Sentences with phrase «building elaborate structures»

In nearly every species of bowerbird, males impress females by building elaborate structures called bowers: long, twiggy corridors that open to a courtyard decorated with small objects.

Players in a worldwide, online community make their own creations using sets of pixilated blocks that they mine and use to build elaborate structures.

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If attention to detail and amount of time invested were the sole metrics of performance, the sandcastle worms» elaborate structures would win any building contest.

Since then, he's been a zombie, rarely eating, riding his bicycle dangerously and spending his work days building elaborate domino structures just to watch them collapse.

He's effortlessly poetic, waxing lyrical at the legacy he will leave the world, but he also has a hint of the mad scientist about him as he devises ever more elaborate experiments and builds structures.

Collateral Beauty movie review: With his daughter dead, Will Smith's Howard is seen building elaborate domino structures, over days at a time, which he then destroys with a flick of his hand.

Players can already build structures — even elaborate cities, carved into mountainsides or freestanding.

One of the seven ancient wonders of the world, the Hanging Gardens were thought to be an incredibly elaborate structure built by a Babylonian King for his wife.

Jesper Just's eerie 2013 video, Intercourses, set in a pseudo-Parisian housing structure in China — an actual ruin, since the elaborate and cheaply fabricated buildings were never finished and are now moldering uselessly — is a stunning metaphor of the ruins left behind by the mad rush of capitalism and is headlined «Ancient Paris, Catacombs, Demolitions, Decline of Paris.»

His hyper - stylized images feature unwrapped sticks of gum used as building blocks to create unique and elaborate structures.