Sentence examples for mirrors failed from inspiring English sources

On Landsat-7, one of these mirrors failed in 2003, leaving gaps in the pictures which then have to be filled with data from a subsequent pass.

Wilbur goes on to make a number of delicately dark suggestions: the undead (who are implicitly associated with a certain kind of artist) come "as all extremists do / In time, to a sort of grandeur"; their "utter self-concern" finally renders them "selfless: / Mirrors fail to perceive them"; and they are haunted by what they will never have, "rooms with something to lose".

His 1993 piece "Like Paris in the Rain on Second Avenue" communicates with worn and gaudy letters gathered from old signs, and mirrors a failed and forgetting America as surely as Walker Evans had.

If all attempts at removing the glue or brackets holding a bathroom mirror have failed, cut out the drywall surrounding the mirror.

Many such provisions mirror a failed federal constitutional amendment known as the Blaine Amendment, proposed in 1875 and widely regarded today as an expression of the anti-Catholic sentiment of the day.

I can comprehend that sundry people are (were, will ever be) both insensately vindictive and — not wholly unrelated — unhappy with what they perceive in rare encounters with the mirror as failed lives, and are commensurately eager to compose or pursue tangible causes for that in the form of other people with whom they might have had tangential contact a long while since.

Rachel's attempts to tell Ross she likes him mirror his failed attempts in the first season, although the characters eventually begin a relationship.

Residing permanently on this side of the mirror, I failed to grasp the absurd logic of the Red Queen's statement, and could only laugh at the suggestion of stacking days for warmth.

Niffenegger plays ingeniously in her temporal hall of mirrors, but fails to make the connection between the lovers as compelling as their odd predicament.

Most of "Mirroring Evil" fails not out of irreverence but out of inchoate earnestness.

Pictures (both portraits and photographs) fling back at us details the mirror somehow fails to point out.