force-fields

Elastic bands so thin and so small and so tight that it often looks as though the toys are held by force-fields.

Archive 2009-12-01 Ulysses 2009

No one has a right to tell parents anything at all about their parenting, it seems, because babies are like force-fields turned up to 11, deflecting criticism of our judgments.

Last Time I Checked, Babies Were People Too - Her Bad Mother 2010

Elastic bands so thin and so small and so tight that it often looks as though the toys are held by force-fields.

State of Play Ulysses 2009

But, investors have another power that does not require concerted action -- they vote with their feet, and, if the appropriate "force-fields" are erected, the sum of their individual actions will, in a way that would have pleased Tolstoy, change corporate behaviors.

Paul Abrams: Curing Excessive Executive Compensation -- and Reducing Job Off-Shoring -- Without Regulation 2009

 I would also like to point out that these individuals are, in that same order: invulnerable; possessed of an alien super-weapon that makes force-fields; recently returned from the dead after being blown to smithereens; previously shown to be able to shrink away from explosions; and invulnerable.

Review: Justice League - Cry For Justice #4 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009

On the other hand, I’'ve long been intrigued by how certain works of fiction create such powerful force-fields that readers go beyond enthusiasm, developing relationships with characters and their world that prove exceptionally intense, even life-changing.

Scott McLemee: Pottering Around 2008

Think instead of energy and force-fields in a space-time that possesses none of the properties that our senses seem to reveal: on this conception, we seem to be able to attribute to matter nothing beyond an abstruse mathematical structure.

Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

Both of them were transformed into silhouettes of searing white light as their personal force-fields were relentlessly overloaded; tendrils of electricity lashed out from the incandescent shapes, grounding through the desks and chairs next to them.

The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007

There are hundreds of people who want to steal your shiny new car, and you have to stop them using things like rope traps, giant springs and force-fields.

SLACKERJACK – Icicle 2005

The OHD comprises two types of microminiature devices that project a variety of special force-fields.

I’m Working on That William Shatner 2002