Sentences with phrase «became rumpled»

We used to store these dresses in a basket and every time they needed one they became rumpled on the floor.

Not exact matches

He became obsessed with unconformities in the rocks, where strata are distorted, rumpled or jumbled in composition, some layers of rock thrusting near vertically into those above or below.

While white linen is extremely likely to show any markings and certain to become hopelessly rumpled, there is something about it I can not resist.

Odenkirk brings the newshound sensibility in sharp focus — even in rumpled clothes and fumbling for a pen — to Bagdikian, who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the Post and later became dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

Peter Falk, the gravel - voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat - wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had «just one more thing» to ask a suspect, died Thursday.

Some of Eitel's most recent works have become markedly more abstract, accompanying his growing interest in formal composition, like paintings in which figures disappear altogether: a pile of cloth strewn across the floor, a cot with rumpled sheets, paper towels and bags on the sidewalk.

Modernist facades, handrails, staircases, fire escapes, fences, walls, ceilings, corridors, and playground structures from the 1960s and 1970s become inspiration for the artist's dynamic sculptures and installations in steel, concrete, and plastic: a vertiginous, melting staircase reaching to the sky; a toppled tower, its walls like the curved ribs of a Jurassic skeleton; rumpled folds of intersecting grids suspended from the ceiling.