Kyle Hill

Thor is magical, yes, but it is the magic of reality. His hammer was crafted 'in the heart of a dying star,' but so were you! Most of the atoms that make you up are in fact the innards of a ball of gas in space that got so heavy that it exploded. Stars died so that you could live, as physicist Lawrence Krauss would say.

American Author

Seth Shostak

Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction.

American Scientist

Sam Rockwell

I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.

American Actor

Imtiaz Ali

My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

Indian Director

More commonly used in casual situations, rather than formal ones.

Informal Usage

Can evoke strong visual images; often used in descriptive writing.

Graphic Imagery

While it can refer to humans, it's usually better for animals; 'organs' is more respectful for people.

Not For People

Used to describe complex internal mechanisms, especially in electronics.

Technical Context

In technical use, it's idiomatically similar to 'guts' to mean essential components.

Idiomatic

When referring to objects, it's not usually about parts you can physically handle.

Not Literal

 In addition to startling and distracting predators, the innards of some sea cucumber species are sticky and toxic. Evisceration may seem drastic, but sea cucumbers are able to regenerate what they’ve lost to their gut reaction in just a few weeks’ time. Aside from the few species that have evolved to swim and those that feed without moving,

This sea creature...

 and if it's a chunk of say for example skin or innards they just fill their mouth and shake and shake and shake until this food literally slides down their throat there's some sort of hierarchy there they rely on each other to actually grab onto either end of a piece of prey and then they rotate in opposite directions

Greatest Fights In The...

 if it's a chunk of say for example skin or innards they just pull him out and shaking shaking shaking tears food literally slides down their throat there's some sort of hierarchy there that we rely on each other to actually grab onto either end of a piece of prey and in their rotating opposite direction

Top 5 Most Dangerous...

 and could go anywhere when the fancy took you. All that has changed. But it's not just foods. Got an iPhone? Everyone knows it was invented and designed at Cupertino in California, but who knows where the complex bits and pieces of its innards are made or assembled? Apple doesn't say.

How Containerization...

 they will just crush everything until it's in a sort of a soft enough condition that they can just swallow and if it's a chunk of say for example skin or innards they just fill their mouth and shake and shake and shake until this food literally slides down their throat

Top 5 Killer Crocodile...

 Phwap! Phwap! Phwap! Something never mentioned in the dozens of books about horses and their riders I devoured in those days. All that savage grandeur, the steely glinting hooves, the eruptions driven from the creature's mighty innards,

C.K. Williams: Poetry...

 it collapses under its own gravitational pressure and explodes in a supernova. The star shoots most of its innards into space, seeding the galaxy with heavy elements. But what this cataclysmic eruption leaves behind might be even more

The life cycle of a...

 reasons I'm just going to give you a few one reason is this absoluteness of these buildings if the technology is really the innards of the city and the rate of obsolescence is increasing we get this

Building smart cities PIPE...

 If it's a chunk of, say for example, skin or innards, they just pull him out. He's shaking, shaking, shaking until his food literally slides down their throat. There's some sort of hierarchy there.

Hippo Fights Crocodiles...

 the Diamondback is careful to align itself so it can swallow the head first that way the limbs fold neatly and the fur rugs the snake's innards the right way the Diamondback unhinges its jaws

Innards