THE BOTTOM LINE Trendy hotels in Los Angeles can be rather shallow -- pretty surfaces with nothing underneath.
He's attracted to clean, pretty surfaces that can be ripped aside to show the filth and depravity lurking beneath.
Despite Ravel's ominous shadings and Mr. Ferri's elegiac lighting, the dance's pretty surfaces yield too few meaningful depths.
Two chilling postapocalyptic novels, "Monument 14" and "No Safety in Numbers," both debuts, play with this collective sense of safety in retail therapy, suggesting that something darker may lie beneath the pretty surfaces.
But again, this is a pretty surface-level observation.
Naturally, that's a pretty surface-level observation that doesn't necessarily speak to the quality of each sides contribution to the debate, or how well one side was received over the other.
"He went from kicking on a pretty good surface to a surface that was rough," Edwards said".
"The pathways that magma follows to the surface are pretty open in a volcanological sense," Waythomas said.
With the piece, Jeremijenko was interested, she said, in "highlighting what's under this pretty reflective surface that enhances real estate value but is actually a diverse, teeming habitat".
The formation of holes and droplets easily leads to a pretty rough surface (rms = 33, from AFM scanning result), as shown in Figure 3A2.
