It was as still and quiet as a snapshot of itself: an expanse of empty grass.
Every decade, by order of the United States Constitution, America counts its inhabitants and, in the process, takes a valuable snapshot of itself.
To hear Myers tell it, Hinoki & the Bird serves as a sort of culinary snapshot of Los Angeles itself, a city where immigrants from Japan, southeast Asia and the Middle East coexist with locavores, expense-account epicures and health-nut hippies.
A snapshot of the beam itself would look like the threads of a screw, or a bit of fusilli pasta.
As I made my notes, I was scrolling through these images in an album called "bower-bird bric-a-brac nest," a phrase borrowed from Ted Hughes's "The Literary Life," itself a snapshot of the writer at work.
Thus, the genetic characterization of these landraces, which is itself a snapshot of a dynamic gene pool of traditional varieties adapted to the local environment and in harmony with cultural preferences, represents an important foundation towards conserving this valuable genetic diversity and applying the knowledge gained towards improving rice varieties for future generations.
Our journey was, like the soon-to-be-obliterated circuit itself, merely a snapshot in time.
Of course, the internalist's response will have to show that when histories do matter, they aid in understanding a freedom-and-responsibility-undermining impairment that itself involves only snapshot properties.
The map itself is a snapshot of staff perceptions of how things were organised locally and how the local service centre connects to other service centres, particularly the transplant units.
