Sentence examples for face of lightning from inspiring English sources

The major city of Gdańsk, however, refused to surrender even in the face of lightning Swedish advances.

IS captured Tikrit last June after the Iraqi army collapsed in the face of a lightning advance by the group across northern and western Iraq.

Last October in Yosemite, several hikers on the Cables route on Half Dome pushed on in the face of a gathering lightning storm.

Meet the new face of Louis Vuitton: Lightning, a heroine from the Final Fantasy universe designed by Tetsuya Nomura.

The Hashid deny having sectarian aims or committing widespread abuses and say they saved the nation by pushing Islamic State back from Baghdad's borders after the army crumbled in the face of the jihadists' lightning advance in 2014.

Baghdad and Washington have touted Ramadi as the first major success for Iraq's U.S.-backed army since it collapsed in the face of Islamic State's lightning advance across the country's north and west in mid-2014.

We'd like to hear from you, whether it is to tell us what your favourite album is or - if you dare, for I will smite your face with an indelible bolt of lightning - you want to explain why you're not a fan. 1.

Like spilt ink, like shadows racing across the face of still water, like lightning crackling across the sky.

The image is perhaps one of the most striking and enduring, evidenced by the fans now rushing to change their Facebook profile pictures to overlay a bolt of lightning across their own face in his honour.

WASHINGTON — Representative Nancy Pelosi, a woman who has served as the face of House Democrats and a lightning rod for Republicans, was returned to her role as the party's leader in the House on Wednesday after weighing whether she would step aside when Democrats failed to regain the majority and return her as speaker.

As the people speak, extensions of their thoughts jump out of their faces and hands — little twittering creatures, bolts of lightning.