They refuse to be the landscapes they at first resemble.
Gleaming in Jennifer Tipton's lighting, the structure at first resembled a bulbous vase.
The stacked china on the blanket conjures up abrupt changes in fortunes; the figures in the background suggest a certain chaos; and the rooflines of the city, thrown into silhouette by the sunlight, at first resemble ruins.
As he advances, the wind whirls objects around him, objects which, we are told at first, "resembled the yinbirras" - beings who have half-absented themselves from the material world and live invisibly alongside humankind.
The second type at first resembled appearance of mitochondria during mitosis and later, they were indistinguishable from the dark granules in erythroblasts ([D & F] in Figure 2 & Figure S2) and consistent with published images of peroxisomes.
The par-4 third hole is his version of the 17th at Prestwick, the fourth resembles the 15th at North Berwick, and the seventh is modeled on the Road Hole at St. Andrews.
At first, it resembles a column of ants, then a pulled suture.
It's amazing anybody could miss the Neon Boneyard Museum, which at first glance resembles a Scrabble set designed for a giant.
Horace Littlefair is an amiably tweedy orphan who stumbles into London to take a job at an eccentric newspaper that at first glance resembles something cooked up by Evelyn Waugh.
