Sentence examples for underlayer from inspiring English sources

It should also help in the prediction of avalanche risk, because snow slips are often the result of dense snow falling on a less-dense underlayer.

By addressing history's "underlayer", he paints the mental landscape of the men who went into battle, asking why and how "the idea of the hero flowered here".Some historians will not like this approach, and not just because Mr Nicolson quotes earlier, discredited, biographers of Nelson.

Ornaments in white, made separately in molds, were applied to the body of the piece; the contrast of white on a coloured ground thus achieved was used in imitation of antique cameos of hardstone and glass (in which portions of the white top layer of glass are cut away, leaving the white figure in relief against the coloured underlayer).

The Walker Art Center bought "Transcending: The New International," a nine-by-twenty-foot, mostly black-and-white painting with an underlayer of architectural details representing the capitals of every post-colonial African nation.

The presence in the cast of his close friend Randolph Scott (they shared a house for several years) as the rival for Irene Dunne's affections may have interfered with his concentration; he doesn't provide an underlayer of conviction.

Small trees and shrubs are used in other areas, with an underlayer of the kind of plants that are very similar to those that might be found beneath trees in natural woodlands.

Staphylococci also can cause a severe skin infection that strips the outer skin layers off the body and leaves the underlayers exposed, as in severe burns, a condition known as toxic epidermal necrolysis.

He had started bleaching and soaking his colored papers, and using a more powerful sander to bite down and reveal the underlayers.

There was a moment in the taxi, a little nothing exchange but so densely underlayered with meaning that if you could pass it through an extracting machine, you would understand a lot about how it is between Cubans and Cuban-Americans.

She personally favors the classic knits from Smedley, as well as silk underlayers from traditional outdoor outfitters like Orvis.

As temperatures moderate, and snow turns to rain and sleet, the mushy, heavy snow known as Cascade cement settles on ice-hard underlayers, poised to swoosh downward in a vast, annihilating slab.