If someone rises up to kill you, kill him first.
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Deacon: Baltimore always rises up in the wake of tragedy.
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Her dress rises up around her waist, her legs dangle.
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Notice your breath as your chest rises up and down.
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Only in this story, Suzy rises up from a pile of POOP.
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Eventually, a thunderous roar of cult-y applause rises up in the crowd.
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The steam from the shower rises up and makes the room extremely suffocating.
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Occasionally his fingers twitch or his palm rises up slightly from the surface.
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Larry Nance Jr., Daddy's own boy, drives down the lane and rises up.
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For gold and platinum, the number rises up to 80 and 90 percent, respectively.
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"The cry of these children and their parents rises up to God," he added.
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Magma that rises up from the mantle is typically a nonexplosive basaltic type, Singer said.
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A sort of delighted coo rises up from the theater: Oh, there's our girl Jen!
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It sometimes just rises up," she said "She stopped talking and let me compose myself.
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Indeed. In a fit of justified outrage, everybody's favorite unfortunate son, Daryl Dixon, rises up.
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The gallery rises up several stories and is supported by a single strong central pillar.
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Eventually, a concrete median rises up to act as a barrier between the two lanes.
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Rather, it's a challenge that Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat) rises up to meet.
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Smoke still rises up through cracks in the roads now, 57 years after the fire started.
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I never understood, after a lifetime of reading, how a critical mass rises up through art.
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The town of Fuenteovejuna—its women violated, its honor spat upon—rises up and kills the commander.
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And just when all hope seems lost, a most unexpected hero rises up and takes center stage.
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A hydraulic jump refers to the point where the water rises up and forms the thicker layer.
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The barman's pink skull rises up a ladder to reach a dusty bottle off the top shelf.
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She kisses him, moves herself against him; the clamor of the riot rises up from the streets below.
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A fiery red color, perhaps a plume of flame, rises up on the left side of the house.
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In the movie's most ferocious scene, the chair rises up on its footrest and launches an attack, eyes aglow.
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A metal post rises up from the center of the base, holding aloft a wire circle that can spin.
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Go to Nathan's, of course, go to Nathan's, where its iconic yellow facade rises up by the boardwalk entrance.
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Something powerful rises up in me whenever I put the fear aside and move ahead in spite of it.
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Here, one of two service staircases rises up to a shower room, kitchenette and a 285-square-foot bedroom.
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A thick haze of smoke hung over Haifa, which rises up from the Mediterranean Sea overlooking a large port.
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He knows he will never feel the wind flowing through his mane as the road rises up to meet him.
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Her left arm rises up and bends above her head; she holds a large paintbrush between thumb and index finger.
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Every once in a while, a meme rises up from the wondrous bog of entertaining nonsense that is the Internet.
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The #HongKong mask ban is now in effect under the 1922 Emergency Regulations Ordinance and a short chant rises up.
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At large fissures on the ocean floor, melting rock from the underlying mantle rises up, adding to the oceanic plates.
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People have figured out how to game Google News, which then rises up to the top of Google search results.
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The situation will self-correct, Parlatore said, when the current batch of younger war fighters rises up through the ranks.
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But with that said, as Taylor reminds us in the song, she rises up from the dead all the time.
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In part, it's the character of Scorpius: Like Harry himself, he is an unlikely hero who rises up against the odds.
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There's sure to be more where this one came from as Samsung rises up from the ashes of the Note 7.
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Jeff, in the right place at the right time, rises up on a driving Monroe and sends his dunk attempt flying.
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"This conflict rises up to knock me down at every apex I reach in my career," she confessed to her diary.
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But more than that, the quiet desire that rises up above all desires in the soundlessness — she wants to be them.
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In Europe and elsewhere, so-called solidarity payments to early clubs follow a player as he rises up the world ladder.
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And if you want to lounge on the deck and watch TV, a giant screen rises up from under the pool.
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On its path to the ocean, the train first rises up from underground alongside the Staples Center, downtown's entertainment and sports hub.
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Then this face rises up to meet you, huge and beaming, and there is a low growling sound coming out of it.
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They socialize, relax and have a few laughs as steam from the hot water rises up past the picturesque Idaho mountain views.
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When the body temperature rises up too high, it creates conditions like hyperthermia, which can then lead to heat stroke and death.
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Every structure, even the cliffscapes, seems slathered with livid graffiti, and from the lower right rises up a sinister murder of crows.
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The unearthly chorus this makes—think of a mobile orchestra of chicken-sized didgeridoos—rises up from the vast and glorious Wyoming steppe.
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One of the biggest power plants in the state, the Belews Station rises up beside Belews Lake about 20 miles south of Virginia.
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"The cry of these children and their parents rises up to God," he told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square.
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The arc sits above Aphrodite Terra, a highland region about the size of Africa that rises up to three miles from the surface.
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Stats only matter so much when a guy rises up behind the three-point line without hesitation to nail one in your face.
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No sooner has Isabel arrived at the ceremony, which takes place on a sylvan estate, than her past rises up to engulf her.
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He grips the ball with two hands, makes a pivot, and rises up in a straight line and throws it down with two hands.
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Clinton: Whenever political shit gets to like what's going on now, you always find that music rises up to be a part of it.
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Bazzi, Juice Wrld, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa and Ella Mai also received nods for top new artist for their rapid rises up the charts.
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It loves to hide and be a disembodied voice that rises up from the darkest corners, telling you the same story over and over.
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The fall from grace is embodied in capitalism; man is redeemed as the proletariat rises up against its exploiters and creates a communist utopia.
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Jessi Hempel: This is David Marcus's MO. He rises up to sit in a big chair and then abandons it for a tiny startup.
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Under slogans like "The east rises up!" the party has scored 20%-plus in eastern state elections, most recently in Thuringia on October 27th.
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Tule fog rises up from damp winter ground and can create such a dense wall of fog that visibility shrinks to a few feet.
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It's funny, I always resist the suggestion that my writing might be "therapeutic"—art-for-art's-sake sentiment always rises up at the suggestion.
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Did you read "Big tower letters" and think of a tower that rises up out of the ground, like the Leaning Tower of Pisa?
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In the Quran, too, Moses rises up against the Pharaoh, but his main problem is that the Pharaoh and his people worship false gods.
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"There's no topography that rises up," said Aaron Cavosie, a planetary scientist at Curtin University in Perth and a member of the research team.
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The French company makes a myriad of wine cellars, but the Cave Bar, which rises up from the ground, is the most technologically advanced.
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An octagonal column rises up from the bottom of the pit — a measuring stick, so to speak, of the flood levels of the mighty river.
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First, there are multinational company CEOs (like Rex Tillerson and Carly Fiorina) who are products of long careers with steady rises up through bureaucratic hierarchies.
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The bow-shape arc appeared above Aphrodite Terra, a highland region about the size of Africa that rises up to three miles from the surface.
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As the chorus reprises the first-act closer, a wigged and corseted Fontana rises up from beneath the stage to perform a triumphant tap number.
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The style of these deceptively paltry pillow paintings is rigorously expressionist, but less manic than the invidious, bare-breasted shaman who rises up from her spoils.
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In the 11-foot-tall sculpture "HILLS AND CLOUDS" (2014), cast polyurethane rises up off the ground, dripping down the sides of stainless steel support beams.
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A mostly white female body rises up from the bottom left sheet and merges with the prone woman by entering through the back of her head.
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In the fable he likes to weave, Clemson will always be the lightly regarded college from the tiny town that rises up to smite the giants.
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Toss some extra focus on tech into the mix, and you're looking at works where AI rises up and takes control like The Matrix or The Terminator.
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A giant metal frame standing several yards wide rises up nearly 200 feet inside the Michoud Assembly Facility, NASA's massive 832-acre space park outside New Orleans.
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The dark blue street rises up along most of the painting's surface, with a band of pale blue at the top, indicating light and/or the street.
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He said residents had become hypervigilant, calling 911 when dust rises up from nearby quarries or when they smell what turns out to be their neighbors' barbecue.
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The Windy City rises up the list of the least tax-friendly cities due almost entirely to its average property tax rate of more than 2 percent.
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These crazy big homes are packed with amenities from a bowling alley to underground tunnels and even at $2 million TV that rises up from the pool.
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No, make that the gut or someplace deep within our capacity to process grief and heartache, so that it rises up in a tsunami of untrammeled emotion.
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Amy rises up as a kind of fury against him, unleashing the rage of eons of women who could not manage to be perfect wives and mothers.
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Even extreme monetary policy, including negative rates and a chunky program of buying bonds, has yet to push price rises up sustainably to a rate of 2 percent.
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Vic catches a pass, rises up into the air, does a little 360, slams it down, and comes off the rim with legs akimbo, landing low and lovely.
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Winter will slow down the winds, meaning that still air and cooler temperatures will trap the soot and smoke that rises up from India's incredibly crowded, growing cities.
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The LG Signature OLED TV R hides inside a TV stand while it isn't in use, then rises up out of the stand when you want to watch it.
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That's because OnePlus hid the front-facing camera in a pop-up module that actually rises up out of the phone's frame when you want to take a selfie.
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By sliding one up after the other, first the foot grip, then, after lurching to full height in the slings, the hand grip, the climber rises up the rope.
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The cords call attention to gravity and its defiance: the unthreaded bedspread seems to cascade down, a few inches in front of the wall, while the snake rises up.
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Throughout American history, there have been pivotal moments when a leader of one of the two major parties rises up to put conscience and moral principles over party loyalty.
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"The biggest downer of this movie is the idea that when the video tape surfaces showing that Killian has lied, everyone is instantly outraged and rises up," de Souza said.
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New content formats often start free, have lagging monetization, then as the audience grows enough and creators experiment enough, premium content rises up that people are willing to pay for.
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She's superb… She's got so much energy on her swing, she rises up on her tiptoes when she hits off the tee – and let me just say, she works out.
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It's basically a short box with 6.5-inch sides that's rises up to be about 1.4-inches tall, though it quickly doubles or triples if you stack on some modules.
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If someone floors it in a real car, for example, it can feel as if the car's nose rises up a bit and you get thrown back in your seat.
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Flick a toggle switch and the rear section — comprised of the buttresses connected by a basket handle — rises up to expose the bin where the Miata soft top's roof normally goes.
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When the nearby Snoqualmie River rises up to flood Dancing Crow farm in a couple of months, as it does most winters, Mr Chandra plans to take his technologies to India.
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And Republicans will probably find, as they did when they failed to repeal the Affordable Care Act, that the public rises up to defend the programs they are trying to cut.
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In that drawing, called "The Signal," plants and people climb up a hillside defined by ridges of concrete architecture, a building that rises up and spreads out at the same time.
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Also, there's a well established now arc of pop and rock and roll and media stories in general, where someone rises up, they reach great heights, they have a fall, involving sex.
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When an army of sleek, burnished chrome robots inevitably rises up to smash our puny bones into dust, remember this: You knew it was coming, and you did nothing to stop it.
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About three-fourths of the way through "Song of Solomon," Magdalene, the neglected sister, rises up and gives her brother some inspired suggestions as to where he can shove his toxic masculinity.
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The Shangri-La Hotel rises up as a sleek tower along Colombo's scenic Galle Face drive, a 210-story rectangle of steel and bluish glass with unobstructed views of the Indian Ocean.
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In one fluid motion, he stabs the ball into the court, sidesteps back and to the right, then, without losing his balance, rises up a few feet to stick a jump shot.
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"It's this tide of lava that rises up and overflows itself on the edges and keeps rising and progressing forward," U.S. Geological Survey geologist Wendy Stovall told journalists on a conference call.
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Marvin Williams recognizes what's happening and switches out to contest, so Caldwell-Pope puts the ball on the floor, gets to the elbow, and rises up to knock down a mid-range jumper.
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The novel and show portray a dystopia in which women are stripped of their rights under the Republic of Gilead, an oppressive theocratic regime that rises up in place of the United States.
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READ: Occupy Wall Street rises up for Sanders Merkley wrote that Sanders' primary rival, Hillary Clinton, would be "a strong and capable president" but said Sanders will "rethink" American politics and the economy.
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Castner Range, Texas This former artillery range adjacent to the city of El Paso rises up from the desert and comprises 7,000 acres of rugged mountains, canyons and arroyos in the Franklin Mountains.
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She comes off point as her raised "working" leg shoots out to the front and sweeps around to the side; but then, as she rises up onto point, that working leg whips inward.
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Fields&apos old house was knocked down, and replaced with an L-shaped redbrick mansion, which rises up behind two huge roadside iron gates which swing off mock-Tudor pillars topped with lanterns.
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"It's this tide of lava that rises up and overflows itself on the edges and keeps rising and progressing forward," said U.S. Geological Survey geologist Wendy Stovall told journalists on a conference call.
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"Driftloaf (Blue with Red Wire and Half Brick)" (2016) is a piece of bread that is painted bright blue mounted on a red wire that rises up from black plaster capping a brick.
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Starting salaries are low, but after the developers begin working as billable contractors for companies, their pay rises, up to $30,000 or so, comparable to salaries for young professionals in Africa's urban centers.
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For those who are unfamiliar, Sorry to Bother You is about Cash, a black telemarketer who rises up the ranks at work after discovering and wielding his literal "white voice" (supplied by David Cross).
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Everything rises up from the bottom and your goal is to accumulate the most points possible before you're overwhelmed by the squares and they get gobbled up by the big mouth at the top.
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The "Bandersnatch" creators present this moment as a viewer-involved conundrum, for some reason; when she asks him if he's ready to go, the black part at the bottom of the screen rises up.
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"This is a great hitting park and I'm sure a lot of teams do, but it's a place that for some reason our team rises up when they come here," Mets manager Terry Collins said.
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I could take aggressive action — say, block the kid's hand — but if there's a counterattack and the parent rises up to destroy me like the childless unbeliever I am, do I have an exit strategy?
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She's gone from the sweet country star in spiraled ringlets and cowboy boots to Time's 2017 Person of the Year, a badass who bleaches her eyebrows, rises up from the dead, and rocks glitter lips.
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Lucy's earnest little brother Linus sits in a pumpkin patch every Halloween to greet the Great Pumpkin, whom he believes rises up every year to bring presents to all the good children of the world.
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The Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act seems almost certainly dead for the rest of 215 (although, given its zombielike properties, there is always a chance it rises up at an unexpected moment).
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"As the nation rises up and calls for action against gun violence, it is absurd and frightening that the federal government wants to make accessing an automatic weapon as easy as hitting print," he said.
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The improbable Saturday-matinee challenges the show throws at its heroines and heroes work thematically — this "Das Boot," like the original, is concerned with honor and courage; with who breaks down and who rises up.
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The Beekman hotel's bar is at the bottom of the atrium of the 1883 Temple Court Building, which rises up through seven floors of elaborate cast-iron railings to end in a soaring glass pyramid.
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He nods his head to his professor, a look of determination appearing for the briefest of moments, almost like an object that rises up through water, becoming almost visible, before settling back beneath the surface.
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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a statement that acts of sabotage were hampering an investigation by security forces and warned that "if the racism rises up ... and peace is disturbed the country will be destabilized".
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The Bucks force a crap ton of turnovers in general, but their thievery rises up a few notches with Bledsoe on the floor, largely because Kidd lets his point guard place bets on his own quickness.
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Koolhaas's new, 200-foot-tall milk-white concrete tower — which broke ground when the other buildings were almost finished — rises up from the far corner of the campus, and soars over the low-lying surrounding neighborhood.
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In the 2018 video work "La Tour Robespierre (The Robespierre Tower)," the camera slowly and shakily rises up a concrete tower block, story by story, revealing the minute differences of decor on an otherwise monolithic facade.
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Scott Reynolds Nelson, a historian who studies the politics of American financial crises, said that the tea party movement is precisely the type of fringe group that often rises up in the wake of an economic calamity.
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One phone has an entire section that rises up to reveal a selfie shooter, while the other features a much smaller popup housing that looks more like a flash on an old-school camera than a selfie cam.
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That might change with this adaptation of Margaret Atwood's classic dystopian novel about an America where birth rates plummet, the old system collapses, and a fundamentalist Christian theocracy rises up to subjugate the handful of fertile women left.
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"I address this historic call to every reform-loving Iraqi ... so that he rises up to begin a new phase," read the statement posted online on Saturday from Sadr, heir to a Shi'ite clerical dynasty persecuted under Saddam Hussein.
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Warmer ocean temperatures, resulting from both natural variability and man-made climate change, are likely eroding Antarctic sea ice and land ice, such as glaciers, from the bottom and could eventually lead to sea level rises up to 6 feet.
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Its curved notchless screen and unique motorized sliding design, where the entire top panel of the phone rises up to reveal a 303D face scanner and selfie camera, make it the most convincing attempt yet at achieving the all-screen dream.
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This runaway hit from Amazon Studios mainly follows the story of its protagonist Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) as she rises up in the 1950s New York comedy scene — but her father Abe Weissman (Shalhoub) is the definition of a scene stealer.
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We're in familiar territory, it seems: a story about a young man, forsaken by his father, betrayed by his friends, who rises up to overthrow his inheritance and now must forgive those who condemned him to this fate, past and present.
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Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%Synopsis: In Ridley Scott's retelling of biblical mythology, Moses (Bale) defiantly rises up against the tyrannical rule of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses (Joel Edgerton) as he plans to release thousands of slaves and lead them to freedom.
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In "Double Dutch" (2019), an ominous form rises up from the bottom edge, suggesting a portrait seen in profile from left to right, with a brown, neck-like section and a larger blue, yellow, white, and brown head-like orb above.
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Plumlee, who sincerely stumbles, now finds himself under and behind DeMarcus as he rises up and flushes a big two-hander over him and Trey Lyles, who has rotated over and provides an ineffectual swipe at the most guaranteed two points imaginable.
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The weather is dark: for five months a year, the sun goes down at 4 PM and it rises up at 12 PM. We have four hours of daylight for five months a year and I think that does something to people.
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Thus, as viewers become savvier, TV becomes more and more of a balancing act — schmuck bait rises up here and there, and the show has to find ways to subvert it, to let the viewers know it's two steps ahead of them.
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This conflict rises up to knock me down at every apex I reach in my career and because the laws of society do not protect me I'm exposed to any enemy or person who may or may not want to hurt me.
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While it returns over and over again to the downtrodden-rises-up-against-the-subjugator model, the genre has always had a remarkable ability to overlook the persecuted groups—people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, people with disabilities—whose experiences it mines for drama.
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The bottom line: Scott Lundgren, chief technology officer at Carbon Black, said, "If the community rises up and documents and positions their security posture with ATT&CK in mind, we are all raising the bar and making it more expensive for adversaries to operate."
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According to the Guardian:A recent study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that perchlorate contamination in the waters of Oklahoma Lake rises up to 1,028 times above background levels within 14 hours of the July 4 public firework displays held in the US each year.
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Every time we at The Verge publish an article or promote a video containing the word hoverboard in any fashion, a torrent of angry feedback rises up, apparently in defense of something that doesn't actually exist outside room-temperature superconductor research or one-off maglev experiments.
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They still don't get it — when nearly half the Congress rises up to tell you your approach is flawed, it's going to take more than promises to get it right, especially given the track record of the proposal's primary beneficiary when it comes to keeping promises.
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There are hints of pain and discomfort mixed into these paintings, as in "Steel Pulse" (2018), where a pointy red object rises up from the bottom edge, passing through the center hole of what resembles a circular saw blade as it floats against a black ground.
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This reimagining of the world of the court rises up on cables only to be reconfigured as the forest of Arden — a liberating milieu that allows for the protean cast to reassemble in time as, wait for it, a herd of sheep, eliciting purrs of delight from the audience.
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You have a barren peak that rises up and up to nothing more than a skinny wedge, you have a helicopter floating nearby, a cable connecting peak to chopper, Stallone dangling from the cable, and holding onto his hand—with nothing but vertiginous rocky depths below—a young woman.
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Shaq makes three dribbles in the post, heaves his back into him, turns around—almost as if Dudley isn't even there—rises up with his legs splayed as far as possible, practically thrusting his crotch into Dudley, and slams down so heavily you can hear the rim aching.
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When you turn from Water Street onto Washington Street and the bridge suddenly rises up, it's an arresting, pulse-quickening sight, like the scene in sci-fi movies where you first glimpse a little — just a little — of the huge monster or alien as it scuttles between buildings.
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Click here to view original GIFI could tell you that this hay floating in the air and spinning around in a circle is a result of a dust devil, where hot air rises up through a small pocket of cooler, low-pressure air above it (kind of like a harmless mini-tornado).
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When I watch Fight Club today, it's a different kind of anger that rises up in me—not one of feeling like something rightfully mine has been taken from me, as the men in the film would describe it, but one that stems from a realization that I never had those things to begin with.
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But while a new era of "nice guys" rises up the charts, as the critic Jon Caramanica of The New York Times noted last month, the genre's mainstream center is still held by charming rogues like the ones being celebrated at this performance in Nashville: Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Chris Stapleton and Keith Urban.
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As our planet continues to spiral into a climate catastrophe, architects have in recent years taken notice to wood's virtues, including its merit as an extra-strong composite material, and have been honing their skills building high-rises up to 275 feet tall out of lumber, leveraging newfangled wooden materials—these are no giant log cabins.
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Don't get me wrong, I love a good motorized camera like the one on the Oppo Find X. The faint mechanical whirring it makes when the camera rises up reminds of the good 'ole days before Michael Bay ruined the Transformers franchise, and the ability to make the camera completely disappear feels like some low-key James Bond-style wizardry.
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In an interview with Star2, he explained that he's designing the museum to convey the feeling of clubbing in post-wall Berlin: "I think of a place where visitors will come inside: suddenly, it gets dark, the fog machine gets going, a DJ appears in the distance, a bar rises up from the ground, the bass resonates and then the party's started," he said.
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Pulling from her experiences of extreme weather, her monumental drawings are characterized by harsh, snowy landscapes, barren trees, and anthropomorphic bodies of water that curl and stretch out like hands — as, for instance, in "Hurricane," where the water has pointed claws, and "Some Things You Said" (both 2009), in which a wave rises up like an arm reaching out to grab and swallow its surroundings.
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And sure enough, something greater rises up every time we give: the easy breathing of a friend we sit with when we had other plans, the relief on our child's face when we share the story of our own mistake, laughter at the well-timed joke we tell to someone who is crying, the excitement of the kids in the school we send books to, the safety of the families who sleep in the shelters we fund.
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He catches the ball in the post against Kent Bazemore on the right block, uses his new and improved streamlined shoulder beef to push Bazemore into the paint, draws Tuarean Prince and Josh Collins into a triple team, faces up, pump fakes, realizes that not one of these three dudes can honestly do shit about shit, rises up and just flushes on all three of them with one hand, then extends his full reach on the rim for a good second or so.
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Those spacey tones stirred in me Friday night, as I watched Mavs guard Dennis Smith Jr. throw this one down: A fabulous dunk on its own, for certain, Smith breaks ahead on a turnover, catches a drifty pass from Yogi Farrell, rises up and windmills it the fuck down for the benefit of a New York Knicks crowd that is always more than willing to let out a healthy "OH" for someone going above and beyond the call of duty, showmanship-wise.
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In the story of Paul English, he gives us such details in a succession of scenes: in the tensions within English's large Irish Catholic family; in the humid air of English's cellar bedroom, where he discovers as a teenager the miracles of computing on a primitive PC; in the view of English as a slacker student who finds purpose in the grim fluorescence of the computer-science classrooms at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; and eventually, in the account of English as the whiz-kid coder who learns he also has a knack for management as he rises up the ranks of a local tech company called Interleaf.
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A big man receives a pass out of a pick and roll, rises up, flushes a two-handed dunk, does a little pull-up to avoid a defender below, drops OFF the rim in a crouching position, lands in a squat with the sheer POWER from his dunk turns the wood floor beneath him in SPLINTERS, and then he reaches down to the ice rink under the court—it's one of those types of set-ups—and merges with the ice in a brief but VERY dramatic spiritual/physical type ceremony, this man-made ice invading his brain as he takes on a robotic affect and he spends the rest of the game with vapor pouring out of his body, performing all his tasks with unnervingly crisp precision.
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