Sentences with phrase «almost hieroglyphic»

Although the paintings flirt with identifiable forms, they are kept from coalescing into fully recognizable images as each painting reveals an organic network of indecipherable, almost hieroglyphic marks.

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They had learned to write in hieroglyphic form, and there existed at the time of the conquest a vast body of writing, as well as stone carvings, but it was almost entirely destroyed.

An almost hilariously awful credit sequence kicks off the movie, attempting to track the rise of reporting with the printed word, from hieroglyphics hammered into stone (prompting one fellow colleague near us to quip, «Is this «National Treasure `?

The female subjects of the paintings, all in profile as if in a hieroglyphic stance, are ambiguous and almost without history, often in transit, walking or waiting and on the brink of something new.

«Marten's objects read almost as hieroglyphics, a visual system of communication that is expressive yet rooted in logic, which makes rational the combination of a pickle with an electrical circuit, or a pillar drill alongside a bowl of fish skins.»