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...vivid and persuasive creation of a fantasy world ever seen in moving pictures - as a total sensory, sensuous, sensual experience. The planet Pandora is a wonder world of flora and fauna: a rainforest (where it rarely rains) of gigantic trees and phosphorescent plants, of flying steeds, panther dogs and hammerhead dinosaurs. Audiences are just as beguiled by Pandora's humanish tribe, the Na'vi - the lean, 10-ft.-tall, blue-striped people with yellow eyes. They are what humans might have been if they had evolved in harmony with, not in opposition to, the Edenic environment that gave them birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Avatar Ascendant | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan) on 30 Rock once sagely declared, "Live every week like it's Shark Week!" But what does that mean? You could say it means to seize the day, to live as if at any moment, a hammerhead might chomp through your torso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Media Freak-outs: Every Week Is Shark Week | 8/10/2009 | See Source »

Diving with dangerous sharks without a cage appeals to the thrill seeker, Burgess says, adding, "It is taking further and further steps farther and farther toward danger." The tour, provided by Scuba Adventures of Riviera Beach, Fla., promoted its dives as great hammerhead and tiger shark expeditions. Although the company issued a blanket "no comment" when contacted by TIME, its literature made clear the divers would be in the water without any cages while the sharks were being fed - a practice banned in Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Adventure Tourism Kills | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

MAHMOOD SHIVJI, professor of marine biology at Nova Southeastern University, referring to a hammerhead shark mysteriously born in a females-only tank at the Henry Doorly Zoo, in Omaha, Neb. The incident prompted a team of scientists, including Shivji, to do research and find that some sharks can reproduce asexually...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim: Jun. 4, 2007 | 5/24/2007 | See Source »

Already buying your Northface and snow pants at EMS? The truly daring and snow-savvy should scope out the store’s other options. With sleds that range from the $24 Swiss-Bob to the $279 Hammerhead, EMS is the sure spot for those students who want everything but their grades to go downhill...

Author: By Madeline W. Lissner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Activity Activity | 12/7/2005 | See Source »

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