Sentences with phrase «upon the surface of»

For another, how do you explain a Lunar Eclipse where the shadow of the Spherical Earth is clearly reflected upon the surface of the moon?

Muniz consciously enacts playful contradictions upon the surfaces of these photographs, as they are at once literally pictures of the materials out of which they are constructed — in this case garbage — as well as pictures of the images formed through the transformation of the materials.

No, a finger placed upon the surface of a painting or sculpture can easily result in physical damage.

One of the largest pieces in the current exhibition is 100 Time Lotus (2008): a 20 - metre - long pool of water containing a hundred white underwater diodes, upon the surface of which oat a hundred white lotus flowers.

Rather than using paint thickly and opaquely so that it sits upon the surface of the canvas, Frankenthaler thinned her oil paint with turpentine to the consistency of watercolor.

In the studio, these colors are mixed in large batches, then rolled, splashed, dripped, or splattered upon the surface of the paper.

only from the perspective of an observer situated upon the surface of the earth does day and night occur

Our occupancy of the natural environment leaves behind traces over time, records etched upon the surface of the earth that can be followed downward, geologically, through layers of sedimentation.

The coins formed the outer layer of a foam based sculpture that then floated upon the surface of water inside an infinity fountain on a corporate plaza in Miami's financial district.

The carefully manipulated light of the projector upon the surface of the painting creates a new, hybrid color space.

She seems to care little for surfaces and even less for her palette: lumpy, grayish figures lie casually upon the surface of the canvas, craftsmanship is squandered, and colors are straight out of the tube.

The wind was impinged directly upon the surface of the LiveRoof planting as would be the case when testing other roof coverings.

Not exact matches

Not only do scientists need to find a place on Europa's surface that will be worth studying, they also need to find a place to land that won't completely destroy the lander upon touch down, Jim Green, NASA's Director of Planetary Science, told Business Insider.

A social media savvy business encourages collaboration across teams, surfaces expertise from subject matter experts and can scale brand and community engagement by drawing upon the collective wisdom of employees and customers.

And some 4,000 years later, a lawyer told an audience in Athens, Greece, that God «made out of one man every nation of men, to dwell upon the entire surface of the earth, and he decreed the appointed times and the set limits of the dwelling of men.»

It surfaced during the challenges presented to the role of the Church during the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th century; it makes strides upon the publication of The Origin of The Species by Charles Darwin in the 19th century; its has gathered force in the 21st century as the role of science in Western civilization is being presented with its own challenges... of still yet unanswered questions.

Its molten surface began to cool, and several billion years ago it acquired a solid crust upon which very primitive forms of life began to appear.

Disco as a movement insisted upon accepting all of this as a fact of life, and further, was ready to revel in the play, especially sexual, with the surface illusions and suggestions that it also makes possible.

One of [the whale's] peculiarities it is, to have an entire non-valvular structure of the blood - vessels, so that when pierced even by so small a point as a harpoon, a deadly drain is at once begun upon his whole arterial system; and when this is heightened by the extraordinary pressure of water at a great distance below the surface, his life may be said to pour from him in incessant streams.

Gifts, either of the flesh or of the spirit; and the spirit bloweth where it listeth; and the world's materials lend their surface passively to all the gifts alike, as the stage - setting receives indifferently whatever alternating colored lights may be shed upon it from the optical apparatus in the gallery.

c It is thus, step by step, that Man, pursuing the flight of his growing aspirations, taught by a first success to be conscious of his power, finds himself impelled to look beyond any purely mechanical improvement of the earth's surface and increase of his external riches, and to dwell upon the growth and biological perfection of himself.

To me this appears the most satisfactory interpretation of the present state of Life on the surface of the earth; despite a regrettable recrudescence of racialism and nationalism which, impressive though it may be, and disastrous in its effect upon our private post-war lives, seems to have no scientific importance in the overall process: for the reason that any human tendency to fragmentation, regardless of its extent and origin, is clearly of an order of magnitude inferior to the planetary forces (geographic, demographic, economic and psychic) whose constantly and naturally growing pressure must sooner or later compel us willy - nilly to unite in some form of human whole organized on the basis of human solidarity.

«What we have described as globalization is remarkably close to Teilhard de Chardin's planetization, in which «[mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, come [s] gradually to form round its earthly matrix, a single, major, organic unity, enclosed upon itself.4 Thus the globalization of humankind could lead to the formation of a new kind of living entity — a social organism — on the same cosmic principle as that by which atoms join to form molecules, molecules join to form mega-molecules, mega-molecules unite to form living cells, and innumerable cells constitute an organism.

One of the epigraphs in Paul Mariani's book is from Flannery O'Connor:»... if the writer believes that our life is and will remain essentially mysterious, if he looks upon us as beings existing in a created order to whose laws we freely respond, then what he sees on the surface will be of interest to him only as he can go through it into an experience of mystery itself.

First the vitalization of matter, associated with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of Life, associated with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its earthly matrix a single, major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive with the heavenly body on which it was born.

With the germ of consciousness hatched upon its surface, the Earth, our perishable earth that contemplates the final, absolute zero, has brought into the Universe a demand, henceforth irrepressible, not only that all things shall not die, but that what is best in the world, that which has become most complex, most highly centrated, shall be saved.

This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances....

And Whitman's gnawing fear was expressed in imagery almost identical with that of Jefferson: «If the United States, like the countries of the Old World, are also to grow vast crops of poor, desperate, dissatisfied, nomadic, miserable - waged populations, such as we see looming upon us of late years — steadily, even if slowly, eating into them like cancer of lungs or stomach — then our republican experiment, notwithstanding all its surface - successes, is at heart an unhealthy failure.

The human mass, because on the confined surface of this planet it is in a state of continuous additive growth, in numbers and interconnections, must automatically become more and more tightly concentrated upon itself.

My short answer to this question is that, whenever we come upon portraits of God that, to one degree or another, fall beneath the beautiful, non-violent portrait we are given in the crucified Christ, we should assume that the revelatory content of these portraits is, to this degree, not found on the surface of the portrait itself, but in what faith can discern happening beneath the surface as it beholds God stooping to bear the sin if his people.

Some helps give bones their physical structure, while the rest is found on the surface of the bone where it is stored for the body to draw upon as needed.

On the surface, they seemed great, but 1) they're not good for travel — they are super-fragile and definitely would spell disaster in the kids» lunches, and if too roughly handled in an adult's lunch would break as well; 2) they're not meant for reheating; and 3) I've actually had two of them shatter — literally explode in my hands — upon taking them out of the refrigerator.

However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden).

Startled to find himself called upon, he put his glass of red wine down on the nearest available surface.

Life upon its surface is confronted by a growing scarcity of this essential to existence.

The lines emanate from well - marked indentations in the dark regions fitted by natural position for departure points, and are locally dependent upon the general topography of the fundamental features of the surface.

Now waves have a certain wavelength, and common experience of such waves as may be seen, for example, on the surface of the sea tells us that an object which is very much smaller than the length of the wave has no appreciable effect upon it.

Finally, Tyson appeared in a special segment on The Nightly Show, where he addressed B.o.B, stating, «small sections of large, curved surfaces will always look flat to little creatures that crawl upon it.»

Buschatzke, the state water official, acknowledges that none of this is wise: the continued overuse of groundwater and the refusal to note and act upon the fact that surface water and groundwater are connected.

As a result of Amundsen's expedition, important additions may be laid down upon the map of Antarctica in the sector of the earth's surface extending from the South Pole to the 80th degree parallel of latitude between the meridians 160 degrees and 180 degrees west of Greenwich.

The most striking structures on the slide were the thousands upon thousands of rod - shaped bacteria forming a lengthy rank along the surface of the mucosa, palisaded like an irregular picket line of soldiers standing at attention.

«This method allowed us to drastically expand the previously available data, acquired through scanning electron microscopy; it also made possible to characterize surface patterns directly, not based upon analysis of metal replicas.

«That's very much dependent upon the energy of these orbitals and how well they're able to overlap with the orbitals of the small molecules that are coming to the surface.

Upon exposing a metallic surface to electromagnetic radiation that is above the threshold frequency or threshold wavelength (which is specific to the type of surface and material), the photons are absorbed and current is produced.

The signals passed through the atmospheres of both Earth and Venus, hit upon Venus» surface and bounced back to the Green Bank Telescope.

«Only a subset produces IL - 17A upon skin injury, although the surface markers on these cells seem identical to those of other DETCs,» MacLeod said.

The phenomenon occurs when a liquid, upon approaching an object that is much hotter than the liquid's boiling point, produces a vapor which insulates the liquid from the surface of the object.

Upon mixing with the surface layer, the water will cause an increase in the growth of filamentous algae and elevate the risk of blue - green algal blooms.

In 1996, he introduced the concept of using nanoparticles as atoms and synthetic DNA — the blueprint of life — as a chemically programmable bond to make designer materials based upon the ability of the particles to recognize one another through sequences immobilized on their surfaces.

This hydrophobic coating expels water molecules from the vicinity of the electrode surface and then, upon charging for the first time, decomposes and forms a stable interphase — a thin mixture of breakdown products that separates the solid anode from the liquid electrolyte.