Sentence examples for avalanche off from inspiring English sources

The movie is at its best when it's capturing this horror-film quality of the period, the physical vulnerability that the poet Thom Gunn wrote about so beautifully in his poem "The Man with Night Sweats": the fruitless wish that "hands were enough / to hold an avalanche off".

Fourof Alexander on themter.

ABC [advanced base camp] is also OK but there was an avalanche off the north col resulting in one broken leg as far as we know".

It concludes: I have to change the bed, But catch myself instead Stopped upright where I am Hugging my body to me As if to shield it from The pains that will go through me, As if hands were enough To hold an avalanche off.

The New York Times recently reported in a Pulitzer Prize-winning feature that 16 of the nation's top free skiers were caught in an avalanche off a conventional ski area in Tunnel Creek, Washington.

Now an avalanche of lay-offs is in prospect.

Our embrace of personal media — e-mails, text messages, voice mail, tweets — has created an avalanche of tossed-off language, an evidentiary trail that linguists are getting better and better at following.

He rips them into shreds staring moodily at the floor, and begins his show: an avalanche of knowingly off-colour gags ("My ex-girlfriend had a weird fetish: she used to dress up as herself and act like a fucking bitch") interspersed with self-consciously cerebral, frequently un-PC songs delivered deadpan from the keyboard.

Force Majeure An Alpine avalanche sets off a psychological disaster movie.

Andrew Mueller 9pm, BBC4 As if it wasn't remote enough anyway, the decision to trigger an avalanche cuts off the town even further from civilisation.

In Game 2, with Blake back from a leg injury and the Avalanche coming off two days' rest, Colorado, the defending Stanley Cup champion, seemed to have more jump and was far more aggressive.