(1) It's hard to imagine a more masculine character than Thor, who is based on the god of thunder of Norse myth: he's the strapping, hammer-wielding son of Odin who, more often than not, sports a beard and likes nothing better than smacking frost giants.
(2) I have no idea what it would take to kill Thor; nor for that matter does Loki.
(3) The Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator's bosses at Marvel are also bringing sequels to Thor and Captain America to the big screen over the next year, a fact which would also appear to clash with Whedon's clarion call for originality.
(4) The awards were announced by Rush and Thor star Chris Hemsworth and Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.
(5) 'I couldn't imagine a worse scenario than not enjoying being Thor, because it's gonna consume a good 10 years of my life' Hemsworth, a gentle giant who seems both grateful and gracious, talks passionately about Thor, with no winking and no weariness.
(6) Thor Marvel has already made the change in the comic books, revealing earlier this year that Thor’s long-term love interest Jane Foster has become the new female Thor after picking up the hammer Mjolnir and finding herself more worthy of it than the son of Odin himself.
(7) "Apart from anything else, with Superman returning to a cinematic landscape that now also has that other god-alien Thor, not to mention Iron Man, Hulk – hell, all the Avengers – it wasn't a daft move to avoid any winks to his inherent absurdity," he writes.
(8) He duly obliged and the crowd was treated to the first look at Age of Ultron, starting with a witty interchange between the Avengers as each, enjoying a drink and dressed in civilian clothing, tries to lift Thor’s hammer.
(9) He still undid the holster on his thigh, took out Mjølnir – he had named his Glock after Thor’s hammer – and crossed the road.
(10) Oddly enough, Thor (in which Chris Hemsworth plays the Nordic god, come to save us all from Christopher Ecclestone) does pass, since it features a scene in which Natalie Portman and Kat Dennings discuss nuclear physics.
(11) Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition was a product of the European enlightenment’s belief in progressive learning.
(12) Cellular sensitization to human myelin A1 protein, peptide L (residues 1-116), peptide T (residues 117-170), and petide Y (residues 154-170) was studied using the Thor-Rocklin MIF assay system.
(13) Bettany, who until now has voiced Tony Stark’s computerised assistant Jarvis, said: “I used to turn up in a dark room for 45 minutes and get a bag of cash and now I have to work for my money.” When Hemsworth was asked what he would still like to do as Thor, he said: “Turning into a woman” – a reference to the pre-Con decision by Marvel Comics to trumpet its upcoming next iteration of the god of thunder as a woman.
(14) Back to article (2) Pacific Rim, Thor: The Dark World and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
(15) Chris Hemsworth, AKA Thor, God of Thunder, crown prince of Asgard, calls me from the M25.
(16) Robin van Persie eventually tuned into him and took Robben’s fine through-ball in his stride but was denied by Hannes Thor Halldorsson, before Robben himself passed up a chance, nodding wide when it looked easier to convert Daley Blind’s cross.
(17) Twelve months ago, Chris Hemsworth, the actor who plays Kevin, was in every multiplex as Thor , he of the unreconstructed chivalry and massive mallet.
(18) And I realised, I ain't Thor without the costume and the hammer."
(19) This thing is starting to get old … Chris Hemsworth as Thor and Chris Evans as Captain America in The Avengers In fact, the rise of superhero movies signals the triumph of the neurotic over the maverick.
(20) The comic, launching in October, is billed by Marvel as "one of the most shocking and exciting changes ever to shake one of the 'big three' of Captain America, Iron Man and Thor".
Thorium
Definition:
(n.) A metallic element found in certain rare minerals, as thorite, pyrochlore, monazite, etc., and isolated as an infusible gray metallic powder which burns in the air and forms thoria; -- formerly called also thorinum. Symbol Th. Atomic weight 232.0.
Example Sentences:
(1) Plain abdominal radiography demonstrated calcification in three patients and evidence of Thorotrast (thorium dioxide) deposition in one.
(2) Electron energy-loss spectroscopic element-distribution images are acquired from cytochemical reaction products in a variety of cellular objects: (1) colloidal thorium particles in extra-cellular coat material, (2) iron-containing ferritin particles in liver parenchymal cells, (3) barium-containing reaction products in endoplasmic reticulum stacks, (4) elements present in lysosomal cerium- and barium-containing precipitates connected with acid phosphatase (AcPase) or aryl sulphatase (AS) enzyme activity.
(3) In the spectrophotometric method, a change of the absorbance of thorium-morin complex is used as a measure of diphosphonate concentration.
(4) The endo- and perilymphatic glycocalyx of the cochlear epithelia were investigated ultrastructurally in normal and hydropic cochleas using the electron-dense markers cationized ferritin and colloidal thorium.
(5) The cultures were then incubated for varying periods in a colloidal suspension of thorium dioxide, and the pinocytotic uptake of this marker was followed by electron microscopy.
(6) Such a diagnosis can be made without a history of thorium dioxide administration, which often may not be available.
(7) • Examining new technologies including thorium reactors, which cannot meltdown, and fast reactors, which can be fuelled by waste plutonium.
(8) Dose-response curves for chronic leukemia in A-bomb survivors and liver tumors in patients given Thorotrast (colloidal thorium dioxide) show large threshold effects.
(9) The contamination with the natural radioelements (potassium, radium, thorium) as well as their limited absorption by the gastrointestinal tract, their metabolism in organism, and their radiotoxicological characteristics do not create radiological threat to animals.
(10) A case of hepatoma induced by thorium dioxide (Thorotrast) is reported.
(11) The data indicate (1) that approximately 90% of injected Thorotrast is retained in the body for a prolonged period, but about 50% of radium and 10% of radon produced from thorium are eliminated from the body, (2) that the mean steady state activity ratios of 224Ra and 212Pb to 228Th for liver are 0.56 and 0.28, and 0.54 and 0.16 for spleen, 0.58 and 0.82 for lungs, respectively, and (3) that the parent 228Th is translocated to the bone.
(12) Sixty to 80% of the thorium activity in bones containing red marrow was located in the marrow.
(13) The role of thorium in the etiology of possibly two successive hematopoietic neoplasms is discussed.
(14) Summary--Thorotrast (thorium dioxide) is a contrast material which was first used for angiography about 40 years ago.
(15) A second follow-up of mortality was carried out for workers employed in a thorium-processing plant between 1915 and 1973.
(16) In 2009, the potential of LFTRs was highlighted in the Guardian's Manchester Report , and September this year saw the launch of the Weinberg Foundation , a new pressure group seeking to accelerate the development of thorium technology.
(17) The radioactive noble gas radon, a member of the natural decay chains of uranium and thorium, enters the indoor environment in regionally highly diverging amounts.
(18) Also, with the world's supply of uranium rapidly depleting, attention has refocused on thorium, which is three to four times more abundant and 200 times more energy dense.. "Given India's abundant supply of thorium it makes sense for her to develop thorium reactors," said Labour peer Baroness Worthington who is patron of the Weinberg Foundation, which promotes thorium-fuelled nuclear power.
(19) Review of three facial biopsies revealed collections of Thorotrast-laden histiocytes and free thorium dioxide within a background of chronic inflammation and dermal fibrosis.
(20) Previous cases of osteosarcoma associated with Thorotrast administration from the literature are cited, and possible causal relationships are discussed between thorium retention in bone and neoplastic transformation by chronic radiation.