Sentence examples for busy surfaces from inspiring English sources

Draw closer, however, and the illusion collapses into sensuously busy surfaces.

In sharp contrast to these busy surfaces are quilts made by members of Amish and Mennonite communities, whose big, bold but simple geometric designs suggest Minimalist painting.

Pynchon's novels feature light, busy surfaces, characters who are often more personality than person, narratives impelled by event rather than the inner dynamics of principals, characteristics that seem to point away from substance, yet invariably encase an elaborate architecture of political, historical and scientific concerns.

There is a certain underlying order in the four rooms of Gay Town that, under busy surfaces intent on penetrating the closed loop of the celebrity media cycle, provides insight into the very universality of the pioneering mission of this boundary-smashing iconoclast.

Like the Potter novels, the book is extremely efficiently organised beneath the busy surface.

The elevated roadway had been replaced by a busy surface road, while the oil-stained mechanic's shop had become Barbuto, a popular restaurant.

In a calmer middle section there are references to Monteverdi below the busy surface that emerge like out-of-focus anthems in the brass.

While her supply of narrative hooks appears to be inexhaustible, she rarely develops them dramatically: "The Third Person", for example, is oddly static beneath its busy surface.

They are able to dig below the busy surface of their daily lives and refocus on their core values and principles.

This study describes simultaneous measurements of in-vehicle and outside-vehicle NO2 concentrations on a route through Sydney, Australia that included several major tunnels, minor tunnels and busy surface roads.

The book has a righteous social message, about responsibility for others, and a great big plot that runs like clockwork; like the Potter novels, it is efficiently organised beneath its busy surface.