Sentences with phrase «as opal»

As an increasing cadence of storms with names such as Opal, Mitch, Allison, Ivan and Katrina have battered the Americas during the past decade, hurricane scientists have patiently explained that this was to be expected.

April 23: 3 pm Screening followed by a conversation with Dani Leventhal, Sheilah Wilson, co-director of Strangely Ordinary this Devotion, Jared Buckhiester, co-director of Hard as Opal, and Aily Nash, co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial Film Program

Lightning Ridge hosts a range of special events throughout the year, such as the Opal and Gem Festival in July, the Easter Goat and Horse Races, Arts & Crafts Spring Exhibition, pistol shoots and bowling carnivals.

Warman makes all of her necklaces, earrings, bracelets and anklets by hand, using natural materials she finds in her environment like mother - of - pearl and abalone shells; freshwater pearls; precious and semi-precious gemstones such as opal, jade, onyx, garnet and turquoise; metals of copper, brass and sterling silver; and 100 % pure cotton cord.

Coober Pedy: known as the opal capital of the world, you can stop by for a little opal jewellery shopping or even stay in an underground hotel (a unique Coober Pedy experience thanks to renovated mines and its hot climate!).

Sporting the same 1.5 - inch OLED as the Opal, the Jet is also splash - resistant and comes with a Body Mass Index calculator to help you visualize your obesity.

It's a smart choice, as opals are opaque, yet shimmer with a beautiful rainbow iridescence, a kind of inner fire.

Not exact matches

In Green Hills parlance, customers are categorized as Diamond at the top of the spending scale, followed by Ruby, Pearl, and Opal.

The Sydney Gas Company (SGC), which listed as specialist opal explorer Desertstone NL in July 1996, has undertaken a significant change in direction which has resulted in its shares spiking to more than $ 1.20 in the last few weeks.

Kestelman hopes the buzz around the league, having private owners such as Rich Lister Jack Bendat in Perth and Vicinity Centres CEO Grant Kelley in Adelaide and the packaging of Boomers games — the deal includes about 15 Boomers and women's Opals games — will finally translate into more interest from the TV networks.

Some are even choosing alternative gemstones, such as sapphires and opals.

The league season, as everybody knows, is a marathon, not an opal fruit.

As I was showing her the bedroom, she asked to see an opal ring that she noticed me wearing on the day we met.

She helps small charities and businesses and has worked all over the world, most notably mining opals in the Australian outback and as a volunteer for the Kitchen Table Charities Trust, for whom she traveled to Madagascar to highlight the issues many children face there.

I especially am drawn to the sparkly blue opal of the Nikki necklace, but the company also uses a darker blue stone, as well as white opal.

She studied Psychology and English Literature at Durham University, and has worked all over the world, most notably mining opals in the Australian outback and with John Humphrys, as a volunteer, on behalf of his charity «The Kitchen Table Charities Trust», for whom she travelled to Madagascar to highlight the issues many children face there.

The conference runs through the end of the day Saturday and features such other speakers as Black Lives Matter co-founder Opal Tometi, Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the first Indian - American woman in the House, and activist attorney Zephyr Teachout.

Firms allegedly used to perpetrate the fraud and which were joined as the 5th to the 9th defendants were Blue Opal Limited, Sebore Farms & Extension Limited, Pagoda Fortunes Limited, Tower Assets Management Limited and Crust Energy Limited.

So scientists at the SEL, XCELS, and OPAL are pinning their hopes on what are known as optical parametric amplifiers.

In 1999, Robert Twiggs, an astronautical engineer now at Morehead State University, helped create the Orbiting Picosatellite Automatic Launcher (OPAL), a microsatellite that can propel several satellites as small as ice cream bars into space.

«Other types of structural colour — for example butterfly wings or opals — have a specific pattern in their structure which results in vibrant colour, but to produce white, the structure needs to be as random as possible.»

iSpot.org.uk is supported by the Big Lottery Fund for England, as part of the Open Air Laboratories (OPAL) project, and by the Garfield Weston Foundation.

Before the new work, opal had only once been found in a meteorite, as a handful of tiny crystals in a meteorite from Mars.

Opal, familiar on Earth as a precious stone used in jewellery, is made up of silica (the major component of sand) with up to 30 % water in its structure, and has not yet been identified on the surface of any asteroid.

For a long time, Aizenberg's research has focused on studying complex natural micro and nanostructured materials — such as those in iridescent opals or in butterfly wings — and unraveling the ways biology controls the chemistry and morphology of its nanoscale building blocks.

Artichoke cultivars - such as «Green Symphony», «Purple Tempo», «Opal», and «Concerto» - are the result of a long process of hybridization and are propagated by seeds that can be grown annually and produce a limited yield.

Avocado Green Mattresses use natural wool (which does not burn) and two layers of hydrated silica — the same compounds as the gemstone opal — for fire protection.

Quick face breakdown: Kjaer Weis Desired Glow cream blush (love), Becca shimmering skin perfector in Opal (also love, but I like a lot of other highlighters as well.

With key ingredients such as pink algae extract and opal powder, cellular regeneration gets a serious reboot, light - reflecting properties give skin a natural glow, and all while your overall complexion becomes significantly hydrated.

As I've written about in posts before, I love the Becca highlighter in Moonstone, and I wanted to try the one in Opal but was afraid it would be too dark for my pale complexion.

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector Pressed in Opal — $ 46 / / I purchased a sample size of this and the liquid skin perfector on a whim one day (helllllo those nasty little shelves that surround you as you're standing in line at Sephora) and have been loving it!

I certainly have sentimental pieces in my jewelry collection (like opal earrings made from my grandmother's ring), but few things feel as personal at this necklace from A.Jaffe.

I follow you on all of those platforms I liked Baublebar as facebook.com/lauralilyblog and I absolutely love the Opal Galactic Drops!

The one in Porcelain isn't one I can use as it is too light but I have swatched it below and the colour I have been working with is Opal.

The colour I have is Opal, which is a tad light but for powder foundations I prefer to go a shade lighter as I find that this, like most others, got darker after a short while.

Opal button earrings «Starry - Eyed» by Neeru Goel can be found in jewelry categories such as Gemstone Earrings, Birthstone Earrings, Opal Earrings, Silver Earrings, Sterling Silver Earrings and Button Earrings.

I have it as a «Like» and not a «Love» as I personally prefer the shade and formula of my beloved Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Opal.

Available in matt black, blue, havana and opal - yellow as well as plain black, any style preference has their colour pick with these shades.

Cover Girl Queen is great,» she continues, and, «Iman, Black Opal, Fashion Fair — those heritage brands have always been so close to our hearts as black women.

Becca Shimmering Skin Perfector in Opal — I recommend getting a travel size of this as I can't imagine getting through the whole thing.

From rose gold to opals, there's nothing I won't turn down, as long as it's simple, elegant, and beautiful.

neon, sinful colors, sinful colors opal glitter, spirals, swirls, tip top, tip top as the beat grows on, tip top cyan can - can, tip top get the party started, tip top grape dance, tip top salsa pop, tip top walking on sunshine

Since Moonstone basically blends in with my skin tone, it's hard to believe the darker Opal would work as a highlighter but it does.

The shade, Opal, is described as golden opal pearl, and it blends cool and warm tones for a highlight that would suit a variety of skin toOpal, is described as golden opal pearl, and it blends cool and warm tones for a highlight that would suit a variety of skin toopal pearl, and it blends cool and warm tones for a highlight that would suit a variety of skin tones.

I then like to use Opal as my true highlight shade, dabbing just a bit on my cheekbones, above my eyebrows, in the middle of my forehead, on my chin, and above my cupid's bow.

One thing that we love about Patricia Locke Jewelry is that it can easily be worn as an everyday piece or dressed up for a night out and our Pacific Opal Serenity necklace is...

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

As I haven't read the Newberry Award - winning Kate DiCamillo novel on which the film is based, hard to know whether to accuse this adaptation of fidelity or whitewash — but at the risk of judging a book by its cover, the artist's rendering of India Opal on the trade paperback hints at the latter by virtue of looking nothing like the Aryan ideal that is Robb.

Wang has never been much of an iconoclast, and though he has his Pollyanna lapses (as if an aristocratic politician would ever mistake the help for a socialite), it's uncharacteristic of him to be so wilfully ignorant as to consider Gone with the Wind an appropriate book for Opal to read to African - American Gloria.

New Age Opal is as close to a modern - day hippie as you could imagine.