You know, enemy cavalry running straight into your bayonets (or era equivalent), that sort of thing.
The US team have been the equivalent of that sort of morning through the medium of curling.
It is very much the equivalent of the sort of gig that young bands play at which their only crowd is the support band.
The film is the sports equivalent of the sort of grade-B World War II movie that told the story of a cross-section of American soldiers from training through combat.
Meisel would shoot them separately against a black dropcloth — equivalent to the sort of blue screen a weatherman uses — to set off the movement of the clothes.
What exactly this "moment" is can seem a little obscure, but in essence it's the ambulatory equivalent of the sort of insights the surrealists believed they received from dreams, séances, automatic writing and other methods they used to short-circuit the deadening influence of rationality.
Their inventions are like inversions of the ideas of European or American inventors, but the word "inventor" has taken on a sense of racial domination that's more important than invention — which is sad, because it's the equivalent of a sort of propaganda.
You could be forgiven for thinking they're basically a very aristocratic equivalent of the sort of letters you read in local newspapers, where some retiree will dedicate many paragraphs to bemoaning the declining state of the flower beds in the local park ever since they allowed homosexuals to marry, or some such thing.
These last two tasks—stick modification and hookmaking are equivalent to the sort of tool construction that chimpanzees engage in when they go "fishing" for termites in their nests.
They are looking for candidates with As and Bs at A-level and top grades in equivalent qualifications, the sort of grades that would get students into a Russell Group university," says Collins. "Many companies have found that the commitment to the organisation and the retention rate is better than that of their graduate schemes," Collins says.
Inside the instrument is a ring of 24 mechanical arms, each of which holds a small gold-plated mirror at its end - the hi-tech equivalent of the sort of thing a dentist might stick in your mouth.
