Sentence examples for acrylic from inspiring English sources

Look at the label sewn into your top: the only thing it must tell you under law is which fibres it's made out of – whether it's cotton or acrylic or whatever.

Previous exhibitions include Ray Caesar's engrossing digital prints, depicting his Victorian future-world denizens, the ink and acrylic carnivalesque creatures by Toulouse-born painter Ciou, and in spring 2011 the gallery hosted the first solo show in the Netherlands by Sarah Maple, England's "heir to Emin".

They ranged from the lack of warmth in the background canvas and the modern pigment of acrylic paints, to the expression on the face of the woman in the replica, which Bray described as "lacking psychology, just empty and flat".

Now I'm here, what I had taken for a hyper-real acrylic fantasy turns out to be disconcertingly realistic, another example of Hockney's gift for capturing some essence of wherever or whomever he paints.

He had been working on sombre landscapes in Yorkshire drawn in charcoal before he left, but back in California, he decided he wanted to use bold acrylic paints again and make some portraits.

Nodjoumi's acrylic work in Tehran's auction, called Last Touch, was the first piece by him to have gained official permission for sale inside Iran.

But the ultimate shock or "le clou du spectacle" came in the Hall of Mirrors, where nothing felt so kitsch and rococo as the "Flower Matango", an explosive double sphere in metal, fibreglass and acrylic.

A frosted glass disc, set into the roof of an igloo-like space, like a porthole onto the universe, offers the spectacle of a wormlike white light, again created by preprogrammed LEDs, moving experimentally across the surface".Transcircle 1.1" (2004) is supposed to represent a sacred circle of nine totemic objects, like an acrylic Avebury.

The infra-red light is confined within the acrylic sheet, because beams of light are internally reflected off its front and back faces.

The GS CleanTech bioreactor uses a parabolic mirror to funnel sunlight into fibre-optic cables that carry the light to acrylic "glow plates" inside the reactor.

His firm has developed a way to reduce drag on aircraft by smoothing the painted surfaces with a very thin layer of acrylic resin that fills in tiny cracks.