If that goes wrong, we can hardly blame the perception: the atoms that form an image of the distant square tower will, by the time they hit our eyes, have been battered by the air they travel through enough to make the image seem a bit rounded, but that isn't an invitation to assume that the tower must also be.
Called LostWinds – and inspired by the ferocious blasts of air which were battering the Frontier offices at the time – it became a highly successful launch title for WiiWare and set a quality standard for others to follow.
Intense air strikes have battered the eastern part of the city since Tuesday, when the Syrian army and its allies resumed operations after a pause lasting weeks.
A branch followed the leaves, and suddenly tree parts filled the air, battering her car and flying over the hood at probably 100 m.p.h.
While the mixture is very similar to crepe batter, when you confine it to deep, narrow, muffinlike molds, the surface of the batter sets and the air is trapped, so that the pastry has nowhere to go but up and out, creating a gravity-defying bubble.
The Detroit Free Press took note of Getzein's performance:"Getzien caused the Cleveland batters to pound the air thirty-seven times, and eleven more strikes were called.
In Isis-run Mosul, which has been battered by air strikes for the last month, locals seemed mostly wary of Britain's involvement.
Sanctions have deprived the country of spare parts, and British and American aircraft patrolling the "no-fly" zones over northern and southern Iraq have (with special vigour recently) battered its air defences.
They also act like knives that break the cell structure in the batter system that traps the air pockets.
You couldn't build a house, and the few houses left in the neighborhood — most had been demolished or had burned down, accidentally or not — were old and badly battered by the salt air.
