Sentence examples for leaf covering from inspiring English sources

The homage to Fauré, for example, is characterized by a graceful, Gallic melody supported by harmonies that grow increasingly dense, and the Rachmaninoff paraphrase puts rippling surfaces in the foreground as a virtuosic fig leaf covering adventurous harmonic twists.

Other xerophytic adaptations include waxy leaf coatings, the ability to drop leaves during dry periods, the ability to reposition or fold leaves to reduce sunlight absorption, and the development of a dense, hairy leaf covering.

Aaron Brown on CNN explained why his network was showing the tape, saying that we need to see the same thing the Arab world does if we're going to understand the situation, but that seemed like a fig leaf covering what was genuinely and irresistibly news.

Features important in the identification of ferns include such aspects of the mature sporophyte plant as differences in the stem, frond, sporophyll, sporangium, and position of the sporangium and the absence or presence, as well as the shape, of the indusium (a membranous outgrowth of the leaf) covering the sporangia.

Detached rice leaves were wounded using needles and a droplet of conidia suspension (2 × 105 conidia/ml) containing 0.05% Tween 20 was applied to the leaf covering the wounded portion (Wang et al. [2007]).

But it soon became clear that NCLB's titular promise was merely a rhetorical fig leaf covering up new ways for our nation's schools to leave millions of children behind.

The fig-leaf covering this largesse is the idea that ethanol is a clean fuel.

When our eyes grew accustomed to the dark, we saw gold-leaf covering every inch of La Compania's pillars, arches, alters and domes, an effect that left us slightly spell-bound.

The BnTTG1 primers used in this analysis could potentially have amplified as many as five orthologous copies, but more realistically two as these were more strongly detectable in young 1st leaves by RNA sequencing (see below) (Additional file 2: Table S1B, S2A, S2B), although the batch leaf samples covering more leaf developmental stages may have had a different gene copy number.

Twenty to 30 leaf pieces covering the infiltrated zone from each of the treatments were harvested 12 h after infiltration.

No matter how effectively pending legislation in the end reigns in market excess, the new law can be nothing but a fig leaf barely covering the nether regions of a the hoax we call Wall Street.