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With greater dynamic range, the Pixel camera was able to capture reflections and gleams glancing off the glossy car exteriors.
Most batsmen are out as a result of the ball's glancing off the outer edge of the bat and being caught by the wicketkeeper (think catcher).
The Canucks tied it at 6:16, a rebound of Jake Virtanen's shot on a three-on-two break glancing off Pearson's skate and past Kuemper.
"My baton strikes were glancing off Petrov's arms and hitting the right side of his head as he raised his arms to deflect my strikes," he wrote.
While the shot might have been parried under normal circumstances, the ball looped over goalkeeper Joe Hart after glancing off the outstretched leg of City midfielder Fernando.
Critic's Notebook LONDON — Rage ricochets in the National Theater's first-rate revival of August Wilson's great, early play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," glancing off the walls like bullets in a closed room.
Rather than glancing off of objects and figures, the light seems to be a medium in which the figures are suspended, the settings and furnishings a solidification of the same grey substance.
Sorrentino's camera relishes the ridiculous, taking its time pulling back to reveal the scope of Pius's adoring masses gathered in the square or homing in on a steely glint glancing off the pope's eye.
Muzzin took the shot from the left point, and it hit the sticks of forwards Nick Cousins and Josh Archibald before glancing off the cheek of defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson and hitting high in the net.
Those golden breast feathers fading upward to pale brown, and backward to gray, give the cedar waxwing a kind of borrowed glow, as though it were lit at all times from sunlight glancing off snow.
A lengthy review appeared to show the ball glancing off the foul pole, but instead of calling it a home run, the umpires upheld the call on the field, prompting Girardi to storm out of the dugout in protest.
In the video, you can make out the outline of the white SUV glancing off the right side of the bus, followed by the (naturally) surprised reaction of the bus driver, who stops and gets out to check on the damage.
The police said that the limousine had been traveling downhill toward the intersection when it failed to stop, crossing the busy highway, glancing off the second vehicle in the parking lot of the Apple Barrel, a local shop, and striking the two pedestrians nearby.
And the subject matter doesn't help: 17th-century Dutch painting, especially the domestic genre scenes favored by the Kremers, was very detail-oriented; beauty can be found in the flicker of light on a woman's silk gown, or light glancing off a pearl, or the exquisitely meticulous fringe on a tablecloth.
On Black's mark, the firing line erupted, and the shooting range alighted with what seemed like a million tracer streaks moving uncannily fast over the land, glancing off the far hillside and careening high into the sky, where they floated delicately for a moment before disappearing like dying fireflies among the first stars of night.
It was then I lost my glasses climbing over a downed tree, and when we reached our house I called my neighbor, not yet home from work, to tell him his tree had fallen and, at first, he thought it had fallen on his house, as if he already saw our oak glancing off his roof a year later during the ice storm, when it seemed every oak in the neighborhood fell at the same moment.
" Her poems were, by turns, dark, witty, warm, sensual and mournful; they excavated a life that had been turned inward by the devastation of A.L.S. In "I Didn't Know," published last year in Rat's Ass Review, she recounted a birthday trip with her family to the running trail around the lake in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. Returning there reminded her of how much she loved nature — the afternoon sun "glancing off the lake like a ring of fire," the leaves "crunching down beneath my feet like tiny drums, or discarded beer cans.
State Route 111 (SR 111) is a state highway in the southwest part of the U.S. state of Georgia. The highway runs from the Florida state line, southwest of Calvary northeast through Cairo and Meigs, glancing off the northwest corner of Riverside, and ending in Moultrie.
X Plane Crashes. Page 127/128. . While the drone flew over Castaic, the first crew lined up and fired 42 rockets, completely missing their target. The second interceptor moved into position and unleashed another salvo of 42, the rockets passing just beneath the bright red drone, a few glancing off the fuselage underside, but none detonating.
Rosenberg survived through sheer luck, one bullet hitting him in the lower jaw, another his right arm and a third that was aimed for his chest merely glancing off. Surviving what should have been a fatal shooting, Rosenberg was reportedly furious. His jaw was left disfigured from the bullet wound. Despite undergoing reconstructive surgery, from that point on Rosenberg wore a beard to mask the scars that resulted from this attack.
Friday tells Iraxxa it has been 5,000 years, and Mars' surface is uninhabitable; the Doctor asks Iraxxa to show mercy and gain help from the humans. Dismissing the Doctor and the soldiers, she asks Bill for her opinion, as a fellow woman. She decides to relent based on Bill's word, but then a soldier suddenly fires his rifle, the shot harmlessly glancing off Iraxxa's helmet. Provoked, she returns fire.
Lieutenant Karl Linderfelt, a rival of Tikas' during much of the strike, broke the butt of his gun over Tikas' head. Tikas was later found shot to death, one bullet through his back, another in his hip, a third glancing off his hip and traveling vertically through his body; it was determined that he bled to death. The film "Palikari" honours his death. A statue of Louis Tikas was dedicated at the Miner's Memorial on Mani Street in Trinidad, Colorado on June 23, 2018.
Its channel is very rough, as it crosses the > edges of upturned rock strata, some of them standing at right angles, or > glancing off obliquely to right and left. Thus a multitude of short, > resounding cataracts are produced, and the river is restrained from the > headlong speed due to its volume and the inclination of its bed. All the > larger streams of uncultivated countries are mysteriously charming and > beautiful, whether flowing in mountains or through swamps and plains. Their > channels are interestingly sculptured, far more so than the grandest > architectural works of man.
The bolt features a spring-powered extractor and an anti-bounce device that prevents the bolt head from glancing off the barrel extension upon forward return of the locking assembly. The lever-type ejector system is contained in the trigger group housing and is actuated with every shot by the recoiling bolt. The weapon has a hammer striker and is fired from the for a general-purpose machine gun rare closed bolt position. Firing from a closed bolt contributes to accurate fire, but is disadvantageous for heat dissipation.
Man Ray set up equipment to photograph the initial experiment, but when they turned the machine for the second time, a belt broke, and caught a piece of the glass, which after glancing off Man Ray's head, shattered into bits. After moving back to Paris in 1923, at André Breton's urging, with financing by Jacques Doucet, Duchamp built another optical device based on the first one, Rotative Demisphère, optique de précision (Rotary Demisphere, Precision Optics). This time the optical element was a globe cut in half, with black concentric circles painted on it. When it spins, the circles appear to move backward and forward in space.
With Varuna's shot glancing off her bow, Stonewall Jackson backed off for another blow and struck again in the same place, crushing Varunas side. The shock of the blow turned the Confederate vessel, and she received five 8-inch shells from Varuna, abaft her armor. Varuna ran aground in a sinking condition, and Stonewall Jackson, chased by coming to Varunas rescue, was driven ashore and burned. Engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I. It depicts USS Varuna (center), being rammed by a Confederate ship identified as "Breckinridge" (left) while engaging CSS Governor Moore (right) during the battle off Forts Jackson and St. Philip, 24 April 1862.
In purely- technical terms, the Pattons were far superior to the much-older Shermans, with shots at more than 1,000 meters simply glancing off the M48's armor. However, the 105 mm main gun of the Israeli Shermans fired a HEAT round designed to defeat the Soviet T-62 tank, which was the USSR's response to the M48's successor in US service, the M60 Patton. The Jordanian Pattons' general failure on the West Bank could also be attributed to excellent Israeli air superiority. The Israeli Army captured about 100 Jordanian M48 and M48A1 tanks and pressed them into service in their own units after the war, as the same as were the Jordanian M113 APCs they seized during the war. Israel used 445 M48 tanks in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War.
M48s were also used with mixed results during the 1967 Six- Day War. On the Sinai front, Israeli M48s up-gunned with 105 mm L7 rifled guns were used with success against Egyptian IS-3s, T-54s, T-34s and SU-100s supplied by the Soviet Union in the second battle of Abu-Ageila. However, on the West Bank front, Jordanian M48s were often defeated by Israeli 105mm Centurions and WWII-era M4 Shermans (M-51s up-gunned with 105 mm guns). In pure technical terms, the Patton was superior to the Sherman, with shots at more than 1,000 meters simply glancing off the M48s' armor. However, the 105 mm gun of the Israeli Shermans fired a HEAT round designed to defeat the T-62 tank, which was the Soviet response to the M48's successor in US service, the M60.
He scored his first goal in the competition two weeks later in a 1–1 home draw to Manchester City, but the goal proved controversial as television replays showed the ball was deflected into the goal by his forearm after glancing off his head. Boly scored his first ever goal in UEFA European competition in Wolves's 2019–20 UEFA Europa League Group Stage game against Beşiktaş in Istanbul on 3 October 2019, a game that Wolves won 1–0. Boly fractured his left fibula in training on 26 October 2019, necessitating surgery to insert a plate and screws on 30 October 2019. Boly returned from this injury in Wolves's 0–0 draw away to Manchester United on 1 February 2020, although he had been an unused substitute in Wolves's previous Premier League fixture at home to Liverpool on 23 January 2020.

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