Sentence examples for surface that reflects from inspiring English sources

The other, in oil on canvas, could depict the wooden poles of some gate in a flooded area rising above a mirror-like watery surface that reflects them.

It has a shiny surface that reflects all sorts of colors and moods, but after watching it for a while, you realize you're looking not into it, but through it and out the other side.

Of a somewhat different sort are the studies of burning mirrors by Diocles (late 2nd century bc), who proved that the surface that reflects the rays from the Sun to a single point is a paraboloid of revolution.

He described the 77 tonne work as "a very elegant sculpture, with a streamlined, undulating surface that reflects the light in all sorts of ways".

It is a primitive C-type asteroid, which means the surface has a high proportion of carbon; giving it a dark surface that reflects only 4% of the light that falls on it.

The relative luminance value, L+M, of each object was estimated by dividing its QL+QM value by that of a hypothetical white surface that reflects 100% of the given illumination light.

And because so many of them are reflected, they can help scientists build a portrait of the type of surface that reflected them, such as how dusty, rocky, or even icy it is.

They had shapes and surfaces that reflected the quieter aspects of modernism and were financially accessible.

The simple decor features hard surfaces that reflect noise, producing a rollicking party atmosphere as the room gets crowded.

Apparent emittance of a longitudinal rectangular fin system with an opening angle, accounting fin-to-fin radiation interaction and also with surfaces that reflect radiation in both diffuse and specular regimes has been evaluated.

Like Brodkey, Beller highlighted the artifice of the Oscars, and the contrast was made even more striking by recalling that his mother's "solitary" decade struggling to make her film often "had overtones of Don Quixote": The Oscars are about Hollywood, about bright, ephemeral glamour, about surfaces that reflect.