See how some of these fine items mix geometric slabs of bold shades neatly together?
Vik Bansal, of MusicOMH, summarized the album as "a bold, sleek and raucous slab of modern metal", containing elements that were absent from many heavy metal albums at the time.
The muscular, full-flavored food — thick slices of roasted eggplant layered with mousse-like ricotta and bold tomato sauce; pink-centered slabs of hanger steak punched up with Gorgonzola dolce; tortellini stuffed with duck liver and dusted with fennel pollen; rich dark-chocolate bread pudding thick with golden raisins — is packed with lots of calories, and lots of simple pleasures.
The new pubs used what is known as a slab serif font – bold and modern, yet retaining the traditional tails on the letters.
Vitesse is intended to be a racy slab sans serif font, one with bold strokes at the ends of the letters.
Deeply historic, it offers climbs from the delicate and bold to elegant crack-lines, grunting chimneys and easy stepped slabs first climbed in the Victorian era, and desperate modern exercises at the limit of adhesion of skin and shoe rubber to rock.
But Dr Pendry's bold conclusion, just published in Physical Review Letters, is that a slab of material with a negative refractive index would not merely make a nice lens, it would make a perfect lens.
A series of mismatched slabs wrapped inside a taut, weblike skin, the form is a bold expression of the client's conflicting needs to preserve old books and also to come to terms with emerging information technologies.
The black-truffle pierogi, on the other hand, had a bold flavor and a creamy texture, and the outstanding yellowtail tabbouleh consisted of sweet slabs of raw fish over chewy grains laced with cured tuna and mint.
There was a marble slab with a floral pattern; a terracotta ewer, covered with a bold black design of waves and fish eyes; a bronze six-sided dice with five spots on each side; a hemispherical bead carved from bone and a large clay disc, with a peacock in the centre.
