Sentence examples for glass wave from inspiring English sources

This is a far cry from the little man with a sword, yet not as cerebral as the undulating glass wave thing.

The emblematic former department store continues to be the subject of legal wrangles over plans to install a "glass wave" on the northern facade on the chic Rue de Rivoli.

Designed by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron to look like a glass wave cresting atop a brick warehouse, it is at the end of the Am Sandtorkai peninsula, and will eventually house the NDR Symphony Orchestra's concert hall, a five-star hotel and about 60 luxury apartments.

But the project, which has exceeded its initial budget by more than 200 million euros and its initial completion date by two years, is slowly taking its eventual shape: a glass wave 12 stories on one side and 18 on the other.

A series of hydraulic model tests has been carried out in a glass wave flume to investigate the influences of wave height, wave period, wave steepness, surf similarity parameter, roughness, layer thickness and porosity on wave run-up and overtopping of 1 2 sloped impermeable and permeable breakwaters fronted by a 1 10 gentle, smooth beach slope.

I could put the same thought differently by saying that this vast ocean of potentiality on which actuality drifts like a single glass wave gives buoyancy and depth to our experience of the real.

Under designs drawn up by Japanese architects, the facades will be replaced with "a set of etched glass waves".

I've been spat at, had broken glass waved in my face, and been up all night waiting for a 13-year-old to be returned by the police.

In every window down the route children from newborns to teens pressed against the glass waving; their faces, so happy, so pure, so innocent, the emotions so basic and real.

A half-hour later, she was wearing purple lensless Wayfarer-style glasses, waving a footlong foam glow stick and mouthing the words to Warren G's "Regulate".

One photograph showed Mr. Jiang, dressed in a dark suit and red tie and wearing square-rimmed glasses, waving as he took a seat.