Sentences with phrase «thicketed as»

There seems to be a smart formal parallel here, where the photographs become as thicketed as the histories that surround them.

Heaven help the individual with many other responsibilities who has to wade through this thicket as a consumer of services, policymaker, or manager.

Not exact matches

If McConnell can fend off his conservative challenger on May 20, guide four of his fellow incumbents through a thicket of Tea Party primary challenges, and survive the November election — a difficult hat trick — he is likely to emerge as the one Washington Republican who can return the Grand Old Party to the grand old political center and put an end to Tea Party extremism.

Other proposals would make it easier for competing, «biosimilar» alternatives to break through the thicket of patents created by sellers of complex drugs such as insulin.

Similarly, the minister who elicits trust in healing prayer isn't the one promising perfect results, but the one who acts as a guide through the thicket of the spiritual world — urging and helping others to accept their responsibility to work as partners with Jesus Christ, who respectfully and lovingly stands at the door and knocks, but waits for us to open.

In 1931, while he was working on his celebrated Bible etchings for art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1931 — 39, 1952 — 56), he first showed a naked Isaac stretched out for ritual slaughter, Abraham with his knife raised, and the angel pointing to a ram caught not in «a thicket,» as the usual reading depicts, but in the roots of a tree.

His ram is entangled not in a thicket, as in the depiction of so many Christian painters, but in the roots of a tree, evoking the upright span of wood so central to the Christian imagination.

But he swears he did nothing as brazen as shake the frail and ailing man who was on a ventilator and enmeshed in a thicket of tubes, and who did not awaken to the strange voice in his room.

I lay napping in the hammock with an icy lemonade at my side as the birds of song whistle me an afternoon serenade... Back at reality ranch, I swipe at the black flies gathering to feed behind my ears, take a deep breath, and head past the empty hammock into the thicket to make it happen.

Bill Hobbie has enthusiastically taken on volunteer duties at Ipswich River, as well as at unstaffed sanctuaries including Nahant Thicket, Marblehead Neck, Cedar Pond in Wenham, and Eastern Point in Gloucester.

Although Dolan has waded deep into the political thicket in recent months, most notably clashing with the Obama administration over a contraception coverage mandate (wearing his hat as president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops).

It is an unusual role for Helgerson who goes by the handle @policywonk1 on Twitter and has largely stayed above the fray when it comes to politics, even as he navigates the thicket that is Medicaid spending in New York.

It was plants such as these that Captain Robert Fitzroy of the Beagle must have observed when he described «the dry and wretched looking thickets of the coast land.»

The parasites» natural hosts are African thicket rats that use shrubs and trees as habitat.

It forms large thickets of coral, as shown here in a reef in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Introduced to North America by Botanical Gardens in the 1890s, Amur honeysuckle — referred to by Conover as public enemy number one — has formed dense thickets in the local forest sub-canopies, choking out native species everywhere it grows.

For example, dense cane thickets act as a barrier to the rhea.

So as President Obama heads for Copenhagen, the question is whether his trip signals a willingness to make climate change a high - enough priority to cut through the legislative thicket and drive a bill home.

Slowly, this nondescript motel room becomes a forest of flypaper strips and a thicket of psychoses — and what began as kitchen - sink naturalism becomes, well, crazy shit.

If you cut through Lucas» thickets of self - reflexivity, metaphysical mumbo jumbo and banal potshots at media violence, there are three ace performances here by actors who can elevate and enliven even as mediocre a piece of material as this.

The sound is just as impressive, keeping Steve Zaillian's dialogue clean and crisp out front, with John Williams's now - classic score and a dense thicket of sound effects balanced beautifully in the back.

Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature (Olive, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge as frontier entrepreneurs in a war of wills, is dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations, designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

Adapted from English novelist Thomas Hardy's desperately romantic 1874 novel, this remake stars Carey Mulligan as headstrong beauty Bathsheba Everdine who rejects a marriage proposal and makes her way through a thicket of sensual encounters — all set against the wild English countryside.

The loosest of adaptations, cherry - picking from Michel Faber's strong novel of the same name, Under the Skin is home to a trio (at least) of indelible images and a style and presentation that function as shunts into a thicket of thorny existential questions; it's the best film I've seen this year and among the best films I've ever seen.

But much of the Avalon is tundra, known locally as barrens — an open, windswept land home to flocks of ptarmigan and the southernmost wild caribou herd in the world, where the trees, if they grow at all, cower in dense, waist - high thickets known as tuckamore.

Fortunately, Sheriff Duncan can count on the assistance of an undersized but tough - as - rawhide Texas Ranger, two physicians, a mechanical wunderkind, and a soft - spoken idiot savant who knows the sloughs and baygalls of the Thicket like his own backyard.

In the case of the Eastern cottontail, who favors farm fields, meadows and other open spaces, as well as blackberry thickets and open woodland, his diet will comprise grasses of many species, herbaceous undergrowth such as low shrubs, weeds like dandelions and plantain, clovers and even garden greens.

Pieris formosa - Also known as they Himalayan Pieris, this variety is found in thickets and open slopes in northeast India

Some credit Spain as the origin of hunting dogs that work thickets and flush their game, with the breed name derived from the French word for Spaniard.

Showers trickled through the thicket of trees as we passed curious bulls brought there decades ago to scare away trespassing surfers.

Finally, along the Caribbean shore (mostly on private land outside the park), vegetation is dominated by littoral thicket species such as Cocoplum and Sea - grape.

India's natural prowess - its dense forests, green hills, fresh streams, flower - filled valleys and bamboo thickets double up as a natural habitat of the rarest of the rare plant and animal species.

In the thicket of his surfaces, we see the AbEx demand that we look at paint simply as paint, so that the surface is neither given to narration nor to intellectual content.

His chaotic lines, lush washes, and indeterminate stains create thickets of representational noise that are as exuberant as they are deceptively scatterbrained.

«Blue Thicket,» for example, starts from the top of the canvas with a splendid array of wild untamed gestures followed by a mass of colors huddled together in active conference coming to a serene close as blue streaks seep down drawing one's eyes to rest in just the manner Carol is so proud of.

While her works are recognizable as tangled thickets of impenetrable undergrowth or clustered, leaf - laden limbs of the copse, the eye is always led to the tangible quality of the paint and brushwork.

The collage features a female figure in a foggy thicket, contemplating the partial form of at least one other body, as well as a pink flower, out of which Medusa - like tendrils and a giant hybrid serpent / bird / cicada monster emerges.

Moving from one drawing to the next the viewer will also discover thickets of angled sticks; lightly rendered floating lozenges; surprisingly colored vortexes; compilations of line passing as broad brushed symbols; hermetic compositions repeating within the same drawing; forgotten hieroglyphs becoming form; atmospheres menacing and combative and others lighter than the last wisp of sun - dissipated fog.

I have standing plans to drive to Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden, Little Sparta, 1966, in the Pentland Hills, and then further, to remind myself that «little walks by purling streams in meadows and through cornfields, thickets etc. are delightful entertainments,» as one work in Finlay's plot proclaims ---- words which certainly complement Geddes's emphasis on locality and contact with nature.

The image selected by the artist represents the moment that he disengages from the actress, sometimes near the beginning of the film, creating a simple drawing; but just as often near the end of the film, creating an aggressive thicket of marks that almost obliterate the filmic image.

In its spiky avidity, «Wheel House» might even read as a rejoinder to the edge - to - edge lyricism of Brice Marden's loopy abstractions, though Arnoldi's picture clearly grew out of his own earlier work such as the 1986 example here - an actual thicket of painted sticks attached to painted plywood.

In addition to overseeing Sierra Club's climate docket, he represented the environmental community (including as trial counsel) in the thicket of litigation over California's greenhouse gas vehicle standards, and brought

In addition to overseeing Sierra Club's climate docket, he represented the environmental community (including as trial counsel) in the thicket of litigation over California's greenhouse gas vehicle standards, and brought In re Deseret Power, which effectively imposed a moratorium on new coal - fired power plants.

Preferred habitat: thickets, open woods, near streams + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant to semievergreen + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 1 to 2 feet + + + + Wildlife value: hummingbirds love nectar as well as many different butterflies; attracts Cloudless Sulphurs

I am in favour of plain - language drafting in principle, though not necessarily as a legal requirement, but one person's plain language can still be another person's thicket.

In light of these complications and hassles, it is not too surprising that a great many lawyers opt not to get into the thicket of offering limited retainer services (also known as unbundled legal services).

As long as claimants view the comp arena as «a thicket,» claims costs will likely continue to rise, even allowing for the apparent savings experienced through employer - controlled medical care, at least according to the data presented in this studAs long as claimants view the comp arena as «a thicket,» claims costs will likely continue to rise, even allowing for the apparent savings experienced through employer - controlled medical care, at least according to the data presented in this studas claimants view the comp arena as «a thicket,» claims costs will likely continue to rise, even allowing for the apparent savings experienced through employer - controlled medical care, at least according to the data presented in this studas «a thicket,» claims costs will likely continue to rise, even allowing for the apparent savings experienced through employer - controlled medical care, at least according to the data presented in this study.

But in the long run, I think the streamlined, low transaction cost, evidence - based intellectual property system it suggests — a world with fewer patent thickets, fewer orphan works, fewer examples of copyright breaking instead of making markets — will actually be seen as profoundly positive not only for society, but for digital businesses themselves.

It's not just the accessibility that's inviting; this is a stunning trail along which the landscape changes character continuously as you roll from the sandbanks and rocky shores (Betjeman called the route «the most beautiful train journey I know»), through wooded valley thickets to granite - studded moorland.