At Alinea, Mr. Stupak, inspired by the work of the Spanish pastry chef Albert Adrià, made desserts that seemed to defy physics and cheat gravity: a frozen Mandarin orange capsule with sassafras liquid suspended inside; a ribbon of ganache malleable enough to be curved and looped like roller coaster tracks, firm enough to hold that shape and delicate enough to melt decadently on the tongue.
It is cross braced and screwed together to hold that shape, since this type of tubing will eventually revert back to a straighter position.
I liked the actual hourglass shape my body was sporting (I should note, though, that it never continued to hold that shape once the corset was off, possibly because I didn't wear it as often as recommended).
The molecules of this protein are more or less globular, and are held in that shape by internal cross-links between different parts of the amino-acid chain of which the protein is composed.
We're not going to hold that back in any way, shape or form".
I'm troubled by Hillary Clinton's recent innuendo-dripping remark that her Christian faith "is the faith of my parents and my grandparents". As opposed, of course, to Obama, who came to Christianity from a mother whose "secular humanism" held that "rational, thoughtful people could shape their own destiny," and a Kenyan father born into a Muslim family, and a Muslim stepfather.
There are two schools of thought, one following Marr and Albus in holding that climbing fiber input serves primarily as a teaching signal, the other holding that its function is to shape cerebellar output directly.
People aren't always comfortable talking about the deeply held personal values that shape their personal sense of ethics.
That theory holds that the Universe was shaped by an unthinkably large and fast expansion from a single point.
Boomers hold the history that shaped our current reality, among other topics.
