Sentence examples for scramble time from inspiring English sources

Producers wanted to stir one fan conversation in particular: Will last season's cliffhanger — the detonation of a nuclear bomb that the castaways hoped would scramble time — erase the post-crash existence depicted on the first five seasons of the show?

They scramble time in an analogous fashion: "Someone once told me, before and after is just another false binary," Xie writes, her deadpan tone suggesting that this isn't news to her.

There would be a 4-point shot line for women, allowing Howard to use what he called scramble time — giving a team that is trailing at the end of a game or possibly each quarter the right to play up to five women to increase the chance for a 4-point play.

Time from power-on to being able to launch was greatly reduced as a result, to about 22 seconds, and Northrop boasted the aircraft had the shortest scramble time of any contemporary aircraft.

Northrop claimed that the F-20's fast scramble time made it a natural fit for this role, its lower cost would allow the ANG to operate larger aircraft numbers, and that it supported the AIM-7 while the F-16 did not.

Win this street race, beat that scramble time, escape these goons with their overpowered rival vehicles: actually doing the missions that splatter across your map is a tedious task for the most part, very few delivering the thrills you might associate with being pursued across city and state lines by sirens-wailing squad cars or rival thugs with murderous intentions.

Like the few needless, cruel images of slowly dying and distressed animals in the movie, the scrambled time doesn't deepen the meaning.

(Dargis) ' 500) DAYS OF SUMMER' (PG-13, 1 36) Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel meet cute, get close and go their separate ways, but in a scrambled time scheme that gives this sweet, witty little picture the mopey lilt of a pop song.

Soderbergh is a puzzle-maker, who likes jagged parts that he can fit together (many of the films have scrambled time sequences), but perhaps for this kind of story, which touches on madness, you need more of an expansively lyrical temperament — think of Hitchcock's work in "Vertigo," "Psycho," and "Marnie," and you'll know what I mean.

In her saga of these strange, scrambled times, my mother is satiric about other people: "She seemed like the perfect Radcliffe girl caught in a Chinese dope den".

where (x, y) and (x′, y′) are the pixel positions in the image before and after transform, M denotes the order of image matrix, and c and d denote scrambling times.