Sentence examples for surface of a thing from inspiring English sources
It highlights Block's worst weakness and greatest strength: skimming the surface of a thing.
I see everything that way, the surface of things, a kind of mental Braille.
The judges included Peter Vandermark, assistant professor of photojournalism at Boston University, and Felice Frankel and George Whitesides, who are, respectively, artist-in-residence at MIT and professor of chemistry at Harvard University and coauthors of On the Surface of Things, a collection of photographs and essays to be published in October by Chronicle Books.
"Photographs only tell us about the surface of things, about how things look," Mr. Light writes.
It's just skimming the surface of the thing.
For our generation that can sound like an almost scary thing: our whole lives are built for skipping along the surface of things, disregarding supposedly concrete things like religion and history and True Essential Love.
His stubbornness in clinging to the surface of things has a savant-like quality.
Viruses live on the surface of things for a long time, and it's easy to pick something up," says Norman.
A budding artist whose work scratches "no deeper than the surface of things," Charles is a man in whom excessive emotion always causes "disquiet".
Conrad wrote that Crane was an "artist" and "a seer with a gift for rendering the significant on the surface of things and with an incomparable insight into primitive emotions".
On the surface of things, Wright is a smart but troubled man, one currently dealing with tax investigations and, of course, media obsessively chasing the man or woman behind Bitcoin.
