Sentences with phrase «like ziggurats»

There's a dust storm that sweeps across the Australian plain like a plague, and battlefield bones piled up like ziggurats.

In Miami Art Deco architecture is characterised by the use of symmetry, elements in threes, cantilevered eyebrows that protect windows from the sun, and exotic embellishments like ziggurat (terraced step pyramids), influenced by the discovery of King Tut's tomb, and Aztec and Mayan patterns.

Just like Ziggurat, Pharaonic is fun when it works well, but much of the experience is littered with slowdowns and glitches.

But the works that are displayed — a tough - talking Frank Stella, like a ziggurat seen from above; a scintillating, quivering early Bridget Riley; a couple of Cy Twombly's elegantly dishevelled «blackboard» paintings, from 1970 — are satisfying.

Laib: Yes, as you know I made very small pieces as well as monumental works like the ziggurat pieces made of beeswax.

The room - size piece consists of 40 television sets stacked like a ziggurat, with blurring images and a soundtrack of rock and traditional Korean music.

Not exact matches

Echoing the original Tyrell ziggurat, his mausoleum - like is like a huge billionaire health spa, where huge dark rooms shimmer with watery reflections and amber light; in the lobby, a slash of that light rhymes with the murkier canyons of light that cut through the crammed slabs of building in the city outside.

Ziggurat is best described as a Heretic style rouge - like first person dungeon crawler.

He's sent to one of those gleaming ziggurat - like megastructures, where a tech tycoon (Jared Leto, acting up a storm behind cloudy contacts) likes to talk about his own godliness.

It takes place on a ziggurat that's divided up into sections and looks much like the board for a regular board game.

Plenty of independant overseas developers are bringing their games to Tomahawk F1 and we should see games like Assault Android Cactus, Ziggurat and Heart & Slash on the console.

This confusing world encompasses standard - issue toon realities (worlds of water and snow peopled by talking fish and bears) as well as more stylistically adventurous ones, such as a red desert which mixes ancient ziggurats with with the Mexican day of the dead, a forest grown within a malfunctioning robotic biosphere, and the vaguely steampunk - gothic homeland of Capy's kind, who fly airships shaped like top hats, furnished with plump armchairs.

The lights go off: but what are those paintings of ziggurats that look like Italian art - movie posters from the 1970s?

His paintings and drawings, which have become a more prominent part of his work, can seem astonishingly empty in their simpistic slashes or ziggurat - like repetitions.

A title, Zig, puns on zigzag and ziggurat, like a comic strip for Mesopotamian deities.

Similarly Mr. Creed's version of a progression can be five nails of different sizes hammered into the wall; five 16 - foot boards of different widths stacked in ziggurat formation, or five trees of different heights, like those he has just planted outside the center (a permanent work).