Such natural roughness can be seen in the jagged granite blocks from Mure, Japan, that enclose the dressing rooms.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — More than two weeks after the earthquake that devastated much of this country's southern half, the capital remains a city of teetering walls, dangling electrical wires and precariously balanced heaps of jagged cinder block and wrought iron, all rattled daily by aftershocks.
This flawed hemoglobin causes red cells to stiffen and to take on jagged shapes, which blocks blood vessels and causes vascular inflammation leading to damaged organs.
Good examples of pahoehoe (ropey), aa (jagged), and some block lava are readily visible along with large rafted crater wall fragments.
Some blocks were jagged mounds of debris, while others were stripped to utter emptiness: just foundations of homes and tree trunks — no leaves, no branches, no bark.
In two works performed by the Kronos Quartet, Makan moves blocks of jagged sound around with the pitiless determination of a brutalist architect ("The Noise Between Thoughts") and crafts the most humble chords and scraps of melody into a lulling whole ("Washed by Fire").
Huge blocks of jagged ice lay packed against the gravelly shore, driven there by the region's famously ferocious winds.
Mumbai is a wonderful city, but it does have the dubious distinction of having the world's most expensive private home, "Antilia", a jagged 27-storey tower block that looks like an office building and cost billionaire Mukesh Ambani $1bn to construct.
They imagined landscapes of giant, spiky, black thorns or menacing, jagged earthworks, or vast concrete blocks creating narrow streets that lead nowhere.
But the Seals on the rescue mission did not know his fate, and commanders could not reach them because radio signals were blocked by the jagged peaks.
