Its boosters proclaimed that history "is not a body of knowledge" but "a heap of materials which survives from the past".
From an almost random heap of materials, Busoni fashions a solid, symmetrical structure, with a large slow movement at the center, two bustling scherzos on either side, and solemn utterances as bookends.
Drawing inspiration from the scrap heap of materials on Mr. Sanders's property — metal pipes, steel plates, rough cedar planking, concrete footings from a chain-link fence — each participant sketched out a few ideas and refined them into four compelling pieces of furniture.
Ryohei Kawanishi's statement about craft and ecology, created as vast heaps of material engulfing the body, was an example of fashion with a mission.
Hell, even in a season containing only 12 episodes, "True Blood" still manages to stuff in a whole heap of extraneous material.
Both species typically breed in small groups: the Mascarene martin builds a shallow cup nest of twigs and coarse plant material with a soft inner lining, whereas Brazza's martin makes a small heap of soft material such as feathers or dry grass at the end of a typically 50-cm (20-in) tunnel in a riverbank.
What remained by midafternoon was a soggy heap of charred material that was deposited on a table in the middle of the cathedral.
The nest is a small heap of soft material such as feathers or dry grass at the end of a typically 50-cm (20-in) tunnel.
It may be constructed anywhere suitably flat and inaccessible to predators, including locations 3 5 m (10 16 ft) over water, on slate ledges, or in underground passageways, whereas Brazza's martin makes a small heap of soft material such as feathers or dry grass at the end of a typically 50-cm (20-in) tunnel in a riverbank.
You won't have to go through all the heap of course material.
