Sentences with phrase «like stalagmites»

Because that's what Rocamadour is: a beautiful staircase of masochistic proportions, a ravine where pale stone chapels and steepled chateaus cling like stalagmites to the white rock.

Back inside the cabin you see the now familiar TVR styling and construction cues, like the racer's pedals, all three machined from the solid, sprouting up from the floor like Stalagmites, and the central tunnel with its «flying squirrel» covering.

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As the plume from the hot spring struck the surrounding near - freezing seawater, some of it was flash - freezing to form tall, stalagmite - like chimneys.

In the laboratory, Carolin sawed each stalagmite in half, opening it like a hot dog bun.

Their performance is hampered by lithium dendrites, formations that look like tiny stalagmites made of lithium deposits.

Deep within a French cave where no light penetrates are two curious structures: large rings of stalagmites, some broken and arranged like the rails of old - fashioned wooden fences.

As stalagmites of gooey black nanotechnology ooze from Lucy's body and the film begins to feel like a glossy version of Akira (only one that wouldn't dare infringe on the beauty of its star), Luc Besson's vision for the film finally comes into perfect focus: this isn't just the story of a woman who realises the full potential of her brain, it's also the story of a filmmaker remembering the full potential of his genre.

With their stalactites and stalagmites, and pools of water shining an unearthly blue, Riviera Maya cenotes look like wondrous underground cathedrals.

Fallen stalactites litter the lower ledge of the cave some 50ft (15m) below where stalagmites grow upwards like a set of rotten teeth as if to complete a grotesque subterranean shark's mouth.

Although the stalactite and stalagmite formations within the cave aren't glowing like crystals, each of them has a fascinating story to tell.

Within these vast caverns you can witness incredible formations of stalactites and stalagmites some shaped like human and wildlife figures.

His varied output includes 18 - foot - tall phallic «stalagmites» dripping with seemingly viscous urethane; rough - hewn ceramics with primordial glazes; paintings done with Robitussin - red nail polish or graffiti - like spray - paint; sculptures of smudged and scratched white minimalist forms; bus - sized cages on wheels; and videos of frustrated male pornstars masturbating to no end.

The topography of the white bone like objects is uneven, landscape - like, one of which is reminiscent of a stalagmite.

Independent non-thermometer data (so - called proxies, like tree rings, ice cores, ocean sediments, stalagmites, etc.) also show no warming trend between 1978 and 2000.

There are a number of different types of proxy data types in this group including glacial deposits, glacial erosional features, shoreline features, aeolian deposits, lake sediments, relict soil deposits, and speleothems (depositional features like stalactites and stalagmites).

The exterior looks like mountain peaks formed out of manipulated aluminium whilst the interior is a cave of wooden strips forming stalagmites and stalactites.