Sentences with phrase «remnants seem»

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All delicacy or remnant of charm seems gone from Miss Irwin, and the performance comes very near being indecent in its emphasized vulgarity,» one critic wrote.

Legislation based on degrees of consanguinity seems like a reactionary remnant of the bigoted bourgeois morality of a bygone age.

In the country east of the Jordan there seems to have been more than a single baptismal brotherhood; and the sect of the Mandaeans still living today in Baghdad and along the Euphrates — a sect which has called itself the John - Nazoraeans — may well be a lost remnant of such a group of Baptists.

In almost every church there is a «saving remnant,» and advance toward the Kingdom seems to come most often through the faithful effort of minorities.

In the case of Aleph, a new religion that grew from Aum Shinrikyo's remnants after its dissolution, the response to the earthquake seems like a careful gesture of redemption.

To some, his eschatology represents a blatant and outdated scientism, a remnant of 9th century optimism; to others, it seems an urgent and timely reinterpretation of the Pauline Christ who will be all in all.

I am looking at the exact same one right now, almost in the same spot (even with a white fabric, you can see it must have been some kind of cheese remnant)... my kid seems to think the futon - couch is her personal, huge, handkerchief or all - purpose wipe, and she will leave snail - like traces of mucus...

The drought seems to have taken a toll on some of the region's rare butterflies - those species that require remnant prairies or wetlands.

We are accustomed to thinking of ourselves as singular autonomous individuals, and these foreign cells seem to belie that notion, and suggest that most people carry remnants of other individuals.

The case seemed stronger still last year when Kevork Abazajian at the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues found signs that the remnants of annihilated dark matter particles were scattering off dust in the Milky Way, just as physicists predicted they should.

The red cabbage palm was thought to be an ancient remnant mostly because «it didn't seem reasonable that the palms got there any other way,» says David Bowman, a biologist at the University of Tasmania in Australia.

It seemed unrelated to any recognizable cosmic feature, like giant interstellar clouds, star - forming regions, or supernova remnants.

The data indicate that the Bullet seems to jump out from the edge of the W44 supernova remnant with immense kinetic energy.

Because the pots also had remnants of terebinth tree resin — later described by Roman naturalist Pliny the Elder as a wine preservative — the grape juice seems to have been intentionally fermented.

When the supernova remnant RCW 103 was first observed 25 years ago, it seemed to be a textbook example of a massive star's death: a gaseous cloud of ejected material surrounding a neutron star only about 12 miles across.

About half of the atoms in the condensate seemed to have disappeared from the experiment altogether, not seen in the cold remnant or expanding gas cloud.

Between the gadgets and cords, stacks of mail that seem to pile up, and remnants of whatever meal was last eaten, this culinary stage seems to be in a constant struggle with itself to stay organized, clean, and uncluttered.

The cold weekend seemed like a signal that it was okay to pack up the last remnants of my summer wardrobe.

Explaining to future generations why Rob Reiner was once one of Hollywood's top directors was never going to be easy, but as his latter - day output worsens, the fact that he once helmed a Best Picture nominee (1992's A Few Good Men) starts to seem like a form of temporary insanity, or a remnant from an eradicated timeline.

This seems to be a growing trend: throw on some big wheels (preferably black), pick the glitzy paint (that god - awful pearl white is far too popular), and black - out the exterior details including the windows and suddenly you feel your family truckster is transformed into a dope ride, despite the putrid sports equipment and last week's fast food remnants it's still filled with.

if she does have a remnant, it isn't life threatening to her, but it seems that she has been exposed to larger dogs when she might be showing signs of heat, and it they try to breed with her, she can not get pregnant if she has been spayed, but they could hurt her while trying.

I think it would be best to have her examined by your veterinarian to see if she does seem to be going into a heat or not, whether it might be from a retained ovarian remnant.

Richter obscured the details of each image using thick, heavy applications of paint, making the canvases seem ominous and spectral, sinister remnants of memories from an undefined past.

So much of Ruby's work is about the remnants of what seems to be destroyed or the remnants of one act manifesting into a wholly new form.

They seem to be the tortured remnants of the ore of femininity, the raw material from which the commodified female is crafted.

A pinkish shadow on her hairline seems like the remnant of sindoor.

-LRB-...) Poignant narratives are hinted at by small objects scattered about the backside of the walls — ceramic replications of cigarette butts, bottle caps, toilet paper rolls and beer bottles seem remnants of lives that once inhabited the spaces that these walls no longer define» (Excerpt from Eleanor Heartney's essay, «Something there is that doesn't love a wall»).

At 291, the older man must have seemed a remnant of the past, just when O'Keeffe and others were turning to unspoiled landscapes for a distinctively American art.

Each image seems like a ghostly remnant from some museum archive, but look closely and you'll see something just a little off, as elements of modern day remain in frame.

Institutions for the insane and a haunting labyrinth of hallways thereafter, these remnants of old U.S. methods, lost therapies in such a short national history, stand tall in the wind that always seems to surround them.

It seems to have collaborated and mingled with all the right schools of artists, and the myth of its long career has culminated in this moment: the unveiling of an archival retrospective, showcasing the most important remnants from its early foundations.

What initially seems like unpolished remnants from the studio, the work reveals itself as well considered objects carefully placed around the gallery inhabiting small quiet corners and alcoves.

The Color Field painting that I came upon in 1982 didn't seem to offer an opportunity to value what was left behind or left over, or to feature the overlooked or the remnants.

The remnant ice off the Alaskan coast does seem to have provided a nucleus for refreezing and allowed a rapid recovery this year, at least as far as area is concerned: