Sentences with phrase «lump of clay»

Those grandchildren needed my attention; I thought of them like lumps of clay, being molded into adults.

Business owners no longer need to press shapes into lumps of clay ready to be baked but other than the writing method, the way those transactions are recorded have changed little.

In her 2016 memoir, for example, academy - trained painter Marina Abramović recalls her decisive moment: «Why should I limit myself to two... read more... «Ginny Casey: Disembodied hands and lumps of clay in Philadelphia»

Does the potter not have the right to make from the same lump of clay some vessels for noble use and some for base use?

A man is free to knock boots with any sad hairy lump of clay desperate enough to climb in the sheets and prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that total depravity is an understatement, but what the hell you want from me?

Still, Herman gets the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, and Buechele is an exciting lump of clay.

Josh Allen is, perhaps, the ultimate lump of clay.

The two figures have large lumps of clay encasing their heads which meet where their lips would be.

The use of these skeletal frameworks originated in ceramic works when I began hollowing out (carving) formed lumps of clay and treating the result as a starting point for a larger ceramic or stainless steel work.

What begins life as a mere lump of clay, the artist molds and carves into artworks that appear like arrays of honeycomb, undulating coral, or dripping stalactites.

Softball - size lumps of clay with cartoon faces drawn on them watch a flat - screen monitor on which giant, throbbing human fingers appear.

John Barrie, an architect who has taught at the University of Michigan and Washtenaw Community College, admits that perhaps there are other minor differences: (Ok, some of the interior finishes in a BMW may never be seen in a Chevy, but bear with me) but notes «The shape, color, texture and even the sound of a new car are designed and built from the same lump of clay.

Lord, I give this lump of clay to you; this twisted lump of clay in my heart.

The lump of clay is the religious vision, isn't it?

Vision is an artist buying a blank canvass or a potter putting a lump of clay on the wheel.

We appreciate the human brain more than we do a lump of clay because the brain integrates into an intense unity an incredible complexity, nuance, richness and novelty.

The human brain, for example, is granted a value that is lacking in a lump of clay.

There is a cruelty to His goodness, but then again, thats only the view from this lump of clay.

The human brain combines complexity with organization more intensely than does a lump of clay.

For example, a researcher might take a lump of clay, divide it into two equal pieces, and then give a child the choice between two pieces of clay to play with.

Since then, many other possible crucibles have been identified: deep underground, in the open ocean, by hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor, on a radioactive beach and on the surface of a lump of clay.

On the other hand, men who acted like lumps of clay — who did not cry, get angry, or show emotion — had alarmingly high amounts of emotional stress breakdown products in their urine.

It always amazes me what miracles can happen with a lump of clay in just the right hands Many of the photos shown are in my collection.

In Smurf lore, Smurfette was created by the evil wizard Gargamel (Rainn Wilson) out of a lump of clay to spy on the Smurfs.

Just last year I picked up a lump of clay for the first time since grade school and discovered that I have a vast untapped talent for sculpting.

There is an obvious connection between the polygonal cells of these wall reliefs and the forms within the steel frameworks — indeed the group of 26 drawings was made at the same time as I began hollowing out lumps of clay.

The computer is like a lump of clay for you.

But when Oursler physically represents our relationship to the internet, literally projecting a human head onto a lump of clay, the effect is terrifying, unsettling, and yes, uncanny.

The struggle of every artist is not to be right, but rather to leave the deepest impression upon the physical world, to change the physical earth as if it were a lump of clay in your hand.

New York - based artist Urs Fischer (born 1973 in Zurich) has devised a surreal universe in which dust bunnies are magnified into landscapes and a lump of clay squeezed in the artist's fist becomes a towering monolith.

You take a lump of clay and mold it into something fun!