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So even if you flung a million of these things out of orbit, the chances that one would actually hit us is fairly remote.
The only thing that it is capable of feeling is the absolute value of this emotional equation, the exact distance that you have been flung from yourself.
Stars die by this same intersection, this time flung outward in a violent collision of smaller atoms, intersecting and efficiently fusing into altogether new and heavier things.
Say, "Daughter, I stood there with the moment drawn on my face like a dagger, and flung it back at itself, slicing space for you."
10,000 square kilometers, tens of thousands of islands flung like jewels upon the southern sea.
Increasingly, our mobile work and play rely on legions of overworked computer servers, warehoused in gigantic data centers flung across the world.
But lately, the doors of the palace have been flung open, and the walls are coming down.
Unable to hold myself upright in the saddle, going down an oversized step, I flung forward and smacked my face on the back of the horse's head.
I don't know for sure that the Brits invented this particular view of the world, but I suspect we might have done so: we are right in the middle, and we've cut the Pacific in half and flung it to the far corners of the world.
Personally, I plan to be cremated, but given that I get seasick, I can think of nothing worse than having my ashes flung into a huge ocean swell.
There's the sullen hero, flung together by fate with both his ex wife and estranged father.
Fans, have you ever come across a real person who gets flung against a mental wall and gets up almost immediately and continues to fight without getting injured?
Well, after I saw this, I was so scared to death that I would 'accidentally' get flung into space by some psychotic robot with a one track mind.
But, I remember the moment when Jimmy Stewart embraced Kim Novak on the top of the Flatiron building and flung his hat away while the camera followed it fluttering to the ground.
I winced when Uma's character literally flung herself at a guy who is, like a recent book popular dating book says, is just not that into her.
The USS Nimitz and her crew find themselves flung for no apparent reason whatsoever into the past, D-Day to be precise.
As you get close to it, the catapult is set off, and a small pile of feces is flung in your face.
He tells Wally the stories of his experiences travelling around the world, from his time spent in far flung places such as Scotland, Poland, India and Tibet.
I've been getting a little tired of the computer-enhanced extravaganzas that have been flung at viewers over the past few years.
I remember one with Vincent Price made around the same time that looked like it had been flung together over quite a few years.
All sides have flung accusations at each other.
The promotion of Yellen and Flug is a good start; now the doors of these fusty male-dominated clubs must be flung wide open.
Cooperatives have helped to bring information and services to far flung rural communities, empower workers, and expand financial services, healthcare, education, and housing.
Instead of showing the restraint and caution one might expect from a responsible press covering matters of life and death, the media flung around baseless accusations of murder and suicide with abandon.
Many immigrant groups in Europe find themselves flung back on their own communities by the impossibility of social and economic integration.
Some of the state assemblies in India’s federal system have already witnessed scenes of furniture upended, microphones ripped out, and slippers flung by unruly legislators, not to mention fistfights and garments torn in scuffles.
He has flung sexist invective at professional women, such as the political pundit Megyn Kelly, who have the temerity to stand up to him, and has called others “dogs” and “fat slobs.”
Suddenly he smiled and flung up his arms joyfully.
On the stage the singer, in a glitter of bare shoulders and diamonds, was bowing low and smiling as she picked up with the help of the tenor – who held her hand – bouquets that had been clumsily flung across the footlights; she went up to a gentleman; with hair shiny with pomatum and parted in the middle, who was stretching his long arms across the footlights to hand her something – and the whole audience in the stalls and in the boxes stirred, leaned forward, shouted and applauded.
Are we not all flung into the world only to hate each other, and therefore to torment ourselves and others?
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