As we're chatting, penguins are filing past us like a line of wind-up dolls.
The water reflected the gray-blue of the darkening sky, and the lights of the water-pumping stations had come on, making them look like a line of floating gazebos.
From the outside they look like a line of gleaming Airstream trailers, especially the dome car at the rear, whose rounded windows afford passengers traveling first class a glorious 360-degree view.
Coastguard cottages perch on the high ground to its west and, to its east, the white cliffs of the Seven Sisters are strung out like a line of washed and pegged sheets.
Nothing says "Welcome to the UK" like a picket line and a replacement bus service.
Some, notwithstanding the ovation in St Patrick's last Monday, would even like a softer line on abortion.
Especially as ad budgets tighten, the growth chart on social marketing no longer looks like a straight line up and to the right.
Burning 3, 785 liters of fuel an hour, they turn left and right and speed up and slow down as air traffic controllers on the ground try to arrange them like a conga line for their final approach to the runway.
If this sounds like a familiar story line, there's good reason.
Branding yourself is just like branding a product line or business.
"The groups then set up what looks like a genuine BT team working on a line with vans, barriers and high visibility jackets, " Pc Baldwin said.
For the first time in 30 years, Rubbermaid is changing the unadorned, utilitarian design of its water pitcher, adding a swoosh-like handle and a rubbery bottom-half to match a new line of kitchen gewgaws like butter dishes and pepper shakers.
That may mean a reporter or a host like Inskeep has to persist in a line of questioning even when it makes a candidate uncomfortable.
The company reminds customers of that with its "It's still built like a Volvo" tag line.
"Hard time makes the boy the man, " Elmore said afterward, and it felt to Peter like dad was writing a line in a story.
As the site - and their visibility - has grown, the Petersiks have been able to supplement their revenue through projects like a best-selling book and a lighting line.
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This is why I think a game like Spec Ops: The Line really does qualify as a mature game, partly because it shows how games can tell stories in such unique and impactful ways.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, a broad satire of musician biopics like Walk the Line, proves that (a) the conventions of biopics really are lame, and (b) you can get a lot of laughs out of basically one joke if your lead is John C.
Carrying too heavy a stress load is like running a car engine past the red line or leaving a toaster stuck in the 'on' position.
Basically, this would be like a developer who is building homes along a fault line and only tests the durability of the construction up to a level 4.0 (light) earthquake when there is a decent probability that an 8.0 (major) may hit.
With a title on the line, this may seem like a risky time to start scouring the depths of your roster for possible starters.
Conversely, a game like Spec Ops: The Line hit me so hard because it was at once a new level of storytelling in video games and a throwback to films like Apocalypse Now and the Joseph Conrad novella, Heart of Darkness.
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We went to the left-hand side of the ring where there was a zip-like line running up the eight-foot high construction.
Since they look and function more like a traditional phone service, line-powered voice-access systems may be more palatable to consumers than other VoIP products.
It was like painting a 2-inch line with a 1-inch paintbrush.
Once someone shows you how to do a page or two, what line editing is like, how you change a sentence, how you revise, how you cut extra words, how you get rid of what you don't need, you can take those lessons and apply it to the rest of the book.
According to Apple: Bateman was in line at 6 a.m. like everyone else, and was indeed taken out of line by an Apple employee.
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