In Walter Scott's "The Talisman," in Verdi's "I Lombardi," brave knights, their standards whipping in the wind, ride off to save Christendom from godless people with scimitars.
The ship is facing directly into the wind, riding over the top of it all, juddering and bumping as it clings to the place where the sea touches the sky.
You find many young Kabulis at dusk up on Swimming Pool Hill, in T-shirts and jeans, with long hair blowing in the wind, riding on skateboards on the smooth floor of the swimming pool that the Soviets built there for soldiers stationed on the peak overlooking Kabul.
The sun's beating down on the arm you've got casually hanging out the window, the wind riding up your sleeve.
A skyscraper has to expand and contract evenly with the seasons; hold firm or flex gracefully with sudden gusts and sheer winds; ride out minor tremors with barely a twitch.
When riding into a strong wind, ride in one gear lower than you would normally.
This new concept includes two identical wind turbines ridden on the same tower, which can pivot face the wind with no additional actuator.
Once Woods calibrated for the wind, he rode on it.
"It's about giggling into the wind while riding shotgun in a world of trouble".
You are the ocean I will swallow, you are the wind I ride".
For Mr. Phillips, a hero's journey doesn't mean betterment for all; it's about giggling into the wind while riding shotgun in a world of trouble.
