Not exact matches
Things I used to «know» about God have vanished —
like smoke — sometimes leaving
sooty stains on the ceiling and a woodsy aroma in the vicinity.
Some of the fowls have black bones, and are called «kalu maskulalo» by the natives; and Malabar fowls (Gallus bankiva), their plumage is a
sooty - grey, aptly described as looking
like a white fowl dragged down a chimney.
That's the handiwork of another MacCready who happens to inhabit the same body: the sky's - the - limit inventor who parlayed a preternatural talent with model planes into Da Vinci -
like human - and solar - powered vehicles that shattered the world's notion of the limitations of such machines, the passionate naturalist who gets teary - eyed talking about the monarch butterfly and the
sooty tern, the easygoing fellow who accessorizes his blazer, tie, and gray slacks outfit with black sneakers.
Mackinnon deftly combines classic Holmesian iconography
like the deerstalker hat, Holmes's pipe,
sooty gas lamps, and particularly the Reichenbach Falls, the waterfall where, in Doyle's telling, Holmes and Moriarty meet their mutual doom.
This
sooty - eyed Maleficent clone, helmeted with antlers that look
like they were designed by Erte plots to slay the universe.
Sweaty clothes getting wet and not drying meant that from this point onwards, not only would we would reek to high heaven but, thanks to muddy tracks and
sooty highways, we looked
like we'd just enjoyed a shag with a horny band of rogue chimney sweepers.
A select few,
like a welded steel box by Bontecou with a yawning,
sooty opening, are for sale.
To continue on the theme of influence, think Philip Guston after his turn to Golem -
like figures in 1970, but with a sunny, often pastel palette that has nothing to do with Guston's fleshy pinks, fiery reds and
sooty blacks.
The recipient of the above photo remarked that
Sooty looked
like he'd been given a Doggie Brazilian, which made me giggle (and sound
like a mad woman on the dark streets).