Sentences with phrase «tiny figures of»

An exceptional evocation of its dumbfounding grandeur is a watercolor by J.M.W. Turner representing the light - flooded interior of St. Peter's Basilica, wherein tiny figures of people make the architecture appear almost supernaturally immense.

On the surface of a giant blue wall of water, the tiny figure of the speeding surfer invites reflection on the life of an artist, on ego and fame, naiveté and bravery, loneliness and mortality.

Central to this is an installation in which a life - size Colonel Sanders pulls back a drape to reveal a case that houses a tiny figure of psychoanalyst Freud.

What this means is that the planned wholesale industrialization of Maine's wild areas and its # 1 asset «Quality of Place» (Brookings Institute study 2007) is all about trying to reduce the tiny figure of 9.4 %, with quite frankly, a power source that is likely not capable of reducing any CO2.

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And the company only derived $ 90 million of its sales from outside North America in the latest quarter — a tiny figure when considering the vast size of the global activewear market.

«I kept that tiny fire of passion inside of me and kept thinking, I have to keep going and figure out how to make this work,» Clark says.

There's a cool set of exercise workouts that include tiny but realistic animation prompts to help you learn all the right moves — no stick figures here.

Though in tiny grey lettering at the bottom of the graphic Facebook caveats that these figures are merely its «best estimates» of the maximum number of affected users.

And, when a not - so - tiny child (a teenager, say) figures this out, the 2nd half of the human temperament — the challenging, questioning, inquisitive, experimental, anti-authoritarian part — comes to the fore.

I started walking to it as I could see some tiny particles that were platinum - coloured moving in a figure of eight, from the ground upwards.

Nobody has figured out how they can be worked by such a tiny brain, using six different kinds of silk, and reckoning angles and three dimensional forms so accurately from a point of view on a flat plane.

This narrative says not that a tiny number of clergy, shamefully, have had their share in the paedophile guilt of society at large (though if anything, judging by the figures for the general male population, a somewhat lesser share) but that there is some essential connection between paedophilia and the Catholic priesthood.

I always love figuring out what the leaves actually are, and I'm sure that it would be pretty easy for someone with more experience, but sometimes it's just nice to think of them as «the peppery purple one» or «the tiny sweet one».

I used turkey bacon on the top of mine (yum) and added the tiniest bit of chicken boullion (which I figured was okay because my broth was low sodium!

I had one tiny box of rice krispies and it wasn't enough to go around for the 3 dozen, so I figured I'd use other ingredients that I had lying around!

Or so people thought until last Saturday night's breakthrough by another tiny (4» 8») 13 - year - old, Naomi Nari Nam of Irvine, Calif. «I've been around so long, I'm not easy to impress,» said former U.S. Figure Skating Association president Morry Stillwell, «but before she had even finished, I was jumping out of my chair.»

This misunderstanding makes sense, since people figure, «Well, whatever the nursing parent eats the baby gets,» and that's true, but it's not taking into account 1) less than 2 percent of ingested alcohol even reaches the mother's milk and blood and 2) the tiny percent that does enter the milk and blood eventually leaves the milk and blood.

Well, it was a little bit of a chore to stuff the extra belly skin in while hooking all the tiny hooks but after a few days of practice, I figured out how to do it quickly and easily.

But... there IS an awful lot of time spent «organizing»: shuffling schedules and kids, puzzling out how to fit two beds and two bureaus and all the toys in a tiny bedroom, or figuring out the right stuff to put in the right bag in which each child can carry.

The adventure of raising tiny humans is an ever - changing landscape of highs and lows, and we often feel that just when we're «figuring it out,» everything changes.

Of course, your tiny tot can't always figure out each puzzle that life has to offer by herself.

You figured once they passed the age of 2 or 3, putting small choking hazards like buttons or tiny cars was over.

The tiny East End district of Bridgehampton has pushed furthest, with a projected 12.65 percent tax hike, according to figures posted by the state comptroller.

These figures demonstrate the relatively tiny number of people who actively change election results in the UK.

Still, other teams have shown that the tiny tubes can hold about 4 % or so, close to the magic figure of 6.5 % that's needed for a viable hydrogen storage material.

To figure out just how tiny and penetrating those galena crystals are, a team of investigators from the Center for Research and Restoration of the Museums of France (C2RMF), L'Oral Research and Argonne National Laboratory soaked blond hairs in a solution of the Greco - Roman chemicals for up to three days.

I just love how scientists can pick up from the tiniest clues something as broad a question and something as [ethereal] as a question of sociability; but they can look at beads and they can figure out how they are used and factors of economy that go into it.

IBM developed a technique for making carbon nanotubes emit light, paving the way for new fiber optics; Harvard scientists figured out how to deposit tiny wires on glass or plastic, opening the door for the development of supercheap computers; and at the University of Central Florida, neuroscientist Beverly Rzigalinski discovered a nanomolecular fountain of youth effect: When Rzigalinski applied cerium oxide nanoparticles to rat neurons in a petri dish, the particles seemed to strip out the free radicals that make tissues age and kept the neurons alive and functioning up to six times their normal life span.

When one of eardrums vibrates from a sound wave it pushes the other, and the tiny time difference it takes to activate one ear drum allows the fly to figure out which direction the sound is coming from.

Researchers have taken cues from tiny, 150 - million - year - old fossilized organelles to figure out the color of a feathered dinosaur from the Jurassic period, R&D Magazine reports.

Zooming in for a close look at one of the tiny figures, however, opens up an entirely different pattern: a riot of organic - looking tendrils and curlicues sweeps out in whorls and rows.

These tiny figures show not only the craftmanship of the Oxus people, but also the importance of animals in their culture.

Konrad Wiese, a zoologist at the University of Hamburg, thinks he's figured out how krill keep in touch: their tiny antennae pick up pressure waves from their neighbors.

The team used a new probe called collagen hybridizing peptide (CHP), a tiny version of collagen that binds to unraveled strands of damaged collagen, to figure out where and how much damage has occurred in overloaded tendons.

She combines cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and analytic theory to figure out how the tiny fluctuations in density that were present when the universe was only 300 thousand years old, become the galaxies and black holes that we see now, after 14 billion years of cosmic evolution.

To detect that bit of tiny recoil, Collar and colleagues figured out that a cesium iodide crystal doped with sodium was the perfect material.

Smith is part of a team trying to figure out what those tiny lifeforms do up there: Do they propagate before fluttering back to Earth?

Figure 1 shows the heat capacity of the land and atmosphere are small compared to the ocean (the tiny brown sliver of «land + atmosphere» also includes the heat absorbed to melt ice).

An unusual, but beautiful sight can be found among the figures of a recent scientific paper about some of the tiny machines in our brain: watercolor...

And, because we care about your mental health, we did it in the form of gifs so you won't need to pause a tiny video a billion times to figure out what the hell is going on.

Now that Chloe is four months old and I've had some time to test out a few ideas, I feel like I've figured out how to best organize all of those tiny baby Continue reading...

I've always been envious of style icons like Rachel Zoe who can pull of just about any trend due to her tiny little figure, one of those trends being wide leg jeans.

Achieved in modern sheath silhouette, a piece of colorful tulle drapes gently over slender figure with flattering tiny sequins along slimmer body shape with anchored satin front belt for complementation.

Best of all, the peplum is flattering to most body shapes — lending curves to a boyish frame or flaunting the tiny waist of an hourglass figure.

But it's a bit like the man - child Steve Carell character in The 40 Year Old Virgin who, towards the end of the movie, makes one tiny change — boxing up his action figures — as a signifier of his life - change into manhood.

The tweet (below) features an image of Gamora, Spider - Man, Rocket Raccoon, Iron Man and Captain America staring at a tiny figure in The Incredible Hulk's open palm, along with the teaser «Something big is coming to Disney Infinity.»

If you're Tiny Furniture «s Aurora, you move back into your family home with your mom and sister (played by Dunham's real - life mom and sister) and figure out how to navigate the murky waters of post-college adulthood.

How Heineman figured out his two vigilante protagonists on either side of the border, and his willingness to plunge with his tiny crew into dangerous situations yielded a remarkable portrait of two complex and charismatic characters (one American, one Mexican) worthy of a Hollywood action movie, and a shadowy underground world we do not usually get to see.

Neither does «Pompeii,» an epic without stars that staggers along as a bad version of «Spartacus» (the cable show, not even the movie) before turning into a videogame version of a disaster movie, all tiny running figures and big fiery projectiles.

Until recently, notoriously contrarian film critic Armond White — whose negative Get Out review ruined its otherwise perfect Rotten Tomatoes score, causing a tiny Twitter tempest — was just about the only high - profile entertainment industry figure who wasn't a vocal fan of the movie.