"Some people call them backward, but they don't need cars because they grow their food in the garden next to their house; they use the natural materials that surround them to make their homes". The couple have taken the lessons they learned in Oaxaca and created a vernacular architecture of their own based on materials that surround them in northern Baja.
Leo, who is further alienated by his nascent homosexuality, takes comfort in the objects and materials that surround him the shape of his shovel, the texture of wet cement and his lengthy depictions, as exquisite as they are bleak, make up much of the novel.
Matrix, in geology, the material in which something is embedded, either the natural rock that holds crystals, fossils, pebbles, mineral veins, and the like, or the fine-grained materials that surround larger grains in a rock e.g., silt and clay particles in a sandstone or tiny crystals in a crystalline rock, sometimes called groundmass.
Leo, who is further alienated by his nascent homosexuality, takes comfort in the objects and materials that surround him — the shape of his shovel, the texture of wet cement — and his lengthy depictions, as exquisite as they are bleak, make up much of the novel.
The first is that humans make things, express themselves through the materials that surround them, and that these wrought things—a tool, a house, a picture or song, an expressed idea live on when their fashioners have departed.
Likewise, the broad chunk of aluminum-looking material that surrounds the instrument cluster is actually aluminum.
They found the extra genes in babies born to women who were injected with other women's cytoplasm, the material that surrounds the nucleus of eggs.
Most of the cases are like the bumpers you see on iPhones, a protective strip of material that surrounds the outer edges.
Dr. Jacques Cohen, an infertility researcher at the Institute for Reproductive Medicine and Science at St . Barnabas Medical Centerin Livingston, N.J., reasoned that the problem might be in the cytoplasm, the material that surrounds the nucleus of the egg and that directs its development after fertilization.
The 96 excavated stone tools that Zhu et al. analysed were mainly small stone flakes and cobbles, which contrasted sharply with the fine-grained material that surrounded the artefacts.
Individual salvageable aspects — Jeannie Sol's formidable salsa vocals, an engagingly over-the-top performance by Alex Vallecillo-Bone as a gawky American sailor, Marcelo Rodriguez's natural rapport as the club's M.C. — only highlight the woeful material that surrounds them.
