Oftentimes fog descends like a veil to obscure the view, but rather than detract from its allure, the mist lends the scene an air of mystery akin to that of a Scottish loch.
Imagine that the next time a volcano erupts in Iceland, the airlines are able to treat it as though it was no more than a simple weather hazard, like fog.
Meier said there are many concepts that work really well in a computer game, like fog of war -- not being able to see all the pieces on the board until your units are within range of enemy units.
Not surprisingly, a sense of resignation envelops "Lonely Anywhere" like a fog, but the song is no mere downer.
Social processes act like a moral fog that envelops all the characters and lets them choose what to do in certain situations.
For others, disengagement settles over them like a slow fog.
Suddenly, those uncertainties are evaporating like the morning fog.
At 4 am, when the wake-up bells ring each morning, the tall trees smell like earth and fog creeps around the elegant Burmese-style pagodas and gazebos, making their statues of mythical lions and other creatures look as though they have just emerged from another world.
"If there was one single measure that would have resolved the problem, just like clearing a fog, then we wouldn't have been in this state for the last 15 years, " he said at the news conference, reiterating that in addition to monetary policy, efforts to boost growth and competitiveness also were necessary.
If the moral of this story is that media commentary is like navigating in fog, the crisis of journalism is, at this point, sufficiently real to be seen as part of a wider conceptual crisis brought about by new-media technology: a crisis that is located, primarily, in the cognitive effects of acceleration and its cultural backwash.
The city is renowned for a number of its unique characteristics like its chilly summer fog, steep rolling hills and eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture.
The new game, which ships July 12 for PS3 and Xbox 360 (no PS2 game for the first time), has added a new collision system, new defensive maneuvers, and new visuals like 3D grass and fog (for those night games).
Understanding the implication of the new funding arrangements was like trying to "knit fog", said the NASUWT teachers' union.
The view back then "was like seeing a person in a fog you knew there was a person there but you weren't sure who it was, " said Andy Parker, a professor of high energy physics at the University of Cambridge who is involved in the CERN experiments.
Orange and white turn signals look like angry eyebrows above the headlights, while small fog lamps are recessed into the lower bumper.
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These increasingly frequent exercises are like faint wake-up calls pushing through the fog of sleep for a large population that registers for desktop and mobile apps.
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He does use foams and the like, though you are not likely to be served anything emanating chemical fog here.
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Even after a good deal of EQ adjustment in iTunes, it still feels like there's something holding back the highs, something of a fog keeping them from being all they could be.
Swathes of dense sea-fog wrap around the Golden Gate Bridge, concealing and revealing the city of San Francisco like a colossal, beguiling Dance of the Seven Veils.
Even tiny delays, like the extra time pilots spend trying to find the right taxiway in the fog at O'Hare in Chicago, can add up to huge backlogs as far away as New York as controllers order delays in takeoffs.
The evening after the disco- forum in Solola, as the fog drifting off Lake Atitlan enveloped the town of San Lucas Toliman, some 300 people gathered in a hangar-like hall to hear eight would-be mayors expound on their plans.
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