Sentence examples for floating masses from inspiring English sources
And both projects, with their ramps and floating masses, are similarly monumental and fanciful, like cool utopian abstraction enlivened by a lilting Carnival samba.
Among amphibians, only certain frogs build nests, which may be simple mud basins (some Hyla species) or floating masses of hardened froth (many diverse groups).
The resonance of an all-white empty field is explored in Gladys Goldberg's "Blue Triangle" and in "Thaw," a particularly strong work by Lorraine Baron that concentrates attention on two floating masses of pigment.
They are located beneath and adjacent to the larger clasts but gently overlap or arch over them, suggesting that the coarse clasts are dropstones (i.e., ice-rafted blocks released as floating masses of ice melt).
Even more Baroque are formal portraits by Hyacinthe Rigaud and Nicolas de Largillière, in which the strong contrapposto (twisting of the figure so that one half is in opposition to the other), rich settings, and floating masses of drapery reflect the pomp and swagger of this era which, significantly, came to be known as the Grande Époque.
The 750 or so icebergs that break off from glaciers each year and drift south from Greenland are floating masses of freshwater ice formed in the pristine air of 5,000 years ago.
Iceberg, floating mass of freshwater ice that has broken from the seaward end of either a glacier or an ice shelf.
It's all part of an effort by cruise ships to attract more upscale passengers and shed their image as floating mass-market buffets.
To that number, humans have added an eighth — an amorphous, floating mass of waste plastic trapped in a gyre of currents in the north Pacific, between Hawaii and Japan.
In early 2002, a 200-meter-thick, Rhode Island sized floating mass of ice attached to the Antarctic Peninsula unexpectedly shattered and floated away in a matter of weeks.
NVM will greatly improve the input/output performance of enterprise storage systems whose requirements will intensify with the growing need for web-based data supported by floating mass servers.
