The CELL PHONE punches RUPERT MURDOCH in the stomach and vanishes in a puff of acrid smoke.
But this was one of those antic conceits, appearing and vanishing in a breath, from which, perhaps, the best regulated mind is not free.
It might as well be said that the film industry reaped a benefit from Marilyn Monroe's popularity; she, too, captivated the "hungry-hearted," and vanished in a haze of self-medication and aborted relationships.
And though the genies change Aladdin's fortunes with trunks of jewels and a palace that appears and vanishes in a flash, the tale is irresistible because of its good-hearted, scheming hero.
Statues come to life, monsters turn to flowers, a palace rises out of the floor, the queen of hearts walks off an outsized playing card and vanishes in a pillar of orange fire.
When the epidemic disease arises and vanishes in a short time like influenza, this kind of models give realistic results.
They derived sufficient conditions for species spreading (resp. vanishing) in the strong heterogeneous environment, furthermore, they obtained sharp criteria for the spreading and vanishing in a weak heterogeneous environment by varying the parameters d and μ.
For those of us who have seen their football silhouettes arise and vanish in less than a blink of an eye or held them alive, their hard-shell skins barely containing the surging muscle tissue within, they are something bigger than the space they occupy.
At this particular performance some dance pieces seemed to magically suspend and stretch in time, while other pieces seemed to zap me and vanish in the twinkling of an eye.
The government hired 411,000 workers to help with the census, but those jobs are temporary and will vanish in a few months.
