Sentence examples for functional pieces of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Cederquist's beautifully made woodworks are simultaneously functional pieces of furniture and zany cartoons in two and three dimensions.

For his massive white plaster sculptures, Karlis Rekevic takes casts from parts of old bridges, traffic dividers, signposts and other functional pieces of the urban landscape.

Certainly, there is a fair amount of snake oil out there, but even perfectly functional pieces of equipment can be white elephants if they are not chosen with your individual requirements in mind – hence that curious furniture hybrid of the 1980s, the exercise bike-cum-clothes horse.

Keeping aside the figurative incongruity (empathy and machines), humans have made great progress in building functional pieces of the human brain — from machines that can handle computation, memory storage and retrieval to probabilistic reasoning, pattern recognition, natural language processing, classification, learning, etc.

The Raiders may be hedging their bets and could be coming down to the wire on getting into their new $1.8 billion, but they are moving forward with partnership deals that give insight into some of the details around some functional pieces of it.

The biggest problem most Vancouverities have with fashion is that they take functional pieces of clothing and try to trend them up.

The rose thorn vase, top, is one of the more functional pieces on sale at Rose, a recently opened shop at 1225 Abbot Kinney Boulevard in Venice, Calif., that its owner, Mark Rose, calls a "style store".

It's a purely functional piece of architecture made fantastical by its epic scale.

He said he saw the building summit as "a functional piece of sculpture, a piece of civic art of an unusual scale".

On the one hand, it's a functional piece of design; on the other, it is a sublime piece of sculpture.

By painting it matte silver, he turned it into a functional piece of filigree jewelry set against the dark brick walls.