Sentences with phrase «faint trace of»

Some paintings are entirely abstract, while others show the faint trace of arial views with shifting gradients in shades of pink, blue, orange, and green.

The real difference between the «Elegies» and the «Opens» is that the earlier series retains a faint trace of symbolism that can include a Freudian reading of their phallic and testicular shapes, while the latter paintings are more purely visual in their content.

A faint trace of perfume hung on the air.

He rode where he would always choose to ride, out where the western fork of the old Comanche road coming down out of the Kiowa country to the north passed through the westernmost section of the ranch and you could see the faint trace of it bearing south over the low prairie that lay between the north and middle forks of the Concho River.

The flesh split open in midair, spraying seeds like gentle buckshot into the bare skin of my arms, leaving behind a faint trace of pain.

Although there is a faint trace of body roll that warns you're reaching the limit of adhesion, the transition past that threshold is prompt rather than progressive.

The spiciest calibration works best on sealed surfaces where there is a faint trace of power oversteer even through third - gear esses, despite total surveillance by various watchdogs.

Use 1/4 teaspoon of the shichimi togarashi if you want only a faint trace of heat in the cheese.

«51 In consequence, therefore, of all these principles, one can not detect in Hartshorne's doctrine of man even the faintest traces of despair of life's ultimate meaning, fear or perplexity in the face of death, moral vertigo, or denigration of the enduring value of our transient earthly life.

They might even go on to suggest the faintest trace of, well, bias, given that your correspondent spent a recent Saturday running around the Champion Hill pitch, waving a pink - and - blue scarf and singing, badly.

HERA's level of sensitivity — which is one of the things that allows the instrument to collect the faint traces of light from such distant sources — will get even higher with the new grant.

Swift worked perfectly on 4 September, spotting faint traces of a flare in the constellation Pisces.

Using data captured by ALMA in Chile and from the ROSINA instrument on ESA's Rosetta mission, a team of astronomers has found faint traces of the chemical compound [Freon - 40]--(CH3Cl), also known as methyl chloride and chloromethane, around both the infant star system IRAS 16293 - 2422, about 400 light - years away, and the famous comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko (67P / C - G) in our own Solar System.

In this discovery, reported by Caltech researchers in June, radio telescopes picked up faint traces of the organic compound propylene oxide in a vast cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2, which is near the center of our galaxy.

Sure enough, Perron saw faint traces of retroviral activity.

So are our fittingly escapist quality and timely dislike of any clothing that attracts the faintest trace of sweat.

Emma Stone arrived in a wispy updo, subtle liner, and the faintest trace of pink blush.

Loosely adapted from a novel by Michel Faber, Under The Skin strips its outlandish scenario down to bare bones, cutting away all but the faintest traces of exposition and conventional character development.

Thor: The Dark World left me wondering why for all its popularity and box office hype the superhero genre so regularly fails to ignite the faintest trace of excitement and imagination in its narrative and storytelling.

The only smiles to be seen are the faint traces of a smirk on Ms. Farrow's lips as her character carries out the Devil's work.

Though The Disaster Artist is nominally an adaption of the same - titled book by Wiseau's former roommate and co-star Greg Sestero and the critic and journalist Tom Bissell, the movie bears only faint traces of its characterization of the secretive, self - made filmmaker; the exclusion of any biographical details (many of which are now public knowledge) leaves yawning gaps in the script, which was written by the duo of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber (500 Days Of Summer, The Spectacular Now, The Fault In Ours Stars, etc.).

Show the faintest trace of interest in his car, and he'll whip out pictures and tell you a story about how much fun it is to drive.

By modulating the flow along the chosen trajectory, torque vectoring actively helps to set up the car for maximum grip, minimum understeer, and only the faintest trace of exit oversteer.

Only the faintest trace of the gold letters remains.

He caught the faintest trace of an accent.

«I'll tell you,» she says with only the faintest trace of a Texas drawl, «this is the first book I've been excited to promote.

Let's just hope it doesn't come at the expense of ghosting (faint traces of the previous page), which the flash was designed to eliminate.

Beneath them remain the faint traces of older marks that have since been worked over.

Not - so - faint traces of earlier markings in The Dark Lady seemed like footprints one would read on an abandoned trail.

His paintings are created through a process of addition and subtraction, sometimes removing sections of paint from the canvases surface with turpentine to leave only the faintest traces of what was there before.

You can see the faintest trace of white paint Whistler used to make his subject's eyes glisten, as well as the nubby, gridlike texture of the canvas underneath.

Not exact matches

The characteristic features of the present age could of course be detected in former times as faint traces, so to speak, because man was always to some degree the inventor and active manipulator of his own situation and the creator of himself.

Yet they may have fleeting moments of a «still faint glow of light» when they recall vague traces of those who love them.

Like William James, who was uncharmed by the virtues of the «block - universe,» I have difficulty grasping why the slightest trace of contingency, the faintest tremor of ambiguity about the future, would upset science and ruin everything.

One so thoroughly wiped out by a comet strike around 12,000 years ago that nearly all evidence of its existence vanished, leaving only the faintest of traces, including, Hancock thinks, a cryptic warning that such a celestial catastrophe could happen to us.

A new study tracing the history of one of those moon rocks, published in this week's Science, adds fuel to a long - running debate over the source of the faint magnetism present on the lunar surface.

It is possible, of course, that evolution's early traces have become too faint to decipher.

Making an extra effort to image a faint, gigantic corkscrew traced by fast protons and electrons shot out from a mysterious microquasar paid off for a pair of astrophysicists who gained new insights into the beast's inner workings and also resolved a longstanding dispute over the object's distance.

Staring over him in the dim light of a side lamp, my tired eyes traced along the path of faint, yet emerging, lines etched around his equally - tired eyes.

In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across northern Europe and America, showing how the homes we know today bear only a faint resemblance to homes though history.

What happens is the traces of brindle are so small and faint and hard to see in photos, but those with a trained eye know what to look for, the rest of the world sees a solid black dog: — RRB -

Turpentine is then repeatedly applied by brush to remove the paint before it dries, washing away or, as Innes has described it, «unpainting» the surface, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color.

He describes it as «unpainting» the canvas, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color.

Innes washes away or, as he has described it, «unpaints» the canvas, leaving all but the faintest vestigial traces of color.

Historically, art has served as the zeitgeist of a moment in time, and as a palimpsestic model on which traces of the past still remain, however faint.

The project uses the trips taken by young Palestinians to sites of destroyed villages as an avatar to think about the possibility of using the site of wreckage as the very material from which to trace the faint contours of another possible time.

The act of erasure wasn't a facile one of wiping it out: the drawing clung to the paper and it took days of intense labour to get rid of its last faint traces, so that in the process Rauschenberg must have stared at that drawing with longer, and more fixated attention than anyone had ever brought to the scrutiny of a De Kooning, not excluding the Dutchman himself.

In the latter these painted grounds offer a great deal of information, and create a flatter plane where the stage beneath consumes the marks and shapes above, only their faint traces visible.