Sentences with phrase «reflective as a mirror»

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And some surfaces can act as mirrors without the special reflective silver backing.

They also calculated that a reflective surface made by shaping a flock of tiny particles into a parabola could focus an image just as a telescope mirror does.

About 150 tiny reflective beads are held together by laser light, forming this arrangement (inset) that can act as a mirror to see objects in space.

Over the next few years it was upgraded in order to boost its sensitivity - its noise being reduced, in part, thanks to more powerful lasers, better isolation of the mirrors, as well as mirrors that are both bigger and more highly reflective.

The modern - day updates of these old myths are minor and not particularly imaginative — Coogan plays Hades as a strutting Alice Cooper type, while Percy uses the reflective surface of an iPhone as a mirror to avoid looking Medusa in the eye — but at least Riordan's books have a rich background to serve as source material for the story's chases and swordfights.

In «A Fantastic Woman,» he has a uniquely striking heroine whom he is forever surrounding with mirrors and reflective surfaces as if determined that we should see her from every possible angle.

Jordan Peele's «Get Out» is, again, a work of savvy craft that pulls an unsuspecting (white) viewer into a Sunken Place that other moviegoers know all too well; the movie works as a horror film, as a goof on horror films, as a working street - map of African - American anxieties, and, for a white liberal audience, as an endlessly reflective hall of mirrors that urges a hard, necessary look at oneself.

In an article titled «Teacher Reflection In a Hall of Mirrors: Historical Influences and Political Reverberations» (2003), the researcher Lynn Fendler makes the case that teachers are already reflective by nature as they continuously make adjustments in instruction.

Standard equipment now includes sun - reflective leather seats (which BMW says reduces the surface temperature by up to 20 degrees — although it was never really hot enough for us to truly test this), upgraded cruise control with brake function, an updated iDrive that mirrors the rest of the updated BMW range, and a USB / audio interface for the sound system that allows greater control of external audio devices such as MP3 players.

Though I twiddle and stroke the beard compulsively, in fact I don't know what it looks like, as I've been doing my best to avoid mirrors and reflective surfaces of any kind out of fear of what I'm liable to see staring back at me.

Films are projected onto their reflective surfaces and mirrored across the room as a mosaic.

These paintings — such as Notebook 64, where a translucent, multicolored shape hovers over the patterns of reflective water and sky — mirror tessellated structures found in the natural world, like honeycomb.

The surface of the mirror is reflective black and intended as a divination tool.

Glass mirrors in Harumi Yukutake's Paracosmos (2016) curve around the main circular stairwell of the Singapore Art Museum, dazzling the eye as light hits their multiple reflective surfaces.

The mirrors and reflective glass make more sense as portals to other dimensions — dimensions perhaps similar to ours or radically different.

Roni Horn's substantial glass sculptures appear as pools of water — at once surprisingly transparent and dramatically reflective, both a mirror and a lens.

Through fragmenting her body by hiding behind furniture, using reflective surfaces such as mirrors to conceal herself, or by simply cropping the image, she dissects the human figure emphasising isolated body parts.

Seven large - scale mirrored sculptures are arranged as multiple reflective screens on which he projects reconfigured abstract films.

Twentieth Century Modernism, Mirrored and Reflected Infinitely, continues a series of sculptures in which modernist design forms are remade as reflective objects and displayed in environments of endlessly repeating mirrored reflMirrored and Reflected Infinitely, continues a series of sculptures in which modernist design forms are remade as reflective objects and displayed in environments of endlessly repeating mirrored reflmirrored reflections.

The use of doors, canvas and mirrors, both literal — painting directly on discarded doors and incorporating reflective surfaces into their works — and as motifs, signal access to another realm or an entry point to the psyche, pulling viewers into their surreal and chimerical world.

Beginning in 1965, Kusama began introducing mirrors as reflective devices in her work with the Infinity Mirror Rooms.

Potential exchange items may include: clothes, curtains, blankets, artworks, photographs, paintings, frames, nondescript items of undetermined function, objects that resemble parts of the human body such as wigs or mannequins, costume jewelry and accessories, mirrors and reflective items, potted plants, colorful items and / or those with interesting shapes and forms, transparent materials such as shower curtains, lingerie, or X-rays, books, and trinkets.

Presenting a painting from his well - known body of work «Black Dada» as well as a work from a series layering text and images on mirrored stainless steel, Adam Pendleton's works in this exhibition give material form to the artist's engagement with a dynamic idea of history; one that is ever mutable and reflective of subjective and infinite narrative potentials.

Filmed at the Michael Davis Stained Glass workshop in Long Island City, New York, objects from this session were later given a mirrored surface as part of the artist's Total Reflective Abstraction series of works that took as their point of departure a conversation between Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi.

The reflective black Plexiglas surface acts as a mirror to our participation in the narrativization of history with its opacity suggesting the impossibility of either idealizing this history or separating out its place in the lineage of contemporary techniques of picturing the world through satellite imagery and global communication.

The mirror is a reflective surface which provides one with one's own image, and this reflected portrait serves as the model in identity formation.

On the floor, delicate pool - like mirrors reflected the suspended knot above them, as did the rectangular mirrors mounted behind the reflective mass.

Carlo's installation Reflective 3 opened in June 2015 at the Medici Palazzo Florence, the installation was a coloured glass and mirror work commissioned by Pitti in Florence as the guest designer project for menswear.

Imagined Communities includes Hank Willis Thomas's reflective mirror pieces which appropriate imagery from the civil rights era, George W. Bush's family home as documented by Maggie Shannon and a video by Farideh Sakhaeifar which conflates NASA spaceship launches with ISIS bombings.

During the 1970s Graham delved into film and video performances featuring actors, including himself, in what he termed pavilions — steel, essentially roomlike architectural structures featuring two - way reflective - glass mirrors intended to allow individuals to view themselves as others viewed them.

Initiated in 1962, Pistoletto's signature mirror paintings use the reflective picture plane to draw both viewer and environment into the work, playing with traditional notions of the painted image as a fixed moment in time.

Polished to create a reflective surface, the works mirror their surroundings as well as the viewer standing before them, exploring ideas of perception.

Rather, solar radiation management seeks to reduce the amount of radiation that reaches Earth, such as by brightening clouds, injecting reflective particles into the atmosphere or even installing mirrors in space.

Regarding the special reflective mirror version of the device, Apple will have to create a version that doesn't get scratched easily, otherwise the device might not remain as reflective over time.

It's reflective enough to use as a mirror.

The back is very reflective and works as a mirror as well.

The flagship Luminous Chrome color isn't so much a color as a straight up mirror: much like the Z5 Premium before it, it's incredibly reflective and picks up fingerprints with incredible ease.

It serves as a non-threatening reflective mirror and has the potential to provide distance and suggest a resolution.

Reflective materials, such as mirror and glass, enhance a sense of space, as do pale cabinetry, worktops and walls.

And while on the subject of mixing, rooms look most layered when they have something wooden, something woven, and something «wow» (as in something mirrored, reflective, or glossy).

Reflective surfaces such as mirrored fronts or white finishes that distribute light also help to make your bathroom feel more open.

Stunning lagoon style floor tiles allow make you feel as though you are walking on water while reflective mirrored wall tiles add glamour and shimmer to the refreshing space.