Sentences with phrase «in labyrinthine»

The students stopped in the labyrinthine hallway to consult a schedule and map of the building, then crammed into the office of state Rep. Barrington Russell, a Democrat who supports gun control.

Sometimes she conceptualizes architecture, condensing its basic form into austere, gridded picture plane — as is the case in the labyrinthine abstractions of the early 2000s, such as

The museum scenes were invariably miniaturised and usually viewed through a peephole: turning the scale on its head, Jeff Wall places a giant - sized ageing, nude, female figure in a labyrinthine modern museum interior.

Her exhibition in the labyrinthine Italian pavilion will present a series of «constellations» of contemporary artists, rather than a single dominant view of how art is now.

Unearthing the complex relationships between 1960s counterculture and present day dystopias, the installation immersed visitors in a labyrinthine assemblage of possible sites for modern day alchemical transformation.

Blue lights in labyrinthine corridors.

Elsewhere, the Philadelphia Magic Gardens, which features works by the renowned mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, cultivates a distinctly folk - art vibe in a labyrinthine setting.

She experiments with knots and loops, as, for example, in the labyrinthine Knot Drawing (1947) and Drawing for a Nylon Rug (1959)-- both of which, in this setting, echo the oversized curls of rusted steel that form The Matter of Time (1994), an immense Richard Serra permanent installation on the lower floor of the museum.

The original Dragon's Crown features groups of heroes that face dreadful challenges in the labyrinthine dungeons surrounding the medieval fantasy kingdom of Hydeland.

I like a good run in a labyrinthine, but not one where I'm scared out of my pants trying not to get cut into little pieces then get shish kabobed.

You were never stuck in labyrinthine passageways like, say, the winding paths of the Arcane Sanctuary in Diablo 2.

I've spent sunny days getting lost in the labyrinthine streets of Granada's Albayzín and learning about the city's Moorish past inside the grounds of its majestic Alhambra, I've visited the beautiful city of Seville (the administrative capital of Andalusia and an easy three - hour train journey from Granada), and I've taken a road trip around Spain's pueblos blancos, starting in one of the country's oldest settlements — Ronda.

Return to the madding crowds in the labyrinthine Barri Gòtic district, home of Antoni Gaudí's masterful La Sagrada Família cathedral, but watch out for citywide pickpockets: it's one thing to blow your budget shopping at Zara or Mango but quite another to lose it to a moped - riding scammer.

Readers follow the fictional «Time Traveler» that H. G. Wells sends into future centuries; track the gyrations of time - spanning thought that Borges unfolds in his labyrinthine tales; ponder the temporal cause - effect paradoxes that Bertrand Russell surmounts; and puzzle over the reversibility of time in the physics with which Einstein revolutionized science.

New York Times Bestseller, M.J. Rose grew up in New York City mostly in the labyrinthine galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, the dark tunnels and lush gardens of Central Park and reading her mother's favorite books before she was allowed.

Follow Evan as he continues his odyssey as Servant of the Gods in The Labyrinthine Journey.

About the Speaker: M.J. Rose grew up in New York City mostly in the labyrinthine galleries of the Metropolitan Museum, the dark tunnels and lush gardens of Central Park and reading her mother's favorite books before she was allowed.

as the cop searches for a pattern to the killings and as the Ripper continues to strike, killing one young woman on a boat in New York Harbor, another in her dressing room at a 42nd Street sex club, yet another in the labyrinthine halls of the kind of hotel where you rent rooms by the hour.

It's because the characters are relatable that we're able to become absorbed in the labyrinthine mystery that envelops and often confounds them.

We first meet McAvoy as Dennis, a cross-looking neat - freak who abducts three young women from the shopping mall and imprisons them in his labyrinthine underground lair.

Joaquin Phoenix will star in a role once earmarked for Robert Downey Jr., as a pot - smoking detective in 1960s Los Angeles who finds himself wrapped up in a labyrinthine crime plot.

There's a keen, biting edge to these crystalline recollections; by the third episode, «Some Hope,» which takes place in a labyrinthine mansion during a country aristocrat's party, Patrick Melrose is turning the refined and dazzling world of British peerage on its ear.

When he encounters a band of Jews hiding in the labyrinthine sewer system, his first inclination is to turn them over to the Nazis and collect his fee.

Like Newman's, Principe's immersion in the labyrinthine world of alchemy began in college, in his case in the early 1980s, after he read The Twelve Keys, an allegorical work written in the 15th century by an influential alchemist and supposed Benedictine monk, Basil Valentine.

Observing these pale, blind and tiny animals in their natural habitat has been hard because they live in labyrinthine cave networks that are as difficult for divers to navigate as they are dangerous.

The large spiders soon joined the menagerie of exotic poultry, turtles, snakes, monitor lizards, and falcons he kept in sheds behind his parents» house in Mount Kisco, New York, and in their labyrinthine basement.

The saga of Eliot Spitzer, candidate for an obscure job in the labyrinthine bureaucracy that runs New York City, hinges on a peculiarity of the city's election law.

One wonders how Eliade will respond to this nonbook, for it attempts to unmask him as a historian of religions and to unveil him as a Christian homo religiosus immersed in a labyrinthine world in which God is dead.

We have lost our way in a labyrinthine antinomianism that leaves it up to each individual to intuit his or her way out of moral dilemmas.

Rafsanjani was a skilled behind - the - scenes operator in the labyrinthine world of Iranian politics.

Not exact matches

From a swivel chair in one of the many identical 10 - by - 10 conference rooms at Lyft's labyrinthine offices, Zimmer declined to comment specifically on the rumors Lyft is entering merger and acquisition territory.

«It was the most rickety, Podunk thing you can imagine,» says the former employee, likening it to the treacherous labyrinthine underworld in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

Successfully doing business in India involves navigating a labyrinthine world usually impenetrable to outsiders.

She slept beneath a counterpane Of rose leaves, till a thieving toad Abducted the unknowing child To make her the unwilling bride Of darkness in an underworld Of labyrinthine tunnels where A blind mole made his fetid den.

I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind; and in the midst of tears I hid from Him, and under running laughter.

In short, those who come to modern constitutional discussions hoping to encounter the discursive rigor that «reason» connotes will instead find themselves lost in a sort of labyrinthine emptinesIn short, those who come to modern constitutional discussions hoping to encounter the discursive rigor that «reason» connotes will instead find themselves lost in a sort of labyrinthine emptinesin a sort of labyrinthine emptiness.

Eventually he was exonerated by DNA evidence, a fact readers discover in the first chapter — which colors one's journey through this labyrinthine account with incredulity.

«People have been asking — legitimately in a transfer market where there can be labyrinthine twists, cynicism and self - interest can rule — particularly fans of Manchester United, «what are Sergio Ramos» intentions?

In this vast and labyrinthine landscape, technologisation and digitisation can provide some help, but surely, they can also intensify the nature / nurture dichotomy, deform the debate and augment the overarching problems.

As Planning Minister, he sees his task as being to get construction going, not to preserve the labyrinthine system in perpetuity.

It met in a windowless room, unmarked for its purpose, buried in a back hallway of the labyrinthine bowels of the Empire State Plaza.

John has a record second to none in explaining our labyrinthine tax system in an understandable way, and in working up the sorts of reforms that the system needs.

State Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor said that Connecticut is losing «talented teachers who might have moved in» because they «don't want to tangle with the labyrinthine process» of getting certified to teach here.

Mr. Fuleihan was a longtime chief fiscal adviser to the speaker of the State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat, and he is known in political circles for an encyclopedic knowledge of the labyrinthine byways of the state budget.

Perhaps the bottom line, then, is that while the Obama Administration did what it could — at times generously so — on science and innovation funding, such investments and others in the discretionary budget have been secondary to the bigger fights that truly define our fiscal politics, over healthcare, retirement, deficits and debt, levels of taxation, and so on (and it can't be underestimated how truly intractable these challenges really are, as indicated by the labyrinthine wrangling and ultimate failure of the President's Bowles - Simpson deficit commission).

The labyrinthine interiors of depth hoar crystals also cause problems for researchers like the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Al Rango, who uses microwave - sensing satellites to measure the amount of water locked away in the winter snow cover.

«From corporate America to Indian techies to Indian - Americans with family ties to their native land — all are lobbying hard to influence changes in the proposed immigration law that has started moving through the US legislative labyrinthine.

The Al - Qaida leader repeatedly slipped through the soldiers» grasp, thanks in no small part to the labyrinthine, cave - riddled terrain.

• Mosaic Masterpiece - Lose yourself in the glistening labyrinthine mosaics of Philadelphia Magical Gardens, half a city block of mystically entwined, tiled murals and corridors.

You'll fight your way through the castle's treacherous, labyrinthine - like halls, and overcome new monsters and obstacles lurking in the shadows.