They are hung with shreds of orange cloth, like giant bits of tissue paper glued to an unfinished balsa model plane.
We discover our callings, bit by bit, not in one giant moment of clarity.
The odds that the bags would be used seemed high, in real life, when the giant drill bit broke, bringing the rescue effort to a dead halt.
A crew had bulldozed a 300-foot-long trench along a giant drill bit in their desperate attempt to yank it loose from the riverbed.
If Luhrmann was to make a new version of The Wizard Of Oz, his wizard would finally stride out from behind the curtain a magnificent and talented giant, every bit as awesome as his reputation, and the final 45 minutes of the movie would be a colossal party scene, dominated by the colossus Oz, with crash zooms and 3D swoops.
The extension buys the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Internet giant a bit more time to look for ways to stay out of the Redmond software giant's clutches.
Theirs is a different approach from the Russians': rather than using a giant drill bit to make a permanent hole, they will be melting their way through with hot water, leaving a hole that's open for only about 48 hours in which they can take water samples before it freezes shut.
The building has been described as a giant "drill bit" by the public and others in the media have likened it to a "tall twisting tree" and a "blade of grass".
Double-rotator-structure ternary optical processor (DRSTOP) has two characteristics, namely, giant data-bits parallel computing and reconfigurable processor, which can handle thousands of data bits in parallel, and can run much faster than computers and other optical computer systems so far.
The 49ers seemed better, the Giants a bit worse.
