Sentences with phrase «of twig like»

It is the play of twig like shapes and range of colours overlapping the building which one notices.

Not exact matches

It is too long to quote in full here, but one has only to think of a few of the powerful and particular images that situate the joy of the «swinger of birches» within the real and fallen world: the ice like broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.»

Over the course of the cooking, the rosemary leaves fell off and it felt a bit like eating lots of twigs in your soup.

They look sort of like twigs and taste sort of like burnt pizza crusts (but not as tasty).

The only way to rid ourselves of a tyrant like Kroenke is to starve him of money or hope he falls off the twig.

I like Twig's roster, but I would like to see 4 -4-1-1 instead of 4 -4-2.

These are lovely, here in nottinghamshire rightbnow we have an abundance of twigs, beautiful colour foliage and flora to collect for crafts like these.

Even if they can't find a tree to nest in, they will build similar structures by weaving the leaves and twigs of vines, like those that cover buildings.

We now know all sorts of animals can do the same — but the tools of choice are usually perishable materials like leafs and twigs.

The recent dates suggest that like the 60,000 - to 100,000 - year - old fossils of tiny H. floresiensis (the «Hobbit») in Indonesia, H. naledi was a «twig off the mainstream of Homo — some little relic of a relatively archaic population,» Kimbel says.

Not only does it resemble a twig in color and shape, it also holds itself at an angle much like those of actual twigs in the host plant.

Indeed, for years, scientists have sought to better understand how humans and animals bridge the gap between hearing or observing a sensory clue that signifies a coming event, like the sound of a twig breaking in the forest as a bear approaches, and taking action, such as fleeing from the bear.

In other words, when unexpected change comes around, demanding you rise to the challenge, it's body - based practices that will help you bend like a vital green twig under the stressful forces of change rather than snapping like a dried - out branch.

is a twig - like sea plant that grows along the coastlines of Japan, China and Korea.

Hijiki is a twig - like sea plant that grows along the coastlines of Japan, China and Korea.

With few exceptions, all of our seasonal decorations are natural elements, like twigs and leaves, pinecones, real pumpkins, wood, and textiles.

I looked through for what I had in the way of neutral colors (the white pumpkins, black spiders and crow, and twig wreath) and searched the house for other basic elements that could possibly tie in like the vases and candle holder.

She centers the pendant on multiple twig - like knotted strands of brown waxed polyester cord.

I feel like the red and white really pop against the natural and rustic look of the twig wreath.

Designed like a curved twig that bypass each other, the silver ring becomes symbolic of the Roman wreathe that is only worn by scholars and royalty during the medieval times.

His goal, he explains while tossing formidably powerful heroes around like dried - up twigs, is to restore «balance» by wiping out 50 percent of every creature that draws whatever it is they breathe, preserving the sustainability of a cosmos whose finite resources are taxed to the limit.

You may recognize some of these computer - generated critters from the margins of Rowling's earlier novels, such as the niffler, a duck - billed rodent with a mischievous taste for anything shiny, or the bowtruckle, a shy, twig - like tree dweller that might be an early ancestor of Groot's.

Dormant, and twig like, only the bare roots give a clue to the promise of a green future.

In fact, the only unsurprising thing about this car is that it earned its name after designers twigged it looked just like one of the Star Wars baddies.

At times it was like the snapping of dry twigs, sudden and unexpected.

At one point, tiny twigs jammed up both nostrils and his mouth, making it appear as if he were disgorging leaves from his face like some kind of garden goblin.

I got a sense of me stretched out uponthe ground and it feels like I'm lying on twigs and stuff.

Just because no one points it out doesn't mean it's not happening, and if one thinks it's only happening on the Kindle and the Kindle tracking is anymore intrusive or the most extensive, that's a little like standing in the middle of a california forest fire and pointing to a twig and screaming fire.

Except department stores, big box stores & shopping malls still haven't twigged this, they're still piled high with dreary mid - price / mid - range / middle - of - the - road products for the largest possible common denominator — it's like everybody became the Gap!

Dogs would do everything to get the attention of humans by doing different catchy tricks, making noise, showing affection, and unusual behaviour like chewing non — foods things like socks, twigs, or grasses.

A Week Or So Ago He Had Ate Twigs Off Of A Decoration At My Fathers House And I Feel Like It Didn't Start Until Then.

The player takes control of five little creatures (Mr. Lantern, Mr. Twig, Mr. Poppy Head, Mr. Feather and Mrs. Mushroom) who must save the last seed of life from their home tree as they are pursued by evil spider - like parasites.

Instead of working with rags and twigs like his Italian predecessors, Harrison uses custom 3D printing technology to create altered copies of African artifacts such as masks and statues.

Tompkins» twig looks more like contemporary art; it proposes a sculptural alternative to canvas with the lightest of touch.

«The building is almost like a tool kit for artists of all kinds — whether it's Kanye West or Björk or Kenneth Branagh, Steve McQueen, Matthew Barney or FKA twigs,» said Mr. Poots, formerly artistic director of the Manchester International Festival and of the Park Avenue Armory.

And Gloria Holwerda - Williams Rough Heart of stones, held together by a low wall of twigs, looks like anything but a heart of stone.

Many more belong to bare branches and twigs, some breaking the rough edges of a very rough rectangle, like the aftermath of a storm.

In these stage - set like interiors, populated with furry pompoms, mounds of clay planted with sticks, scraps of woodshavings, twigs, twisted bits of glowing neon, and odds and ends as seemingly inconsequential as a cherry pit and a single human hair, Warren manages to build up a strange and tense portentousness.

Two twigs wrapped around each other find themselves sheathed in a tiny pair of adapted tights crudely assembled with a metal clamp (Twiggy), whereas two wall - based sculptures made by casting collapsed balls of wool in bronze, evoke breast - like forms (Twins).

Alexandra Bircken is an artist who has attracted interest for her sculptures and installations that combine knitted elements with organic and lowly materials such as hair, leather, dried grass, latex and twigs, creating amulet - like objects with an arts and crafts aesthetic that reflect her background in fashion design and an interest in the radical aspects of handmade culture.

Constructed of twigs and twine covered in ghostly white liming wax and gesso, it's composed of Josef Albers - like concentric squares sectioned off into grids.

Dead twigs, rebar, and shoots pocked the boulder field like tiny flag poles, stripped of their sigils.

The unusual collection of items, which includes tools, rocks, twigs, plastic toys and skulls and what look like voodoo dolls, hints at an interest in the occult, which is echoed in the drawings hung on the surrounding walls.

He makes a polyurethane cast of a rock face look like bronze, constructs a duck blind with silver twigs and feathers made of magazines, and then goes over to the dark side of realistic obviousness with «Halves,» in which sculptures of the front portions of a wolf and a sheep confront each other warily.

The usage of primitive, raw materials like hair, twigs, clay, and fabric are elements that compose works where I create organic structures that are inspired by the fragility of our nature.

Unfortunately, the Guardian's Bibi van der Zee notes that the wipes are changing the shape of the Thames, and that what look like natural mounds are in fact clumps of wet wipes, mud and twigs.

The emissions aren't calculated or quantified as with a nice new power plant, so those emissions don't exist, just like dung / grass / twig / kero etc emissions by billions of poor every day don't exist.

Called «underwater architects,» Caddisflies are a common aquatic species of insect that collect natural, substrate materials like sand, gravel, leaves and twigs to build protective shells around their bodies, using silk excreted from salivary glands near their mouths to hold it all together (as seen below, au naturel).

Like Richard Shilling's use of twigs and leaves to remind us of the simple beauty of nature or the guns Sonia Rentsch forms with flower buds, nuts and sticks to raise the issue of environmental degradation and violence, Yulia Brodskaya utilizes paper — perhaps the most basic art material available — and a technique called «quilling» that involves twisting and folding strips of paper in such a way that she forces the viewer to not only appreciate her finished work, but also reconsider how we look at the raw materials she's using.

You only hear the sound that things made when stroked by the air, like the stubborn leaves on the oak tree outside the window that fluttered and snapped at the ends of their twigs.