Sentence examples for hollow forms from inspiring English sources

"In Russia today, there are no real politics, no real discussion of views, and meanwhile the government tries to substitute for this with hollow forms of a national idea — with the Church, with sports and the Olympics".

In the process of hollow modeling, which is typical of the potter's approach to form, the main forms of the clay model are built up directly as hollow forms with walls of a roughly even thickness.

His sculptures use abstract and hollow forms in large scale to imitate simultaneously the natural landscape and the female form.

The act of casting domestic objects picks up the traces of other lives, such as the accumulated dust and scratches in forgotten corners of desks and tables, or the hollow forms on old mattresses.

The tomb was flooded soon after it was sealed, leaving a thick layer of mud that dried to preserve the hollow forms of the king's burial offerings long after the wooden artefacts had rotted away.

Aeneas seems a bit of a Trojan horse himself, bearing the hollow form of a hero without its content.

Concrete blocks are of a standard size larger than bricks and are hollow, forming a grid of vertical planes.

Mr. Winters makes these glass faces in box molds: hinged boxes filled with clay that is manipulated to create hollow form molds.

The gilders used squirrel-hair brushes to ensure that every nook got its gold, even the little hollow formed by a fold in Sherman's tunic behind an unbuttoned button.

Lying in a hollow formed by the River Sid, the town is shut in by hills that terminate in the forelands of Salcombe Hill and Peak Hill, two sheer sandstone cliffs of deep red colour.

The hollow forming the basin's core covers about a third of the total area and is a completely featureless flat plain, with depths increasing evenly toward the centre to a little more than 7,200 feet (2,200 metres), with the axis of maximum depth displaced toward the Turkish coast.