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Now we were in the foothills of the mighty Altai mountain range: a barely touched mosaic of alpine meadows, spruce forests and glaciated peaks along the border between Kazakhstan and the far northwest of China.
Today is Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher's hour in the sun – as shire England chooses new councils, they clamber out of their scholarly cupboard and hold broadcasters' hands, explaining to the nation what to make of a muddling mosaic of local votes, staged in a different places each year.
An American artist, she lives in a cottage in the garden and never seems to stop laughing; she runs an art gallery next door, and her mosaic artwork shimmers across the guesthouse walls.
"There is a fluid, revolutionary situation all around us that requires us to be on our toes, to look at the area as a mosaic and be ready to jump from one square to another to exploit out interests.
The makeshift shrine to Sadiq Adebiyi is slowly decaying just yards down the road from the beautiful wall-mounted mosaic that commemorates Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian electrician who was killed in the brutal efficiency of a chain of police errors in the wake of the failed 21 July bombings in 2005.
There are a couple of empty niches in the entrance, where others are filled with decorative mosaic ; is now the time to fill them in?
The huge forecourt mosaic – Possum and Wallaby Dreaming – was designed by Papunya artist Michael Nelson Jagamara, and the building's 23-hectare landscape includes an indigenous garden.
Prestigious public art commissions came her way: for instance, the lavish, glittering mosaic murals that since 2001 have adorned the subway station under New York's Lincoln Center.
Instead a confusing mosaic of city, state and county reporting leaves too many cracks for data to fall through, without imposing consequences for local police failing to report when they kill those they are sworn to protect.
MUTSUO BANBA's rice farm in Ishikawa prefecture, on the north-west coast of Japan's main island, is a mosaic of plots, many separated by land belonging to others.
The Fortuynists mix xenophobic populism with that same mosaic idea: be what you are but fit in with the rest of us.
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The noun "mosaic" primarily functions as a descriptive element , often characterizing something as composed of diverse parts arranged in a cohesive manner. This applies both literally (referring to the art form) and metaphorically (describing complex systems).Ludwig AI confirms that "mosaic" is correct and usable in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
