Sentences with phrase «of nymph»

By engaging with the classic but historically problematic motif of the nymph or bather, he raises the question of who can represent idealized female beauty while reframing the absurdities and conventions of the male gaze.

Return to the world of CHIBI VAMPIRE with CHIBI VAMPIRE AIRMAIL on November 11th, savor the dark, demonic suspense of ZONE - 00, which launches on November 18th, and former CLAMP artist / creator Tamayo Akiyama's fantasy adventure series, MOURYOU KIDEN: LEGEND OF THE NYMPH, follows November 25th.

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Even my father, who cared nothing for the subtleties of nymph arts, admired it.

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The name, peppermint, comes from the myth of the nymph, Menthe.

As the youth of Kentucky lightly and gayly advanced towards the barbecue, they resembled a procession of nymphs and disguised divinities.

Dr. Dara's paper provides a detailed description of both nymphs and adults.

Most humans are infected through the bites of nymphs.

No infected ticks were found in Bushy Park; however, six nymphs (immature ticks) from Richmond Park carried the bacteria, with 2.14 % of nymphs in this park likely to be infected at a given time.

According to Maximilian Körner of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany, this is probably because the faeces of nymphs are poorly digested, so there are leftover nutrients.

There are various kinds of nymphs presiding over all aspects of nature such as the Naiads and Oceanids of the waters and the Dryads of the forests.

The eggs (called «nits») transition to 3 different stages of nymphs, and then become adults.

This hotel is named for La Laguna de Las Ninfas, the «Lake of Nymphs,» located a short distance from the hotel.

«The Theater of Disappearance», Adrián Villar Rojas, National Observatory of Athens, Hill of the Nymphs.

Painted - in, a bevy of nymphs frolic in a pastoral scene, and a surprising spectral appearance floats in the sky.

Adrián Villar Rojas The Theater of Disappearance National Observatory of Athens, Hill of the Nymphs © Panos Kokkinias Courtesy NEON

Adrián Villar Rojas The Theater of Disappearance National Observatory of Athens, Hill of the Nymphs © Natalia Tsoukala Courtesy NEON

Look for nymphs, lots of nymphs, in this solo presentation from Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle of Munich.

Bickerton's slyly demagogic photorealist paintings shock the art world out of pigeonholing him; his gaudy portraits of nymphs play with gender and race and are often encased in rich iconographic frames recalling deities demanding to be worshipped; and his devotion to sharks, beads, flowers and fish draw attention to his environmental concerns.

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The meticulously stocked boutique is an attempt to mesmerize even the most jaded New York shopper: verdant murals of fruits and nymph - like creatures and rich wood panelling provides an organic backdrop for the clothing while halogen lights beaming from every direction, even the floor, reflect off a central glass staircase.

I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them.

At the shack in the woods, there's plenty of time for Mack to chit - chat with the other persons of the trinity: Jesus Christ (a swarthy Middle Eastern do - it - yourselfer, played by Aviv Alush) and the Holy Ghost, or «Sarayu,» from the Sanskrit for «flowing wind» (a lithe Asian nymph, played by Japanese model Sumire Matsubara).

Growing up I was always in the woods in my backyard, pretending I was a woodland nymph or Arwen from Lord of the Rings.

He was like, «at first when I met Nellie I thought oh she's one of those wood nymph girls.

Maybe, on some plane of which we know nothing, the delicate nymph Corinthia greeted the final whistle in Munich with paroxysms of tears, while her wicked sister Pragmatia gyrated provocatively around her stricken form.

In light of our recent performances and the phrase «worst start to a season» has suddenly vanished from the websites and papers, the gunning faithful are once again puking rainbows, making out with mermaids, frolicking with nymphs and dancing with unicorns and all is well in the world.

This name reminds me of a fairy; it has a very nymph - like quality, due in part to the sweetness of the syllables.

Instead of the wood nymph, rainbow farting unicorns breastfeeding experience, you've got a surprisingly powerful yet small jaw with or without teeth gripping your nipple, a sick feeling in your stomach, and a barely stifled screech of pain.

Eggs, nymphs, and adults meet their demise when you spray this powerful blend in your home, making it an excellent option if you need to get rid of bed bugs in a sensitive environment.

They cite plenty of evidence: In the Northeast, where Lyme is endemic, the disease is spread by nymphs (the tick's juvenile form) of Ixodes scapularis, commonly known as blacklegged ticks.

Risk of human infection is greatest in late spring and summer, in the northeast, as nymphs become adults.

Oliver attributed most of those differences to Southern heat: To avoid it, scapularis nymphs hide out under leaf litter, biting lizards and small mammals instead of questing for larger prey on tall grass or brush.

The nymphs quest, or move to the tips of long grass and brush to wait for their next blood meal to wander by: a dog, a deer, or that accidental human host.

Thus, the relapsing fever can be spread by the bite of larval ticks as well as the customary nymphs that cause Lyme.

In less than an hour, he had collected hundreds of adults and younger nymphs.

The nymphs then quest, moving to the tips of long grass and brush to wait for their next blood meal to wander by: a dog, a deer, or that accidental human host.

Bite: A. americanum larvae and nymphs feed on birds and deer, even lizards and have been known to transmit STARI, ehrlichiosis, tularemia, and other Lyme - like diseases, but the CDC does not recognize the lone star as a transmitter of true Lyme.

Using damselfly nymphs (Lestes congener) hatched in the lab, researchers put nymphs of various sizes in two different temperature environments, one a balmy 18 ° Celsius and the other a toastier 24 ° Celsius.

Because of differences in hatching time, nymphs — the immature form of the insects — vary in size.

As inscrutable codes go, few inspire as many imaginative interpretations as the Voynich manuscript, a medieval tome filled with illustrations of medicinal plants, astrological diagrams, naked nymphs and pages of indecipherable script.

Once upon a time, nymphs, sprites, and spirits ruled every cavern, tree, field, and brook, and a meal was plucked from a bush, scooped from the mud, or carved from the carcass of some unfortunate creature.

They were spraying brown locust nymphs (Locustana pardalina) with different amounts of deltamethrin, a synthetic pyrethroid, to see how the death rate of poisoned insects was affected by the weather.

For example, in western Lake Erie, mayfly nymphs are returning to the sediments after an absence of 40 years.

He was mistaken about its origins: The common bedbug, Cimex lectularius, emerges by night from the walls of houses or bedding to quaff the blood the insect needs to molt from nymph to adult.

When the insects reach a critical mass, they start gathering together, first forming carpets of immature nymphs and then winged throngs that can span hundreds of square miles.

It also describes feeding methods, including the fact that older nymphs and adults often feed in groups, one of the clues to their identity.

Although thin and transparent, the tents are strong enough to protect the nymphs from predatory lacewing larvae, says Fletcher (Australian Journal of Entomology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00813.x).

«When we looked at nymphs, we found that their nuclei rarely reached the same level of disruption we saw in adults, and thus appeared resistant to the effects of exposure to CLas,» said Mann.

«We now have a foothold in our understanding of a molecular difference between nymph and adult psyllids in their guts, which CLas exploits to gain entry into the insect vector,» said Heck, who is lead investigator for the project.