Sentence examples for rocky without from inspiring English sources

We want our sports movies to be triumphant, to remind us of transcendent aspiration — "Rocky" wouldn't be "Rocky" without its theme song.

They're almost perfect: massive enough to hold onto a reasonably thick atmosphere, yet small enough to still be rocky, without a gaseous envelope.

"Fighting" is "Rocky" without the bombast, "Fight Club" without the daft metaphysical pretensions.

The waves were immense, battering rocky beaches without sand.

Circumstances unique to the island slowed the pace; hundreds of workers had to be transported onto a rocky shore without a dock or landing strip.

In addition the lawsuit seeks damages and a declaration that he can proceed with plans to produce "Rocky VI" without the defendants' permission or interference.

Perhaps because the Beekman mansion's grounds were on a high, rocky bluff without good water access, the house remained standing until the 1870's.

Detecting X-rays from Pluto is a somewhat surprising result given that Pluto - a cold, rocky world without a magnetic field - has no natural mechanism for emitting X-rays.

East of Broadway, modest row houses, mostly rentals, are laid out in grid fashion on the part of the estate once described as "a flat rocky tract without shrubbery, timber or other attractions".

Initial field tests at five reef complexes off Oregon (n = 421) and a larger study evaluating the western boundary of Oregon's Yelloweye Rockfish Conservation Area YRCAA, n = 527) showed that the video lander could be deployed and reliably retrieved from high-relief rocky habitat without damage to the camera system and with minimal losses of sacrificial bases.

With researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, he built a six-legged robot the size of a shoebox; it traverses rocky trails without tipping over.