Sentence examples for novel thumb from inspiring English sources

But her parents were also back-to-the-land hippies: when her father Don Mitchell, a writer and professor of English and cinema, successfully turned his 1969 novel Thumb Tripping into a film in the early 1970s, he used the proceeds to buy a sheep farm in Vermont.

For the CyberHand, a novel thumb mechanism was developed consisting of a DC motor (Minimotor, model 1016 006G), a planetary gear head (Minimotor, model 10/16, ratio 64:1), and a magnetic incremental encoder (Minimotor, model 30B, ten pulses per tour).The motion is transmitted from the motor to a worm gear by spur gears and to the MCP joint by means of the worm/worm wheel pair.

Novel rules of thumb for predicting time to the onset of a rollover, LNG temperature and tank pressure based on many observed FSRU rollovers are developed to provide operators with a better "on the spot" insight to rollovers.

Qualifications: Venus As A Boy might not be out until March, but advance copies of the novel are already well thumbed.

A novel series of non-nucleoside thumb pocket 2 HCV NS5B polymerase inhibitors were derived from a fragment-based approach using information from X-ray crystallographic analysis of NS5B-inhibitor complexes and iterative rounds of parallel synthesis.

This year's Wodehouse prize for comic fiction has gone to a novel that had received a general thumbs down from reviewers (including in this newspaper).

Like the giant thumbs of the hitchhiker in Tom Robbins's novel Even Cowgirls Get the Blues or the enormous green thumb of the psychotic cockney Hitcher played by Noel Fielding in The Mighty Boosh, this thumb is seriously out of scale.

A novelist doesn't sit at the keyboard sucking her thumb, thinking "what next?" A novel arrives whether you want it or not.

In his novel Super-Cannes, JG Ballard imagines Jacques Chirac spraining his thumb opening an oyster in its restaurant.

This knowledge will improve our understanding of the pathomechanics of osteoarthritis at the base of the thumb and may help to design novel reconstructive surgical procedures.

He still remembered the title of my project my junior year: "Ultra Micro-Miniature Thumb-Sized Digital Calculator With a Novel Nematic Liquid Crystal for the Display".