Brad Feld

My initial desire to blog came from something that's always been my approach to investing - I'm a nerd, and I love to play with the technology, and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level.

American Businessman

Joel Edgerton

To act with a tennis ball and imagine it's a tentacle, or if you're in some kind of wilderness film and you go, 'Okay, we can't have a grizzly bear here, but imagine when you step over the rock there there's a grizzly bear.' I don't know. They're tough moments.

Australian Actor

Sheldon Whitehouse

From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates.

American Politician

David Grann

The giant squid is the perfect embodiment of a sea monster: it is huge, it has tentacles, it has big eyes, and it is absolutely frightening-looking. But, most important, it is real. Unlike the Loch Ness monster, we know it's out there.

American Journalist

Gary Cole

Even people who aren't engaged on the actual battlefield - the effects of war reach out like tentacles into families, into economies, into the changing geography, into politics. It shakes up everything.

American Actor

Selma Blair

I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

American Actress

Steve Backshall

I have deliberately stung myself with a small section of box jelly tentacle, and it felt like being burned by a steam iron. Larger stings can lead to cardiac arrest, and mind-blowing pain.

Monica Crowley

Once the tentacles of redistributionism wrap themselves tightly around every part of the economy - and around our psyches - they can never be unwound.

Marsha Blackburn

We've already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.

Matt Lanter

There are so many possibilities of life out there that an alien doesn't have to have green, long tentacles. They can be very similar to us.

Often associated with marine life, gives strong visual of underwater creatures.

Aquatic Imagery

Emphasize how sea creatures use tentacles for touch and environmental interaction.

Sensory Function

Highlight how tentacles can grab or hold objects, often with suction cups.

Gripping Ability

Used metaphorically to describe something with wide-reaching influence or control.

Metaphor for Reach

In figurative speech, can imply intrusive or unwelcome influence.

Sinister Connotation

Conveys the way an organization or phenomenon expands into new areas.

Growth and Expansion

 keel on their ankle helps to reduce drag letting them cut right through the water something else that helps the shark reduce drag are its dermal tentacles which basically translates to skin teeth now all sharks have these type of scales but the placement and shape of these dermal denticles on the mako shark really helps streamline the water across their body helping them zip right

Seven Superpowered...

 videos that I can't tell you what that thing is for instance so we haven't now the ability to access the deep sea we can take beautiful pictures the cameras now that we have can zoom in and look at tentacles and tentacles of tentacles and see details at my eyes can see so it's a spectacular world it's a chance to

Beyond the edge of the...

 We're trying to get an expedition together to go look at this and maybe in a year we'll have that. Go online and look. Vampyroteuthis infernalis. The vampire squid. Incredibly cool. In the darkness of the deep sea, he's got glowing tentacles, so if I'm coming at you like him, I put my arms out in the darkness

Deep ocean mysteries and...

 into them they believe the barreleye swims into the tentacles and steals the food from the siphonophore the shield over its eyes protects them from the stinging cells of the siphonophore tentacles the barreleye can also rotate its eyes to avoid predators or avoid being captured by scientists

Fish With Transparent...

 for protection and prey capture. Even baby jellyfish, the size of a pencil eraser, have the ability to sting. Larval jellyfish, ephyrae, look like tiny flowers pulsating in the sea. As they grow, they become umbrella-shaped with a bell at the top and descending tentacles around the margin.

How does a jellyfish...

 And then there are the crises. Of course there are. And the vomiting starts, the seawater -- you're not well. You're wearing a jellyfish mask for the ultimate protection. It's difficult to swim in. It's causing abrasions on the inside of the mouth, but the tentacles can't get you.

Never, ever give up PIPE...

 the starfish that uses 15 tentacles to sweep the oceans to trite us into its mouth at the end of its meal it changes shape and flies off to find another nutritious mud bath by the time the census of marine life wraps up its mission next fall the five deep-sea

"Dumbo," Other Deep-Sea...

 The other 60% are in the tentacles, which for humans would be like our arms having minds of their own. This is where things get even more interesting. Vertebrates like us have a rigid skeleton to support our bodies, with joints that allow us to move.

Why the octopus brain is...

 although specimens have been brought to the surface it's only been seen alive through the windows of deep sea craft like this it uses a pair of long retractable tentacles to catch fish

What's Hiding in the...

 fish or in rare cases a human but among its lethal tentacles lurks a

Tentacle