Sentences with phrase «in flatter landscapes»

Imagine a bowling ball sitting on a water bed; the ball's weight creates a valley in the flat landscape of the bed.

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Tucked deep into the fertile soil and God - fearing air of the Mississippi Delta, the church is nestled on a flat, barren landscape, one of hundreds in a region where faith is the answer to poverty and hardship.

I do feel, I guess, that somewhere behind all this» — he gestures outward at the scenery; they are passing the housing development this side of the golf course, half - wood half - brick one - and - a-half-stories in little flat bulldozed yards with tricycles and spindly three - year - old trees, the un-grandest landscape in the world — «there's something that wants me to find it» [P. 107].

Without cars or cliffs in her environment — Lucy was found near a stream on a relatively flat landscape — the only way she could have incurred those fatal injuries, concluded Kappelman's team, was by falling out of a tree.

Glaciologists also noticed that, in some places, the ordinarily jagged landscape beneath the ice was perfectly flat and the radar reflection unusually bright — indicating water instead of rock.

The topography of East Africa completely changed: from a homogeneous flat region covered in moist forest, to a mountainous landscape with plateaus and deep rift valleys, where vegetation varied from cloud forest to desert scrub.

The landscape in many places, as seen by previous landers, is also ideal for landsailing, with fairly flat terrain and small rocks.

Over the flat landscapes the dunes and the dikes, you could find them in peace in the soft pouring rain.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance's well - publicized adherence to historical accuracy pays off in its thoughtfully designed landscapes and intriguing combat system, even if its survival - style mechanics fall somewhat flat.

The son's patience, exasperation and love in trying to humour his declining father by taking him on a wild goose chase across the stark, flat landscapes of the Mid West to claim some mythical prize money will strike chords with anyone who has cared for an elderley relative.

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Positioned just out of reach of your hand when holding the device in a conventional landscape or portrait manner, the speaker's location only becomes an issue for disrupted and muffled playback when placed down on its rear on a flat or soft surface.

Robert L. Chapman, Jr.'s 13D poison pen letters are welcome relief in the generally flat, arid landscape of SEC filings, and so it's no small disappointment to us that he has been quiet of late.

Kansas is known for its beautifully majestic wheat fields, flat landscape, and its location in the beautiful Midwestern region of the country.

The landscape quickly changes from rugged mountains to a flat forest basin, bright green in color, with rivers snaking through the rainforest.

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Vast and inscrutable, Argentina's magnificent landscapes stretch from spectacular waterfalls in the north across expansive drum - flat pampas, fringed by the Andes on one side and the Atlantic on the other, to the glaciers, lakes and mountains of the deep south.

Namibia has everything from luxury lodging to camping under the stars, wild to haunting coastlines, desert dunes to luscious landscapes, bush to water safaris, as well as the second largest canyon in the world, uninhabitable flat plains, arid backdrops, a complex history, diverse cultures and tribes, and an abundance of wildlife — there are unique experiences to excite any traveller.

Modern desert landscape paves the incline driveway to the home featuring a flat roofline with cantilever - geometric effects in natural hues.

This year, United and Delta have added a minimum spend requirement as well to the tune of around $ 2,500 per status level in response to one of the most surprising changes in the elite status landscape: how easy it is to flat out buy or charm your way into elite status:

Early the next morning we rode out to take in the vast, dramatic landscapes just as explorers would have done centuries before, followed by kayaking on a flat azure lake alongside creaking glaciers.

Santiburi Beach Resort & Spa is a sanctuary dedicated to the well - being of its guests.The luxury residence is set in 23 acres of superbly landscaped garden bordering the tranquil Mae Nam Beach in the northern part of Koh Samui.Located only a 10 - minute drive from Samui Airport, Santiburi Beach Resort & Spa offers a luxurious haven for tasteful people in search of a sumptuous and relaxing vacation under the tropics.The resort hosts 59 well - appointed Villas and 12 Equatorial Duplex Suites, set in a way to assure total privacy, and furnished with Siamese traditional furniture and state - of - the - art amenities such as flat - screen satellite television, DVD - CD player, wireless internet connection, mini-bar and coffee / tea maker.

On the other side of the wall lies another wall, definitely worth exploring if the current allows it: Covered in soft coral, sponges, green tree coral and fans, it is the hiding place for many morays and puffers and it drops off into a flat lunar like landscape with whole gardens of whip corals, vibrating in the current.

It's an atmospheric place: located out East in the Royal Docks amid a flat open landscape, with the runway actually the quay between Royal Albert Dock and King George V Dock of water, making takeoff and landing particularly thrilling.

Featuring tropical décor in fresh marine hues that reflect the surrounding beach and ocean landscapes, villas feature handcrafted wooden furnishings, king - size beds with imported linens, spacious sitting areas with flat screen satellite televisions, CD / DVD players, iPod docking stations, minibars, tea and coffee making facilities and a luggage rack.

Property Features — Quiet upscale neighbourhood of Sabadeco — Professionally landscaped garden including drip irrigation system — Big pool and bathroom outside the house for more convenience — Nearly private beach for diving and snorkeling (just off Andrea I & II dive sites)-- Stainless steel grill — privet Gazebo overlooking the sea and enjoy a perfect sea breeze — Gazebo a very special place for a romantic dinner — Flat screen LED TV — Wine cooler — Ceiling fans and air conditioning in both rooms — High end countertop finishes — Ceramic tile floors and showers in all bathrooms — Mosquito Screens on all exterior doors and windows (recently renovated)

Also things in the landscape such as fauna and geological objects feel very underwhelming; most environmental models feel very flat and have no movement.

Now a resident of New Mexico, after living and working in Los Angeles for nearly two decades, Exposito's work has been impacted by the landscape and has become less singularly flat and graphic.

Years later, he would recall, «One thing I know has influenced me a lot is looking at landscape from the air... Of course, the Earth's skin itself had «presence» — I mean, it was all like a flat design — and everything was usually in the form of an irregular grid.»

«So much artwork stays hidden in flat - files, this is a great way to give people a glimpse into all the other artwork that gets stashed away,» said Dennis, who is showing off giant room - sized drawings of urban landscapes during Bushwick Open Studios from May 31 to June 2.

Often working in a square format (neither portrait or landscape), she limits her images to geometric shapes and flat colors in order to eliminate overt references to objects and illusions of three - dimensional space.

About the Artist Zhu Jingyi (China, b. 1975) reimagines classic shanshui landscapes in a three - dimensional format through the application of resin onto canvas and wire to create textured structures that enliven otherwise flat, ink painted works.

Katz's brightly colored, large - scale figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that oftentimes resembles the aesthetics of the everyday visual culture commonly found in advertising and cinema — a feature that regularly linked Alex to the norms of Pop art despite the fact his work predates this movement by a relatively big margin.

Growing up in Iowa, it was the features of the landscape — the flat lands, low horizons, rich earth, and big skies — that shaped her artistic vision, a vision that carried over and evolved when she found her way to the East End of Long Island in the 1950s.

In his more recent body of work, titled Flat Screen Nature (2012 — current), Goode uses an industrial hand saw to cut through sheets of painted fiberglass, creating allegorical landscapes of jagged edges and menacing peripheries; the artist's visual vocabulary comes full circle to represent our environment's vulnerable sky, land, and sea.

Raised in rural Minnesota, I was originally inspired by the open skies, flat landscape, and natural environments of the Midwest.

Surfaces built up in fluid layers in contrast to stencilled edges and firm flat features, all of which are suspended with their associations of landscapes, reflections in ponds, leaves, the outline of branches and the ridge of a hill, alluded to but kept carefully at bay.

Using diverse brush sizes, from tiny rounds to hefty flats, Krieger's loose, loopy lines twist and weave around opaque shapes, creating a sense of action in an otherwise inert, claustrophobic landscape.

The exhibition «The Dream of Forms», presented for the twentieth anniversary of Le Fresnoy — Studio national des arts contemporains, has been conceived as an imaginary landscape, a monstrous garden with perishable forms growing in it, as well as germinating surfaces, protuberant organisms and flat figures.

What seems to be an ocean of sunflower seed husks, is in reality a flat landscape of over 100 million individually handmade porcelain replicas of the seed.

Currently a 27 - mile - square expanse of flat, white sand off the coast of Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, Saadiyat Island is poised to dramatically change the landscape of art, architecture, and museums.

If a landscape seems flat, without a sense of distance in the scene, the first thing to check the tone or value in the painting.

The flat rural landscape is devoid of animate life, with fence posts in a line at the right the only hint of human activity.

Crossing over each other, these form a flat - topped, loosely assembled mound, painted largely in pinks and reds, that sits on a featureless dark brown landscape, with the horizon's curving line and a nondescript sky behind.

It is in the flat, interlocking shapes of his landscapes that his preeminent skill as a colourist is brought to the fore, allowing him to occupy a radiant space between realist and abstract art.

His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns ofPop Art.

Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timIn St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this timin many of the carvings of this time.

The large summer exhibition in De Hallen Haarlem reveals the way that the seemingly simple, flat Dutch landscape of polders and rivers has inspired an incredible diversity of interpretations.

Her loosely - painted figures and animals float amidst compositional narrative details (many referencing death or sinister activities) in landscapes of flat wallpaper - like perspective.

His brightly colored figurative and landscape paintings are rendered in a flat style that takes cues from everyday visual culture like advertising and cinema, in many ways anticipating both the formal and conceptual concerns of Pop Art.