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No sparks whatsoever.
The cast is uniformly excellent and the two male leads, Chad Allen and Robert Gant really light up the screen with sparks flying the moment they lay eyes on each other.
Lidia plays a young sweet and innocent virgin who plans to become a Nun and is charmed by Vlad and the sparks fly immediately and the baby soon arrives.
The growing role of the military sparks added concern.
Even if sparks fly in Washington later this month, Moon is unlikely to pay a political price at home.
Out of the welter of dust, noise, welders’ sparks, flotillas of cement mixers and construction cranes, the setting for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games is taking shape.
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, hampers the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest.
Sometimes the “sudden stop” in capital inflows sparks a currency crash, sometimes a banking crisis, and quite often a sovereign default.
They will be resolved in the coming years as autonomy redefines mobility and sparks the next generation of innovations in the field.
What happens if an apparently “minor” system – such as social media – sparks a “major” geopolitical crisis?
Indeed, mesmerized by China’s vast military buildup, a new constellation of strategic partnerships among its neighbors, and America’s revitalized commitment to Asian security, many shrewd observers suggest that 2010 saw the first sparks of a new Cold War in Asia.
Hybrid HumansSINGAPORE – The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church.
But these sparks caused conflagrations only because there was already plenty of kindling.
A viral contagion is like a wildfire: it takes only a few sparks to trigger a resurgence.
Sparks fly, yet little illumination occurs.
Beneath the enormous pressure the structures broke and jarred each other so powerfully that sparks leapt out.
Aside and in special compartments, strings of supremely beautiful pearls were spread out, the electric light flecking them with little fiery sparks: pink pearls pulled from saltwater fan shells in the Red Sea; green pearls from the rainbow abalone; yellow, blue, and black pearls, the unusual handiwork of various mollusks from every ocean and of certain mussels from rivers up north; in short, several specimens of incalculable worth that had been oozed by the rarest of shellfish.
The light from our glass coils produced magical effects at times, lingering on the wrinkled roughness of some natural arch, or some overhang suspended like a chandelier, which our lamps flecked with fiery sparks.
I heard the pick ringing on the limestone soil, its iron tip sometimes giving off sparks when it hit a stray piece of flint on the sea bottom.
Stirred up by our footsteps, the mica-rich dust on this beach flew into the air like a cloud of sparks.
Here and there, opaline hues of infinite subtlety raced among sparks of light that were like so many fiery diamonds, their brilliance more than any eye could stand.
In one hideous pitching movement, the Nautilus reared its steel spur into the air like a lightning rod, and I saw long sparks shoot down it.
Showers of sparks and cinders of flaming coal escaped from its funnels, spangling the air with stars.
It was mid-day, the shutters of the houses were closed and the slate roofs that glittered beneath the fierce light of the blue sky seemed to strike sparks from the crest of the gables.
No sparks have fallen; the pumps are full.
In the twilight of the workshop the white dust was flying from his tools like a shower of sparks under the hoofs of a galloping horse; the two wheels were turning, droning; Binet smiled, his chin lowered, his nostrils distended, and, in a word, seemed lost in one of those complete happinesses that, no doubt, belong only to commonplace occupations, which amuse the mind with facile difficulties, and satisfy by a realisation of that beyond which such minds have not a dream.
But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
The figure that stood erect sprang into the saddle of the unheeded charger; sparks of fire, issuing from the armed feet of the horse, gave a momentary light by which the captain was seen dashing like the wind towards the highway.
The steel of their weapons emitted sparks of fire, and the bayonet flew fifty feet in the air.
Up flew the bright sparks in myriads as the logs were stirred.
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