Sentences with phrase «of panes of glass»

At Fergus McCaffrey the evenly sized stripes of water cling to the front windows, where they measure out the width of panes of glass.

The first perhaps marked a satisfactory conclusion to the inward logic of the monochrome and took the form of two sculptural pieces made of panes of glass and painted grey on one side, Richter's second breakthrough of 1977 was the development of a substantial number of colourful abstract works he described simply as «Abstraktes Bild».

This Trials HD «Emotion» trailer helps to illustrate why I never ride my motorcycle near bombs, exploding barrels, or atop stacks of panes of glass.

We stood warily in the halls, watching the wasps rebuild on the other side of a pane of glass.

Or when the shattering of a pane of glass on the floor has already occurred and, at one the same time, is about to take place, as in the video installation Die Zukunft des Vergangenen betrachtend, 2015 [Contemplating the future of the past, 2015].

The lights energy can then be collected by the solar cells at the edges of a pane of glass

Another widely seen use of the phrase «greenhouse effect» was in a 1937 textbook (repeated in later editions), wrongly describing «the so - called «greenhouse effect» of the Earth's atmosphere» as an effect «analogous to that of a pane of glass.»

To create her faux - antique mirror, Martha applies silver leaf to the back of a pane of glass, which she inserts into a picture frame.

Not exact matches

They found themselves standing shoulder to shoulder with predators in a small room of a posh hotel basement looking at little girls through a pane of glass.

Panoramic sunroofs are an impressive feat of engineering — a large pane of glass curved to the roof's aerodynamic contours and usually made of tempered glass, for its strength without added weight.

Research shows that using laminated glass — two panes fused by a sheet of plastic and designed to hold its form even when shattered — could reduce ejections in other parts of the car.

In their investigation, South Korean car safety regulators found that a step in the manufacturing process known as «ceramic printing» — used to coat some of the glass, creating a darker area that hides mechanical parts — can make portions of the pane weaker and more vulnerable to shattering.

Russ Corsi, who worked nearly 32 years for Pittsburgh - based PPG, a global supplier of auto glass, says larger sunroofs are also more prone to weakening over time as the pane absorbs impacts from bumps in the road, twists and turns of the car's frame, and «thermal shock» — the expanding and contracting from sudden temperature changes.

He added that a combination of cheap land, reasonable energy prices and other incentives means that, despite higher manufacturing costs, he can still make more money by making glass in the U.S. than by exporting Chinese - made panes to the U.S. market.

Customers watch kitchen staff deftly chop cheese, kale, and cauliflower behind panes of glass.

According to documents and sources, Apple AAPL, +0.24 % has run into a problem at Apple Park: Because so much of the interior is made from glass — the walls and doors, for example — people are walking into the panes, sometimes painfully.

Without the old confidence in the faith and the intellectual foundations of the Church, the room itself fades away and slips from existence — leaving only the window: a strange, free - floating pane of glass, hanging somehow in mid-air.

Just like how I don't worry about getting hit by a bolt of lighting or having a pane of glass fall on me or how I don't worry about becoming a robbery victim.

One afternoon near Kyoto I found myself looking through a pane of glass at a man standing over a large, flat, hot griddle.

Daily offerings are written on repurposed window panes, but the best way to go is to let a bartender woo you on one of the 150 bottles tucked in the back, all available by the glass.

A dazzling feat of architecture, the glasshouses are constructed from over 700 individual panes of glass - no two are the same.

Homemade cakes are displayed behind open panes of glass; wooden baskets overflow with produce; local cheeses of all shapes and sizes rest on butcher blocks.

This Chicago Blackhawks fan was too busy texting to notice the pane of glass pop out of the stanchions and start...

With one foot in the air and his putter held like a window - washer trying to scrape water off a pane of glass, Goosie tried to rake the ball down to the hole.

Kudos to Lefty for going all in — as a booster, if not a financier — on helping the women break the glass ceiling in the chipping contest in which all four players hit flop shots over an eight - foot wall and attempted to smash panes of glass suspended 20 feet in the air.

The Dortmund spokesman also confirmed the team bus had strengthened glass in its windows, but the force of the blasts still shattered several panes.

If you still use a shower curtain, take it down and have someone replace it with a pane of glass.

Steve Sullivan, Senior Curator of Urban Ecology at Notebaert Nature Museum: When you're flying along as a bird during the day and you see a pane of glass in front of you, that glass is often reflecting trees and sky.

Cleanup continues in the historic West Side greenhouse, where large hail June 30 shattered many of the overhead panes of glass.

The newer ceiling panes are made of thicker, laminated glass designed to withstand the same amount of force as a car windshield, Fus said.

Layered like shingles, tens of thousands of glass panes let in precise amounts of sunlight to maintain habitats from arid to tropical.

The panes of glass are thin and brittle.

It's after one pane of glass was smashed by the vandal, which has been patched up with part of a vote remain sign from the EU referendum.

Simulations run on the Lonestar and Stampede supercomputers of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) show that the laser goes through the target chamber without making a hole, like sunlight through a pane of glass.

The coating already works with optimum effect between two panes of glass.

The concentrator prototypes look like square, brightly dyed panes of glass.

Femtosecond pulses are being used to etch optical waveguides inside panes of glass — a development that could revolutionize data storage and telecommunications.

Its skin is mostly glass and lacks window - washing tracks, so the hundreds of panes had to be cleaned by workers hanging on ropes like rock climbers.

On a pane of clear glass, a mudskipper (Periophthalmus barbarus) carefully eyes a piece of shrimp.

When glass is mentioned, many people think of window panes.

Johnson likens the insurgent groups in his computer model to a pane of glass that shatters into smaller and smaller splinters with each hit.

«We will have to wait a long time for real applications, but with the help of the principle found, it might be possible to produce frosted glass panes for bathrooms with integrated metal bars or sensors against burglary.

Duer compares it to two panes of glass with water in the middle, which stick together but are able to slide: «it's the same thing in these flat bone crystals.

Try to imagine the body as being sandwiched between two panes of glass.

Your legs are a little in front of your hips and your hips and shoulders are stacked vertically as if your torso was between two panes of glass.

I even had a sweet woman knock on the window while I was drinking coffee to tell me through the pane of glass that she loved my bag.

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The incident is obscured because it is seen through a dirty window, however the viewer does hear the brutality of the multiple strikes and see the blood that splatters on the glass pane as a result.

There are numerous shots of light filtering around characters, or the audience sees them refracted through glasses of water or panes of glass, that are beautiful but also attest to the weirdness that is slowly unfolding.

Crichton shoots it mainly from the villain's perspective, thereby reducing the classic western brawl — Dr. Larry flies through panes of glass as though they're saloon windows — to crude virtual reality.