"You must understand, the Brotherhood is like a huge sponge," Karyouni broke in.
MARELLI: A basement is like a huge sponge — it will hold onto water really easily, and you have a risk of mold growth.
Young has some vaudeville in him, some Harmony Korine-like want for entertainment in the everyday, but perhaps the best thing about his work is the way that it seems like an insanely huge sponge made out of eyes and ears, vacuuming up the moments that most often disappear, and cobbling together monologues that carry their aphorisms in the same arm as their jokes.
Below the thunders of the upper deep, Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea, His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee About his shadowy sides; above him swell Huge sponges of millenial growth and height; And far away into the sickly light, From many a wondrous grot and secret cell Unnumber'd and enormous polypi Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
The cliff face is dotted with black coral, elkhorn and staghorn corals, huge sponges and all manner of crustaceans nestled into every nook and cranny.
Both men's supporters have formed huge coalitions, sponging up most of Congo's dozens of political parties.
The huge increase in sponge sequence data, leads to novel insights regarding the evolution of the mitochondrial genomes of sponges (e.g., [ 16, 38, 39]).
Long Island City alone, they say, has nearly enough flat roof space to build the equivalent of Brooklyn's Prospect Park -- a huge heat-absorbing sponge of roughly 500 acres, all at roof height -- if the idea takes off.
Now hotels are working on the details, like the huge, colorful bath sponges shaped in the letters of the child's name in their rooms at the Four Seasons on Maui, or the milk and cookies and toddler-size terry-cloth robes in that suite at the Ritz in Boston.
As human activity pumps out greenhouse gases, the Earth's oceans have acted as a sort of sponge, sucking up huge quantities of carbon dioxide.
Billed as a "vertical slice of a city 10 stories tall and 330 feet long," Simmons embraces the "sponge" concept: five huge gaps in its rectangular shape create "porosity".
