Sentences with phrase «like spindly»

And sooner or later we meet the familiar rogues: the villainous Sabretooth (Wolverine's brother, this time around played by Liev Schreiber with «the fingernails of a bag lady»), the treacherous William Stryker (the Brian Cox character in» 03, now recast with Danny Huston), even a certain Cyclops (a whiny teenager with bad eyes, in keeping with the franchise's history of treating the X-Men's longtime leader like a spindly punch line) and the inevitable cameo by a very familiar X-tra.

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Children led cows to barren pastures, and the sky - high birch trees were spindly, like ghosts.

Arugula Arugula's spindly leaves make it feel like there are delicate little hands with dainty fingers gently holding your other salad ingredients, protecting them from the sad fate of Things That Sink To The Bottom Of The Bowl.

Some varieties, like escarole and radicchio, feel familiar; others, like boutiquey speckled Castelfranco and finger - spindly Tardivo, look fantastically exotic.

Ridley is a bit spindly for my liking, and yes I know he can run routes.

What are the odds that intelligent, technically advanced aliens would look anything like the ones in films, with an emaciated torso and limbs, spindly fingers and a bulbous, bald head with large, almond - shaped eyes?

Called STRIDE, for surface tension based robotic insect dynamic explorer, the robots use water's surface tension to amble on their spindly legs exactly like water striders, the insects that motivated the challenge.

With her spindly six - foot - tall stature and signature knack for mixing feminine «fancy» items like sequin pants, satin trousers, and glittery statement jewelry with broken - in basics (chambray shirts, striped tees, crewneck sweaters), it's not an exaggeration to say Lyons has become something of a personal - style deity to legions of women who are, for lack of a better word, obsessed with her.

Spindly limbed Spaniard Javier Botet has been a go - to performer in the horror world in recent years, his (beyond) slender frame making him an ideal candidate to go under layers of latex while playing creatures and villains in the likes of Mama and Crimson Peak.

Hit a button on the center console and what seems like half of the car's rear bodywork swings up and away on spindly arms while the roof lifts off its perch.

The 908 was built around a spindly alloy tubular spaceframe, which the bodywork wraps like an eggshell, only thinner.

I felt like a figurine, the spindly ballerina in my girlhood jewelry box.

Within Nintendo Power you'd see spindly Clash at Demonhead heroes, plastic Blaster Master and Metal Storm models, Mega Man robots somewhere between an American cartoon and a Japanese comic, and lavish art for the lesser - known likes of Astyanax, Code Name: Viper, and Legacy of the Wizard.

Hell, cynical strategies like this have a way of worming their spindly fingers into other titles and no one wants that.

A pair of untitled papier - mâché sculptures (2011) are like two multi-colored boulders or abstract heads teetering on spindly metal stakes.

In his installation at the Whitechapel, Giuseppe Penone shows a huge bronze tree, hollowed out and exhibited in sections that rest on their branches like strange insects on spindly legs.

Irish artist Eva Rothschild is contributing her first public art commission to be shown in the United States, a spindly, red and green archway that beckons visitors to pass underneath like sculptural mistletoe.

Nor do the spindly, stretched - out, vaguely Egon Schiele - looking figures in Maria Lassnig's Fraternite (2008) look anything like any cake I've eaten.

Bronwen Buckeridge's film installation follows performers at the Peking Opera, exploring how fictions take shape, while Amy Stephens» collection of spindly wooden frames looks like it might form a stage set — or perhaps a series of portals into another world.

Like much of Kersels's work, they play with scale shifts, as when the spindly legs of an antique chair become a giant skeletal hand.

Designed by Francis Kéré, the first African architect to win the commission, the big disc of spindly wooden slats will hover over a gathering space enclosed by curving blue walls, built of staggered wooden blocks in a textile - like pattern in reference to the festive costumes of his native village.

Spindly, silhouetted trees shiver diminutive leaves in an almost anthropomorphic way («willows whiten aspens quiver, little breezes dusk and shiver» *), water rushes over rocks, so that the spray appears to rise like black smoke; repeating motifs, such as a glass of water effervescing, find visual rhymes with a sky full of black starlings whirling in a great mass.

TW: I certainly liked early Edouardo Paolozzi, especially the bulbous humanoid sculptures he made in the late 1950s, the ones with spindly legs.

At Marlborough Contemporary, artist Ivana Bašić — a generation younger than Barry — shows spindly sculptures that look like aliens bursting from yellowish placentas.

Otherworldly in color and form with towering stems and spindly tendrils, these predatory animals are easily confused for flowering, alien - like plants.

Held together with string like a crude scale, spindly steel legs support suspended weights, both burden and value.

The spindly gallows - like object is Ice Mass Buoy 30065.

An ultra-fast transient response helps carve out the spindly entrances of synths and even acoustic guitar like a fresh blade, while the resonance of strings and vocals flutters gracefully up far out to the sides front.

That translated to thick and pulpy snares and toms on tunes like Ray Lamontagne's «I Still Care for You,» while cymbals and guitar attacks were spindly and tactile, tap dancing atop the ruddy underbelly.

When space is at a premium, trick the eye with an all - white scheme like this; the slim profile of the bed frame and the spindly legs of the bedside tables make essential furniture appear less intrusive.

These spindly stools look like flat - topped lingzhi and add to this room's simple Scandi furniture.

Of course, their neutral buds appeal to my aesthetic too, but even their spindly twigs feel like Fall if you surround them with other autumnal pieces.

I liked how they weren't uniform in shape; their spindly and sparse appearance gave them a quirky, Scandi - like feel like that I instantly liked.