Sentences with phrase «obscure pieces of»

I'll start with the more obscure pieces of information first, so I don't bore you.

I have spent the past decade scouring Australia's so - called «dead heart» for rare plants, lost springs and desert hallucinogens, tracking the paths of forgotten bearded explorers, and seeking obscure pieces of local history, insights into grazing impacts and the elusive perfect camp site.

Only in him, in his victory, are Satan and the evil spirits really intelligible and not just an obscure piece of mythology.

Unfortunately, Britain risked such tinkering earlier this week, when it communicated a veiled threat to the Ecuadoreans that it might consider applying an obscure piece of UK legislation — the 1987 Diplomatic and Consular Premises Act — and enter the embassy to arrest Assange.

Labour has vowed to use a vote on Wednesday to invoke an ancient and obscure piece of parliamentary procedure in a bid to force the move.

French director Xavier Giannoli borrows an obscure piece of American pop culture for his latest feature, Marguerite, a 1920s Parisian high society dramedy based loosely on the life and career of New England socialite Florence Foster Jenkins.

The Odyssey is a very obscure piece of hardware.

The irony is that the obscure piece of legislation that slipped through when Clinton and Gore weren't minding the store is about to throw the USNA and its global warming hysteria into its well - deserved dustbin.

In Today's Toronto Star, Anna Martin writes about the Public Works Protection Act and the sweeping powers given to police under an obscure piece of legislation.

BIOS updates typically have very short change logs — they may fix a bug with an obscure piece of hardware or add support for a new model of CPU.

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She leaves us with a rather inspiring piece of speculation: «It was from an obscure region of a relatively unimportant part of the Middle East that Our Lord sent his disciplesto preach his Gospel throughout the world.

Products that are overlapped in a pack or bag, where a possible contaminant may be obscured by product pieces, for example, in bags of frozen chicken nuggets or sausages.

Occupational Therapist Tip: You can modify these sensory tubes to tap into your kiddo's love of object permanence play by rolling a piece of paper inside one end of the tube to obscure what's inside.

In third place was a piece which pointed to Labour's row with the BBC over the on - air resignation of Stephen Doughty as an example of how Corbyn's supporters are allowing conspiracy theories to obscure bigger issues for the party.

The following piece is a reply to Craig Berry's Unpacking the 99 %, in which he argues that the slogan may be unhelpful for Britain, as it obscures the realities of actual wealth distribution.

Councilmember Tony Avella, who is running for mayor in 2009, recently invoked an obscure rule after five pieces of his legislation idled without a committee hearing for more than a year.

If the future of new and clean electrical technology — that contemporary promoters of the fuel cell are today offering us — really happens, then the obscure story about a curious little invention by a largely forgotten Welsh man of science will become an epic piece of technological history.

My Dad could never throw out a good piece of wood, old nuts and bolds, obscure metal brackets or old electric equipment.

The late, beloved Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) has left obscure clues to their whereabouts, leading to two observations: (1) Beyond a certain level of obscurity, a clue lacks usefulness, and (2) How extraordinary careless of Voldemort to leave missing pieces of his soul lying about.

A more lurid depiction of war would have benefited the film greatly (most kills are either off - screen or obscured by distance), but the grand set pieces are far from disappointing.

It's electrifying to watch the camera gracefully swoop under and over and around Theron and her enemies in every new bit of hand - to - hand combat; Leitch is not a director who relies on quick cuts, or shaky handheld shots, to obscure the tougher parts of his set - pieces.

This 2017 Ford Fiesta test mule features plenty of obscuring body pieces, despite a lack of vinyl camouflage.

A single piece of camouflage tape covered a new crossbeam in the grille, obscuring any front badging.

Yet there is a piece missing and it is the one she reserves for herself; her writing looks in more than it looks out and we find ourselves wishing to break free, to see more of what she has chosen to obscure.

As he tracks down the pieces of Lev Nussimbaum's deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds — of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists — that have also been forgotten.

To add insult to injury — now when I turn a page on a pdf, a piece of the last page remains on the screen obscuring the view of the page I have turned to.

Readers will then learn the intricacies of the secrets, but what is even more important — by carefully piecing together the scattered clues, they will be brought nearer to the closely guarded message hidden deep inside the deliberately obscured emblems.

(**) Brandenburg Edict (editor's note: this refers to an obscure proposed piece of ancient, foreign legislation having nothing to do with dogs.

One of the obscure suggestions for the origin of the name, is that the word «ambar» refers to pieces of Mayan stone implements made from a translucent brown flint, which could resemble amber.

Due to the way the levels are constructed sometimes there is no escaping the fact that your view is obscured by another piece of scenery.

It wasn't until an eccentric but dedicated historian writing a paper for a renowned academic journal (Retro Gamer issue 63) pieced together the complete saga of Willy's heroic exploits from fragments of scattered evidence - in the form of obscure retellings of the «Manic Miner» folk fable in ancient languages readable only via long - obsolete machines - that the whole truth was finally revealed.»

why do you all want a «character» that is an obscure, abstract piece of object??? make sense people!!!

It's just another way that Super Mario Odyssey makes the player fully explore their environments, for any small piece of the world that's been obscured from your camera angles are likely hiding yet more secrets to unearth.

The most exciting piece of news to come from this announcement however, was that Mighty the Armadillo and Ray Flying Squirrel, arguably the Sonic series most obscure characters, have returned in the form of playable characters.

In albany, 2014, the sitter in an old - master - style portrait has her face obscured by skirting on a nearby piece of furniture, which itself appears to continue down the front of her dress.

Here it comes in the form of a pale, 1960s Wallace Berman image of the moon's remote surface overlaid with cryptic writing; a black - and - white Vija Celmins screen - print of the vast, horizonless ocean that appears to carry a faint «X,» as if the printing plate had been canceled; a ragged piece of fiberglass painted with a Tiepelo - like sky by Joe Goode, who seems to have ripped it from either the actual heavens above or a movie - studio set; and a photographic close - up of shifting desert sand, over which actual sand and colored pigment has been applied by David Benjamin Sherry, as if reality were a veil obscuring camera - created truth in our mediated universe.

There he realized some of his own most ambitious theater pieces, and also presented a solo by the painter Marcia Marcus, now obscure, who has a way - ahead - of - its - time self - portrait at the Grey.

Her process involves gathering and piecing together fragments of collected imagery and then layering them in various ways that obscure the distinctions between the mechanical image and the handmade.

Despite appearing in separate galleries, the entire body of work is interconnected, with each piece working to reveal, obscure, affirm, and occasionally undermine the others.

Highlights from this include his piece Spiderman (2015), in which the artist takes on the persona of a trans woman for a raunchy, politicized standup routine, and his signature large - scale abstract compositions, which he forms by layering paper and paint before sanding them down to reveal previously - obscured layers of color.

Such compositional «quilting» is complemented by eight new pieces «stitched» together from rough - hewn objects — wood blocks, copper printing plates, t - shirt fragments — that extend FAILE's use of puzzle boxes, and obscure the boundary between fine and folk art.

This manipulation of proportions forces the window and door trim moldings into the visual forefront and the industrial yellow paint obscures a simple enjoyment of ornament and decoration, while emphasizing the contemporary object - ness of the piece.

I had always thought that the point of following your bliss was to start, that the overall path would be uncertain and probably obscured, but by starting you lay the next piece of the path.

Much of the canvas is obscured in the folds of these pieces, echoing the fact that viewers do not see the labor behind finished artworks.

It's as if her bold, painted gestures partially obscure a wall papered with many layers of finely detailed Asian textiles that now reveal themselves as jagged bits and pieces.

In pieces like Pink Smoke and Blue Haze, an all - over but irregular pattern of loopy lines creates a fog obscuring the picture plane.

For The New Yorker, Minter photographed Clark slightly obscured through a piece of glass, and saturated with rich purple and green hues that compliment the singer's eyes and give her an otherworldly quality.

These textual explorations are complemented by extensive documentation of related projects, both historical and contemporary, by artists, architects, and performance artists, including Coughing Piece, a never - before released 1961 audio work by Yoko Ono; an obscure audio work by Nauman from 1969; projects by Suzanne Lacy, a leading figure in the development of conceptual practice and public art; and an experimental text by Jane Rendell on psychic architectures.

The artist's curiosity found a piece of obscure information: the Mimbres were buried with a vessel that had a hole, placed on top of their heads, as if to allow their spirits to fly and leave the physical plane.

In one of the series» earliest pieces, the enigmatic Artist Standing in Factory, she confronts the camera, framed by an open window, her backlit face obscured.