacket flapping around," Mr. Sartori said.
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He popped one into his mouth, its wings still flapping.
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The Robird depends solely on flapping its wings for propulsion.
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Kungel said the wing-flapping motion can be more like gliding.
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Once he stops flapping his hands, Trump takes over the debate.
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There is no flapping of wings, no angelic greeting, only silence.
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Hordes of spotted lanternflies are flapping through the state, threatening agriculture.
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Oh, and huge piece of basil flapping, unnoticed, in my teeth.
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One was flapping its wings, something birds often do to exercise.
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Drones with flapping wings do exist — including a DARPA-backed drone that resembles a hummingbird, built by US company Aeroenviroment back in 2010 — but it's fair to say that flapping drones are the exception not the rule.
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For one, he's pretty good at flapping his cape like a dragon!
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There was no escaping its giant saucer eyes and frantically flapping wings.
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The show ended with two black dresses, one with flapping black beads.
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Her flapping coat makes it look as though she's soaring on wings.
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Her face and arms are hidden, sleeves flapping empty at her sides.
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The waddling, honking, and flapping all seemed properly goose-like to me.
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After all, this Dutch flapping flyer can go a kilometer on battery power.
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"So anyone could remotely have the lid flapping, flooding the bathroom," he said.
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You can have hair and clothes flapping in the wind if you want.
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It flies by flapping its wings and steers by using two tail fins.
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This flapping motion was passive—a side effect of running on the ground.
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Some vessels were decorated with good luck flags, flapping in a cold wind.
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The classic black lettering, the crisp pin-striped canopy flapping in the wind.
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Air is not the only medium through which animals move by flapping, however.
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They looked as though they were about to start flapping and fly away.
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We're slowly puttering along for about three hours with the sail silently flapping.
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Dedicated buttons for honking (which affects gameplay) and flapping your wings (which doesn't).
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"Stop the waves, stop the smog," said one banner flapping in the wind.
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Flags that are forever flapping in the winds coming off of the Sacramento mountains.
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That flapping sound you hear is a red flag undulating gently in the wind.
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People seem to be enjoying the food, but I can't stop thinking flapping chicken.
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Netanyahu tweeted a video of himself and Barzilai flapping their arms in unison Wednesday.
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And like the real thing, it swims by flapping its fins up and down.
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Just as a demonstrator of how you can make something flapping go very fast.
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After all, we still have winged dinosaurs flapping around in every ecosystem on Earth.
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Today, we stumbled upon the cutest video of a baby bat flapping its wings.
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Even at the beginning with the swallows in Brighton, the flapping of the wings.
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She squirms in her seat, hands flapping in disgust, and doesn't mince her words.
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We all contain within us a secret moth flapping toward the flame of destruction.
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If they're not flapping, they're not hunting — and therefore, not scaring away their prey.
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But how do you get a machine to mimic a falcon flapping its wings?
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Yet there's something fundamentally generic about Newt, with his flapping feet and innocuous eccentricities.
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Gary Cohn, the director of the National Economic Council, is flapping his own wings.
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Seconds later, he re-emerged, holding on to a chaotic mess of flapping flippers.
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Yet there it was on the control-room screen, impotently flapping in the supersonic breeze.
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But this can attach to your clothing, so it's not flapping around as you move.
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Gavin heard a flapping noise and pictured Father trying to keep Bernie's flailing fists down.
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They have been found flapping their tiny flippers off the coast of California and Japan.
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At least one bird creates a specific, audible warning with the flapping of its wings.
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But that's all that's needed to power Robobee's actuators and flapping wings—at least briefly.
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Getting on TV and flapping your lips regurgitating the same dumb lines year after year.
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In this way, the passive jostling provided "basic training for later flapping flight," he said.
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But as it ran, flapping was evident, and sensors measured a small amount of lift.
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"I looked up and I could see his curtain flapping in the wind," he said.
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"There was a lot of flying, gliding and flapping around these ancient lakes," Poust said.
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At that time, the bags had begun to vex me, flapping in the city's trees.
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Teachers are attuned to spot backpacks with a broken strap, shoes with a flapping sole.
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It's the butterfly flapping its wings in New Mexico and causing a hurricane in China.
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My favorite from the beginning is the bird flapping its wings in one-third g.
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Machado and Harper are not the only quality free agents left flapping in the wind.
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Amazingly, these noises don't come from the birds' mouths, but from the flapping of their wings.
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Just the howl of exploding gasoline and the flapping of its driver's ascot in the wind.
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Flight is about more than just getting into the air—while flapping, animals must remain stable.
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"She didn't meet the stereotypical behaviors of no eye contact, no communication, hand flapping," Klein said.
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Finding an indoor pool where I could swim laps as a flapping, splashing beginner, for example.
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There's nothing quite like the adorable sound of turtles flapping their way back into the sea.
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Eventually, Dreckman used a pair of tweezers to pull the moth out, its wings still flapping.
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And I love Alik's homage to Akira Kurosawa with the flapping banners during Theon's baptism scene.
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You never see a gratuitous penis flapping about on-screen but I've seen so many boobies.
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Contrary to popular belief, it's not just a collection of randomized arm flapping and emphatic gestures!
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Buck, his shoulder-length blond mane flapping in the breeze at Martha Stewart Stadium, is outraged.
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In both cases, running movements triggered a passive flapping motion, affirming the modal effective mass calculations.
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She's been flying, pecking at grass, and flapping her wings like a normal, un-speared bird.
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It's angrier than the fairy wings flapping gossamer inside us and it becomes time to leave.
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Another half, of course, is giddy, frothing, flapping about in a sugar-rush of undiluted repression.
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We see dinosaurs hauled into the air by cranes, flapping their limbs around like disco dancers.
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"Sexx Laws" opens Midnite Vultures with a huge brassy fanfare, a groovy guitar flapping around underneath.
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Others are on the "ground-up" side, positing that dinosaurs went airborne by running and flapping.
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You can hear the breeze, and the tent flapping and the sound of a man snoring.
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Mr. Powell's responses may set the markets aflutter — not that it isn't flapping wildly enough already.
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Mr. Rooster sometimes chased me quite a distance across the yard, squawking and flapping his wings.
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I opened it up and spotted something new nestled between the lock screen's flapping butterfly wings.
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If she was flapping her wings at me, I'd flap my arms as if they were wings.
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Large bamboo leaves ran down the first 5003 feet of the rope, flapping like fuzzy moth wings.
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Going on TV or whatever, flapping my gums [laughs] about this guy doesn't do it for me.
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Shouts became whispers, drowned out by the hissing of flags flapping, and tree branches bending and cracking.
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It means flapping her hands, a form of stimulation or "stimming" that many autistic people find comforting.
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Once they have that image, ask them to begin slowly flapping their wings and imagine being airborne.
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Turn the sound on if you want to hear some strange shrills and loud flapping of wings.
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The porg on the carpet looked up at me, its watery eyes pleading, tiny wings flapping uselessly.
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So a butterfly flapping its wings in one place could cause ... Right, the old Ray Bradbury, right?
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She would instead fling open her interior life like French window shutters flapping in a stiff breeze.
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The video, from the early 1990s, shows Trudeau flapping his arms about and sticking his tongue out.
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And when she did, she saw a girl there, blonde ponytail flapping out from underneath her helmet.
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Perhaps these seemingly supernatural occurrences are the effects of some metaphorical butterfly flapping its wings decades ago.
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I could actually see the shadow of the curtain flapping in the breeze above me on Monday.
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Police tape strung up around entire residential blocks, "ASBESTOS" warning signs flapping in the hot, dry wind.
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Maggie Hassan when Zona stepped out from the crowd and made straight for them, yelling and flapping.
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Yes, she was quite a sight in her fantastical costume, a mothlike figure with multiple flapping wings.
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Devil rays in the Sea of Cortez move in large groups, flapping their fins like birds' wings.
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Its members descend on the beach in Ugg boots and flapping Dryrobe ponchos, looking like colorful seagulls.
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They were able to see the flapping motion of the wings at different speeds, as they had calculated.
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He was looking out of the corner of his eyes and flapping his hands in front of them.
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No, it's a goofy teenager in a Superman suit, his cape flapping courtesy of a black-clad assistant.
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The waterlily beetle dips its claws in the water, essentially hooking itself to the surface, and starts flapping.
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MELTED, I have been transformed, springing forth from the desert ashes like a phoenix flapping my wristband wings.
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And then the face-skin disappears and you're both just disembodied eyes and tongues flapping in the breeze.
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Click here to view original GIFThe robotic model of Caudipteryx showing the passive wing flapping motion during running.
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I write those checks and I see hundred dollar bills flapping off on big, Canada goose sized wings.
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Behold the "Merb'ys"—a breed of Canadian bearded mermen flapping their fur and fins for a good cause.
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The side effects range from dizziness, tingling, and carpopedal spasms, which is basically flapping your arms and legs.
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And nor is there anyone like Gary Sheffield, arms violently flapping like windshield wipers in a torrential downpour.
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He has done this the way the fabled butterfly does it, as its wing-flapping sets off revolutions.
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The Times conveniently forgot all the froth as the lefties got their flippers flapping to oppose Ebell's appointment.
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Trust that I have no idea what happens — flapping wings and much shouting were all I could register.
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Everybody in Alabama is getting awfully tired of seeing those old dirty sheets flapping around on Perry Street.
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If that happened, the boat would be sprawled on its side, sails flapping and everyone hanging on grimly.
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So what would active flight look like, if it's not the up and down flapping of modern birds?
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Six months into their efforts, Schafer came running into Stevens's office with photo images flapping in her hand.
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And even though I can control the rocking and flapping now, I don't think I should have to.
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" Asked for an opinion on the engineering challenges of flapping, Dr Mirko Kovac, director of the Aerial Robotics Lab at Imperial College London, tells us: "Flapping wing flight has several advantages compared to propeller based solutions, including the ability for high manoeuvrability and potentially low energy consumption during forward flight.
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But a radically redesigned turbine with flapping wings instead of spinning blades might finally solve both of those problems.
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Much like a flag flapping in the breeze, they would generate a drag force and flutter under certain conditions.
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A freely flapping cape has relatively high drag, and cannot generate lift, so it fails miserably on all counts.
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In Australia on Wednesday a kangaroo was spotted on Noosa Golf Course, apparently mesmerised by a flapping golf flag.
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Next thing you know, he's dropping trou and flapping Curly's Gold around in the breeze for everyone to see.
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He immediately grabbed his ankle and began screaming in agony, rolling around and flapping his arms back and forth.
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As soon as it took off, my top went down and bikini flew open, boobs flapping in the wind.
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Everywhere was the rustle of flapping plastic, fly buzz, distant bassquake from the all-day nightclubs in the hub.
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So I say let them distract us all they like, let them keep going, flapping their lips about this.
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At the moment, Twitter, the social-media company that he helped found, is mostly flapping about under his helm.
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Butterfree's vast wings can stir up a wind strong enough to lift a 10-ton truck, just by flapping.
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In December of last year, a Scottish newspaper uncovered evidence of widespread drugging of dogs on the flapping circuit.
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Doves cooed on perches nearby; when one of them got trapped in a fountain, Perlman lifted it out, flapping.
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She ignored her father—lanky shins, flapping shoes—and showed her mother the raw dough in her lunch bucket.
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I watch them pass on their bicycles,also black, with backpack straps flapping,wings working hard but too small.
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The seizures may trigger developmental disabilities for a lifetime, often accompanied by aggressive behavior, hand flapping, and difficulty speaking.
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Birders flocked to Nickerson to get glimpses of hundreds of shearwaters unsuccessfully fighting wind and fog, like flapping flotsam.
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Despite the red flags flapping for the economy, many Americans say they're not financially prepared for the next recession.
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"When she started warming up to me, she would do some of the crane courtship [rituals] which involve running around with the wings flapping, bobbing her head, jumping up and down, flapping her wings, and picking up crumbs or grass or flowers and tossing them in the air and catching them," recalls Crowe.
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By the time Angaluma drop-kicked the flaming bird into the crowd, it was still alive, flapping its wings frantically.
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Imagine a sheet flapping in the breeze—it moves differently depending on whether it's parallel or perpendicular to the wind.
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Hand flapping, rocking, and other forms of stimming serve as important means of emotional and sensory regulation for autistic children.
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Melodies by Bach, Prokofiev and Strauss all got more than 80 percent of the fetuses flapping their itty-bitty gums.
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I'm literally the last person in the world who should be flapping his gums about who is and isn't woke.
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Their large, hair-covered bodies give them an ability to internally heat up by flapping their wings at different speeds.
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This year's version, on June 12th, was festive, with banners flapping under a blue sky and diners enjoying free food.
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By using a quad-wing flapping system, this odd little bot can flit, hover, and land like a fruit fly.
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So if you see a fashionable feathered friend flapping around the next time you visit the UK, don't be frightened.
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I'd like to think that Balestrini skiing down into Chamonix, his scarf flapping, whether told or not, is literature, too.
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Part of the problem with the original show was that we had to keep flapping our wings and keep extending.
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According to the docs, obtained by TMZ, Cohen's biggest issue is the frequency with which Avenatti is flapping his gums.
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UK biomimetic engineering startup Animal Dynamics is building a microdrone with wings inspired by the flapping flight of a dragonfly.
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It works on the same principle your hose does when you turn it on and it starts flapping around everywhere.
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Observing oscillation "does not prove that this dynamic 'trained' early feathered dinosaurs in executing a birdlike flapping motion," he said.
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The judge said that Mr. Sidhu appeared to have been distracted by a flapping tarp on one of the trailers.
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In a faux fur cape, hole-punched to create little flapping sequins, like doorways into time, atop a tweed skirt.
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Many glass windows in the seven-story building were sucked out of their frames, leaving curtains flapping in the breeze.
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When the signal from the device reached full strength, my hand was flapping uncontrollably, like a flag in the breeze.
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When I came back under it was floating as if in slow motion, flapping prehistoric-looking fins, banking to the left.
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Not only are the flapping winds quieter, its creator claims they are less prone to being damaged in high wind scenarios.
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Pterosaurs lived between 230 million and 66 million years ago, and they were the first vertebrates to achieve true flapping flight.
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I resorted to a sort of backward wave to mimic my lashes naturally growing longer and flapping in an imaginary breeze.
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Trump got out of a *limo* and boarded the *presidential aircraft* with a scrap of tissue flapping from his left foot.
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Breaking Bad's pilot started with Walt's pants flapping in the wind, as he stood with a gun in his tighty-whities.
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Harry Potter fan site Pottermore previewed the cover with the Hogwarts Express covered in smoke and an owl flapping its wings.
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Mom says to make sure the doors are locked so the old bird can't get out and start flapping her wings.
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Numerical models suggested the passive flapping motion at speeds between 8.2 and 19 feet per second (2.5 to 5.8 m/s).
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The end result is a little kooky-looking (think a chicken flapping its wings underwater), but it gets the job done.
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Just as a butterfly flapping its wings causes a hurricane somewhere, every perceived slight from Melania creates a storm of thinkpieces.
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How could they create a single powerful upward impulse that gets it free and clear, where it can resume effective flapping?
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Nocturnal, burrowing, bottom-heavy and just about a foot tall, they waddled with a hunched determination, flapping their expressive little wings.
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I thought they'd laugh at my flapping upper arms and my wrinkly neck, even though many of them admire Nora Ephron.
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As we reached our spot, we noticed a gray mass of flapping feathers in the bike lane next to our car.
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" Now, there will be a pair of debuts in the role of Kitri, the fan-flapping, fiery heroine of "Don Quixote.
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Fixes The bird, apparently a female falcon, wheels into view 215 feet over Edmonton International Airport, flapping her wings — hunting behavior.
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As something of a hectic multi-hyphenate herself, she's believable as a woman flapping around in a whirlwind of underfinanced dreams.
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Its motorized, iridescent, blue morpho flapping wings lured me into an infinite private tumult of contradictory impulses that never stop fluttering.
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Its 11 points were chosen after a wind tunnel test to see how the leaf would look flapping in the breeze.
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In the video, an American flag is seen flapping frantically and tugging at its flagpole, which is shaking in the wind.
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The Tower is famous for its large ravens, but I only saw one of them flapping about while I was there.
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To be sure, art isn't simply a mass-produced commodity, but nothing spurs some wallet flapping like an industrial-sized marketplace.
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It probably captured its prey by flapping its graspy bits toward one another, forcing its helpless victims into its anus-shaped mouth.
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Roughly speaking, I'd expect the drag for a cape to be about the same as for a flag flapping in the breeze.
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The more he kept on trying to use the net, the more it kept on flapping its wings and knocking everything over.
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The films' soundtracks are also specially encoded so the speakers can properly represent birds flapping overhead or noises coming from offscreen locations.
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Cue feather eyebrows- the latest edition to a long list of ever-changing, divisive beauty crazes flapping its wings and taking flight.
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With its wings flapping up to 10 times per second, the bat flew at 12 MPH and dove at over 30 MPH.
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I'd jump out and run down the wooden planks, arms flapping in anticipation and excitement, to get a rainbow ice cream cone.
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Like a pack of puppies they jump all over you, flapping their sides, lobbing themselves onto your back and shoulders for attention.
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Not only that, but tiny robots like the Robobee require a wired power connection, and other tiny flapping craft require manual piloting.
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Pinecones crunching beneath your boots, pup tents flapping in the breeze, a wood-fired pizza oven that doubles as a phone charger.
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In a manner of speaking, it's just swaying in the breeze: arms flapping, mouth tunelessly singing, as it reacts to its surroundings.
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More experienced students like Parviainen practise tricks such as flapping their tail on the surface while hanging with their head down underwater.
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From there they will fly downward with the winds for about 11 miles without flapping until they find another rising air current.
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Metropolitan Diary Dear Diary: Let us now mourn the umbrellas all over New Yorklying on sidewalks, wings flapping like dying black storks.
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He pulls his elbows in tight, and his arms pivot back and forth across his face like a butterfly flapping its wings.
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And when he orders you to stop flapping around in the prison courtyard and get the hell in the car, do it.
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Often, the loudest sound at night is the flapping of the wings of the giant fruit bats that colonize the city's trees.
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However, I stayed in bed, counting technicolor elephants flapping their ears as they soared through the air with the greatest of ease.
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He struggled with a flapping tarp against the rain, and was troubled by misgivings as he hurtled above a darkened Coney Island.
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We need to actually be able to define the problem instead of just flapping around this new language that creates more problems.
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We set out with Geuze in the lead, cycling upright and one-handed, coat flapping, point-and-shoot camera outstretched, snapping away.
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So, it is back to the drawing board for coming up with a better picture of the details of flapping-wing flight.
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Its 11 points were decided on after a wind tunnel test to see how the leaf would look flapping in the breeze.
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But whenever Justin looked over his shoulder, that crazy old guy in the flapping barn coat was still hot on his heels.
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Have you ever witnessed a girl wrangle a flapping map half the size of her body on the corner of a busy intersection?
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At very small scales, fixed-wing and multirotor designs become less efficient, and insect-like drones with flapping wings may make more sense.
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Trevor—oh, good time to introduce Trevor, the man I hired the chickens from—is following her, clutching a chicken flapping its wings.
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Solving this should not, however, be too hard—and once it is done they hope RoboFly will be flapping happily around their laboratory.
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Flapping in the wind, the images are particularly well placed considering the focus of the protest at the camp, the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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The new study is interesting in that it's presenting a possible gateway to this capacity—the passive flapping of proto-wings during running.
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Such trivia would scarcely summon a yawn from a layperson, but to a constitutional lawyer like Kalt, it was a flapping red flag.
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People were starting to understand that heavier than air machines could work — birds work, if their wings aren't flapping they fall down. Right.
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Or, as Lorenz would later present the idea, even a seagull flapping its wings might eventually make a big difference to the weather.
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Mr Smith is a good speaker: he lilts, alliterates, leans on his vowels and is visual (describing the prolix Mr Corbyn's "flapping lips").
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These days, even the male equestrians, surely the most fully attired of all Olympians, favor skintight breeches over the flapping jodhpurs of yesteryear.
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Mr. Tucci is the most unflappable of actors, which makes Ted's inevitable and dramatic flapping all the more terrible and amusing to witness.
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When the soprano Kathryn Lewek first appears as the Queen of the Night, it's as a strange moth-like demon with flapping wings.
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"'Dumbo' is a delightful movie, but an elephant is never going to fly by flapping its ears," says Michael Roston, a science editor.
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"Dumbo is a delightful movie, but an elephant is never going to fly by flapping its ears," says Michael Roston, a science editor.
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He was still chuckling as he moved on to another table, his shirttails flapping amid a dining room filled with suits and dresses.
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The French Revolution, which sends smoke signals flapping and blowing across the English Channel all the way to Bristol, entrances the radical couple.
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Like, for example, what to do when you are wearing a big, swingy jacket and don't want it flapping around in the breeze?
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He aimed the flashlight at the entry valve, and we went with a whoosh back through the flapping tube and onto the stepladder.
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The seven-minute VR headset tour will be an intimate encounter, including a virtual flight aboard a wing-flapping glider da Vinci sketched.
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Forever observed, accompanied by omnipresent K.G.B. minders, they're exotic fish out of water, flapping around uselessly, gasping for oxygen and struggling to survive.
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I looked over my shoulder and opened my eyes to bright neon and orange, a construction worker's vest, his dreadlocks flapping in the wind.
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They soar through the sky like a bird by flapping their arms, and the contraption responds by dipping and banking to match their movements.
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Illustration: Durbed/WikimediaThat said, much of Archaeopteryx's unique anatomy suggests it used a flapping motion and an aerial posture not seen in modern birds.
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If you've ever seen Donald Trump's combover flapping in the wind, you know how satisfying it is to see unflattering images of political candidates.
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As the motor begins to spin, the slabs of leather fan out and smack the side of a rock creating a distinct flapping noise.
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The crowd was so flat, Sherwood was running up and down flapping his hands, and it didn't seem like any of the players cared.
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As I write this, Nina and Baldwin are sharing a perch, flapping their wings at each other in a dance I only half understand.
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Footage from the animals' time on the ice shows the penguins running and flapping their wings in shock when the pyrotechnics explode behind them.
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And when lumped together, they become something bordering on transcendent: a squishy, satisfying mess of naked, flapping body parts that makes QWOP look tame.
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Not a word of Mandarin was heard amid the din of negotiations, interrupted by cooing from metal cages and the occasional flapping of wings.
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Image: holbox/ShutterstockMigratory birds can glide over very long distances with minimal wing-flapping, thanks to their strategic use of rising warm air currents.
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A butterfly flapping its wings in the US tends to cause a rippling of effects in the countries looking to the States for guidance.
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It's a super agile robot with a quad-wing flapping system, and it's capable of flying just as nimbly as a real winged insect.
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In order to get one, you first need to keep a completely useless, flapping goldfish in your team, taking up a valuable roster spot.
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We're talking earth-shattering, world-shaking events much larger than the proverbial butterfly flapping its wings in China and causing a tornado in Kansas.
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When he refused and insisted that I dance, even though I was on crutches, I immediately began shaking my bottom and flapping my arms.
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Credit... DONNA, Texas — Two giant construction cranes tower over harvested sugar cane fields, topped by a pair of checkered flags flapping in the wind.
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A United Airlines passenger filmed part of a plane engine cover peeling off and flapping in the wind during his flight on Sunday morning.
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By that time the wind was whipping, sending plastic and paper skittering, and setting players' pant legs to flapping like laundry on a line.
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Running around the room with her colorful gown flapping, she hopped onto the exam table, grabbed my stethoscope and placed it on her chest.
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In the terraced distance, there's a tan stupa adorned with prayer flags flapping in the wind and a thick white cloud creeping into town.
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The ball girls and ball boys, however, race around between points as if they just learned to run — gawky, with knees and elbows flapping.
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I looked out to see our family cat, Echo, with a cardinal in her mouth that was flapping and screeching, struggling to get out.
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Dozens, scores, cliques and claques of elephants, ears flapping like flags, trunks slowly swinging, and many of their faces decidedly free of ivory eruptions.
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This has made Hemingway extra protective of his friend, honking and flapping his wings when shelter staff come to take care of the pair.
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Kurds have been celebrating since Monday evening, setting off fireworks, honking horns and affixing flapping red, white and green Kurdish flags to their automobiles.
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On the television was a family of elephants in the glossy mud, flapping their ears against the flies and spraying water on their backs.
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The skies are so crowded in some places that people complain the collective din of flapping wings and honking keep them awake at night.
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"Everything I'm doing, I remember seeing my mom do in the '80s," she said on the set, bow flapping as she emphasized her points.
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Some of the benefits, he says, are realized whether or not you're paying attention to the flapping, chirping, and roosting of your feathered neighbors.
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There's a way to map everything to a button, so I don't need to worry about aggravating my bad wrist with unnecessary flicking and flapping.
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The best humans could do is glide; they do not have sufficient muscle mass to generate lift via flapping like a bird, bat, or insect.
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Pebble also makes the most of its limited screen resolution with some simple animations, like a flapping bird for Twitter and unfolding envelope for Gmail.
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I'm not sure why that needs a special name, but it comes from a metaphor about flapping butterfly wings predicting the location of a tornado.
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All sounds became one enormous echo: the cars honking outside, the pigeons' flapping wings, the people walking and talking outside, the hum of the refrigerator.
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A tricolor swatch in red, pale yellow and yellow-green pops up near the center of "Green light," flapping like a flag in the wind.
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Among buckets of fish heads and radio equipment, sandwiches and flasks of green tea, Lowe drags up pulling pots full of flapping fish and crabs.
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Ludivine has fast become an internet sensation, with pictures of her ears flapping behind her in the wind rapidly shared across Twitter following the event.
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Additionally, all the straps have self-containing mechanisms, so that there's nothing hanging off and flapping around or chaffing the skin because it's tucked in.
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Before the 4723 breeding season, the teams erected rows of black fabric fences and stakes with flapping streamers to successfully shoo terns from Rice Island.
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She's also a hopeless romantic, who speaks in breathy uptalk and fails to notice a parade of red flags flapping around her latest love interest.
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With a checkerboard floor and flapping Union Jacks, it's an Anglicized Aladdin's cave, crammed with jars, bottles, boxes, bars and vegetarian haggis in a can.
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"You're in a cheap folding chair and there's dirt in front of it and you can see the tent flapping in the wind," he said.
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This one looks and flies like a bird by flapping its wings as it takes off and gliding through the air once it reaches altitude.
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That night, we slept in a ragged tent with no tarp, its doors flapping open, directly atop the ice, nine hundred and fifty feet thick.
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As the painted ladies linger in the southern part of the state, Californians are getting a prolonged look at the clouds of flapping orange wings.
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A butterfly flapping its wings in Peking can probably do a better job of predicting it that any of us can, and that's what Chaos, Inc.
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Instead, all hell broke loose and the bird went rogue, flapping around like the wild creature it is and attacking Wood's best man, the Guardian reports.
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This brings us back to Stan Ishim, Angel of Indifference, with his Halo of Random Effect and his flapping Wings of Who Cares What You Want?
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Bell is also building additional flapping into the rotor system and individual controls that should allow for increased low-speed maneuverability, Army and Bell developers added.
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Bird-sized flapping wing vehicles are partially already available on the toy-market while bee-sized flying robots are still the topic of intense university research.
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When agitated, another student in Western Kentucky's program calms himself by pacing, flapping his hands, then facing a corner, bumping his head four times and muttering.
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Gaily — in both the traditional and modern sense — I bounced through the flapping doors of the Victoria and smartly ordered three gins and fresh orange juice.
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So as their models cantered through the Université René Descartes, their skirts flying and sleeves flapping, they glanced around them, like commuters on a busy street.
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In late 1958, Mr. Zacherle moved to New York, "flapping in on leathery wings of fame," as The Journal of Frankenstein, a monster magazine, put it.
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As we pass the Statue of Liberty, foreign tourists pop onto the outer decks for quick photos, their fur-trimmed hoods flapping in the lacerating wind.
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They became an avian whirlpool for a moment when flocks came together, their fast-flapping wings creating a soft whooshing sound that mingled with their cooing.
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Through the hole comes a sleek, foot-long lake trout, flapping angrily in this strange resistance-less vacuum and hearing the unfamiliar vibrations of human cheering.
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He tossed in visual jokes, like sheets flapping on a clothesline and rabbits who enter the ark as a couple and leave it as a herd.
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I am flapping my arms in a crunch position alongside 20 other people who also want to "strengthen the core" (read: have the outlines of abs).
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In this world, which is framed by the violence to come—because it will come—Juan sees a skinny kid running, his backpack flapping behind him.
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"You're the fastest Presidential nominee I've ever seen!" the camera operator said, sounding breathless, as Warren streaked past wearing a small backpack, her purple jacket flapping.
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Yes, you read that right: Players are subverting the character creation tools in Soulcalibur VI to affix giant, flapping wangs to the groins of various characters.
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It should not be a radical idea that one can make a friend without making eye contact or have an engaging conversation while flapping one's hands.
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The freshly dried concrete of Astor Square was bordered in flapping white banners, which, to some of us old timers, looked like white flags of surrender.
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"But as I was sitting there, I heard a flapping and looked up to see one of the most beautiful, brilliant doves I've ever seen," she recalls.
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The movement of the vortices can tell us a lot about how flapping wings help birds fly, but we weren't able to measure the currents until now.
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You don't have to worry about an ottoman flapping in the wind, or whether a bar stool's chairs will be in the same place second by second.
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This design ensures that if a wasp's wing hits something while it's flapping away, it won't catastrophically tear the thin membrane, leaving the insect unable to fly.
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Like the crinoid, more commonly known as the feather star, which uses countless flapping arms to propel itself through the water—but that's not the weirdest part.
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Episode 3 This episode opens with chaos theory: the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings could potentially cause a hurricane in another part of the world.
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He's a man on a desperate mission, one that Mr. Fiennes, with a wildly flapping mouth and manic limbs, turns into a raw, indelible portrait of loss.
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Keurig is now having its turn in the barrel, but it is the barrel -- not the company's flapping -- that is the distinct and recurring phenomenon worth watching.
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Charlie Hunnam, who played the lead, had had to be airlifted out at one point after waking up with an insect flapping deep in his ear canal.
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Once Lars hits the bank, an incursion executed with gun waving and mouth flapping, he takes hostages, including two employees, Bianca (Noomi Rapace) and Klara (Bea Santos).
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To impress a potential partner, he hovers in front her like a helicopter, flapping his wings and dangling his long tail feathers like luxurious locks of hair.
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All day, the lapels had been flapping open to reveal the stars and stripes, but in Tower Hamlets he buttoned his blazer and kept his head down.
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A video released by Russian state media soon afterwards showed Syrian troops advancing past Americans withdrawing down the same road, their respective pennants flapping in the wind.
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Some popular autism interventions recommend that parents and teachers attempt to train autistic children to make eye contact or to stop repeating themselves or flapping their hands.
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J-Hope kicked off the "CNS challenge" shortly after its release, posting a video to TikTok in which he performed the arm-flapping routine in a field.
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In place of the Stars and Stripes flapping in the wind in Joe Rosenthal's original 1945 shot of Iwo Jima, an Indian flag was flying full and proud.
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A freely-flapping cape attached at the neck is also very destabilizing, because its drag will want to flip the wearer around so that he's flying feet-first.
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I see people on the subway playing Candy Crush, the cover of their folio-style wallet case folded back, all of their cards just flapping in the wind.
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Before we kick our young out of the academic nest, squawking and flapping into the real world, here are some of the best graduation speeches in recent history.
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They walked past the purveyors of stamp papers and affidavits, typists clickety-clacking on stools, barristers-at-law in flapping gowns, pillars of wadded files bound in twine.
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Spotted by Windows United, the new patent details how Microsoft plans to use magnets to prevent the Surface Type Cover from flapping around when it's not in use.
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Prior to putting one lobster into a container, Gill says it was flapping its tail and claws, but quickly became completely "serene" after being exposed to the smoke.
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"Our work shows that the motion of flapping feathered wings was developed passively and naturally as the dinosaur ran on the ground," said Zhao in a press release.
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The gravely stomping kick drum at the center of the stereo field is flanked by flapping, vaguely acidic synths, which come together to deliver the song's anxious velocity.
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However, I do believe that it is possible to build a flapping micro drone that can provide value in environmental monitoring, smart farming and search and rescue applications.
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Some autistics score above average on intelligence tests but struggle to communicate verbally and make compulsively repetitive movements, such as rocking back and forth or flapping their arms.
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It could only ever be full-beam headlamps of the TEAM ENGLAND juggernaut heading straight towards them, horns blaring, St. George's cross flags flapping menacingly in the wind.
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According to Metro, these so-called "pigeon spookers" charge you 20 baht (about $0.65 USD) to stomp around and wave flags in order to get those wings flapping.
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They tracked the birds by attaching tiny GPS loggers to their bodies, which reported information about their locations, altitudes and whether or not they were flapping their wings.
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Picking glass out of his bloodied—but not too damaged—wrists, he turned to me, kitchen roll flapping over his open wound, his mouth agape, trying to speak.
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Once we got in our sleeping bags and gazed skyward, however, it wasn't stars that drew our eyes but dozens of flapping wings, swooping low over our faces.
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It was as if she had busted a hole through the sound and was now blasting air through it, the tattered canvas flapping and shivering in the wind.
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In Twitter messages posted by Greenpeace USA, protesters can be seen hanging on harnesses from the bridge over the waterway, with large yellow banners flapping in the wind.
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In Twitter messages posted by Greenpeace USA, protesters can be seen dangling on harnesses from the bridge over the waterway, with large yellow banners flapping in the wind.
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This leads to the show's most explosive shot: Gianina storming out of the venue and onto a rustic street, dry-clean-only dress flapping in the Atlanta wind.
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In Pristina, Kosovo's Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj posed on social media with his police bodyguards bringing their palms to their chests and flapping them to symbolize the eagle.
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The long, fat end of Mr. Trump's tie, flapping in the breeze like an advertising banner or swinging far beneath his belt, is both overly contrived and disproportionate.
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Relentlessly chirpy, the noisy miner blasts the alarm before dawn alongside the screeching and flapping of rainbow lorikeets, parrots brighter than Magic Markers and that argue like toddlers.
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DRESSED in a leather jacket and a shoelace-thin tie, or with Armani trousers flapping around his trainers, Eric Griffiths would begin as soon as he reached the lectern.
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Wrung out by hand they were pegged with frozen hands securely to a line outside where they were almost instantly turned to frozen cotton boards flapping in the wind.
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If you've been anywhere near the internet in the last 24 hours, chances are you've seen that clip of Donald Trump's hair cheerily flapping in the breeze by now.
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Early symptoms of autism can vary, but may include repetitive behaviors like hand flapping or body rocking, extreme resistance to changes in routine, and sometimes aggression or self-injury.
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They can also travel more than 250 miles a day, reach altitudes as high as two-and-a-half miles and glide 0003 miles without ever flapping their wings.
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The culprit is almost always Apple's butterfly keyboard, which was introduced in 1003, changing the design of the keys to have an innovative flapping-wing-like mechanism under them.
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The average weight is more like one ton, but it carries that heft along six to 10 feet of flattened flesh, flapping through the water like a smashed Prius.
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But there was an accidental gas explosion, the gas was detonated by a spark created from static electricity generated by a plastic bag that was flapping in the wind.
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Dr. Zhao responded that the benefits of flapping should have been enough to nudge evolution in that direction, and that the group's experiments left room for various anatomical considerations.
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Predictably she behaves much like your girlfriend screaming about a spider being in the bottom of the bath, shouting "FUCKING BAT!" repeatedly, and flapping her arms about a bit.
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But spring is coming, and this morning I watched two pairs have an epic, wing flapping, water thrashing, close contact battle, accompanied by very loud and, frankly, appalling honking.
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Err, rather… it's 30 seconds of fully-open mouth smashing against fully-open mouth, lips flapping open like four fish out of water, tongues dragging on each other's chins.
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"If they come out too early and they don't have the wings, all the flapping in the world isn't going to keep them from hitting hard," Ms. McMahon said.
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In this virtual land of Leonardo, spectators eventually fly over a valley and jagged hills aboard a wing-flapping glider he sketched (and which appears in the traditional exhibition).
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In parts of the forest, looking up from the ground, visitors see more butterflies than sky, the only sound the quiet flapping of wings against the ground and leaves.
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Fans' keen observations connected the butterfly motifs and Stormi's name, pointing out chaos theory in the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can create a storm somewhere far away.
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The sight of Chad Michael Murray wearing an Evel Knievel suit and proudly standing next to a rocket while backed by a flapping American flag is a glorious fever dream.
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He showed clips of himself flapping and shouting and growling, channeling God while tripping, looking absolutely deranged, like someone you would walk several blocks out of your way to avoid.
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The five were allegedly interviewed in separate rooms, but gave matching descriptions of what they had seen — a beast that had leapt vertically into the sky without flapping its wings.
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That faint flapping you heard a few minutes ago was the sound of our collective hearts fluttering when Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt appeared together on the Golden Globes stage.
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By testing robotic replicas of plesiosaur flippers in a water tank he has shown that all four flapping up and down is by far the most efficient and powerful arrangement.
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A new four-winged flapping robot not only successfully imitates the fruit fly's hyper-agile flying method, but can travel for up to a kilometer before running out of juice.
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Once the game actually gets under way, there's a little more antagonism, especially after Gareth Bale smashes a free kick past a flapping Joe Hart to give Wales the lead.
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Of course this is when I stumbled upon these horrifying videos of thousands of silver bunker fish jiggling and flapping and struggling to get one last breath before they die.
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Infected male cicadas, no longer in control of their bodies, attempt to mate with anything they can find, flapping their wings the way that females usually do in courtship rituals.
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As we finished our postprandial coffee, a tremendous bank of charcoal-hued storm clouds suddenly rolled overhead, rumbling with thunder and setting the nautical flags on a nearby pier flapping.
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Others stand behind green plywood fencing, with orange banners reading "Build It Back" flapping in the wind, as the houses wait their turn to be raised above the flood level.
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The building is from the 1930s and just survived a big earthquake, so I knew I would be OK." Wilson told CNN: "The doors were flapping open, the windows, everything.
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Meanwhile, the male granola rock climber who sat next to me in English class was routinely free to wear his shirt entirely unbuttoned, flapping in the wind, revealing his chest.
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Carp and other freshwater fish usually sold alive and flapping have disappeared from sale in recent days, leaving behind vacant tanks and shifting, contradictory explanations from officials and supermarket managers.
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Except for children with severe autism, most kids grow out of habits like head-shaking, arm-flapping and grimacing as they become better able to understand and manage their feelings.
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He also found that in colonies of as many as 30,3003 black and white penguins, couples can identify each other by their distinct cries, beak-lifting and ecstatic flipper-flapping.
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The shuttered entrance and flapping notices are a blunt reminder of how South Korean businesses have become unwitting victims in a year-long diplomatic stand-off between Beijing and Seoul.
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"New York City, it's either eat or be eaten," a guy in the video says while the raven mercilessly pecks the guts right out of a flapping pigeon's chest cavity.
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"Compared to last quarter, everyone thought the world was going into a global recession, and when the yield curve inverted there was a lot of arm flapping about that," said Abline.
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Even today, many autistic children are taught from a young age that hand-flapping, lack of eye contact, or rocking — perfectly natural and normal mannerisms for autistic children — are inherently wrong.
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I did not expect to find the Toy-Con Bird, which has players using a pair of levers to control the flapping wings of a goose, to be all that compelling.
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His first puncture cost Sagan two and a half minutes as he rode on for half a lap before reaching the technical zone with his front tire flapping around the rim.
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Compulsive tail chasers mimic the self-soothing flapping of people on the spectrum, while pets who are terrified by things like puddles of water suggest an autistic person's seemingly irrational fears.
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Next you might notice the trio of flags flapping behind him in the wind: one for the United States, one for the United States Army and one for prisoners of war.
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As a trio, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, and Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes kicked their way into our living rooms, condom-covered oversized trousers flapping about in the process.
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"You can leave your shoes here," Boyd said, and he went up inside the hull of the airship, hoisting himself through the opening, which had turned into a madly flapping tube.
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The sheet from his bed had been hung out to dry, and she had seen it flapping in the wind and hitting a pipe or tube, creating a haunting, indelible image.
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She also provides evidence of her peerless ear for contemporary language; in this case, it's the lingo of creative corporate speak, with its calculated humblebrag, masturbational jaw-flapping and implicit sexism.
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It's a fully self-contained robot, with an on-board computer and sensors that help it fly and know its position and the relative positions of its elbows, hips and flapping joints.
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From the plains of Texas to the streets of India, emus are flapping those tiny wings they do not really have and making the most of wherever it is they find themselves.
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Flapping, as you'd expect, is a lot more complex in engineering terms than spinning — especially if you also have relatively little power to play with, as it's a lightweight, battery-operated device.
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As we drove around Fresno, Brown slowed to a stop in front of a pale-yellow one-story house adorned with yellow tulips, an American flag flapping on its solar-paneled roof.
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Young children with autism experience a variety of symptoms, which may include repetitive behaviors like hand flapping or body rocking, extreme resistance to changes in routine, and sometimes aggression or self-injury.
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The Diamondbacks' lineup has provided little support as well, stranding too many base runners and lacking any hitters as footloose and fret-free as the Dodgers' tongue-flapping, bat-flipping Yasiel Puig.
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Every November, the monastery hosts a crane festival featuring dancers dressed as deities of the forest, or imitating the cranes' bowing, jumping, wing-flapping mating dance known as the thrung thrung karm.
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The members of the Beijing Lianhuachi Happy Sailor Club, complete with their enormous sound system, meet every morning to bring a whirlwind of flapping red neckties and music to the otherwise serene park.
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I would stay by his side and sing to him, often for 30 minutes or more, because it was the only way to distract him from flapping and get him to fall asleep.
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A question that has long bothered palaeontologists is, did all four flap up and down, or were they rowing rather than flapping, or did the back ones steer rather than flap or row?
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Weighing in at just 92 grams thanks to a carbon fiber airframe, the Bat Bot—or B2, for short—uses five motors on board to control the flapping and articulation of its wings.
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If only readers had listened to me when they had the chance, Lopchinsky might be better able to sleep at night, her rest undisturbed by the sound of shattering glass and flapping wings.
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"He said they fly aerodynamically together in a V formation, creating a slipstream that allows the goose in back to literally rest on the flapping of wings of those in front," Moss says.
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This is something I never imagined, and I'm still processing what connective tissue, or butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon, is bringing me and Katie together in the Lone Star State. #winning
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Hoge: For all the people who were out and moving about, they did so with quiet dignity, and there was a remarkable silence, with the only sound the flapping noise of police helicopters.
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He had her breathe fast and slow to fashion an "angel sex breath" for scenes in which she has erotic encounters, and layered flapping sounds at two different speeds to create aural texture.
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It is alive with earthy humor — the book opens with the image of linen and underwear flapping in the breeze; it's washing day for a large family — and the ineffable mystery of love.
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"Management has to walk a fine line between flapping their arms and lobbying against tariffs, and presenting themselves as vulnerable to tariffs," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Cresset Wealth Advisors in Chicago.
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Vettel caused a minor drama during the session when some of the bodywork fitted to his Ferrari's sidepod worked loose and began flapping about, forcing the German four-time champion to pit for repairs.
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Scientists don't fully know, for example, which dinosaurs were the precursor species to avian fliers, whether or not gliding flight or flapping flight came first, or which physical characteristics emerged that made flying possible.
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I was your shadow self, strolling into water Lying in wait for boys So they could burn away the hurt in me My hair black and angular Cut into wedge shapes, flapping like sails.
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The enclave resembles an encampment, filled with stationary vehicles and rough shelters with blankets or tarpaulins that could be seen flapping in the wind during a lull in fighting as people walked among them.
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She stands in stark contrast to Americans like me, who have a nasty tendency for choosing convenience over flavor—which is the case for a lot of the tortillas flapping around out there nowadays.
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It's like being a kid and seeing a plane lift off the runway for the first time, or an elephant picking up speed, ears flapping, or a cruise ship coming too-quickly into harbor.
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The first and most devastating theory is that—after suffering what police described as life-threatening injuries—the swans are dead, flapping their wings, preening their feathers, and leaving droppings all over swan heaven.
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The first of Hubble's many technical issues was "a bad case of the jitters"; severe flapping of the solar panels whenever the observatory moved between sunlight and darkness rendered its signature long exposures unusable.
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One of nature's most efficient and graceful swimmers, manta rays have long fascinated scientists with a unique propulsion method to cruise through even turbulent seas, flapping their pectoral fins effortlessly to drive water backwards.
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The Monse collection was younger in the poet-meets-pirates-of-venture-capital sense (lots of shoulders unzipped to show skin, cargo pants, shearling, albeit too many flapping luggage strap belts, terrific twisted velvets).
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In this brief and touching video (which circulated for some time before getting to me), the kids get to see themselves in costume, poster-size, capes flapping — and their joy will warm anyone's day.
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One thing they don't really have space for on the robot's little body (yet) is sophisticated flight control electronics and power storage that could let it use only the energy it needs, flapping in place.
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One of the final scenes, the one where the camera slowly goes through a window while the shutters are flapping and enters into a time in the past, may be an example of Tarkovsky's influence.
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I stood amid acres of bare foundations with only the bolted down bases of toilets still in place, blue FEMA tarps flapping in the wind, the ruins of these anonymous houses indistinguishable from each other.
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A vinyl sign the size of a cafeteria tray, flapping against a chain-link fence and a pallet of beer cans in the loading bay were the only indication we were in the right place.
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NEAR the massive packing warehouse at the headquarters of Limoneira, one of America's largest lemon producers, sits a row of small white clapboard houses with neat front lawns and American flags flapping over their doorways.
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EASTBOURNE, England (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic's Wimbledon preparations were left drenched and flapping in England's south coast wind on Tuesday as Eastbourne's Aegon International was scrapped for the day with no matches completed due to rain.
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What soon becomes clear even from the evidence Lockwood presents is that all of these events had much deeper pre-existing causes and in many cases more immediate triggers than Betsy Ross flapping a flag.
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She crouches low next to her swimming pool, bottom raised toward the camera, as she tries to "sneak up to welcome the ducks in my pool"; they're caught in the photograph, blurred and flapping away.
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The sartorial display would be accompanied by a kind of gestural performance—a lot of "flapping around," in the words of one college friend—and a full-diapason vocal act: booming laughs, gut-drawn sighs.
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He steels himself against this knowledge and says that he is relieved to finally know that, like all other creatures slithering and trotting and flapping their way through Hollywoo, he is truly on his own.
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You're back there in the school hall, velcro flapping in the breeze, the faint smell of baked sausages mingles with old netballs, and you're stumbling over your own feet, failing to get the Macarena right.
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At the age of 6, he received a craft book that included a few pages on origami, with instructions on how to make a talking crow, flapping bird and other basic animals with folded paper.
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When you played that clip earlier of Ben Rhodes, if you can&apost pronounce Kim Jong Un&aposs name correctly, maybe you shouldn&apost be flapping your gums on this issue and stay in your lane.
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Fans all over social media have made the connection between the butterfly effect and Stormi's name, pointing out chaos theory in the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can create a storm somewhere far away.
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The video was directed by a woman, Jessy Moussallem, and is dominated by women, their hair and hijabs flapping in the wind side by side in the back of a truck as Sinno sings among them.
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So you have him standing on a cliff-edge with a flapping cape, and a guy dressed in wet-weather gear, because it's freezing, holding up a green ball on the end of a green stick.
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In the short clip, an upside down American flag billows in the breeze in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., flapping in the wind as a chilling children's chorus recites the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Some of the passengers joined in Lawrence's celebration, standing in the aisles and flapping their arms with the chant, but, if you watch the video, a good number in the front row look just plain annoyed.
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We watch him going for a run as the sun rises, doing pull-ups at the gym, walking alone along a school corridor, his hands flapping, humming occasionally, but it's a life lived mainly through silence.
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Markets may have worried that rising wages would crimp profits or trigger a faster pace of growth-squelching interest-rate increases, but a butterfly flapping its wings in Indonesia might just as well be to blame.
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The game uses your phone's camera, so you will get the very disconcerting impression that there is a ghost Pokémon flapping or undulating directly over your desk, your bath water, your local place of worship, etc.
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The mechanics are hidden in the base of the golden bronze cage, and the illusion of flying birds is achieved by discrete swinging arms, with the avians' flapping wings and flitting tails adding to the effect.
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Time never moves so slowly as when you're standing over the sink, flapping your soapy hands around, speed-singing "Happy Birthday" to yourself while a coworker takes a really long pee in a stall behind you.
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But no matter how many spotted lanternflies they crush underfoot, they cannot seem to keep the hordes of the invasive insect from flapping in their faces, sucking nutrients from valuable vineyards and lurking in their nightmares.
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Untitled Goose Game is a game about creating hi-jinks, not by blowing stuff up, but by strategically squawking, sneaking, flapping your wings, and being gently conniving, as it is in a goose's nature to do.
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It wasn't really so extraordinary that she'd followed him all that way without recognizing him—she'd seen only his back, and the open, flapping coat had obscured his shape, a knitted hat had hidden his hair.
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Instead of flapping around wildly, '[the work] drooped limply…" He goes on to use this as a metaphor for the "thoughtless inclusion of the piece and the broader apathy of the art world for others' suffering.
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When she was 17, Lindsey Kildow sociably giggled, raced with her hair flapping behind her in a long ponytail tied with sparkling ribbons, and passionately talked about her racing future as if it would be endless.
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What I wanted was my freckled cheeks printed on cheap paper, stapled at the ears, the flyers torn from telephone poles and the scales of palm trees, a sliver of my face left flapping in the wind.
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Love held Bobbi aloft on her index finger and then went dashing down the path between the compound's two rows of aviaries, shouting, ''Fly, Bobbi, fly,'' giving her fruitlessly flapping charge at least the semblance of flight.
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The fighter's face is hanging out ahead of him in the style that we criticized in Dan Henderson and Forrest Griffin but in this instance it is a red cape flapping in the face of a bull.
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And the style gestures for which Agnelli became best known — Tod's boots left unlaced, wristwatch worn atop a shirt cuff, necktie left flapping outside a pullover — were a bit too considered to be truly elegant, after all.
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The purpose of the paper, says Corucci and his colleagues, is to explain "the abundance of soft-bodied creatures" in the ocean; so basically it's looking at why soft-bodies are so useful for flapping about underwater.
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By the '90s, our family was among the estimated 120 million people a day who'd sit in rapt attention in front of the television when he'd shout out our sign while flapping his cape for extra drama.
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I'd like to tell her to stay down, just stay down and take it, while the wind and the rain lash at her flapping back, but she gets up again and the wind seems to lift her.
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However solid the authorities' grip on doping within the official circuit is, there is little to stop dogs from being doped on the handful of unregulated greyhound courses—known as "flapping tracks"—throughout the UK and Ireland.
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Sameer Tiger's house is one of the more modest: one and a half stories of crudely finished brick, a couple of naked electrical bulbs dangling in the living room, some wet shawls flapping on a line outside.
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At best I might have spotted the tiny parking lot in Midwood, with tattered red, blue and silver streamers flapping over its 10 or so spaces, giving it the appearance of the world's smallest used-car dealership.
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"What this does for us as a country, the monarchy, this will push us through Brexit," said Darren French, who had come out of a hospital ward, wearing slippers and flapping cotton pajamas, to watch the spectacle.
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"Your net would be so full of fish, you could barely heave it onto the boat," said Mamadou So, 20193, a fisherman in Senegal, gesturing to the meager assortment of tiny fish flapping in his wooden canoe.
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Instead of flapping around wildly, "Pillowsophia (after Trinity)" droops at times — a wonderfully unintentional commentary, in my opinion, on both Green Naftali's thoughtless inclusion of the piece and the broader apathy of the art world for others' suffering.
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In a video, the robotic fox—or, just a bat, if you want to be less fancy about it—drops from the ceiling and maneuvers around a room with half-gliding, half-flapping motions that propel it forward.
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To say racially tinged or racially charged or what many are calling racist is to proudly tell readers about the flapping of a butterfly's wings but fail to let them know about the Category 5 hurricane that resulted.
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But, while you're in no danger of receiving an airfreighted Amazon package to your doorstep conveyed via an industrious team of Skeeter dragonflies, Caccia does reckon flapping wing tech holds promise for more than just stealthy surveillance microdrones.
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You can put your finger in the flapping wings as they flap and it won't hurt you… And also with a quadcopter drone, if any of the mechanism fails it falls out of the sky like a brick.
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So prepare for someone to be all like, "Did you really just order a virgin daiquiri, Sally?" before launching into an exaggerated impression of you that features a fey British voice and a lot of avian arm-flapping.
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He's like a modern-day Huck Finn—hands crossed comfortably in his lap, bandanaed head titled casually to the sun, shorts flapping gaily in the wind—only his boat is a Harley Davidson, and the thing is flying.
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Like Velocio, Assos' considerable road heritage shows through in its comfortable pad and a cut that doesn't leave the shorts flapping in the wind and catching on your saddle as you lean back to send that huge drop.
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Resembling a former police officer striding into an IPCC misconduct hearing, his claret and blue tie flapping menacingly in the wind, Dyche is on the verge of securing Burnley's second promotion to the Premier League in two years.
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Saul's creatures — human, animal, and otherwise — inhabit a prelapsarian domain, where it is not uncommon to find, as in "Dancing Girls"(2017), two naked young women flapping their arms, while a vulture, head bowed, inexplicably stands between them.
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Imagine a factory building 100,000 units a day, and you can see how a small error can have huge consequences, much like the analogy of a butterfly flapping its wings and causing a hurricane halfway across the globe.
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The first thing Duke's Javin DeLaurier saw from his spot on the bench was the sneaker on Williamson's left foot, or what was left of it, anyway: Its sole was flapping free, like a banner in the wind.
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"Think of 'Pinball,' " Ms. Pitt said on her website about this seven-minute movie, "as a spinning flying saucer which lands in your yard, performs, and then flies away to the sound of film flapping in a projector."
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And those mornings flapping around for something to wear are a thing of the past -- you can just work in your pajamas, as Gerald Ford discovered in his hotel home-away-from-home on a trip to Japan.
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And when scientists shined bright lights on the animals in the lab — both UV and white, which contains a rainbow of colors or hues — they swim away, flapping the sides of their little noodle bodies like wiggly linguine.
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A film by the multimedia artist Wu Tsang projected in one corner of a carpeted room, featuring the poet and thinker Fred Moten twirling peacefully in vibrant sunlight, folds of a billowing garment flapping wildly with the movement.
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With every new innovation — from player pianos to cassette players to internet radio — legislators have tacked on some new patch to "fix" music copyright, creating an increasingly untenable monstrosity of flapping bits held together with staples and Scotch tape.
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The stages in particular are great; my favorite takes place during a Magikarp festival, with flapping fish flying across the screen while a proud, golden statue dedicated to the most useless of all pokemon stands tall in the background.
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Pappas writes a monthly poetry column for Women's Running magazine, musing on topics including the sublime scent of trail running ("steeped on me like tea") and the sweet pain of sprinting (her insides "gasping screeching flapping baby bird beaks").
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What heart-racing joy it is to be immersed in the archers' theatrics, the group functioning as a kind of single, singular, heteromorphic creature, kneeling and sprinting and flying, its many cocked and outstretched arms engaged in synchronized flapping.
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Isom also traded Mothra's stubby legs for longer, more clawlike ones, much handier in a fight (in older films, Mothra did a lot of damage just by flapping her wings, which created gale force winds able to capsize ships).
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When I read mainstream political commentary, I often think of the awkward gyrating Elaine used to do on Seinfeld, flapping her limbs in all directions in an incompetent, and yet totally confident, imitation of what dancing is supposed to look like.
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A team led by Jing-Shan Zhao from Tsinghua University in Beijing used some fancy math, a robot, and a juvenile ostrich to experimentally demonstrate that some feathered dinosaurs were already flapping their proto-wings prior to being able to fly.
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My parents and my brother have gone out for a walk, and from the balcony of our suite I can see them strolling, their light clothes flapping in the breeze off the ocean, on a trail along the high jagged bluffs.
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Cardinal said Sidhu had been driving up to 96 km (60 miles) per hour and, preoccupied with a flapping tarp behind him, had passed several signs indicating an intersection was coming up, including a flashing stop sign, according to Warick.
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One prime reason for her unhappiness is certainly the dawning recognition that Trump was not just flapping his lips when he campaigned on pressuring our allies to shoulder a fairer portion of the weight and expense of the common defense.
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The researchers' theoretical model predicted that the flapping would be most pronounced as the speed of the bird approached 2.31 meters per second — and that's just what they observed in the stationary model imitating gaits corresponding to various running speeds.
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In the bay inlet; maybe standing on the small footbridge connecting two neighborhoods, where older, more weathered fishermen halted their tangled lines as pedestrians passed behind them, trying to step over the fish that lay flapping in nets on the ground.
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Nothing is wasted, and everything has a point: the doomed, flapping pet pigeons whose blood will later be repurposed to mislead investigators; the sudden seizure that grips Lizzie at the opera, with the camera gazing down on her twitching body.
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Now that he was in The Kitchen, he wanted to take full advantage of the opportunity, and so performed a ludicrous, yet again hilarious, piece of body art by stripping off his shirt and rhythmically flapping his slightly flabby male breasts.
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Every image practically drips with longing: a live fish someone's caught in the river, pages flapping in the hot breeze, water pouring from a tap into a stone pool, a table spread with breakfast preparations, the smoldering end of a cigarette.
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While much depends on the wind, the drones are expected to assemble about 200 feet in the air into formations like an American flag and an eagle that "will be able to look like it's flapping its wings," Ms. Price said.
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And yet, despite the wide distinction in sociability between the two syndromes, Williams and autism share some symptoms: unusual sensitivity to sound and texture, hand flapping, repetitive motion, rocking, perseveration and an obsession with mechanical objects and things that spin.
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Yoji Shinkawa's unmistakable character design, which effortlessly blended the organic and the mechanical throughout the Metal Gear series, is the most obvious throughline here, with instantly iconic creations like the flapping flower-like Odradek sensor and the surreal BB tank.
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"Our work shows that the motion of flapping feathered wings was developed passively and naturally as the dinosaur ran on the ground," said Jing-Shan Zhao, study author and associate professor of mechanical engineering at Tsinghua University in China, in a statement.
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As the night went on, I grew more comfortable taking up space, slowly shifting from the planted-feet sexy club grind I learned in 7th grade into bigger, looser, weirder movements, flapping my body around like a tube man at a car dealership.
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A bird's wings are far more flexible and adaptive than this drone's upgrades are, and part of a bird's impressive agility comes from the fact that it propels itself by flapping those wings, where as this drone still relies on a propellor.
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Working with truckloads of dust and high-contrast cinematography that tends to turn shadows into bottomless inky blots, Mr. Fuqua approaches the western like an ardent fan, leaving no genre element untouched, from gun spinning to trick riding to atmospherically flapping dusters.
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In 2011, a greyhound trainer operating on flapping tracks, Anthony Fowler from Stockton-on-Tees, was banned from keeping dogs for life after he gave Viagra to a dog to make him "run his head off," and boiled cannabis to slow him down.
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Taiwanese player Tseng Wen-ting, sporting a statement ponytail for the ages, sees the argument breaking out and STREAKS down the court, his ponytail flapping behind him in the wind, and stands between them as the refs head over to break it up.
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"It's not that bad at all," said Eva Karnes, 53, as she returned to her home to find little more wrong than a pool of water in the yard and a piece of sheet metal flapping off a trailer next to her house.
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My back During the second year of my medical residency, after a kickboxing class, I was walking down the hall at the hospital and noticed that my left foot was not flexing properly (it was making a flapping noise on the ground).
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Self-driving cars have an extremely hard time under unusual conditions because many things that come instinctively to humans — anticipating the movements of a biker, identifying a plastic bag flapping in the wind on the road — are very difficult to teach a computer.
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To address the question, Dr. McDermott, a former club and radio disc jockey, and Dr. Norman-Haignere, an accomplished classical guitarist, began gathering a library of everyday sounds — music, speech, laughter, weeping, whispering, tires squealing, flags flapping, dishes clattering, flames crackling, wind chimes tinkling.
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But with the gestures there's a "moment" that sucks you in — you can feel the hot summer sun on the back of your neck, taste the cold treat and cheap plastic, and see your flip-flops flapping between your toes as you kick your legs.
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Children, desperate to learn, sat in the street devouring cheap comics; in 1954 she set up Mu Kuang Middle School, which grew from a 30-desk army tent, flapping in winds and summer downpours, to a seven-storey block with 1,300 pupils by 2015.
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Back in 2016 (on my birthday in fact) researchers from the University of Tokyo posted an interesting video showing a projector and motion tracking system working together to project an image onto moving, deforming surfaces like a flapping piece of paper or dancing person's shirt.
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" Plus, he thinks if the U.S. backed away from a trade dispute from China "for real," then we would hear Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and trade advisor Peter Navarro "flapping their arms and stamping their feet and that's not what we're hearing right now.
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On the Lincoln Financial Field that is the home venue for her beloved Eagles, Lloyd paid homage to her NFL team by flapping her arms like an eagle to celebrate her goal that put the U.S. 3-0 ahead early in the second half.
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During the course of a soiree Elisabeth and Pierre decide to host in their apartment, Lydie questions whether the paté another guest has brought comes from free-range chickens, and Jean-Lino mocks her for her punctiliousness, clucking and flapping his arms like wings.
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Seeing the way animals are treated in the preparation of food (displayed on video screens at the museum) can also inspire revulsion: geese being force-fed to make the French delicacy foie gras, fish served still flapping in Japan, or beating cobra hearts in Vietnam.
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Through his mom, the 27-year-old declined to be interviewed, but his mother said that he completed two tours of duty fighting for his country and was shaken to see a US Marines emblem amid the Confederate flags flapping from the back of the trucks.
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And that brings us to the major moments of the trailer, which feature Daenerys Targaryen, the dragon-wielding queen who is seen uniting Westeros with her nephew/lover Jon Snow and her two remaining dragons (seen flapping their reptilian wings in the skies over the North).
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The dancers now stepped, two at a time, to the center of the circle, the women gripping and swinging the hems of their dresses, the men flapping their sports jackets and passing a hand-knit scarf that read I LOVE SOMALIA, waving it like a flag.
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In contrast to his rigid relatives, Gomez—legs bent and necktie flapping—is the only Addams Family member who is in motion, as he wrestles with the bent rod, the tip of which reaches back, redirecting our gaze to the left, off-canvas, to that hooked something .
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Dear Diary: Like starlings they were, Black ones, brown ones, pale, pale beige, Dressed in mittens and hats, Unbuttoned coats flapping in the wind, Laughing, shouting, jumping, Tongues out-thrust Toward high-rise homes, Catching snowflakes, midair, A winter's dance between fenced-in macadam And skyscrapered clouds.
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This is truly sumptuous in motion, with backgrounds stretching miles into the distance, every inch of Ratchet's fur looking good enough to pet, and Clank's flapping jaw and steely body making him seem like a toy you could just pick up, right out of the screen.
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Dozens of national flags in the U.K.'s familiar red, white and blue pattern provided splashes of color across Parliament Square on an otherwise grey wintry evening; some flapping from the permanent mast poles around the perimeter, others draped around the necks of Brexit's most ardent supporters.
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Mr. Mottram, a former branding consultant who advised luxury companies like Burberry and Davidoff, started Rapha after seeing a gap in the market for style-conscious cycling clothes amid the sea of sweaty high-visibility jackets, flapping shorts and badly fitting outfits in clashing color combinations.
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The change began when he answered an apparently yawning demand among regular guys for shirts cut just so, so that they can be worn with the tails flapping freely over the pants — a look that has become almost universal for the bruhs of the Red Bull generation.
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As a narrator explains the scene, which shows the moment a gold armor-adorned St. Michael expels the devil from paradise, you're surrounded by the flapping wings of angels transformed into demons, of butterflies, and of hybrid monsters, some possibly inspired by Hieronymus Bosch, as your guide mentions.
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But even when mirrorless technology started getting really good, Nikon (and Canon) refused to evolve from their full-frame DSLRs—with their old-school flapping mirrorboxes—for a variety of reasons, and they are now coming out with their own answers to the trend at the last possible second.
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But as it nears, the swarm of locusts comes into focus: billions upon billions of them, thick as a blizzard, uncountable as raindrops, a jaw-dropping procession of the ravenous creatures of biblical infamy, flailing and flapping in the air, blocking out the sun like a bad omen.
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MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - Abu Ghazi stood smoking a cigarette outside what used to be his home in Mosul's Old City, where only the sound of the footsteps of a few soldiers on patrol and twisted pieces of metal and fabric flapping in the wind disturb the eery silence.
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How Migrating Birds Can Soar To Such Great HeightsMigratory birds can glide over very long distances with minimal wing-flapping, thanks to their…Read more ReadTrouble is, unihemispheric sleep in flying birds has only been assumed, though it has been observed in ducks while they perch on land.
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The sprawling, 11-minute opener "Killing Time"—which alludes to the arrest of Muslim teenager Ahmed Mohamed after he brought a homemade alarm clock to his Texas high school—begins with the sounds of flapping flags and shattering glass, before unraveling into somber piano melodies and static flickers.
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"O Peixe" nonetheless presents a rich, understated soundscape: the rhythmic splashing of water against boat, the gentle swooshing of the breeze, the percussive flapping of the fish against the wooden floor of the boat, the roughness of the fishermen's fingers against the fish's scales, and, almost imperceptibly, their breath.
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LONDON — In 2008, the artist Harland Miller was checking on a sculpture he'd installed in Regent's Park for the Frieze Art Fair — a recreation of a crime scene, complete with flapping "Do not enter" tape — when he saw George Michael, the pop superstar, trying to sneak a look.
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It was soon punctured, first by the crinkling sound of the sleeping bag and the air mattress insulating me from the cold ground as I shifted my body and then by the tent door flapping despite the weight of a frost coating, intermittently revealing Bjorn Dihle, my traveling partner.
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Watching your goose move and respond to the world around it is entirely part of the fun here, from the way its neck cranes around to keep an eye on nearby people to the gentle and vaguely threatening flapping of its wings whenever you hold a certain button.
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Abedin doesn't say that much in Weiner — especially compared with the number of words that fall out of Weiner's ever-flapping mouth — but her presence speaks volumes about her husband's behavior both in public and in private, Abedin's role in his political life, and the inherent tension between the two.
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" PEOPLE's own critic Tom Gliatto admits, "Frankly there's quite a lot to digest here — and while you may be delighted to take a break from the by-now-standard magic of CGI, you're also aware of how much labor goes into keeping dozens of jaw-flapping puppets on the go.
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The sprawling, documentary-feeling portrayal of Idylwild has a woolly affection for this boob-flapping feminist jubilee: glitter and nut loaf, Indigo Girls' sing-alongs, a tepee with a Bronx-accented shaman a few feet away from a leather dyke dragging a "naughty doggy" (pro tip: Soloway herself) on a leash.
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The look isn't exactly Manus x Machina (unless the butterflies are mechanized and start flapping their wings as she walks down the red carpet, in which case we'll bite our tongues), but nonetheless it's undoubtedly a major style statement that just might land her the award for craziest headpiece of the night.
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We're in the middle of the Queen's official birthday weekend, Union Jack flags flapping everywhere you turn, where thousands of people have crammed themselves around St. James Park, Green Park and Buckingham Palace to see 1,600 soldiers and 300 horses perform the Trooping the Colour parade down the Mall for the old monarch.
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In a country where gay sex is punishable by up to 14 years in prison and where attacks on the LGBT community occur frequently, a solitary rainbow flag flapping in the wind just a stone's throw from the president's official residence in Nairobi serves as a small but symbolic mark of rebellion.
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Fact-checking and hyper-editorializing the news is something journalists are having to think about a lot these days with the concerned hand-flapping that arises with the daily untruth erupting from the campaigns, but what have we come to when our papers gladly print dated and beyond classless sayings like that?
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" Emerson rushed back from a summer in the Adirondack woods when he heard the great news that the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable had at last been laid; Thoreau wrote "perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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For birds living on campus, the researchers noted higher levels of aggressive behavior, such as: a tendency to remain near the speaker, the vigorous flapping of their wings, loud singing, and finally the singing of a "soft song," a garbled sound produced by birds which is often indicative of an impending attack.
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With The Farewell slowly rolling out in release around the country, The Verge talked to Wang about how she told her story, how she kept her grandmother's diagnosis secret even while bringing crew members into her house, and how to play the singing, flapping drinking game that provides one of the film's most memorable moments.
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I seem to gain three to five pounds every month, my left knee buckles every time I step onto a basketball court and my swimming stroke, which once wasn't half bad, now looks like what might happen if you stapled a pair of flapping hands onto a filing cabinet and threw it into the ocean.
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Handsome and charming, his sandy hair falling across his forehead, his shirttail flapping, a cigarette sometimes dangling from his lips, Palmer would stride down a fairway acknowledging his army of fans with a sunny smile and a raised club, "like Sir Lancelot amid the multitude in Camelot," Ira Berkow wrote in The New York Times.
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By the 1975 World Series, when Boston's Carlton Fisk seems to will the ball to stay fair with his flapping arms until it's a home run, you can see the "27" on Fisk's back and the square outline of his jaw, but the field still looks as if it were lit by mosquito zappers.
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My sister held down the top corners so it would stop flapping in the wind as I looked for our current cross streets, where I marked an X. It took us a few more minutes to find the cross streets of my destination, a coffee shop a few miles away, and I marked an X there.
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Designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) — which recently completed the VIA 57 West building in New York's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood and the LEGO House in Denmark — the Smithsonian design did away with the pavilions that now lead into the two underground museums and replaced them with corner entrances that looked like wings flapping up from the ground.
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As much jaw-flapping, beer-quaffing, and bear-hugging that went on, the performances were well-attended even at their earliest—I was worried that hangovers would hobble Dead to a Dying World's 2PM Saturday time slot, until I looked behind me during the first song and saw that the theater had filled with eager faces.
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Situated on the banks of the river and built from an old boathouse owned by Eton College (Harry and Prince William's alma mater), guests wake up to swans noisily flapping their wings as they land on the water and, as the world emerges, boats moving up and down just yards from a deck leading out from the living room.
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"One of the fundamental challenges of winged flight is that, as you scale down further and further, you just have to be constantly flapping your wings," says Nick Gravish, who studies the intersection of robotics and biology at UC San Diego and who was not involved in the new work, though he did his postdoc studies in this lab.
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You've got this little fella here, which looks like a pair of flapping angel wings: This strange, pulsating thing, which kind of looks like a bounce house seen from above: And this thing, which is obviously a crown made of jello: The video is based on research by Francesco Corucci, and a full paper is available on request here.
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Their charges: that the birds are terrified by the flapping plastic flag Mr. Riley waves to keep them flying; that it is unnatural to make pigeons fly at night, when they normally rest; and that between their poor night vision and the distractions of the moving lights, they could become disoriented and crash into the East River.
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I've never seen a moth snowstorm, but McCarthy's book reminded me again and again of the seemingly unspectacular profusion that I took for granted as a child: from the constant flapping of moths against the windows of our cottage at night to regular stops on long car journeys to clean the insect debris from the windshield.
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Thoreau is an easy author to dislike, with his sometimes judgy quips about technology: We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
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We rode to the A&W and sat on a bench under the egg-yolk-yellow lights with root beer floats: the orange awning flapping, the moonlit sky, the future, childhood that would last a lifetime, the smell of work in your shirt, me, the prince of your moment, and you, the king in your Uniroyal jacket.
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With our nation now riven by polarization and impeachment, the Longfellow poem offers a metaphor for us to contemplate as we evaluate the status of our constitutional order: Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale!
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"My theory of how he goes is uh, he's brushing his teeth in a bathroom, he's naked in his famous bathrobe, which is flapping open, he's holding his cell phone in one hand because you never know who on the Weinstein board has betrayed him recently, and he's brushing his teeth—he suddenly gets a massive f——g stroke," Bourdain said.
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It contains 57,500 square feet of galleries and more than 100 species, including big, flapping cownose rays; loggerhead sea turtles; and dozens of sharks: not just sandbars and sand tigers and nurse sharks, but blacktip and whitetip reef sharks, epaulette sharks, horn sharks, pyjama sharks, smooth dogfish, white spotted bamboo sharks, zebra sharks and the improbably adorable carpet sharks called spotted wobbegongs.
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Luckily for us, his visuals for new single "Told You So" deliver in all the most Miguel ways that Miguel uses to be his best Miguel: lots of wide shots of him dancing in the desert somewhere, an unbuttoned shirt flapping in the breeze and him climbing onto a car before landing a spin that most ice skaters probably wish they could smash in the rink.
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Now, this isn't something that you would see in the actual show, but Emilia Clarke posted a really fun video from behind the scenes that season, and Kit's, you know, flapping his cape and pretending to be a dragon or whatever, but you can see down in the corner that that cable is actually still tied to him, even as they were goofing off on that set.
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Mutated hybrids are emerging, the most extreme being Balenciaga's propositions of entirely separate garments — like denim jackets and trenches or opera coats and padded construction worker's vests — conjoined at the neck, leaving one or the other flapping over the front or flank, or Phoebe Philo's two-in-one trench coats for Céline, which are sewn together in an infinity loop at the bottom hem.
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We do not have nearly the space here for me to explain the particular magic of these birds — the comedy of their bowling-pin proportions, the expressiveness of their head tilts, the way they cluster on rocky islands but then scatter off, flapping madly, bullet-shaped in the air, only to dive and plunge into the sea, emerging with beaks full of sagging silver fish.
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Driving to the camp at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, where Native American activists have been living in order to halt the construction of the Bakken Pipeline for months, you come across everything all at once: the field dotted with tipis, trailers, and tents; the mud roads lined with flags from dozens of tribal nations flapping in the wind; people riding horses and trucks laden with supplies.
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One fan wrote: "People saying Kylie Jenner named her baby Stormi because of the butterfly effect and how 'a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a storm' are giving a lot of credit to the girl who gives her lipsticks names like 'Okurrr'" It's possible that Jenner and Webster's love of butterflies actually has nothing to do with their baby's name — maybe they just think butterflies make a cute decorating scheme for their baby's nursery?
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Few Kochi visitors were stopping to study the writing on the T-shirts flapping in the wind along Aspinwall's waterfront, although their political message was directed at their own history: The exhibit, "One Hundred and Nineteen Deeds of Sale," by the South African artist Sue Williamson, memorialized the names, age, sex and sale prices of Kochi residents captured by 17th-century Dutch traders and sold as slaves in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Picture this: you wake up in a five-story house surrounded by acres of forest, pass a clothes line of fresh laundry flapping in the wind on your way out the door, head to the community garden to give the flowerbeds a quick drink of water before the sun comes up, and after work — stop for an afternoon swim at the local river for a dip before sitting down to a home-cooked dinner of pheasant.
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Whereas President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL pipeline in 21996, President Donald Trump waltzed into the White House and approved it this past March, over-turning Obama's directive and giving KXL the green light (the courts then switched it back to red and then green again.) With but a thin protective veil flapping between tribal and minority communities and the construction companies for whom they are easy political opponents to overcome, there has been little regard for these stopgaps.
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