Sentences with phrase «curlicues of»

Here, an arched gateway is draped with climbers, which are offset by the delicate curlicues of a wrought iron gate.

Nature is horizontal and culture is vertical, and a patterned bed sheet introduces the whimsical curlicues of the social imagination into the horizontal biological realm.

The photograph is really all about the twin aspirant curlicues of the car's gleaming door handles: the sort of mundane, available matter and form that, time and again, insists in Rauschenberg's extraordinarily diverse and genial art.

But inside this rambling narrative are delicate curlicues of story, whether it is Abbie introducing Jamie to the joys of Devo and dancing, or Dorothea smoking and checking her stocks.

In fairness, the things that both Schamus and McGregor fail to translate are the unspoken elements of Roth's style, the curlicues of his signature that can only be spotted on the page.

Give your spiralizer a workout creating curlicues of cucumber,

In particular, researchers have debated whether the bands of east - west winds that sculpt Jupiter's distinctive surface, complete with the curlicues of stormy cyclones, extend deeper into the planet, or are merely superficial.

In a dish emblematic of chef Katy Millard's elegant - yet - comforting style, curlicues of pasta catch tender braised pork and crispy bits of fried sunchoke.

In anticipation of spring (aka picnic weather), we stirred in sweet peas with their curlicues of tendrils along with licorice - y chervil.

In the case of the national bicentennial four years ago, Americans did not lack resources; there were libraries full of national histories which aimed at covering the whole sweep as well as monographs which touched on nuances, cornices and curlicues of American existence.

And the momentum doesn't slack; even when the film gets weighed down by clunky exposition or yet another curlicue of unnecessary complications, it's not long before we're on to the next set piece.

I liked a nearly black painting, with a curlicue of blackness on top of that, restoring that fabric of paint as a tactile and not just visually formal substance.

Not exact matches

Salzburg's rococo plaster «whose arabesques have arabesques and whose curlicues have curlicues»; Mozart, whose «trills have trills» A choir from Northwestern University, thoroughly mistrustful of simplicity, illustrated the point with a most complex and sophisticated arrangement of that unpretentious Shaker hymn, «Tis the Gift to Be Simple.»

Cook for 15 to 20 minutes, or until most of the quinoa seeds have released their little curlicue tails.

This is precisely the type of cooking that comes naturally to Coquine chef Katy Millard, who serves a juicy roast chicken family - style and prepares rustic craveable pastas, like curlicues called girella, coated with milk - braised pork ragù and topped with bits of crunchy fried sunchoke.

The piping bag makes it much easier to get into corners when assembling the gingerbread house and allows for more exact placement of candy decorations and «icicles» and curlicues.

The Pepsi - Cola sign in Long Island City — a dazzling swirl of red curlicue letters that evokes innocent days of summer, heavy industry in Queens and a spectacular disregard for the waterfront in the mid-20th century — is now an official New York City landmark.

Chris Bryant described the new EVEL process as having «more curlicues, arabesques and flourishes than the whole of the Vatican City put together».

The curlicues trace the paths of highly charged particles racing along magnetic fields in the sun's atmosphere.

In the center of this center, so to speak, is a four - way bridge with four more curlicues, and in the center of these curlicues another version of the Mandelbrot set is found.

Zooming in for a close look at one of the tiny figures, however, opens up an entirely different pattern: a riot of organic - looking tendrils and curlicues sweeps out in whorls and rows.

The result had hinged on the discovery of a curlicue pattern in the polarization of the cosmic microwave background, the Big Bang's relic radiation.

The playful curlicues on our Sabrina Coat Rack tree form 16 hooks to hold a crowd's worth of coats, bags, scarves and hats.

Intricate laser cutouts and curlicues define the femininity of these slim wedge sandals.

And though Christian's pride and apparently misplaced sense of power are the cause of all of Fifty Shades Freed's goofy narrative curlicues, the film ends with a few earnest appeals to his character.

The script — credited to the tag team of William Nicholson, Richard LaGravenese, and Joel and Ethan Coen — is a little on the nose for my taste, short on the kind of stray narrative curlicues that give movies some extra texture.

The second D - 12 tribute isn't Gale, thank God, but Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), a local baker boy, whose name I assumed was «Peter» throughout; and off they go, by train, to the Capitol, where everyone dresses in bizarre Tim Burton / «Wizard of Oz» fashions: teeny hats and curlicue beards and excessive makeup.

Behind the Coen Brothers» cute curlicues and hip paradiddles, The Big Lebowski was mainly a Larry, Moe, and Curly flick for postgraduate dropouts, with all the existential weight of a cotton - candy bowling ball.

Every shot is an intricate, curlicued marvel of detail: there are images which glow from behind like stained glass.

Singer has also distanced himself from the stylistic curlicues (restless camerawork, showy editing) that define his own previous work, bringing X-Men's characters and concept basic — that America is a never - ending cycle of oppression — to the fore.

Eccentric with a humorless intensity, this curlicued story of an oddball family features Toni Collette doing her familiar overexpressive thing as an unconventional feminist single mom; old - soul kid actor Jason Spevack as her genius son, Henry, who's a miracle of artificial insemination; and Michael Sheen as an emotionally impacted academic with a bad memory.

«As far as pure, propulsive entertainment goes, The Social Network is a giddy, two - hour rush of hot - blooded vertiginous dialogue and cucumber - cool cinematic curlicues.

Such narrative curlicuing is meant to engender questions of what is and isn't real, but as Baby Doll plans her escape from this malevolent house of burlesque and prostitution, Snyder's attempts at generating confusion flop miserably.

The curlicue letters of cursive handwriting, once considered a mainstay of American elementary education, have been slowly disappearing from classrooms for years.

Though the DB11, introduced in 2016, was kissed with a touch of contemporary design language in the form of aerodynamic curlicues and a subtly pointed tail, it also kept a foot planted in the grand touring vernacular intended to satisfy the tweedy old world set.

Another clever bit of air management: the textured «curlicue» undersides of the front side strakes, which take the air brought in from the hood vents to cool the brakes and «roll» it down the side of the car; by reducing the high - pressure area at the back of the wheel arch, the strakes decrease front lift and increase grip.

Visually the DB11 Volante features the striking single - piece aluminium bonnet and innovative «Curlicue» aerodynamic feature from the DB11 Coupe, combined with new wood or carbon fibre veneer panels on the seat backs, a beautifully tailored fabric hood — available in a choice of bordeaux red, black silver or grey silver - dramatic ultra-slim «light blade» tail lights that create a bold C graphic and a striking new design of forged alloy wheel.

When Ray said up in the canyon Luz had seen porticos and candelabra, artisanal tiles, a working bath with a dolphin - shaped spigot patinaed turquoise and matching starfish handles, birds» nests in chandeliers, bougainvillea creeping down marble columns and dripping from those curlicue shelves on the walls of villas — what were they called?

And her hair, the copper hue of turning leaves, is dressed high in plaits and curlicues and riddled with pearls.

Poodle hair is a delightful departure from the classic canine coat as it consists of minimally shedding, soft, curlicue locks.

Inside, the walls of the palace's vast white rooms that we walk through today were also festooned with thousands of gold figurines and curlicues (which have to be regilded every year to maintain their lustrous shine).

I loved to draw and paint, and the curlicues I drew on the ends of all my letters led to a family joke that I must be the reincarnation of a Medieval monk.

At the time I couldn't imagine that papercuts by themselves would be very marketable (I've since met a number of papercut artists who proved me wrong), but remember those curlicues on the tips of my letters?

As their hometown metastasized and Brasília started to rise, São Paulo artists such as Geraldo de Barros and Luiz Sacilotto painted totally abstract compositions — spiraling curlicues in the former's case, cascading black - and - white stripes in the latter's — that aimed to give form to the utopian dreams of a new Brazil.

Color and pattern dominate in the luscious still lifes of Chicago's Megan Williamson, with boldly contrasting wrap - around foldings in «Paper Still Life» (2011) and overall curlicues with an evanescent glass object in «Still Life with Glass Bottle» (2010).

Anyone who identifies him exclusively with his later color studies will find an unexpectedly varied artist here: a photographer of Aztec ruins (the Alberses adored Mexico, making more than a dozen trips), a furniture designer, a carver of bouncy curlicue - patterned woodcuts, and a collagist who could infuse the lift of devotional art into an arrangement of dried leaves.

Rather than adhering to a single formal vocabulary, she uses cubes, grids, curlicues, and organic forms to forge affective relationships between her present moment and sculpture - making idioms of her historical precursors.

The rosy pink color that dominates the Bortolami show's eight paintings — four large seasonal scenes of defiantly numinous figures, Dionysian grapes, leafy curlicues and metallic silver daubs; three other large paintings; and one modestly sized portrait of a naked cat, facing away from the viewer into a stoically indifferent opacity, its body like a chicken's carcass, its red tail like a snake charmer's cobra, poised to strike — brings to mind the mysterious pink lasers that transmit divine messages in Philip K. Dick's novel VALIS.

In one, Pondick's head sits atop an expressively modeled and distorted body made of a bevy of curlicues.

In many of his later works, there is an exuberance, a lilting extravagance, a richer collection of marks added to his earlier stripes — zigzags, curlicues and densely clustered or waltzing, elongated whorls, accompanied by those numbers whose presence might suggests a code to those with greater mathematical insight than myself.