Sentences with phrase «by bright patches»

Fauvism depicted objects with intense arbitrary color, while Orphism was characterized by bright patches of color rather than a figurative subject.

Not exact matches

Surrounded by up - and - coming critics wearing a variety of bright yellow ties (it was rumored that Borges, blind for over 20 years, could still see patches of yellow), he clutched and caressed a favorite cane, offering few insights into himself, the man of flesh and blood.

Diaper rash is a skin inflammation characterized by bright red patches that appear on your baby's derriere.

MESSENGER's maps of polar craters match up nicely with earlier imagery of the poles, taken by Earth - based radars, which showed anomalously bright features — patches that reflected radio waves much better than the surrounding terrain, just as ice does.

He studied a range of penguin species and found that those with patches of bright color received by far and away the most visual coverage.

The size of this stellar debris field, measured by the patch of sky that glows bright in gamma rays, tells researchers how quickly matter moves relative to a local astrophysical engine — in this case, the nearby pulsars.

That radical variation could be best explained by brighter and darker patches of its cloudy atmosphere (see image) rotating into view as the star spins on its axis, the researchers contend.

Although the images are relatively low - resolution at just 6 meters per pixel, they reveal a bright object thought to be Schiaparelli's parachute, as well as a 15 - by -40-meter dark patch roughly one kilometer to the north of the parachute.

The technique, developed by researchers at Sheffield University, uses the phenomenon of laser «speckle»: no surface is uniformly smooth at the atomic scale and, when laser light reflects off it, the roughness caused by the individual atoms creates interference in the wavefronts so that the reflected light seems to scintillate, with tiny bright and dark patches.

Bright - orange paint dubbed Omaha Orange by Jeep, a matte black patch on the hood and Wrangler SR - A tires with high sidewalls all scream that the 2015 Renegade wants to be taken seriously as an offroad vehicle.

Even with my eyes closed, I could tell by the wind and the little patches of bracing coolness and the sudden bright sunshine and the smell of manure when we were passing a hay field, a long thick stand of trees, a stretch of clover, or a horse farm.

Prompted by the closure of two Waterstone's store in Dublin and the receivership of The Sunday Tribune, the discussion was a little glum but not without its bright patches.

It hangs directly across from a 2011 piece by Mr. Frost, a bright orange canvas with a patch of white and a sketch of a keyboard.

Amid the clear, bright planes of colour and Photoshop - straightened lines, touches of the handmade proudly remain for those who look close enough: would - be wooden floorboards gradually reveal their forced perspective, a grassy patch snaps into focus as the scrubby faux turf traversed by model trains, a speckled black floor shows itself as a square of carpet padding.

Dusted in yellow, with bright yellow eye patches and flaming crimson - tipped wings, the Bugun Liocichla, sets another first which TreeHuggers will appreciate: the bird was confirmed as a new species without sacrificing (yes, that is the scientific term for killing) the rare find.The bird was discovered in May by Ramana Athreya, but news of the bird was released only recently after confirmation that it is, indeed, a new species.