Sentences with phrase «thin reed»

A very thin reed Tamino has an interesting post on Arctic and Antarctic ice extent.

This is a difficult combination to overcome, with the thin reed of scientific inquiry.

Basic biology is also a thin reed on which to hang one's humanity and claim to personhood.

This seems like a very thin reed on which to rest the entire education reform movement.

On the basis of this thin reed Stevens was willing to impose on protestors acting out of profound religious convictions the same draconian punishments that are ordinarily imposed on gangsters.

Further away, a weathervane - like structure of thin reeds is lodged in a bit of wood.

And, with the collapse of the now - discredited fire science evidence, he added, the state's case against Lee rested on «thin reeds»: minor discrepancies in his accounts of the fire; his daughter's disruptive behavior the day before the fire; his stoic nature after the fire; and the autopsy findings for Ji Yun, which suggested she could have been incapacitated prior to her death.

Not exact matches

In the Bronx, Ms. Mark - Viverito eked out a reed - thin 11 - vote win over runner - up Ralina Cardona while fending off challengers by larger, but still uncomfortable, margins in Manhattan.

Since medieval times, players of double - reed instruments in the oboe, bassoon, shawm, dolcian, and chanter family have used a small, thin, usually arrow - shaped or semicircular piece of metal, now usually plastic or wood, to help scrape and shape the cane used to construct the reed.

His raspy, reed - thin voices constantly sounds as if it's on the verge of breaking, which adds tension to every scene he's in.

He was a military engineer — reed - thin, light - skinned, middle aged.

Silhouettes are conveyed in the thin, intertwining lines of a reed brush, while explosive color fields reveal new painterly atmospheres.

«Like inventors from the future, transpiring out of thin air in the middle of central London to show off a contraption that makes people's eyes explode with incomprehensible wonder, These New Puritans new exhibition at 180 The Strand shows off the instrument that gave their last album, Field of Reeds, a totally unique sound.»

Spanning a 60 - year period, the show features 140 works, both large and small, reed thin and exaggeratedly rotund, that were cast in bronze, welded in iron, modeled in plaster, carved in wood, folded from sheet metal, and assembled from all sorts of flotsam and jetsam.

While they can suffer from a bit of midrange distortion at top volume, the sound is not entirely reed - thin.