Sentences with phrase «face against the surface»

Pheromones are used by cats to mark objects, places and humans by rubbing the side of their faces against these surfaces.

Then there are the body prints: works on paper in which Ms. Ferris pressed her torso, thighs, hands, feet and face against the surface.

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DeFrancisco, who has never been shy in his criticism of Cuomo, said he won't run in a GOP primary for governor, should one materialize, nor is he particularly interested in facing off against Democratic Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, whom he counts as a friend, and whose name surfaced this week as a potential primary challenger to the governor next year.

Elsewhere in the city, incumbents largely were returned to office, though Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., running unopposed, faced a surprisingly strong, last minute write - in challenge from Marc Fliedner, an out gay ex-prosecutor prompted to jump in when revelations surfaced about the incumbent's failure to pursue fraud charges against Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., in their marketing of the Trump Soho and sexual assault charges against Harvey Weinstein brought by an Italian model who captured a partial admission from the former film mogul on tape.

When allegations of sexual misconduct against actor Kevin Spacey surfaced in late October, renowned film director Ridley Scott was faced with a conundrum: his new film, All the Money in the World, was slated to open mere weeks later, starring Spacey.

I shook my head and went back to the front door, where I flattened my face against the cold wood of the door's surface and watched through the peephole what was happening on the staircase.

For instance, holding a sheet of glass against her flesh, squeezing her body parts against the glass and smashing her face, breasts, hips, buttocks and stomach onto the surface from various angles, Woodman distorts her physical features making them appear grotesque.

He happened on the theme in the late 1960's, when he leaned a small painting, its back facing forward, against a larger canvas whose surface had already been painted.

I think there can always be something that surfaces visually in an abstract painting, if it's not a grid it will be a landscape, a still life, a garden, a face, especially when reduced to a small image on a screen, which can sometimes encapsulate the main properties in a work which might not be so evident while up against the canvas painting.

Individual photographs: a sweeping view of a Venetian lagoon; members of the World Adult Kickball Association gathered on the mall in Washington, DC; a sheet of paper, curled into a teardrop shape and glinting against a reflective surface; a profile of a man's face encrusted with an assortment of mottled stones.

This is actually evidence against AGW, because Venus takes 243 days to rotate so is baked on one side facing the sun without respite for all that time, and is closer to the sun that the Earth, and its total atmospheric surface pressure of 93 atmospheres (96.5 % CO2), so whereas the mass of Earth's atmosphere is 10 tons per square metre of surface area; on Venus it's 930 tons per square metre, mainly CO2.

If earth surface is «heated by back radiation», then covering my face against night sky should be felt as lack of warming, as it does on sunny day.

In order to foster the utilization of passive energy sources, building codes should be adjusted so that new home construction requires the largest surface area of the roof to face south, and kitchens be designed such that refrigerators be normally placed against exterior walls in order to provide access for direct thermal exchange with cold winter air.