Sentences with phrase «slick surfaces like»

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Bill came up with the idea of a self - loading vehicle that could lift a bale over the front and drop it onto an inclined bed with a slick surface so, Larry says, «it would go down like a Slip»N Slide.»

«He doesn't like a slick surface,» the trainer said.

The trouble (beyond the devastating effects of 11 million gallons) is that oil's cohesive properties — the same qualities that make oil - coated measuring cups a pain to wash — mean a vast oil slick like the one currently blanketing the Gulf presents very little molecular surface area to the bacteria that would take it down.

Amid the white walls and slick surfaces of this film, the characters seem more like lab rats than human beings.

Though anti-lock brakes are the best safety system on the road to ensure stopping on slick or wet surfaces, we found that under normal braking conditions on dry roads there was too much play in the brake pedal for our liking.

I often use a small pillow to prop my Fire up, except for slick surfaces (like the table or counter) I use the stand attached to my Kindle Fire cover.

This boot is also very useful for senior dogs that have problems on slick surfaces, like hardwood floors.

The controls are relatively loose and the physics exaggerated, which makes driving the vehicles feel like you're controlling an RC car on a slick surface.

Gynaecological instruments superimposed on the surface of the works disrupt traditional Romantic readings and imply a desire for human intervention in the timeless cycles of birth and death... [Kiefer] has been criticised for being theatrical... Yet in this increasingly frightening and unfettered world we need artists like Kiefer... who are prepared to face what is tragic rather than endlessly celebrating what is glib, slick and ephemeral.»

Fishman creates sculptural paintings — large, constructed installations with hypersaturated colors and industrial - like slick surfaces — that evoke the design of pills, their combinations in drug «cocktails,» and the colors and surfaces of drug advertising.

Then there were those oversized stainless steel keepsakes, like the Hanging Heart valued at $ 20 million, and the overstimulating collage - like paintings with surfaces as slick as Vogue's ad - space.

The smaller size and curved back panel make it less slick in the hand, but like its predecessor, it's prone to sliding its way across (and eventually off) flat surfaces.