Sentences with phrase «tottering towers»
The 20th anniversary of the Opéra Bastille in Paris is marked by a spectacle of ruins: dust, more dust and the tottering towers of a city in a grey desert.
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At first sight, his tottering towers of spun discs, or unbalanced stacks of plates, seem totally abstract; but in this exhibition, his drawings reveal their figurative origins and send you back to look again and notice the distorted faces, like people trapped in the warped material, that spookily populate his restless universe.
His office was the opposite of the Hollywood biologist's jumble of dessicated specimens, dangling skeletons and tottering towers of books.
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With nowhere to go — the train totters upon a towering trestle, derailed by a mini-avalanche — the scene is set for a handsomely old - fashioned whodunit full of larger - than - life characterisation, deep - buried secrets and devilish deduction.
One of my earliest memories was checking out my red glitter nail polish as my girlfriends and I tottered — in hot pants and 4 ″ high - heel wedges — down the hill towards the Tower Theater to hear David Bowie perform as Ziggy Stardust.