Sentences with phrase «where layers upon layers»

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Cultivated part of hell Toward the middle of the year the Beagle left behind the South American continent and set sail for the Galápagos islands, where the crew came upon a cheerless scenario: «A jagged field of [irregular or wavelike layers of] black, basaltic lava pockmarked with huge fissures, and covered everywhere with stunted, sun - burnt brushwood,» Darwin complained in his report.

I pile blanket upon blanket, where many layers, and sleep with birds and bees in my ear.

«These gigantic collages are composed of overlapping papers, layer upon layer, where Dubuffet has tested their placement by moving the elements, adding, rearranging, and deleting images until an eventual perfect coalescence of the interlocking parts satisfied the artist,» says Arne Glimcher.

«My oils are layers upon layers of paintings at a time where my taste was changing as fast as I personally was,» says Sullivan.

Working from these images, with brush and palette knife, she works wet - on - wet creating a kind of sculptural space where paint sits upon paint in one uniform layer.

Precision might seem like a harsh, unemotional descriptor for admittedly dreamy works, but Akunyili Crosby's paintings thrive upon a scaffolding of order and structure, where fixed compositions allow layers of emotional narrative to surface unhindered, uninterrupted.

The paintings are woven from small obsessive brush - marks, reminiscent of the caked edges of a painter's pallet; where colours build - up by random application layer upon layer.

So while each individual evaporation event is endothermic, very few are spontaneous upon absorption of a photon and so most energy goes into warming the skin layer; it just so happens that the skin layer is still cooler because this is where all the energy for R comes from and it is also cooled by L; but increasing L beyond any increase in DLR is definitely still a violation of the second law!

Or borehole temperatures with which one estimates surface temperatures, but where heat diffusion into the lower layers of the earth involves a progressive, laregely linear, loss of resolution with depth — which will also be dependent upon geological factors.

It starts from the bottom, with the phone's shock - absorbent aluminum chassis; then the AMOLED panel is flexible to a point, and can withstand sudden impact; then the touch layer has a redundant backup in case the primary one is damaged upon impact; then there's a polycarbonate (read: plastic) layer where a phone's glass cover normally rests; and then there's a secondary «lens» that acts as a redundant layer against impact while keeping the primary one free from scratches.