(While I'm there, the Penguin understudy arrives to be measured up; two people pile layers of foam round his midriff).
Part monument of record, part intimate anecdotal history, his account piles layer on layer of detail garnered from otherwise unremembered lives, people who themselves ended, almost invariably, as corpses piled into the death pits.
If he can't quite carry off the fingerpicking folk ballad style of Love Is Only a Heartbeat Away – it all sounds a bit self-conscious – there's a real melodic richness about Mary Lee and opener Limits Lie, the latter piling layer after layer of effected guitar over a desperate, yearning two-note vocal hook.
Absent the kitsch and the emphatically sumptuous — lace panels, cut velvet and tapestry patterns piled layer upon layer — the giddy gypsy influence had unexpected staying power and it is gaining traction in an influential handful of fall collections, with the jangling coin belts and naïve floral prints often associated with nomadic Balkan cultures.
Epic in scope, it plays out as a kind of Southern Game of Thrones, where history piles layer upon layer of insult and injury between the McAllans and the Jacksons.
Epic in scope, it plays out as a kind of Southern Game of Thrones, where history piles layer on layer of insult and injury between the McAllans and the Jacksons.
Don't hold yourself back when applying your gothic makeup, yet don't pile on layer after layer - you'll find that this may weigh you down and get on your nerves throughout the day.
They piled layers and layers of debt — "leverage," in Wall Street parlance — onto these companies just before the economy came screeching to a halt.
As each piled layers of bluff upon double bluff upon deception and betrayal, that moment when they ditched the poetics and just laughed together … considering the Doctor's culpability, surely there was something real there?
After piling layers of bacon, a fried egg, and bourbon-infused syrup onto a cheese-covered patty, a hand reached into the frame to add the top half of a tater-tot bun.
Revetment can be accomplished with thick layers of poured-in-place reinforced concrete, heavy concrete blocks or forms, heavy stone masonry faces or walls, stacked gabions, or steel sheet piles; layers of unreinforced concrete only centimeters thick cannot withstand erosion by large lahars (e.g., Paguican et al. [2009]).
