Sentence examples for concrete everything from inspiring English sources

Many of the works are set in cities, but the worlds that Krohn's characters inhabit never feel concrete: everything is mediated through particular characters' perceptions.

Photographer Lola Paprocka grew up in Polish housing estates, where she developed an obsession with Brutalist architecture and what she calls its "concrete everything" aesthetic.

When that creates a flood and a lot of mud, Pete concretes everything over.

Every day I watch him and all the others throw their refuse on to the street below – concrete, litter, everything".

And there are many building projects: "The sound of Kabul today is shovels on concrete, because everything is done by hand".

Abu Abdullah told Newsnight the fighting in Ramadi was, "the best fighting and the hardest fighting", saying that "you are in a city made of concrete and everything is blowing up".

He also spent evenings taping out potential layouts on the loft's concrete floor until everything worked well.

The dreaded 'Swing Low' booms out, time after time, bouncing off the concrete walls, shaking everything in its path.

CONCRETE, used in everything from the Pantheon in Rome to slum dwellings, is the most widely used building material in the world.

But in dealing with conflicts of values, the concrete situation is everything (1990, 17 18).

To gain better insight, Franz-Josef Ulm, a civil engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and his postdoc Georgios Constantinides used a needlelike "nanoindentation" device to prod different types of hardened cement pastes--the part of concrete that holds everything together--from around the world.