Highly recognisable – a shock of orange hair against porcelain skin, the kind of visual branding Elizabeth I would have appreciated – she sketches pictures from the front row while those around her take snaps on their iPhones.
The sounds of wet smacking lips and guttural groans of pleasure mingled with the clinking of shiny silverware as it scraped hard against porcelain plates.
The guy inside was making grunting noises and from the excitable tapping and scraping of a razor against porcelain it seemed like he was cutting himself up a huge pile of stuff so I thought it might be funny to stick around and see how fucked up he looked when he came out.
The program moved forward, and the room started to vibrate with the sound of 1,000 salad forks clinking against 1,000 porcelain plates.
Only the sound of utensils scraping against the porcelain punctuated the silence, and it occurred to me, suddenly, that this was what the old man's life was like most of the time.
The next moment, falling back against the porcelain under her demonstrative assault, watching her struggle and slip as she tried, and failed, to hurtle into the tub after him, as she braced and arched on her two back legs, he saw that the one front paw with which she scrabbled was all she had for scrabbling: Ava was a three-legged dog.
"Get outta here riii-ght this minute!" Marjorie said, her accent always thicker when she was torn from her dreams, as if her unconscious resided in Beaumont, Texas, while the rest of her kept pace in L.A. Water splashed noisily against the porcelain sink in the bathroom between Candy's and Marjorie's bedrooms.
"Oh, Hema!" she cried out, nearly falling into the tub, so startled that she crushed the cigarette against the porcelain and not into the tiny stainless-steel ashtray she held cupped in her palm, and which she must have brought with her from Bombay.
It's all over the city this month, what with the Blue Note Jazz Festival, the Undead Jazzfest and the Vision Festival: flitty, formless music that makes me want to bang my head against some bathroom porcelain.
This proves that ZrSiN diffusion barrier protect the Ti substrate against oxidation during porcelain sintering.
The frictional coefficient of enamel against polished zirconia or porcelain was between that of metal and glass-ceramic.
