Sentences with phrase «pocked with»

Contrast that begins at perfect black will always be considerably more striking than 1,000 nit peaks pitched against a milky - grey black level pocked with halos.

The surface of the ice here is pocked with holes just wide enough for a researcher's finger.

A hospital in Mexico City has unveiled its new façade of tall grey lattices pocked with round and oval portholes.

To my surprise, Carroll Dunham has been pocked with them.

How much space can be suggested when the surface is pocked with sand?

With little preciousness, Ryan champions these sloppy green ceramic objects, pocked with her fingerprints, making them animate on their lofty perch.

McEwen's booklet also reproduces a newspaper ad memorializing real estate developer Samuel J. Lefrak («The Vision to See / The Faith to Believe / The Courage to Do»), images of sidewalks dotted with discarded chewing gum, a view of a landscape pocked with bomb craters, and a news brief about a boy sticking a piece of gum onto

McEwen's booklet also reproduces a newspaper ad memorializing real estate developer Samuel J. Lefrak («The Vision to See / The Faith to Believe / The Courage to Do»), images of sidewalks dotted with discarded chewing gum, a view of a landscape pocked with bomb craters, and a news brief about a boy sticking a piece of gum onto a $ 1.5 million Helen Frankenthaler painting during a visit to the Detroit Institute of Arts — as well as a digression into the life of Hassel, a Danish writer of pulp combat fiction who drove a German Panzer tank during the war.

Girolata (named after a creek in Corsica, but after the picture was painted), one of the most beautiful of Joan Mitchell's recent paintings, is a large triptych which does look very much like a fairly literal impression of the face of a cliff pocked with crevices and littered here and there with vines and messy vegetation.

The boxes are lit from the inside, so one can see in each skirt's carved outline a forest of trees denuded by winter, concocted from branches wrapped in copper wire; or a similar woodland at night, pocked with stars and suffused with indigo light; or a sailboat with white sails spilling out.

Walls are pocked with bullet holes, upholstery savaged by gunfire, and genteel neoclassical interiors tarnished by peeling paint.

Kotaku lauds the Wii U as the finest piece of hardware ever made by Nintendo, adding, «For once, we have a Nintendo console that doesn't feel like it is pocked with omissions.»

They've essentially taken rocket science, a subject that a person like myself would run screaming from, and turned it into hours of joy and laughter — only lightly pocked with the occasional scream of rage.

Inevitably, the streets were pocked with mortar rounds.

The brothers are not, to put it kindly, visual stylists, although the various planetary terrains — some pocked with formidable ruins and soaring rock formations — are designed to inspire awe.

Kotaku lauds the Wii U as the finest piece of hardware ever made by Nintendo, adding, «For once, we have a Nintendo console that doesn't feel like it is pocked with omissions.»

But Garland's film more closely resembles Denis Villeneuve's recent science fiction hit Arrival, another slow, airless, fascinating film pocked with moments of sudden explosive action.

But Ragnarsson says Iceland's volcanic landscape is a world treasure and should not be criss - crossed with steam pipes and transmission lines or pocked with power plants.

Volatile ice occupies a few nearby deep craters, and in some areas the volatile ice is pocked with arrays of small sublimation pits.

Its icy surface was as white and bright as fresh snow, and whereas the other airless moons were heavily pocked with craters, Enceladus was mantled in places with extensive plains of smooth, uncratered terrain, a clear sign of past internally driven geologic activity.

In a small white room pocked with 14 high - fidelity speakers, real - time local geologic, astronomical, and meteorologic data are fed into a computer that translates the information, using filters of Adams's creation, into sound and light.

Hearing rumors of a mysterious crocodile colony in southern Mauritania, the team sped to the site, a large rocky plateau pocked with crevices and cavities.

Fields of leathery saw palmettos and stands of longleaf pine trees are pocked with ponds and marshes.

Pluto's largest moon, long seen as mysterious smudge at the outer reaches of our solar system, was revealed in 2015 closeup images to be pocked with craters, mountains and steep - sided depressions called chasmas.

Sixteen LPGA players have chosen the motherhood route, a road that is pocked with hazards no golf course architect could envision, and they are changing the face of the tour.

If the Obama administration made way for every sincere religious claim to be relieved of the HHS mandate, the legal landscape would be pocked with enormous craters where the routine administration of the law had been exploded.

Not exact matches

Waialae is an understated gem lined with palm trees pocked by errantshots, a Seth Raynor design that Azinger (along with Goydos and others) feelsshould be mentioned in the same breath as Westchester and Harbour Town andColonial, but isn't.

«The penny may well have dropped with Nick Clegg that the government of which he is a senior member was wrong to attack spending, but his words offer nothing to the 20,000 people thrown onto the dole queue in the past three weeks alone, they won't revive our pock - marked high streets and they offer nothing for the millions more for whom life under this shambles of a government is bleak.

The lobe is an oddity compared with the rest of Pluto's craggy, crater - pocked, multibillion - year - old surface, covered in bright ice that is relatively fresh and crater - free.

Old stone buildings in Manhattan, such as Grand Central Station or the Metropolitan Museum of Art, would outlast every modern glass box, especially with no more acid rain to pock their marble.

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It's both handsome and practical with seven pockets (four outside, including a pocket - within - a-pocket that holds the newest «plus - size» smart phone; and three inside, including a pen pock...

Designed with subtle branding — a rubber badge at the hip and a graphic print at the back leg — these joggers are also complete with concealed zips at the pocks.

It's here that the production designer, Andrew McAlpine, goes Le Corbusier gaga with all sorts of abstract ramps and passageways and pocked concrete walls.

A bighearted DM of awkwardness and warmth, Bo Burnham's transportive comedic - drama debut Eighth Grade will return audiences to those pimple - pocked middle years; when being cool was synonymous with having no personality and anxiety over self - identity dominated every waking thought.

Robespierre's follow - up, a 90s set comedy about a family dealing with two separate instances of infidelity, may not have accrued the same cult following, nor is it likely to pock as many end of year favorites lists, but the dramedy has tonal and directorial elements similar of a budding Noah Baumbach, who has since gone on to great acclaim.

On the way back down, the hill is long, pock - marked with little islands of gorse, heather and bracken, a giant slalom for cows and SUVs, and a spectacular view over nameless moorland.

It loves the smooth sections, but it keeps bottoming out on the pock - marked preunification bylanes, while the steering plays kick - and - pull with the driving wheels.

Despite about 370 pounds of extra weight versus conventional Golfs — attributable to the 701 - pound battery load — the electric Volkswagen rode smoothly over New York City's pocked roads, with no crashing sounds or thumps, and an immense sense of cosseting toughness.

The adjustable dampers have three settings and around town the Spider is supple and absorbent, rounding off the worst pocks and ridges with aplomb.

Combine this with taut body control and these GM engineers have created nothing less than terrific little car and, what's more it feels fairly pliant and comfortable across the pock marked roads in the UK.

I have seen yards with dogs that look like it is pock marked like the moon.

Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is pock - marked with more than 8,000 cenotes.

Most of the island's roads are rough tracks of Martian - red clay, pocked by craters and layered with dust.

As I was trying to master this tricky wave, the drizzle became a downpour, pock - marking the water with increasing ferocity until the water dimples merged into a whole.

With Tep Wireless pocked - sized personal WiFi hotspot you can easily avoid paying those massive mobile data roaming charges and to get your spending under control.

Happily, the company's decision - makers grasped the nettle by doing away with the dubious Hollywood - style action sequences that pock - marked 2005's Resident Evil 5 and 2012's Resident Evil 6 (both unloved by committed Resident Evil fans), opting instead to take Resident Evil 7 back to the franchise's horror - centric roots.

Marbled and pocked by time, the mineral components of each bar vary, with a range of color and topography that quietly remarks on the nature of materiality, mutability and transformation.

I loved the museum most of all, when I came to curator Scott Rothkopf describing re-curating the AIDS section, where Peter Hujar meets David Wojnarowicz all over again, where Mark Morrisroe's pocked body still screams out in bemused anguish, where you are alone with the memories of 1986 in exactly this neighborhood and the one you left on the bus this morning.