Sentence examples for jetty one from inspiring English sources
Heizer's "Double Negative" and Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" — one a privation, the other an accretion — form an essential pair in the canon of twentieth-century sculpture.
The Marlins young ace and two friends died after their speeding boat crashed into a jetty one bleak night in late September, sending the city of Miami and beyond into mourning.
Why should I destroy my life, my brain, and my health to innovate and let some asshole come along and steal it from me?" Heizer's "Double Negative" and Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" — one a privation, the other an accretion — form an essential pair in the canon of twentieth-century sculpture.
Ignoring the stench of a dead seal lying on the "harbour" – in fact a stretch of shingle beach with a small jetty at one end – we pumped up the boat, loaded it and headed out towards Tanera Beag, one of the larger of the chain of mostly uninhabited islands that lie off the coast of northwest Scotland.
But as much as Smithson wanted to break out from the tomb-like museum and seek those vagaries of nature, that irony came around to bite him, as Spiral Jetty became one more tourist destination for land art fans.
The harbour, crowded with shipping, is bounded on one side by a mole of modern construction, on the other by the jetty which 30,000 Christian captives toiled to build less than 400 years ago.
At the point of one jetty, a group of greenies boiled at the surface, slashing at bait.
We step from the jetty down on to the sand.
Everyone in Akomfrah's new films circle the edge of the abyss – the figure on the jetty, staring out to sea, recurs in one film after another.
"I look at the risk and say he who gets here first with the best idea gets the best opportunity," Captain Karnowski said recently as he led visitors on a tour of a jetty with a view of one of Saddam Hussein's eight presidential homes across the Tigris.
His direction doesn't make a resounding case for dance, which is frequently relegated to a second stage extending from the main one like a jetty or veiled behind drapery.
