For an actor, this contradictory tug-of-war is difficult to pull off, but immensely rewarding once you crack it.
The theme is quite satisfying once you crack it, and it might come easier for folks who solve on a computer instead of using pen and paper.
Josh Axelrad's "Repeat Until Rich," his new memoir about winning some $700,000 playing professional blackjack, emits a lively hum from the second you crack it open.
A balut's been boiled soon before it hatches, so when you crack it open there's this fetus swimming in grey liquid.
— Peter Mullin's car museum is like a geode, a rock that looks like a ball of dried mud until you crack it open and discover the gemlike structures hidden inside.
"I suppose you have to parse the harm it's doing to you, and to those who love you, against the good that it might produce in the end if you crack it," he said.
Much like a fluorescent light stick turns on when you crack it in half, the chemical changes that activate the enzyme also cause the quencher unit to pop off, switching the probe on "like a molecular beacon," Bogyo said.
To all but practiced cryptographers, it looks baffling: a rectangular display of 160 letters and numbers, grouped in twos in blue against a black background, under the overline, "Can you crack it?" Beneath it, a digital clock ticks down the seconds left until the competition closes.
TC: How did you crack it?
The display itself is flat, but still fused to the glass, so if you crack it you'll have to replace the whole thing.
"Ever since I've worked here for Activision I just felt something about it…the size and the geography is intimidating when you first move here, but when you crack it open it's a good, solid, dense city".
