Sentence examples for thick blocks from inspiring English sources

And quickly charred, thick blocks of bluefin tuna atop vegetable "linguine" (like sweated slaw) came with modified sushi riffs like wasabi foamed with crème fraîche and edamame purée.

Painted on thick blocks of laminated wood, Ms. Nelson's works read at once as nostalgic Romantic reveries and skeptical mock-commodities.

Back on shore, follow the sweet scent to Perkins Cove Candies (103 Oarweek Road, 207-646-7243 207-646-7243 207-646-7243omemade fudge ($8.40 a pound) and bins of blue-pink-yellowherethickr taffy ($5 a pound) are perennial favorites.

There are oil studies of thick blocks of ice, presumably made in Dresden from observation of the Elbe, which were used in the extraordinary painting of a ship crushed in an iceberg - a scene which Friedrich could never have seen, although he would have known at second hand accounts of polar exploration.

At the market in Plaza Murillo, cholitas in traditional bowler hats and shawls hawked thick blocks of fake currency that were stacked high on tables: $500,000 for five bolivianos ($0.72), or a $100,000,000 block for 25 bolivianos ($3.62).

His otherworldly muscle men, casting the damned into hell or straining to emerge from thick blocks of veined marble, aspired to an abstract and bygone ideal of the sublime, grounded in Renaissance rhetoric, which, for postwar generations, now belongs with the poetry of Alexander Pope or plays by Corneille as admirable but culturally remote splendors.

This was a gritty, engrossing performance of a nine-minute sextet that evolves in thick block chords.

A flier taped outside the Yorkville Copy Service on the Upper East Side boldly asks passers-by, in thick block lettering, if they happen to be "F.O.B".

Their book, "Recipes From Home" (Artisan, $30), is a tall, thick block not unlike a shoe box, and seems part recipe box, part family album.

It suddenly occurred to me that if you fashioned a thick block of concrete the precise shape of the backstage compound, and dropped it from a helicopter, crushing everyone below, you'd improve the quality of life on the planet by at least 3%.

The choral episodes, vibrantly sung by the excellent chorale (James Bagwell is the director), are the most impressive elements of the score, starting with the opening "Chorus of Israelites," vigorous music that swings broadly in a marching triple meter, as the voices sing proclamations in thick block harmonies, until a complex middle section when the choristers break into a studious fugato.