Sentences with phrase «like black surface»

It's a Windows Precision Touchpad input sporting a smooth, glass - like black surface.

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On the surface, decreasing our reliance on imports from Saudi Arabia and the rest of OPEC might seem like a resounding win, but a closer look shows a situation that's not nearly that black and white.

The bright blue liquid was now purplish - green, like a nasty black eye, and the surface looked kind of oily.

The river appears black inthe dull light, and water vapor rises like smoke off the surface, marking itserratic course until it meshes in the distance with the gathering mist.

Then in November, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released pictures like this one from an expedition that found coral coated in black gunk 4,500 feet below the sea surface.

The Sun is close to being a «black body» — that is, the light it emits is very much like that from a hypothetical black surface that absorbs all the radiation falling on it.

Four - pronged impact Like carbon dioxide, black carbon absorbs sunlight and infrared radiation, trapping heat in the atmosphere — including the boundary layer closest to Earth's surface.

Like the fields around our sun, these black hole's magnetic fields can periodically «reconnect,» a process that could catapult material from near its surface.

«The horizon of a turbulent black hole appeared to have developed an infinite surface area, like a fractal»

When an energetic event occurs (like a black hole merger or neutron star collision), spacetime becomes violently disturbed and energy is carried away from the event in the form of gravitational waves — like ripples traveling across the water's surface after dropping a pebble in a pond.

Connecting channels (with shapes suggesting that they were carved by a liquid) lead in and out of black patches that essentially reflect no radar signal and so must be extremely smooth like a liquid surface.

Tiny black dots that look like seeds (actually dried blood from tiny blood vessels) may appear on the surface of warts.

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On the surface, The D Train looks like the archetypal Jack Black film as in previous outings like School Of Rock, he plays a small - town lummox who lies, cheats and alienates everybody around him but writer - directors Andrew Mogel and Jarrad Paul smartly play on the actors manic misanthrope persona to deliver something surprisingly subversive.

On its surface, «Little Black Book» looks like an tritely pedestrian, gimmick - driven chick flick about...

With its basic premise of a stranger keeping a struggling writer hostage, Black Butterfly (a remake of a 2008 French thriller of the same name) seems, on the surface, like little more than a variation on Misery.

On the surface, Russell Crowe starring in a biblical tale directed by Darren Aronofosky («Requiem for a Dream», «Black Swan») sounds like Oscar bait.

On the surface, the Black Panther suit seems like it's a very simple design.

That may seem like stating the obvious for a movie that features an all - black cast and tells the tale of an African king ruling over a never - conquered nation, but it doesn't begin to scratch the surface of the film's layers.

The library itself has a studio - like quality with a concrete frame and black surfaces, which are intended to act as a black backdrop for whatever may be going on within the space.

In addition, the upper - arm trim panels and instrument panel are both lined with black full leather which, like the black bolsters of the seat surfaces and backrests, are adorned with contrast stitching.

The leather on Black Label models is of a softer grade and covers practically every surface (including the door handles), the headliner and door pillars are wrapped in a suede - like material, the carpets are deeper and softer to the touch and the wood on the center console is cut from one piece and has graining that can be felt.

Inside, carbon - like touches dominate the dashboard, matching the carbon - style inserts on two - color leather seating surfaces and complementing the black headliner and side pillars.

The Lime Rock Green Stingray has been coated with gold (paint, we presume) on just about every surface that used to be black — places like the bottom of the rear bumper, the hood vents, the front grill, the custom wheels, the fender vents, etc., etc..

Contrasting cocoa brown and black soft - touch surfaces with mahogany trim offer a premium look and feel, while creature comforts like heated front seats, steering wheel and second - row captain's chairs will keep occupants toasty on cold days.

Kudos too for the subtly ribbed black finish on the control surfaces that's both pleasant to the touch and doesn't hold fingerprints like matte and gloss finishes on competitive makes.

Standard MB - Tex leather - like seats, hand - polished wood trim, metal and black soft - touch surfaces give way in Sport models to burl walnut trim and leather upholstery.

There were no lights nearby positioned to reflect from the canal's black surface, so that it seemed like nothing, like an absolute absence on which the barges appeared to be floating unsupported.

It looks like they managed to control better the way the eInk micro encapsulated droplets are coming together because if you look closely at continuous black surfaces, they have a more uniform coverage while in the case of older generation eInk devices the coverage has more gaps.

The black edge on the front exterior look like it may be made of some rubberised material that will provide a non slippery grip as well as providing some impact cushioning if the Toughbook was accidentally dropped and hit a hard surface at its edges.

The entire front of the tablet is a bezel-less sheet of glass and like all tablets reflections and outdoor use can be a problem, but we love the fact that with the display turned off, it's just an inky black surface.

All around us are reflective surfaces that provide contrast through pigments — black pigments like carbon black, white pigments like titanium dioxide, which we can find in paints and in inks — and we're accustomed to interacting with these reflective surfaces, as they provide pleasant experiences under a wide range of lighting conditions.

A tooth with pulp exposure may have a red spot or a bleeding surface on the fractured tooth or it may just look like a black dot.

The bottom has been colored black so if one has to attach the controller to a surface with something like velcro, it will blend in a lot better.

Last month some new Call of Duty Black Ops 3 screenshots have surfaced online, showcasing some of the unlockable content of the game like all Hero camos and more.

«V (planchette)» (2014), whose smooth aluminum surface is painted a chalky black, swerves from wide at its base to slight at its middle and swells again at its top, resembling an hourglass shape when seen from a certain angle, whereas «X» (2013), is just that, in mirrored and polished stainless steel, with its thin, shiny strips arched upwards, criss - crossing parallel to the surface of the ground, each bending under like strange feet or paws to support itself.

Which is almost like the way Ad Reinhardt's paintings work; there's a lot of difference in them but when you first encounter one of his black paintings, it just seems to be a solid black, flat surface.

John Corbett analyzes Wool's navigation between jazz - like improvisation and deliberate composition; Fabrice Hergott focuses on the artist's dialogue with the surface as a subject of the paintings; and John Kelsey digs into the artist's media - savvy black - and - white painted images: «Gestures go viral, escaping one painting and contaminating another.

For all collectors that like sculpture, Sotheby's Art Contemporain will offer Louise Bourgeois piece Black Torso under lot number 118, a wonderful modern piece of brilliant surface and refined elegance.

Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.

Yes, its manufactured by an artist, but knowing van Genderen likes to think about the chain of creation of a painting, it is difficult to know what to do with the final product, which has all the flavours of a Gottlieb, with its divided surface seeming to call for primal dualities between heaven and earth, sky and water, black holes and caves.

Each work in Witmer's austere Winterbrook (2015 17) series of six small panels brings out a different relational quality between paint and canvas: black wash opens up the flawed pores of the canvas grain; dense, dry paint marks the presence of the wooden stretcher as in a rubbing; carefully applied, grey and white thinly glazed layers make another panel's surface appear taut and tremulous like drumskin.

An umbrella - like chandelier of fluorescent tubes trailing a tangle of wire tendrils, suggesting a maypole imagined by a hallucinatory Dan Flavin, is reflected here in the shiny black surface of an enormous tiled wall that has crumpled like a wad of paper (actually its starting point), frozen in midcollapse like a petrified lava flow.

Her signature graffiti - like markings, often bright flashes of neon, are here executed in quick, curved black outlines that penetrate through faux pixels, atop a bare canvas surface.

In the exhibition's seven paintings Khan uses a mixture of black pigment, rabbit skin glue and slate dust, to create an absorbent ground which he applies to aluminium panels or directly to the wall and then sands back to produce a smooth, slate - like surface.

A child - like puppy - face motif also summons a primitive female form, and a white wall emerges as a textured surface only when the light renders shadows upon it — Black is interested in the alteration of the viewer's orientation and relationship to his works over time.

The Black Paintings (1951 — 53) incorporated texture under the painted surface by way of collaged newspaper that sometimes indicates a grid - like structure.

The black shape has faded to grey, but still tilts sharp and subversive against the correct white rectangle on which it floats, fine cracks spreading like laughter lines across the surface.

The painting entitled P15 - 0701 (2015), chromatically composed of under - saturated blues, oxide reds, violets, and blacks shows evidence, like most of the other works in this show, of a scarified and stressed surface in shallow relief.

Karakum is also the name of a desert in Turkmenistan that has black soil beneath its surface and is home to the Darvaza gas crater, known as the «Door to Hell», which has been burning away for the past 40 years — nature's foundry, if you like.