Sentences with phrase «troweled in»

Such passing on may be something as basic as one bricklayer teaching another bricklayer how to hold a trowel in order to spread mortar, or one person taking another through Plato's Meno to understand whether virtue can be taught.

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Wesley Trowel «signs for those who uses their intellectuals to accept» Yo, dude, no wonder your religious myth only dominates in third world countries with high birthrates and poor education.

Grab your trowel and let's dig in!

Long before warmer weather rolls in, it's time to break out rakes to pick up winter leaves, trowels to dig up last year's annuals and vegetables, and seeds to get early edibles going: peas, radishes, and broccoli.

There were only two of us on the course and clearly my colleague was destined to spend his life in poverty under canvas in the desert, trowel at the ready, whereas I ended up in politics via the City.

She pulls out a clean trowel and attempts to collect some bottom sediment; in the rapid current, it takes a half dozen tries to fill the small vial she will take back to the DNA laboratory of her adviser, environmental engineer Amy Pruden.

Shelley Bolderson was scraping mud from a trowel one day in an Anglo - Saxon midden in St. Neots, United Kingdom, when she realized she didn't want to be an archaeologist any longer.

Khoshnevis points out that the exterior trowel could be followed by a rolling die that prints a brick, shingle, or clapboard pattern in the wet concrete, while the interior could be painted using ink - jet technology in any color, or even in wallpaper patterns.

Khoshnevis, 54, a prolific inventor who emigrated from Iran in 1974 and holds patents in fields ranging from optics to robotics, decided there had to be a better way while troweling plaster cracks in his living room following the 1994 Northridge, California, earthquake.

Price noted that all healthy African groups had good sources of animal fat, and that the healthiest groups consumed less, not more, of plant foods; Burkitt and Trowel, however, postulate that the increase in Western diseases among Africans is due to a reduced consumption of plant foods containing dietary fiber.

Shocked, she can only stand in horror as she is stabbed to death with a trowel by her newly - turned daughter.

Certainly the 1924 Olympics as depicted in the film bear very little resemblance to the modern - day Games; you won't find athletes in 2012 using trowels to dig out their starting marks, or passing each other notes of encouragement.

They're all present and laying it on with a trowel, including Rufus Sewell (star of «Dark City») as the architect Urshu — who has the snitty defiance of a young Tony Curtis — and Geoffrey Rush as Set and Horus» grandfather, the sun god Ra, who lives on an orbital platform in space, and spends eternity using his sun - bolt lance to zap a giant black leviathan - worm that wants to eat its way through the planet.

That said, Avalanche Software has created a game that doesn't just let you play in the Disney sandbox, but gives you the bucket and trowel to build your own castle in it.

Director Daniel Sackheim, who cut his helming teeth on numerous episodes of The X-Files, somehow manages to generate an air of suspense even if he sometimes too easily falls in the trap of dropping shady «hints» with all the subtlety and grace of a trowel.

In anticipation of spring, spread out spring flower bulbs, potting soil, flowerpots, gardening gloves, trowels, and water.

In the shocking world of Backyard, garden club backstabbers use dull gardening trowels, and the little old lady with loppers could be... an iris murderer!

In the 1940s and 1950s the main groups within the Abstract expressionism were the «Gesture Painters» and the «Color - Field Painters», who experimented with new techniques for applying paint: dripping, pouring, throwing, squirting, squeegeeing, and spattering, and with the use of unconventional tools, such as wall paper brushes, sticks, and trowels.

Pioneering a style of painting where large quantities of coloured paints were thickly applied to the canvas with a trowel, Riopelle gained increasing success and immersion in the Parisian cultural scene.

From the laborer's trowel to the artist's brush, the degree to which aspiration is mediated and informed by both choice of tool and breadth of human extension, are considerations that are foregrounded in William's most recent undertakings.

His paintings employ a traditional technique used in the Chosun Dynasty (1392 — 1897) in which the pigments — in Ha's work, the ochres and dark umbers — are pushed through the weave of the burlap and eventually linen from the opposite side, and then trowelled with a palette knife on the frontal surface.

The geometry of the installation — quite beautiful — was in keeping with the purpose of the trowels.

He creates this optical play by troweling oil paint onto the face of the canvas and then pulling a stiff bristle brush across its surface in a single stroke achieved through muscle memory.

While Dash literally worries her diminutive textile sculptures to pieces, the majority of these works (all Untitled, 2016)-- composed primarily of stacked or beveled arrangements of jute - stretched canvases, quantities of gessoed or hand - painted fabric, and lengths of twine embedded in or hanging from troweled - on adobe grounds — feature tactile surfaces manipulated by the sure hand of composure.

He creates his paintings by troweling oil paint onto the face of the canvas and then pulls a stiff bristle brush across its surface in one single stroke.

Her first work with Oldenburg came in 1976, when she helped him install his 41 - foot «Trowel I» on the grounds of the Kröller - Müller Museum in Otterlo.

When he met Van Bruggen, Oldenburg was working on one of the first big outdoor steel versions of his basic idea, in this case a giant gardening tool called Trowel 1.

In a nutshell, what originally seemed extreme — she trowels buckets of paint onto huge canvases with palette knives and squeegees — now looks like a parlor trick.

In «Yellow Wall», for example, an image Carnegie has used several times, of a path vanishing into a leafy tunnel, is dissolved almost to abstraction in a mass of chartreuse paint, trowelled on in great gobs, squeegeed and gougeIn «Yellow Wall», for example, an image Carnegie has used several times, of a path vanishing into a leafy tunnel, is dissolved almost to abstraction in a mass of chartreuse paint, trowelled on in great gobs, squeegeed and gougein a mass of chartreuse paint, trowelled on in great gobs, squeegeed and gougein great gobs, squeegeed and gouged.

In Chrystie 21, for example, a moderately heavy palette knife of white adds just an impasto without the trowel load that made ski slopes in a Hofmann, and a delicate line under a patch of yellow at the upper left hand corner has a wonderful calligraphic snap to iIn Chrystie 21, for example, a moderately heavy palette knife of white adds just an impasto without the trowel load that made ski slopes in a Hofmann, and a delicate line under a patch of yellow at the upper left hand corner has a wonderful calligraphic snap to iin a Hofmann, and a delicate line under a patch of yellow at the upper left hand corner has a wonderful calligraphic snap to it.

Paint has been troweled onto the canvases in patterns that appear carefully designed, yet which surely shifted in the process of painting and repainting.

The paint — usually enamel, which he finds more pliable — is applied by dipping a small house brush or stick or trowel into the can and then, by rapid movements of the wrist, arm and body, quickly allowing it to fall in weaving rhythms over the surface.

Walker writes: «Faruqee's paintings are constructed using «comb - like notched trowels» that she pulls through wet paint, «kind of like raking sand in a zen garden.»

«Still's paintings also echo Van Gogh's in their rich color palette and heavily troweled painterly surfaces.»

And the creation of an Artist Materials Archive, a comprehensive, searchable library of some 300 pieces of artist material related to works in the collection, such as Katharina Fritsch's meticulously prepared pigments, Jay DeFeo's painting trowel, reconstructed mock - ups of Eva Hesse's rubber and resin sculptures, re-created installations by Richard Tuttle, and test samples of native Norwegian moss for a living wall by Olafur Eliasson.

Painting with trowels, palette knives, and squeegees on sheets of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), Baker builds her bright glossy surfaces by outlining each mark and shape with torn tape and filling in the interior.

From gigantic trowels to clothespins, binoculars, and shuttlecocks, together the artists realized more than 40 large - scale projects in their 33 year collaboration.

This untitled and undated work by Bess looks like it was made with a trowel and a stick, yet it's nevertheless one of the most delicate and complex abstractions in a hall filled with great Modernists.

- Pastry Case, I (1961 — 2, Museum of Modern Art, New York)- Floor Cone (1962; Museum of Modern Art, New York)- Dual Hamburger (1962, Museum of Modern Art New York)- Bedroom Ensemble (1963, Ottawa Museum of Fine Art)- Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London (1966, Tate, London)- Chapel in the Form of a Swedish Extension Plug (Krannert Museum, Illinois)- Giant Trowel (1976, Kröller - Müller Museum, Holland)- Tube Supported by Its Contents (1979 - 85, Utsumomiya Museum, Japan)- Apple Core (1992, Israel Museum, Jerusalem)- Match Cover (1992, Barcelona)

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It GoeIn addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goein As Far As It Goes.

In addition to works by 19th - century sculptors like Auguste Rodin (1840 - 1917), the garden is home to works by several of the greatest 20th - century sculptors, including Henry Moore (1898 - 1986), Alberto Giacometti (1901 - 1966), Jean Dubuffet (1901 - 1985)- see, for example, his Jardin d' email - Barbara Hepworth (1903 - 1975), Mark Di Suvero (b. 1933), Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)- see, for instance, his gigantic Pop art sculpture entitled Trowel (1971)- Richard Serra (b. 1939), Christo & Jeanne - Claude, and many more.

In a recent work, «More or Less the Same» synthetic bones are fused with hand tools such as pliers, tin snips, spray guns and trowels and wrapped in grey silk threaIn a recent work, «More or Less the Same» synthetic bones are fused with hand tools such as pliers, tin snips, spray guns and trowels and wrapped in grey silk threain grey silk thread.

But she is best known for collaborations with Oldenburg, which have placed giant trowels, shuttlecocks, bowling pins and typewriter erasers in parks, civic squares and museum grounds in Europe, Asia and the United States.

The works are visually arresting, look great on a wall, but in the end are really a one - trick pony, the troweling of different colors of paint across a surface.

The collection also belies the impression Still's painting has progressively «thinned out» during the past two decades; in fact, it shows that he has alternated between thick, richly troweled surfaces and more thinly applied pigments, surrounded by large expanses of bare canvas, throughout much of his career.

Moreover, we can track these dual art historical threads into the present, to Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s, to Mark Rothko and Clyfford Still, for instance — to the former's vaporous fields of elusive cloud - like color space, to the latter's jagged and obdurately physical expanses of troweled pigment.

I won't give away all the goods on how the show proceeds but here's the gist of it: Thousand Of Seed - Containing Bomblets Dropped to Reforest Mangrove Forest Since it's too labor intensive and too slow to reforest large areas of land by hand, foot, shovel and trowel, why not try to use aircraft to drop thousands of small bomblets containing a tree seed (in the experiment in the show, mangrove seeds) and some soil over deforested areas?

The plans for this grand courthouse began in 1899 and the cornerstone for the new building was laid by the Duke of York, who who would late become King George V, with a 14 - karat gold trowel made especially for the occasion.

Resumes in this field highlight such responsibilities as setting tile to customers» specifications; selling floor models and tile types; mixing grout, epoxy, and cement; aligning tile using levels, squares and straightedges; and preparing and applying grout between joints of tiles using grouting trowels.

• Highly skilled in maintaining a clean job site by handling site preparation activities in sync with provided directions • Demonstrated expertise in setting up forms in which concrete is poured such as walkways, walls and pillars • Exceptionally well - versed in estimating concrete quantities and appropriate mixes of sand and cement • Proven record of efficiently building and erecting various concrete foundations and structures • Proficient in performing activities related to cutting and placing reinforcing wire mesh and handling rough leveling of concrete mixtures • Completely adept at handling fine finishing work by performing floating, troweling and edging duties • Documented success in putting in place standards of safety to minimize work - related accidents and occupational hazards • Deeply familiar with standard methods, materials, tools and equipment used in concrete construction and maintenance • Focused on monitoring the effects of heat, wind and cold on the curing of concrete through the entire process • Hands - on experience of applying sealants and hardening components to cure concrete surfaces and handling waterproofing duties • Qualified to operate equipment such as power vibrators to handle compact concreting duties • Track record of efficiently and accurately directing the casting of concrete to ensure conformance to leveling standards