Sentences with phrase «crisscrossed by»

A coherent text is a designed object: an ordered tree of sections within sections, crisscrossed by arcs that track topics, points, actors, and themes, and held together by connectors that tie one proposition to the next.

Bordered by the Los Angeles River and crisscrossed by the area's notoriously congested freeways, LA's Eastside is home to the densest population of working - class Latino communities in the country.

His abstractions began to consist of interlocking planes that resembled terrains crisscrossed by roads and ravines.

In the final work, bodies are crisscrossed by sometimes violent slicing and fractures — vivid traces of the social violence that has caught up with them.

An initial group consists of small and medium paintings with a white or black background whose surface is crisscrossed by a grid of delicate yellow or golden lines executed with a precision characteristic of the artist's recent works.

Evoking the artist's paintings, the photograph flattens a stairway crisscrossed by diagonal shadows into a seemingly two - dimensional plane.

Broad swaths of color highlight and disguise underlying grounds, themselves crisscrossed by the artist's familiar elliptical bands.

This is no doubt why — probably causing great inconvenience to the publishers — Steinberg insisted on an «extra page» in his book Other Criteria (2007), a foldout that erupts like a tongue, rupturing the division between inside and outside and showing the eventual series of paintings that emerged from these drawings as a diagrammatic grid crisscrossed by multiple points of view.

On land, the hilly tropical forests are crisscrossed by hiking trails, home to the island's protected deer, macaques and wild boar

The Hotel La Mariposa also includes three swimming pools with stunning views and meticulously landscaped tropical gardens crisscrossed by walkways and trails.

Jamaica is home to a magnificent landscape of rolling mountains lined by endless white - sand - beaches, covered by lush foliage and crisscrossed by streaming rivers and cascading waterfalls.

The northern plains rise to a slight plateau in the west that is crisscrossed by waterways.

Behind a stark urban façade, another world unwinds in slow motion, reminiscent of a scene from the Swiss Family Robinson: wood - and - thatch dwellings, screened by banana trees, form a quadrangle crisscrossed by rustic stairs and wood - railed balcony porches.

Mossy walls rise up on either side of us, a little canyon crisscrossed by a lattice of vines.

The face of the earth, crisscrossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed and changed again over billions of years, and the testament of the remote past is all around us.

It looks like a smooth white ball, crisscrossed by red cracks.

One of these worlds, Europa, a 3.120 - km - wide moon orbiting Jupiter, exhibited a surface full of chaotic geologic formations that were unlike anything else seen in the Solar System, one that was crisscrossed by a vast network of red - colored ridges, spanning the entire globe.

FACT: Fifty - two percent of national forests are logged, mined, and crisscrossed by more than 373,000 miles of roads, enough to circle Earth 14 times.

The shrinking seems to have slowed down after about a billion years, but the grey, pockmarked world we see today is crisscrossed by steep crustal ridges that reveal the period of rapid contraction.

The resulting ridged fields, which can be between 2.5 and 5 acres, are crisscrossed by canals and encircled by a moatlike protective ring.

One place in particular need of attention in Massachusetts is the Taunton River watershed, where areas of high ecological importance are crisscrossed by roads and other barriers.

At first it's glorified intramurals, a tryout sheet posted on a bulletin board inviting women to play in front of four or five dozen fans on a shadowy floor crisscrossed by badminton, volleyball and basketball lines.

Not exact matches

About 90 percent of North Korea's trade is with China, and Chinese junket operators are well equipped to use the formal banking sector and informal financial networks created by the Chinese traders and small businessmen who've crisscrossed the world for 1,000 years, says Andrew Klebanow, a senior partner at Global Market Advisors LLC in Las Vegas.

From Miami, the jet will whisk you away, crisscrossing the globe, hitting five continents on a 25 - day voyage to places like Easter Island, with its mystical «moai» statues; Nicaragua, to tour a volcano by helicopter; Australia, where you'll taste wine in the Margaret River Valley; and Tbilisi, Georgia, for a private choral performance at a sixth - century church.

A year later he crisscrossed the country by plane, seeking out museum gift shops because «they were easy to find, were friendly, and you never had to worry about their credit.»

Built on a former swamp, humid, tropical Guayaquil is pervaded by a festering stench that rises out of the sewer - like waters of the inlets that crisscross it.

Using the tines of a fork, flatten each dough ball, by making crisscross patterns on the cookie (it was really hard with the pretzels and toffee in the dough, but do the best you can).

Make crisscross pattern on top of each Cookie by pressing down with fork.

Flatten by making crisscross marks with the tines of a fork.

For older babies, baby comes in and sits on the X created by the crisscrossed fabric at your chest.

We take it for granted, but here on the Niagara Frontier we are surrounded by vast industrial projects of almost unimaginable scale — monstrous factories, massive powerhouses, enormous tunnels, gigantic canals — all crisscrossing around and beneath us.

Cuomo and union officials have crisscrossed the state trying to whip up public support for including the wage hike in the state budget, which the Legislature is required to pass by April 1.

Aspirants had to crisscross the country to get their forms endorsed by delegates in all the 10 regions before the forms were accepted as a step to realising their dreams to contest for a national executive position in the party.

The years went by and I crisscrossed from pure science to pure clinical training.

They created a grid of wires by covering the molecule layer with 400 more platinum wires, resulting in groups of molecules sandwiched between each node formed by the crisscrossed wires.

They found that the output from the screen's array of crisscrossed touch - sensing electrodes could distinguish between the capacitances caused by each concentration using droplets of only 10 microlitres (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, DOI: 10.1002 / anie201105986).

The tentacles of the trade crisscross the globe, leaving no country untouched, not even the United States, as evidenced by the July 2009 arrest of a New York rabbi who has been charged with arranging illegal transplants in this country by bringing in poor Israelis to supply kidneys.

Chemist Charles Lieber and co-workers at Harvard University created simple logic circuits incorporating up to six transistors by crisscrossing nanometer - wide wires of silicon and gallium - nitride, each junction of which forms a transistor.

The trains, operated by the Utah Transit Authority, crisscross the valley, and the data they collect fill in the gaps between long - term stationary CO2 monitoring sites.

Not many, by microbial standards — 300 cells in 1 milliliter of ice vs. 100,000 cells in seawater — but they're there, in tiny veins of liquid water that crisscross the solid ice and serve as «little houses,» Priscu said, which also contain nutrients that could feed a hungry microbe.

Objective: To pave the way for a new application of the optical communications cables crisscrossing the ocean floor — as a means of monitoring deformations caused by active ocean faults in seismic risk zones by harnessing laser reflectometry.

The vast network of crisscrossing cracks that are seen on the surface of Europa are caused by the intense tidal forces of the massive, nearby Jupiter and the orbital resonances with the other nearby moons of the Jovian system, similar to the way that the gravity of the Earth's Moon causes tides on the oceans of our home planet.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.

Braid the two pieces, by carefully crisscrossing the strands over each other.

Back zipper closure accompanied by crisscross straps finished.

Finished in sheath silhouette, slender figure in elegantly wrapped by a piece of sequined cloth from one - shoulder neckline to floor length hemline of sequined crisscross straps at back for sexuality.

Crafted by artisans in Italy, these crisscross sandals for girls complement a closetful of seasonal looks.

Traditional scoop neck adored with stylish crisscross back detail.Sparkling crystal embellish the front body and back details.Beautiful ruffled a-line skirt enhanced by split.

This leather gladiator by Old Soles is tops for its bold, crisscross lace - up style, and it rules the comfort arena, too, with a cushioned innersole, and a flexible sole.

This pair Faithful Half Boot inspired by Nicolas Ghesquiere's first fashion show for Louis Vuitton, this half boot in plain and patent calf leather is embellished with a distinctive crisscrossing strap around the ankle.