But Kim Kardashian is worse because, the daughter of a millionaire lawyer, she was born lucky, and – having been able to choose anything – she chose nudity, vanity, posing and a visible obsession with the trappings of wealth.
In Algiers, where plainclothes and uniformed police officers keep watch, consumer trappings are becoming visible, like the Peugeots and Renaults on the streets, Korean cellphones and satellite dishes perched on balconies of crowded tenements.
They decorate the deep ledge and the turned staircase with garlands, lighted figures of choral singers, a collection of stuffed animals, an action Santa and assorted other trappings of Christmas -- clearly visible from curbside through the large Palladian window over the front door.
The silt-trapping experiment has yielded tentative but visible gains here in Beel Bhaina, a low-lying 600-acre soup bowl of land on the banks of the Hari River, a tributary of the Ganges, about 55 miles upstream from the Bay of Bengal.
This is the home of Ocado, the country's and probably the world's newest online grocery-retailer, whose poster ads featuring yelling children are visible all over the capital.Ocado has all the trappings of a dotcom, bar the formerly voguish appendage to its name.
Though children are welcome, the Dream proudly flaunts its adult trappings, like the huge photograph of a tattooed nude couple visible from the glass elevator to the underground bar.
The unique light-trapping effect of micro-textured surface morphology greatly enhances the visible absorption of silicon, making it well used in Vis-NIR photodetection, as well as solar cells.
By the time the universe was a billion years old, the smoke actually a gas of light-trapping hydrogen had cleared almost entirely, allowing stars and galaxies to become visible.
These material trappings are supporting characters on many reality shows, but none of them are visible on "The A-List".
Graphene TiO2 nanotubes show higher photocatalytic efficiency than graphene TiO2 nanofibers and the bare TiO2 nanomaterials under visible light irradiation for degradation of rhodamine B (RhB), which is arising from the light-trapping effect and the incorporation of graphene.
