Sentences with phrase «pockmarked by»

And while the backplate is pockmarked by plenty of casing penetrations for screws, utility ports and an apparent speaker grill, it doesn't feature the heart - rate sensor that's become almost standard on Android Wear watches.

This primeval, benign creature is a heap of black and white stripes pockmarked by large areas of bubble - gum pink.

«Objective» features works that present an indifferent aesthetic, achieved by straightforward depictions of America's changing landscape pockmarked by industry and residential development.

What's more, Liberation is pockmarked by a series of minor bugs and audio glitches.

The dry ochre - colored savannah, pockmarked by enormous «upside - down» baobab trees and thorny shrubs, was quite a contrast to the lush green scenes of the river.

Lining sections of the lake are gravel roads and firm dirt trails, pockmarked by bushes and small dunes.

Tim Robey of the «Daily Telegraph» called the film — set in a near - deserted community pockmarked by scorched houses — a «crapocalypse.»

The rest of the cast is pockmarked by stalwarts like Domenick Lombardozzi (the perfect heavy), Amy Ryan, Jesse Plemons, Dakin Matthews and Alan Alda (finally beginning to show his age after all these years).

Even a life lived more responsibly than Max's is pockmarked by emotional turbulence and the impossibility of establishing lasting connections with others.

But it should also come as not much of a surprise, sadly, that the filmmaker's latest is pockmarked by a lot of the same conservative dramatic conventions and broad political emotional gestures that have marred much of his work over the years, but particularly his recent output.

Its High Street, once a bustling, crowded place, is today pockmarked by closed shops.

The zircon crystal comes into being deep inside a young Earth that is covered in ocean and pockmarked by volcanoes spewing white - hot lava.

Economic opportunity has always been a big part of the allure of urban life, yet most cities are at least pockmarked by areas of extreme poverty.

Although the country at present is in a state of historically unprecedented prosperity, here and there in Budapest a building pockmarked by artillery (German, Soviet from World War II, or Soviet from the 1956 rising) recalls the country's unhappy past.

Not exact matches

«The entire life of this city depends on Rusal,» said Evgeny Ivanov, until recently a foreman at the plant in Sayanogorsk, where pockmarked asphalt recalls the harsh winters endured by its 60,000 inhabitants, and icy blue mountains line the horizon.

It's not surprising that the people who create movies are as affected by the racism, sexual abuse and violence that has pockmarked the news for the past few years as the rest of us, but Hollywood is only offering a diagnosis here.

Deadlines come and go - a situation not helped by McGuinness» untimely death and an unexpected general election result which has pockmarked attempts at dialogue.

You can identify volcanic basalt from its tiny pockmarks, formed by bubbles of escaping gas that froze in place when hot magma hit the cool air.

The newly enclosed sea succumbed to evaporation, its water level falling by thousands of meters, turning it into a desertlike environment pockmarked with shallow pools as salty as today's Dead Sea.

Pockmarked with sulphurous pits, bathed in intense radiation and shaken by constant volcanic eruptions, Io is the fiery hell of the solar system

The shrinking seems to have slowed down after about a billion years, but the grey, pockmarked world we see today is crisscrossed by steep crustal ridges that reveal the period of rapid contraction.

Wallmann: «It is important to check emission rates of gases and fluids and make sure that seepage is not invigorated or pockmarks are re-activated by the storage operation.»

Like the rest of Pluto, this region would presumably have been pummeled by space debris for billions of years and would have once been heavily cratered — unless recent activity had given the region a facelift, erasing those pockmarks.

The images, which show the cratered and pockmarked surface of the small icy world, were taken by the Cassini probe, which entered into orbit around the planet in 2004.

By boring down into ones called massive starlet corals, which look like pockmarked boulders, she could extract samples.

About once a year, my face would get invaded by a small fleet of pockmarks around my nose and mouth.

These two characters will be accompanied by two new power disks that give Toy Box a makeover to look like Phineas and Ferb's city of Danville: one is for an all - over terrain remake and the other paints over Disney Infinity's Skydome to look like the TV show's cloud - pockmarked sky.

The atmosphere is convivial and lively, thanks in part to an accompanying blast of free jazz from legendary saxophonist Idris Ackamoor — one in a number of surprising soundtrack cues, ranging from deep funk to blues, that pockmark the piano - driven score by composer David Shire.

The area was hit hard by the foreclosure crisis, and today its littered, winding streets are pockmarked with boarded - up homes and corners that serve as makeshift memorials for victims of gun violence.

Our Popeye Edition Benz struggles to carve a straight line and maintain its composure over the metropolis» pockmarked tarmac, but upgraded steel brakes slow the spider - legged Benz with reassuring determination, aided by a worst - in - class drag coefficient.

This stretch of pockmarked hills was billed as «seven miles of hell» by our guide, a title we found apropos.

See the Cherokee compared side - by - side against key competitors here.Performance During a day of testing, I drove the new Cherokee on twisty mountain roads and pockmarked streets, as well as a brief highway stint, and it performed about as well as any SUV in the class.

The pockmarked streets look like forgotten set pieces from a play by Bertholt Brecht, the tired high - rises haven't seen fresh paint since Ignacy Daszynski became the Republic of Poland's first prime minister in 1918, and the spring air is pregnant with the smell of coal and diesel.

It rides wish a soft, squishy nature that soaks up heavy bumps and potholes — but the damping leaves a little to be desired and the ride can become influenced by a jittery subtest on severely pockmarked roads.

All we see is an massive open field, pockmarked with the odd rock and bordered by looming mountains.

Episodic and explosive escapes of gaseous methane from the sediment column have been documented by kilometer - scale «wipeout zones» in seismic images (Riedel et al., 2002), and pockmarks on the sea floor, called eruption craters (Hill et al., 2004).