Sentences with phrase «elaborate patterns of»

A Death in Belmont, then, is primarily an intellectual exercise, in which the facts are enough to rivet the reader's attention even as the author's lines of inquiry weave elaborate patterns of examination.

Elaborate patterns of vertical zonation provide a range of sunny and cooler conditions for different species111.

Furthermore, the elaborate patterns of culture connected with birth, initiation, courtship, marriage, illness, and death all express responses to the insistent demands of natural existence in particular circumstances of space and time.

From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, repeatedly discovering that everything they thought existed is merely a small part of something grander: a solar system, a galaxy and a universe with over a hundred billion other galaxies arranged into an elaborate pattern of groups, clusters and superclusters.

We can't get enough of this boho - inspired pair — the elaborate pattern of the bottoms perfectly complements the simplicity of the top!

English Spots feature an elaborate pattern of dark spots and marks but are otherwise entirely white.

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«The future of business is pure chaos,» declared Fast Company this week, elaborating with a quote from DJ Patil who, among other pursuits, researches weather patterns at the University of Maryland.

In this inference pattern the deductive inference is to predictions which test the proposed dominant order of an environment elaborated analogically, not deductively, from the model of another environmental order.

Here practice refers not to the acquisition and application of a technical skill, but to a complex pattern of interaction by which people elaborate structures and theories of faithful life over time.

9 - 19) must also reflect the later Temple pattern, since in the nature of a simple sanctuary such an elaborate and sharply defined area is improbable.

To better understand the respiratory pattern of these desert sanitation engineers, scientists at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa devised an elaborate contraption.

Fogler's group found those can form elaborate geometric patterns in granules of spheroidal shape.

Most of the time fire investigators find nonexistent patterns, Lentini elaborated, or they think a certain mark means the fire burned «fast» or «slow,» allegedly indicated by the «alligatoring» of wood: small, flat blisters mean the fire burned slow; large, shiny blisters mean it burned fast.

Originally an Asian folk art, kirigami is the practice of cutting intricate patterns into paper and folding this paper, much like origami, to create beautiful, elaborate three - dimensional structures.

The first author Byeonghwa Lim at DGIST's Ph.D program of Emerging Materials Science elaborated on the biosensor platform, «We placed a spider web - shaped micro-magnetic pattern which was designed to move the superparamagnetic particles toward the center of the biosensor and a high sensitivity biosensor on the platform.

«The most distinct of the many cultural innovations in the HP culture were the invention of the bow and arrow, different methods of heating raw materials (stone) before knapping to produce arrow heads, engraving ostrich eggshells with elaborate patterns, intensive use of hearths and relatively intense hunting and gathering practices,» says Professor Christopher Henshilwood, one of the team members from Wits and Bergen Universities.

The precise timing of neural signals appears to be crucial in controlling the elaborate vocal patterns that have fascinated human listeners for centuries (bottom, excerpt from Olivier Messaien's Oiseaux exotiques, which was based on Messaien's transcriptions of birdsong).

Seeing a psychiatrist is often helpful for those experiencing the classic symptoms of OCD, which can include elaborate hand - washing routines, overzealous cleaning, and an uncontrollable need to perform tasks according to a certain numeric pattern.

French lace is timelessly popular for a range of its features, such as soft silky feel and elaborate floral patterns woven on a honeycomb shaped ground.

Silvia hand - weaves the scarf of cotton on the traditional backstrap loom elaborating it with multicolored patterns and a predominate red color.

She hand - weaves it of cotton on the traditional backstrap loom elaborated with multicolored patterns.

The pattern consists of elaborate paisleys, abstract shapes a...

The pattern consists of elaborate paisleys, abstract shapes and...

The other significant change over that period was the use of the revers in the construction of the lapel, as the Victorians used elaborate three - part patterns to cut a fold of cloth from the lining into the front of the lapel, a universal consideration of frock coats and dress coats of the period, but abandoned in favor of the current single - piece lapels at the same time as the switch to morning coats and lounge suits.

This elaborate pair of dangle earrings is handcrafted of silver to form triangle shapes that result in spiral patterns.

When the lights went on, models walked out in cocktail dresses in floral - patterned metallic brocade, which grew increasingly elaborate with the layering of lace, mesh, feathers and ruffles.

Sometimes involvement of elaborate pieces or loud patterns are not required to make an outfit stand out.

However, scholars are now elaborating on the former equilibrium approach by turning to the question of how the actions of individual agents, their strategies or expectations might endogenously change while adapting to the aggregate patterns these create.

When the grounds are visited by a group of documentary filmmakers, they uncover an outdoor area where he has been arranging plants, rocks and leaves into elaborate patterns.

Collecting this information about your area of study is not a difficult task at all, yet laying this information in a coherent and comprehensible pattern, in a sophisticated manner, elaborating upon it, writing it so that it expresses the arch of your thought process, is a difficult task for many students.

''... a dynamic, refined blend of architecture and artwork, with the focal point being an elaborate canopy - style headboard draped in luminescent floral patterned fabrics...»

These are games defined by the «right» way to play not being merely to survive, but to rack up SS ranks through a combination of furious elegance, pattern recognition and an understanding of the games» elaborate / baffling score multiplier systems.

The elaborate patterning and restricted palette of Afro Apparition recall an array of sources, revealing Ofili's complex layering of historical and contemporary associations.

Afterward, the unfurled and stretched canvas revealed elaborate and chance patterns of fragmented shapes in vivid colors, suggesting light and movement.

One must carefully navigate the tight spaces between five separate «island» forms that compose the installation; black panels emphasizing different degrees of depth punctuate those with elaborate color and pattern.

As the journey begins, a silky female voiceover explains the core tenets of the New Protocol — the need to elaborate a new «spiritual relationship with the universe of pattern, matter and energy we call home» in an era where «religious extremism has turned into apocalyptic death cults» and belief in the afterlife means it is pointless to worry about climate change and endangered ecosystems.

Conscious of the different moods that the combination of colors would evoke, Ding superimposes layer upon layer of the motifs, forming elaborate patterns that resemble the flat surfaces of traditional cloth weaves, fields of green and yellow, or even the pixelated grids of digital art.

The elaborate patterning and technical ability of Ray's works immediately struck me — the precision with which each collaged part adheres to the canvas or wood panel.

In several paintings women are featured in elaborate tignons, an 18th century headdress imposed by law for women of color in New Orleans and a tradition that although imposed as a form of oppression became, through elaborate patterning and design, a symbol of power and beauty.

Referencing elements drawn from her elaborate rooftop garden and a range of other sources from Audubon prints to china patterns to Victorian greeting cards, she creates a world out of time, edenic and rich with nostalgia.

Bold color, high - contrast abstraction and repeated patterning create elaborate and visually arresting graphic pieces of intimate and oversized scale.

These canvases are «elaborate, abstract fields of color and movement, with compositions ranging from organized, quilt - like patterns to completely haphazard bands of weaving color».

Her brightly incandescent new paintings and works on paper in gouache and acrylic sing with elaborate patternings and mandalas of color layered over fields scraped and burnished like antique silks.

Also on view are Wolniak's «tablets» — flat surfaces covered in plaster and painted with water - based pigments in palettes reminiscent of Hawaiian shirts, then carved into with elaborate linear patterns made up of circles, dots, scratches and swooshes.

Nearly always depicted in black and white, and often using small text and elaborate patterns to create texture, Wilner's works combine a formal aesthetic with the populist appeal of comic books.

Working in a stunning variety of materials — including wood, stone, metal, plaster, resin, acacia thorns — the artist makes palpable and present the analogous processes of nature and art: carving large trees along their growth patterns to reveal the sapling contained within; elaborating the interior space of his closed hand into a large - scale sculpture that both contains his hand and enlarges the space it contains; rendering the swirling mists of his breath in the cold in tactile clay forms that contain the impression of his body.

Continuing his juxtapositions of bizarre, ominous subject - matter with the mundane, his paintings are in conversation with elaborate linocut pattern designs, which act as flat backdrops.

Adorned in elaborate headdresses and jeweled designs, the female muses of Iannone's painted motifs (almost always self - portraits) commingle and collide at various angles with the male form — most often that of her longtime lover, the German - Swiss artist Dieter Roth — while intricately patterned mandalas radiate crystalline hues of gold, royal blue, and crimson.

The powder - fine grains are continually redistributed by the air currents, creating elaborate capillary dunes that record and follow subtle directional patterns of the wind across the surface of the landscape.

His 1948 Number 14 has a coastline - like dimension of 1.45, while his later paintings had successively higher fractal dimensions and accordingly more elaborate patterns.