Sentences with word «rumpled»

These are crusaders in rumpled suits with coffee cups instead of capes, plodding through the boring legwork that comprises so much of real journalism — making lists, finding almanacs in dusty rooms that stink of dead rat, filling out forms at the courthouse, eating leftover pizza in dismally unkempt apartments.

In another series, images of rumpled beds are printed onto sheets of vividly colored cellulose sponge and thus transformed into scaleless, undulating landscapes.

The latter are sold in 1 - pound packages, either as rumpled sheets that must be cut into strips or as precut 1 / 2 - inch - wide strips.

Maybe it's her warm brown eyes and slightly rumpled look.

British artist Tracey Emin was in the crowd when «My Bed,» her unmade bed with rumpled sheets, empty vodka bottles, underwear and cigarette packets sold for 2.5 million pounds ($ 4.3 million) on July 1 at Christie's in London, more than five times her previous high.

When Celtic won, the thousands who had followed them to Lisbon («Every mass has been all - ticket since we came» was Stein's favorite joke before the game) took over the Portuguese capital and for days afterward British Embassy officials were frantically trying to cope with little red - eyed men in rumpled suits that contained neither money nor passports.

Space, from his perspective, is the oft - rumpled fabric of the universe.

Odenkirk brings the newshound sensibility in sharp focus — even in rumpled clothes and fumbling for a pen — to Bagdikian, who obtained the Pentagon Papers for the Post and later became dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.

The second was a striped, rumpled linen shirt with a plastic «souvenir» pocket, to be used for a leaf, a shell, a fragment of a photo, anything that seals a moment.

Wearing slightly rumpled khakis and waving his eyeglasses to punctuate key points, Mr. Icahn is constantly jumping from one topic to another in an endless stream of dialogue.

By contrast, U.S. basketball players will look, in their dotage, like rumpled Rand McNally road maps.

It's really light jersey fabric so it could hang better and this dress gets rumpled and sticks when I...

Round 71 appears to contain ghosts of rumpled blue violet cloth.

Shimmery, silvery eyeshadow, a hint of black liner and rumpled waves easily transition from day to night.

But by 1979, he was best (and possibly only) known to the general public as television's rumpled detective Columbo.

Both have a parallel in Sam Moyer, with her own illusion of rumpled canvas and photography, although in actual bleached and ironed fabric.

At Volta, an entire booth was filled with what looked like singles sheets of rumpled paper — the installation by Carol Young was actually composed of ceramic.

More recently, president Donald Trump's protectionist credentials were rumpled by the discovery that his campaign's signature «Make America Great Again» hats may in fact have been made elsewhere.

He turns up each day in rumpled jeans and short - sleeved shirts.

Even as he labored unsuccessfully there to unify the fundamental forces of physics, he became a much - beloved public figure, strolling about town in a sweatshirt, rumpled khakis, and sandals.

I also love a crisp white shirt, but I feel like mine always looks so rumpled.

It's so hard to see how you'd look in a dress when you're standing there with bare legs and rumpled socks around your ankles.

What I don't like about the fabric is that it wrinkles extremely easily and even after ironing looked a little rumpled.

... Turner Prize with the installation My Bed (1998), which displayed not only the artist's actual bed but also rumpled bedclothes and what one critic called «uncomfortably personal debris,» including soiled underwear, empty liquor bottles, and used condoms.

Criminals always underestimated Columbo, with his quizzical looks and rumpled raincoat.

I was with Peter Mayer, the president of the Overlook Press, a large, rumpled figure in a black corduroy suit who wanted to publish Said's small romantic novel Ali and Nino.

We have to spend so much money on the bed itself, mattress, pad, sheets, comforters... who wants it to look like a big rumpled mess!

His camera is always following the fat man, close in and discovering the imperfections on his skin and rumpled folds in his plain clothes.

Everyone can stay in rumpled pajamas, buckled safely in car seats.

Lynch, often referred to as the «rumpled genius» of New York politics, has long headed the consulting firm that bears his name, Bill Lynch Associates.

Here, the spilled oxygen atoms pool between the graphene and underlying metal and create an intermediate layer that smooths the otherwise rumpled graphene.

Rumpled grain sacks, with that little bit of aged patina and old world charm, look just so right and cozy in a home by the sea.

Both the stranded six and their quietly noble rescuers, whether chained to a desk at Langley or skulking around Tehran with a muted, saturnine sense of purpose, are regular people in rumpled clothing who are scared, confused, tired, and, again, scared.

In her 2015 interview, she described the process of preparing My Bed to once again go on display at Tate Britain, when she had to climb again beneath its sheets in order to restore the correct degree of rumpled disarray — Tracey said that the fabric had stiffened over time and that was exactly how she felt about this work.

In 1999 she became a finalist for the Turner Prize with the installation My Bed (1998), which displayed not only the artist's actual bed but also rumpled bedclothes and what one critic called «uncomfortably personal debris,» including soiled underwear, empty liquor bottles, and used condoms.

As a publicist might say, he was the whole package: distinctive look (untamed hair, rumpled sweater), witty personality (his quips, such as God not playing dice, would live on) and major scientific cred (his papers upended physics).

PBGVs are known for their low - slung rumpled appearance, bushy eyebrows, beard and mustache.

We used to store these dresses in a basket and every time they needed one they became rumpled on the floor.

Soft rumpled shabby chic bedding.

This dress was pretty good for a black tie dinner I attended - it is LONG, however, and the fabric rumpled easily.

But for the actual walk down the aisle, consider breathing new life into your short hairstyle with rumpled curls and a gorgeous five - strand braid.

Boden also makes some great white shirts with whimsical patterns (bicycles, umbrellas) and spots — they are more rumpled, but I still love them under a sweater.

When you're looking across a boardroom table at whatever collection of rumpled dreamers and smug hipsters made it this far, fall in love with who they are together, not what you think you as a business leader can make them do.

He arrived rumpled and bleary - eyed from London for the public announcement on the capitol steps.

He also hired executives from Tiffany & Co. and Swarovski: people who were frequently mistaken for Lauzon, who is perpetually rumpled and in need of a shave.