She made artificial substances like fibreglass and polyester look like hair or sexual organs, and coated them in layers of gluey substances as if she was fossilising human existence in amber.
He thought that maybe Toby could guard the entrance to the South Bronx the way the stone lions on Fifth Avenue guarded the Public Library, and he was sure his instincts were right, because everyone in the neighborhood had liked the fibreglass cast of Raymond and Toby he was planning to use.
With bluish-grey light filtering in through the translucent fibreglass, it feels like walking into a glacial crevasse.
The self-reinforced variety is a clothlike substance that derives its strength from long fibres within a matrix; it's like fibreglass but is made entirely of plastic.
In the undergrowth between the track and the woods are colonies of fungi sending fruiting bodies out of the anarchic tangle of mycelium webs that stretch like fibreglass underground through the soil and plant roots.
The vacuum-and-heat process is commonly used to bond composite materials, like fibreglass, to foam or wood cores in boats, cars, and airplane fuselages, but it had not been used on such a scale with srPET.
In part, the introduction of less expensive construction materials — like fibreglass — has brought the cost of yachts down, opening up the market for more buyers.
Someone took a picture of him, puckish grin on grizzled face, leaning on the railing, with Streep tilting her head toward him, sorority-girl-like, the blue fibreglass whale hovering in the background.
That year Hesse also began making stand-alone sculptures and incorporating materials like cheesecloth, fibreglass, and latex, which she bought in liquid form.
For the Serpentine, the torus-shaped fibreglass shell will appear like the cast-off chrysalis of some bulbous insect, ripped open where its maker wriggled out.
