A woman holding a delicate scale stands between an apocalyptic painting of the Last Judgment and a tabletop with a haphazard array of pearls and gold.
He does not work on a small, delicate scale: The maquette of the royal wedding is 22 inches by 30 inches, and "Roman Forum," completed in 2006, is nine feet wide by five feet tall.
In their work, the two chemists measured out tiny amounts of lead and pigment and other stuff, weighing it carefully on a glass-sealed and apparently very delicate scale.
As she's chatting, she's also trying to concentrate on grinding the cannabis buds onto her delicate silver scale.
While in London, Peale ordered a delicate balance scale from his friend, expatriate American Joseph Saxton, and later induced Saxton to return to the United States and work for the Philadelphia Mint.
By a delicate time-scaling transformation, a time-scaled entire system is derived, and from which, the design scheme of a time-varying output-feedback controller is developed by backstepping method and time-varying technique.
In these delicate, small-scale pieces, Elias's music effectively combined colour with architecture, but in a work for larger ensemble, Geranos, the balance between gesture and structure was less successful.
The renovation, aimed at restoring the building to its turn-of-the-20th-century opulence, uncovered a forgotten Art Nouveau glass dome with delicate fish-scale panels now adorning the hotel's gilded Winter Garden tea salon.
If he gets it right, we'll see a delicate appreciation for scale and proportion - learned at Jefferson's "Academical Village" and refined in Vicenza and Venice - with designs filtered through a modernist's spare and reductive lens.
The character does not know what is coming, but the novelist does, and she prepares you for later privations with a page describing eating two fresh trout, with their "salty, delicate crust of scales".
The three movements of Mr. Iyer's "Rimpa Ephemera" were inspired by Hoitsu's "Waves" and "Winter Beauty" and Suzuki Kiitsu's "Morning Glories," opening with delicate textures, misty scales and a somber clarinet melody.
