Sentences with phrase «pliant materials»

Phantom Thread's high - end fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who custom - makes dresses for royalty and hoi polloi in London circa 1950s, is as much a model of obsessive - compulsive mania as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007); this master - dressmaker works in softer and more pliant materials than the wildcat oilman, but is similarly uncompromising about his process and results.

Remarkably, although Betty had previously used supplied wire hooks, she had never seen the process of bending and had no prior training with pliant material.

First, the acrylic paint film is a soft, pliant material, in order to give the film enough rigidity to hold its shape, the acrylic sheet must be reinforced with some type of internal support.

Not exact matches

Few materials in nature are as strong yet also as pliant as spider silk.

Make sure the material of the pet bed is soft and pliant.

Mr. Chamberlain worked with a broad range of materials, some as pliant as foam rubber and as ephemeral as brown paper bags.

A wide selection of work proves how that primeval instinct — which leads to the representation of the human being, transferring its features on a pliant, durable, tridimensional medium — is still surprisingly up - to - date and well - present in artistic practice nowadays; here and since the dawn of time, we can see the attempt to embed an inert material with rituals, memories but also events from real life, with the aim of consigning it — potentially — to eternity.

The phone also comes with a slip case made from the same material, and it started out stiff as a board, only to become supple and pliant after two days use.