The umbrella was torn and bent, and water poured down it onto Billy's neck.
In the following years, as my sister and I walked home from school, past the Azulais', we would sneak glances at the small, bent woman watering the plants by her daughter's memorial.
All a person can be sure of is that he is aware of something, an appearance of some sort—say of a bent stick in water.
What one sees is that the stick in water is bent and that the stick out of water is straight.
A ray of light passing from one transparent medium (air) to another (water) is bent as it emerges.
The refractive index is a property that dictates how light passes through a medium; it's the reason a stick will look bent when placed in water.
Some of these false impressions may arise from factors beyond an individual's control (such as the characteristic behaviour of light waves that makes a pencil in a glass of water seem bent), from inadequate information (as under conditions of poor illumination), or from the functional and structural characteristics of the sensory apparatus (e.g., distortions in the shape of the lens in the eye).
"UNICEF has assisted both on the advisory side and also on the hardware side, by providing pipes, pumps, fitting and tanks," says Bent Kjellerup, UNICEF's water and sanitation specialist in the city, who has been working alongside local authorities.
Create "specimen jars" by placing broken toys or bent utensils in cloudy water that is dyed green.
Cooley's work has long exhibited an environmental bent, especially in regards to water issues—his 2015 work, Fallen Water, the first in his Water Rites series.
A straight stick appears bent when partly immersed in water and viewed at an angle to the surface other than 90°.
