Sentence examples similar to length thing from inspiring English sources

At about half its length, "Things We Said Today," featuring Dana Delany and Victor Slezak, offers another contemporary variant on a grim tale from old Greece.

He uses the camera's compression of distances -- thanks to its 12 1/2-foot focal length, things far away seem almost as close as those in medium range -- to create novel effects.

He did all this regularly, and if he didn't do it anything grandkid-telling worthy that night, he would just do what he normally did a couple of hits, a steal, a bit of pitcher-baiting while he takes a long lead at first, that iconic bat-held-out-at-arms-length thing he does before each pitch.

VIdeo for Beck's "Round thinkend".

"He can reminisce at great length about things that happened years and years ago," Mr. Harris said.

To highlight the one that would have had me rage-quitting the novel if I weren't duty-bound to finish it, Nakata is forever describing himself as "completely empty" and claiming to have no memory, and then - generally within the same paragraph - discussing at length the things he remembers (such as Johnnie Walker killing cats) and how they made him feel (upset).

My mom would always say how I could talk at length about things: politics, music or my friends, but I would never talk about my feelings, or what was going on in my head.

"In material bending, larger cross-sectional areas [thickness x width] and shorter lengths make things stronger - you can't easily bend a cube - while the opposite makes things very easy to bend – paper is easily folded," Jeremy Irons, a design engineer at Creative Engineering explained to Gizmodo.

There are cases where the same vertices can fold flat because of the lengths of things, like folding a letter in thirds to fit an envelope.

I tire of ledes that describe at length how a thing used to be before announcing in paragraph four that the thing has just changed.

Like smoking in pubs and eating at Gordon Ramsay's, lunching at length is a thing of the past.