Sentence examples for rippling surfaces from inspiring English sources

Upright shapes referred to as wafers have rippling surfaces more akin to Carr's water crackers, and theyintimate gravestones and sometimes even Neolithic hand axes.

Their rippling surfaces evoke both upholstery and skin, and exploit subtly visceral contrasts between matte and shiny textures, and dark and iridescent colors.

Jutting into the bay, it consists of numerous overlapping, rippling surfaces clad in asphalt, timber and grass, which are designed to channel vehicles and pedestrians around the multi-levelled superstructure while also serving as a public park.

The homage to Fauré, for example, is characterized by a graceful, Gallic melody supported by harmonies that grow increasingly dense, and the Rachmaninoff paraphrase puts rippling surfaces in the foreground as a virtuosic fig leaf covering adventurous harmonic twists.

Antoine Bourdelle, in full Émile-Antoine Bourdelle, (born October 30, 1861, Montauban, France died October 1, 1929, Paris), French sculptor whose works—exhibiting exaggerated, rippling surfaces mingled with the flat, decorative simplifications of Archaic Greek and Romanesque art introduced a new vigour and strength into the sculpture of the early 20th century.

Each is perfectly complete but highly suggestive, filled with quotidian trivia and then floated free on a gently rippling surface.

Oddly enough, the study of a child seen through a glass door has the rippling surface of James White's paintings.

Yuck! - I swear one recumbent figure was copied by Seurat for his work, the boy in the water with his hands disappearing under the rippling surface.

With its rippling surface and breathtaking panoramas of mountains, islands and towering pine trees, it is no surprise that the 69.67-square-mile 69.67-square-mile 69.67-square-mile.

Beneath the rippling surface, the straw walls had caved in and his stock of grain for the winter, clothes, furniture and possessions were slowly rotting.

Even more remarkable is a saltcellar base on which African figures wear Western dress, and the twisted, rippling surface of a hemisphere suggests European silverwork, even though four of the ripples are snakes hissing at small dogs crouched below.