Sentences with phrase «like cobwebs»

Architect Jenny Sabin's (2010) interactive installation Lumen, on view at MoMA PS1, has been covered by several national media outlets, including The New York Times, Al Jazeera, and W Magazine, which wrote that the work «spread over the museum's courtyard like cobwebs, creating a gauzy canopy that provides shade and also sprays museum - goers with a cooling mist.»

Picture distant blue stars brighter than the full moon at night, shining through the spidery veins of dust and gas that hang through the nebula like cobwebs.

But proprieties and their inhibitions snap like cobwebs if any great emotional excitement supervenes.

Not exact matches

For most people, these two words inspire visions of a meeting that looks something like this: A group of people bouncing suggestions and ideas around — ideas that will then just sit and collect cobwebs immediately after the conclusion of that meeting.

«While Canadians aren't dissatisfied with their cell phone service, they understand it could be better, and they're betting that a big player like Verizon could really shake out some of the cobwebs in the Canadian mobile market,» said Forum Research President, Dr. Lorne Bozinoff.

It is too long to quote in full here, but one has only to think of a few of the powerful and particular images that situate the joy of the «swinger of birches» within the real and fallen world: the ice like broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.»

Once in a great while, I pretend I am a young intellectual back in seminary and retrieve words like Sinaiticus or Alexandrinus or Bodmer papyrus out of the cobwebs of my brain, but usually I skim past them.

The subject of numerous local articles already, he had promotional videos, a considerable Instagram following, and, of course, those fliers strung up like some kind of vaguely sinister, highly sexualized cobweb to lure fame, all before it was clear precisely on what substance fame should come calling.

The ox is really cool to have in the team... he plays with strength and pace... I like him a lot but he needs to overcome his cobwebs (injury) Coyg!!

Let's hope Szczesny can shake out the cobwebs once and for all before he faces the likes of Tevez, Aguero, Silva and Balotelli...

(Video) Tottenham 1 - 0 West Ham — Lord Sugar takes the mickey out of Karren Brady on The Apprentice Like there's anything other than cobwebs in the Spuds trophy room...

Once we decided to have our adventure a day, however, the cobwebs blew off, my energy returned, she started sleeping much better, and I fell in love with her like it was the first day.

It really looks like somewhere to go to blow away the cobwebs.

It's like tools in your toolkit and you're filing that away and it's like that idea of lifelong learning, you're always going to be adding tools to your toolkit, you shouldn't let it get full of cobwebs like you need to keep adding to it because there's always something that's going to work and make it a little change and for me the mechanics of it... and understanding all of those mechanics and bringing that to the mechanics of the pelvis and how babies come down and all of that and so there is a part of me that kind of, I can think it's very cool that there are ways that this baby can come down and the more experience you get the more you realize yeah we can nudge this a little bit.

Each week, grow rooms, like the one pictured here, produce up to 4,400 pounds of mushrooms and mycelia, the cobweb - like membrane from which mushrooms sprout.

As it grows, the fungus develops a cobweb - like mass of thread - like cells called mycelium.

Neurobiologist Bernd Knoll at the University of Tubingen in Germany and his collaborators used electron microscopy to picture this neuron's cobweb - like cytoskeleton (its interior scaffolding).

They're actually clumped together in walls (long filaments) interspersed with voids, which gives the universe a cobweb - like structure.

To get the best results from this awesome liquid, opt for the most unadultered brands you can find containing the «mother of vinegar ``, a natural cobweb - like sediment at the bottom of the bottle.

«People with eye floaters typically see spots, threads, or a cobweb - like substance floating around as they move their eyes left to right or up and down,» says Robert Cykiert, MD, clinical associate professor of ophthalmology at NYU School of Medicine.

Doing a cleanse one day a week keeps out the cobwebs — like taking your car in for maintenance.

Out of a few, my absolute faves has to be that sunset hued finely knitted floor length dress with matching thin scarf and pink frilled glove, in addition to that sensational floor length blush gown adorned with cobweb like spiralled pearl embellishment layered on top.

Just like a spring cleaning clears your space of clutter and cobwebs, removing an ex still present in your life after a breakup can free you to meet someone new.

Having strong actors in the leads (except Wilson, who seemed like some MTV «be in a movie» contest winner) helps elevate some of the material, but there are too many cobwebs to get around.

Some parts of Grim are simply lost, buried beneath the sands of time or probably, like, some cobweb - strewn boxes of old Star Wars VCR tapes.

In the film, we follow street puppeteer Craig (John Cusack, looking like a small, humming pile of hair) as he confronts the economic viability of his chosen occupation by getting an admin job on the 7 1/2 floor of a building that also happens to hide a tiny door which leads, if one crawls through cobwebs and puddles, to the inside of John Malkovich's head, wherein for 15 minutes the brain tourist can vicariously live through famous actor John Malkovich's eyes before getting spit up into a ditch off the New Jersey Turnpike.

The romantic comedy Cuban Fury feels like it was lost on a studio shelf for a couple of decades, and only released after someone managed to scrape off enough cobwebs to see the cast list.

With the gift of hindsight, it feels like a project made to dust away any creative cobwebs that may have been forming over the previous two pictures, a refreshing of the classic Anderson format aimed at a slightly different audience.

Just like the 2018 Camry's Cockpit Red leather package, the Avalon's new Cognac leather color shows Toyota is working hard to shake the cobwebs of complacency off.

In March you might see the beautiful cobwebby thistle (Cirsium occidentale), with pink flowers and lovely white cobweb - like fibers around the sepals.

Fecteau likes to play with conventions within the art world, such as the desire to name things in order to know or understand them; how art objects age, and how works in the homes of collectors often sport a cobweb or two.

He first saw her work in the Boston home of art collector Kenneth L. Freed, including two cobweb - like pieces made from fiber and shadow.

Blending elements of fairy tales, history, myths, and reality she creates unique scenarios that include, among many other elements, references to the 1960's television series The Avengers, The Beatles, Little Red Riding Hood, ballet stages like Giselle's Cottage at the Bolshoi, photographs of dead squirrels and birds reminiscent of Dutch still - life paintings, gold frames, velvet curtains, mirrors, cobwebs, swords, and axes accompanied by sound - tracks of 18th century choral and harpsichord music as well as the sound of clinging crystal chandeliers.

In Sophie Barbasch's photographs her simple subjects, like crystallized cobwebs of a broken windshield, a sweater floating in open water, are at odds with their own poignancy.

«Ciclotrama» is an intriguing series by Brazilian artist Janaina Mello Landini, exploring complex artworks made out of unbraided ropes that branch out like arteries, cobwebs or tree roots.

As the year began, there's no doubt at all that it felt like, from an environmental perspective, the cobwebs had been cleaned out of the White House halls of science.

She explains precise techniques for tackling cabinet fronts, greasy stoves, scummy tubs, cobwebs, and all types of floors — helpful info for people like me who never saw my parents doing any of it, so I never knew there was a «right» way to do it (hello, pretreating!).

They will pay mind to items that could otherwise force a home renters insurance claim like that mold and mildew that you could never quite remove from the shower, the toilet, and the cobwebs in the closet.

With the Note 4, it feels like Samsung took every little comment stuffed into its cobweb - covered suggestion box and actually listened to what its users want.

But just like you'll take the time during that annual Spring cleaning frenzy to clean those cobwebs out of every nook and cranny of your apartment, I suggest you invest just as much energy examining some of the unpleasantness lurking in the darkened corners of your love life.

Nothing quite like it blow the old cobwebs away.

This pumpkin decorating idea from Woman's Day is created by hot - gluing regular kitchen twine to the underside of the pumpkin, then wrapping and gluing it until it's just as cobweb - covered as you'd like.