Sentences with phrase «like swirling vortices»

The two long canvases of this enormous work extend like swirling vortices down each side of the gallery — a dizzying spectacle of color and monochrome, the everyday and extraterrestrial.

Not exact matches

While «garbage patch» might make you think of something you pass by on the side of the road, the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is less like a patch and more like a massive swirling vortex more than three times the size of Spain and more than twice the size of Turkey or Texas.

This time though, when the swirling starts and your head gets pulled into the vortex, don't keep your mouth open like you did in the last practice, or you'll get the brown floaters coming in again, and you know what they taste like.

The Mommy Vortex describes the tornado - like whirlwind that sucks moms - to - be up into the world of Babyland, in contrast to the dust devil swirling around dads - to - be.

Above, small pockets of air swirl in tornado - like vortices as a hummingbird turns to its right.

Cassini stares deep into the swirling hurricane - like vortex at Saturn's south pole, where the vertical structure of the clouds is highlighted by shadows.

The sharks, especially when they're on the attack, look like nothing so much as plastic bath toys of a decidedly inferior quality desperately fighting against the swirling vortex created when the tub's plug is pulled.

However, like the hucksters and low - lives caught in the vortex of its swirling, hypnotic narrative, it appears to exist everywhere all at once.

The rest of the film plays like an apocalyptic thriller, with lust, faith, family and ash swirling into a vortex.

This trick is a speciality of Mikkelsen's bad sorcerer Kaecilius, and it involves taking ornate surfaces such as the facades of buildings and rolling them up like parchments, while decorative cornices swirl and seemingly solid floors turn into swirling vortexes.

The paintings» swirling surfaces of yellows, grays, and sea greens felt like vortexes of pure expression, tapping into the mystical power of painting that great artists like Sigmar Polke espoused — but with a new quality of openness and warmth.

Spouses who devote time and effort to building detailed Love Maps develop a consciousness of what repair attempts will and will not work to keep a conflict from falling into a vortex of swirling emotions, like the golfer who loses control of their game with a ball stuck in a sand trap, water hazard, or lost in the woods.