Sentences with phrase «with thickets»

The thought of navigating the contemporary art market with its thickets of hype, however, can be intimidating.

Kierkegaard's writings — taken in themselves — provide Oden with wonderfully rich sources of plunder, especially the early pseudonymous works, with their thickets of prefaces, interludes, interjections, postscripts, appendices, multiple voices, and preposterous names, not to mention their sinuous coils of indirection.

Vestmark helps its customers remain compliant with the thicket of ever - changing rules and regulations that govern their business.

The current system, with its thicket of regulations, was designed to guard against a repeat of the 1980s, when a scandal involving no - bid contracts and influence - peddling tainted the Koch administration and was punctuated by the suicide of Donald R. Manes, the former Queens borough president.

With its thicket of intriguing noises, «Source» may sound a bit like a Jackson Pollock painting.

Elio is handsome, a beanpole topped with a thicket of dark curls, so he's got the interest of some French girls staying nearby.

If you apply to be a franchisee for, say, Subway, you will be faced with a thicket of legalese that differs depending on what state you're in.

Not exact matches

CAYO COCO, Cuba — Uprooted mangrove thickets are still piled up behind the beaches along Cuba's north coast, interspersed with shards of concrete and steel and other flotsam left over from the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma.

If I saw my beloved children entangled, oh, God, I would cut away every thicket to reach them with my bare hands, crying out that I was coming for them with every breath.

If I saw my children entangled, oh, God, I would cut away every thicket to reach them with my bare hands, crying out that I was coming for them with every breath.

The failure of this ambitious attempt to fuse an evolutionary concept of nature with a high Christology and an orthodox Trinitarianism has won few adherents among either students of Christology or process thinkers, and has probably discouraged others from entering this thicket.

There is a visual hint that Chagall connected the last words of Jesus from the cross with the ram «hung up on the thicket.»

Similarly, the minister who elicits trust in healing prayer isn't the one promising perfect results, but the one who acts as a guide through the thicket of the spiritual world — urging and helping others to accept their responsibility to work as partners with Jesus Christ, who respectfully and lovingly stands at the door and knocks, but waits for us to open.

In 1931, while he was working on his celebrated Bible etchings for art dealer Ambroise Vollard (1931 — 39, 1952 — 56), he first showed a naked Isaac stretched out for ritual slaughter, Abraham with his knife raised, and the angel pointing to a ram caught not in «a thicket,» as the usual reading depicts, but in the roots of a tree.

The girls, however, do not take part in the fox - hunting at night, when oft - times the part is out until early dawn, riding through branch and brier, swamp and thicket, over fallen logs and accumulated brush - heaps, into holes and over ditches and fences with reckless fearlessness.

The perimeter consists of the hottest chiles interspersed with thorny thickets of sissal, from which poles and cord fiber are made.

So when Camille Styles asked to feature me in their «Entertaining With» series, I decided that a gathering amongst the blueberry thicket was just the ticket!

There were wide areas dotted with mesquite and huisache, open, grassy prairies, knolls covered with groves of gnarled live oak trees, shallow depressions which are flooded in times of rain and dense thickets covering the bottom land along the river.

I lay napping in the hammock with an icy lemonade at my side as the birds of song whistle me an afternoon serenade... Back at reality ranch, I swipe at the black flies gathering to feed behind my ears, take a deep breath, and head past the empty hammock into the thicket to make it happen.

Brahm has Dutch, German and Jewish roots with multiple meanings: it can mean «father of a mighty nation,» it can describe someone living near a thicket, or it can be a reduced form of the name Abraham.

Although Dolan has waded deep into the political thicket in recent months, most notably clashing with the Obama administration over a contraception coverage mandate (wearing his hat as president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops).

Her elevation resurrects a thicket of questions about her familial ties to industries with business before the state government.

Rules meant to protect the United States from sharing important scientific secrets with its enemies have created a thicket of red tape that is hindering the work of high - tech companies, scientists who want to collaborate with foreigners, and even efforts to equip U.S. soldiers with up - to - date weapons.

They can snake through the brain's dense thicket, pushing past billions of other neurons, in order to form tight connections, or synapses, with just the right partners.

A database of stem cell - related patents is also urgently needed, the group says, to help scientists deal with the thorny thicket of intellectual property that has grown along with the hot field.

«There's a place in the south,» he says, «where you can stand with one foot in the rain forest being sucked on by land leeches and the other foot in a spiny thicket with baobab trees and a 12 - month dry season.»

Extensive thickets of staghorn corals at Carysfort Reef, approximately 6 nautical miles east of Key Largo, Fla., are gone today and replaced by a structure-less bottom littered with the decaying skeletons of staghorn coral.

He stopped at the edge of a Midwestern prairie, a thicket of tall flowers and grasses more frightening to farmers than any horror movie madman lurking in a barn with a chain saw.

A bamboo thicket circles the finger, crafted in sterling silver with a combination of finishes.

Each watercolor is delicately blended to depict a soothing thicket with 2 small birds, and an attractive framed finish for added elegance.

The sound is just as impressive, keeping Steve Zaillian's dialogue clean and crisp out front, with John Williams's now - classic score and a dense thicket of sound effects balanced beautifully in the back.

In his best - known films «The Sweet Hereafter» and «Exotica» Egoyan has peered into ominous symbolic thickets, wrestled with small - town angst and communal guilt, elements very much on display in his latest film, «Devil's Knot.»

Johnny Guitar: Olive Signature (Olive, Blu - ray, DVD), directed by Nicholas Ray and starring Joan Crawford and Mercedes McCambridge as frontier entrepreneurs in a war of wills, is dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations, designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

United, the two disappear into the wooded thickets of New Penzance Island — the name itself is worth the price of admission — Suzy with her binoculars and pastel suitcases and battery - powered record player; Sam with his coonskin cap and corncob pipe and abundance of camping gear.

It's dense with psychological thickets and political reverberations (including a not - so - veiled allegory for the McCarthy witch - hunts in Hollywood), designed with color both expressive and explosive, and directed with the grace of a symphony and the drama of an opera.

(Don't worry, I know you have no time, just thought I'd mention it) He also wrote The Thicket with the lead character being a dwarf and they are soon to make a film of it with a European director and the actor from Game of Thrones (who happens to be a dwarf and is an excellent actor).

Every meeting with a functionary of the empire is a confusing thicket of procedural language and polite discourse, apologies and excuses that end up leading nowhere.

It took the book culture by storm in 1996, turning critics apoplectic with praise while requiring some readers to make multiple attempts at hacking through its thicket of wry footnotes and serpentine, beautifully constructed sentences.

Heaven help the individual with many other responsibilities who has to wade through this thicket as a consumer of services, policymaker, or manager.

«It conflicts with existing laws, policies and established decision - making authority, creating a thicket of confusion, duplication, conflicts and litigation among the District, the County, and the Charter Schools.

The deep redwood canopy is a vertical Eden filled with mosses, lichens, spotted salamanders, hanging gardens of ferns, and thickets of huckleberry bushes, all growing out of massive trunk systems that have fused and formed flying buttresses, sometimes carved into blackened chambers, hollowed out by fire, called «fire caves.»

The forest was old and thick at the edge of the lawn; the bamboo thickets rose thirty feet into the gloom; the trees were moss - slung giants, bunioned and misshapen, tentacled with the roots of orchids.

Some credit Spain as the origin of hunting dogs that work thickets and flush their game, with the breed name derived from the French word for Spaniard.

Instead you'll stay in a 1900s style white safari tent fitted out with military campaign style furnishings, in the midst of sub-tropical thicket covered ridges, just 45 minutes» drive from Port Elizabeth.

Only 45 minutes» from Port Elizabeth is a secluded valley awash with sub-tropical thicket.

The Basil Jones area consists of a seaward beach ridge and leeward mangrove swamp with a broad intervening plateau of palm thicket.

I emerge from the thicket of twirling branches and creepers to be faced with a burnt orange sandstone cliff face.

These rock formations are covered with hard and soft corals with excellent shelter between staghorn thickets from predators and curious divers.

In addition to coral grottoes and pinnacles, there are several historic and modern wrecks to explore, and deeper adventures with profiles that plunge to 90 or 100 feet to take in gorgonian gardens and thickets of colorful tube and barrel sponges.

James Price Point — Aside from its obvious outstanding natural beauty with its 20 metre - high red pindan cliffs, white sandy beaches and monsoonal vine thickets, from an Aboriginal cultural point of view, this headland is an integral part of the renowned Lurrajarri Heritage Trail.