| 单词 | blot |
| 例句 | Blood leeched through the silk handkerchief Frankie had wrapped my hand in, blotting out the monogram embroidered in Gothic script. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Maybe he’d even known when the chair was just a dark shadow, a dark blot in the overwhelming glow. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Ron was still in a very bad temper and kept blotting his Charms homework. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Slant's eyes were not open; for several steps he walked with them closed—praying, I suppose, or blotting out that dawn, that pitiless approach. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I don’t ever want to hear of you standing in the corner again, Calpurnia. The boys, I can understand at times. But you. Your behavior is a blot on the family name.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z A cloud of ash billowed, blotting out fireman and child. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z No matter how hard I tried it seemed I could not rid my mind of the sinister force that had suddenly blotted out all memory. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When he spread his wings, they were so large and dark that they blotted out the sunlight. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z A wild crimson blot was crawling upward rapidly along his shirt front like an enormous sea monster rising to devour him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Now — very carefully — ” Finally it was completely written, Prudence, in quite respectable letters, without a single blot. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z I think of Haymitch, unmarried, no family, blotting out the world with drink. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He complained of noises and black spells that blotted his memory. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She rode it down toward the crumbling towers, her nerves growing jumpy as the ruins rose up to blot out the half-moon. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He sat with Rowan, spoon-feeding him soup, and blotting where it spilled from his split, swollen lips. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z As I wrote and blotted many phrases, lamenting my dull wits, Gertrude appeared at the door of her chamber, looking fretful. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Lena absently blotted up the hot chocolate Kendra had sprayed, using a small towel. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z We watch the chaos that follows until the wave blots out the cameras. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z It shone brilliantly in the dark valley, so distant that she could blot it out with one hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z “Okay,” said Finn, using a wad of napkins to blot the lemonade on his jeans. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Sweat pools beneath my arms, and I use a lace handkerchief to blot my face. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Turning, he heard the sound, inches from his face—something like a slap—then laughter, his father’s voice saying “Gotcha!”; his father’s body standing, leaning over him, blotting out the entire field and sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z I stand up, blotting at the mess on the front of my shirt. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The amount of soot and floating ash from the impact and following fires would blot out the sun, certainly for months, possibly for years, disrupting growing cycles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z A wave of darkness blotted out the world. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Shorty whips the rubber apron off my neck and blots my hair and neck dry. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I can’t tell you much about the counselor, because I deliberately and almost instantly blotted this experience out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Gay blotted her eyes, reached over, and tried to kiss my cheek. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Fear blotted out the pupils in his eyes. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He became obsessed with this emotion, for such it surely was, until it blotted out any possible thinking in its area. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On one page titled “To Reverse Glamour,” many lines were crossed out, and the ink had been smeared and blotted several times as if her mother had been trying different combinations. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Hours later, he wakes to see the silhouette of an airplane blot stars as it hurtles east. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She managed to shift a shallow layer of Kleenex, which her mother had used for blotting lipstick, and thus exposed the corner of a red ticket. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Pulling open a drawer, Tanin plucked out some blotting paper and dabbed it against her neck, but there was little blood. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Here is the tissue I used to blot my tears the night he told me he would be volunteering for the military when he turned seventeen. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The new morning was blotted from the sky. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I felt my credit blotted five hundred and twenty dollars. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I folded it quickly, blotting out the single drop of melted snow which glistened on the yellowed page, and dropped it back into the drawer. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Brewing high thunderheads, he churned the deep with both hands on his trident—called up wind from every quarter, and sent a wall of rain to blot out land and sea in torrential night. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z My gaze leaped from bleary note to blotted slur, none yielding music, none quitting me of clamor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z A trail of blood, smeared and blotted, followed him. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But for Violet the pollen never blotted but Rose. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “They say black absorbs all color. It blots and consumes it and gives us nothing back. That’s wrong, don’t you think?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I have a first-aid kit in the cabin,” he says, blotting and squinting at the wound. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z I came to spend days and nights wishing he were dead; wishing he were blotted out of my life; wishing that a better father had taken his place. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z It blotted out the horizon, the far dips and heaves, the grasses, the pond, and finally her own frost heave. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The worst part is the joy blooming inside me from the fruit, blotting out the terror. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Your Honor, injustice blots out one form of life, but another grows up in its place with its own rights, needs, and aspirations. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Panic- filled recollections flooded my mind, blotting out the courtroom proceedings. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We go on for all time abhorred by all; a blot on the face of God’s sunshine; an arrow in the side of Him who died for man. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Then he signed his name in a fine steel-engraving script and blotted it carefully. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The wings blotted out much of the sky. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Rivera was already there, his face blotted out by the lights. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The hideous tank loomed over Carmen’s neighborhood, blotting out the sun. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z It was a little like that, except the blots were black while this design had a host of colors. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Upon the crest of a hill beyond the trees and roofs and spires of town sunlight lay like a pale scrap of cloth, was blotted away. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He opened it and tipped the sample out onto a fresh square of blotting paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Distinctions, breeding, education are changed, are almost blotted out and hardly recognizable any longer. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Total darkness blotted out the sea, and it became cold and damp. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Anatole took one of Mother’s cloth napkins and blotted his face. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The longer he sat reading—or re-reading—the more often and the less absently he used the back of his wrist to blot his forehead and upper lip. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z After a minute, Celeste took the paper towel Tab held out and blotted her face with it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Come. . . come to me. Let me rip you. Let me tear you. Let me kill you. Harry gave a huge jump and a large lilac blot appeared on Veronica Smethley’s street. “What?”he said loudly. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z They were bringing Bessie’s body in now to make the white men and women feel that nothing short of a quick blotting out of his life would make the city safe again. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “When I can’t sleep I walk around,” he said, “to try to blot it out.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It has been very interesting to me to find that all of our minds had blotted away many details of years in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The blood dripped onto the front of her white undershirt, making small blots that sank into the cloth, leaving uneven circles. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z There was a time when he might have taken this dismissal as a blot upon his honor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It was, he wrote, “a terrifying experience that somehow cannot be blotted out.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He could still see, like a small blot in the gathering gloom, the mouth of the tunnel; and he thought he could see or guess where Frodo lay. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Woolf would slip downstairs, wake himself with a tall Coca-Cola spiked with a couple of drops of ammonia, blot his lips, mutter, “Let’s go get this money and go home,” and stride into battle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all she could hear before Juan’s thrash of electric guitar exploded across the song, blotting out the rest of the lyrics. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Zaman struggled to his feet, blotted his bloody lips with his sleeve, wiped the spit off his cheek. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The snow came down with hard gusts, socking the sides of the pickup and blotting out the windshield. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z Guy blotted his face with a dust rag as he prepared to hear the news. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Before she could answer, I heard a massive creaking noise, and a shadow blotted out the sky. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Then she would fly as Aegon the Conqueror had flown, up and up, until Meereen was so small that she could blot it out with her thumb. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I read once about Rorschach blots, where different people see different things in the same vague images. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z And now the strong, black devil was blotting out the sun and getting ready to split open the world. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z His hand went to a pencil and he drew tight little spirals one after another on his blotting pad. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Great tucks showed in his overalls where the folds were stuck together by the goo with which he was covered, and I thought, Tar Baby, and wanted to blot him out of my sight. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z With harsh and fearsome shrieking, the gwythaints circled around the cauldron, blotting out the sun with their black wings. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z A second after I landed, a shadow spilled over me, and I turned around to see Sorrento’s mech blotting out the sky. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Here is the tissue that I used to blot my lipstick the night he first kissed me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He was feeling different tonight from every other night; he did not need to dance and sing and clown over the floor in order to blot out a day and night of doing nothing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The sound of swallowing in my throat grew so loud it blotted out the rain for several seconds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We went up the street, on the shady side, where the shadow of the broken facade blotted slowly across the road. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he pulled a new bottle out of his bedside cabinet, dipped his quill into it, and dropped a blot onto the first page of the diary. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He wanted to wave his hand and blot out the white man who was making him feel this. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His bruise had faded to a dim yellowish blot, and the crowds had gone home. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The tree came towards her blotting out all memory of her ever having lived. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I can well imagine how he must have looked that day, framed by the doorway of the vehicle, his dark, severe presence quite blotting out the effect of the gentle Hertfordshire scenery behind him. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z As we turn to continue our walk back to Block 2, the Director’s very large presence steps in front of us, blotting out the sun. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Sierra remembered the impossible nothingness of the throng haint rearing up over her, blotting out the suburban Flatbush streets, all those screaming mouths and the searing iciness creeping along her left arm. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z In the evening there was a great rainbow over the eastern hills; and then the sunset was blotted out by a thick drizzle on the mountain-sides. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She gathered up her skirts and mounted the stairs, wholly blotting the gray light. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Many houses had their upper stories built so that they extended over the narrow streets, blotting out the sky. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I would say, “Mama, you look so beautiful,” and then she would kiss my cheek to blot her lipstick. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z I blotted the drops with a feeling of panic. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Fallen indeed: time was no more, and sin, death, Hell, the judgment were blotted out. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She grabbed her own napkin and blotted the spill before it could spread. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I see him for a second, leaning over sideways—is he laughing? angry?—and then the steam rises again and blots him out. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z That night, we burned and pulverized sheep’s bones, doused the powder in a rendering of vinegar, and heaped the blot with the concoction. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I blotted the letter and slipped it in an envelope. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I blot out all the kids being rude! Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z What moon wasn’t already hidden behind clouds was blotted out now by trees, branches filtering its pale light to nil. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Nivea dropped Clara’s hand and pulled a handkerchief from her sleeve to blot the drop of sweat that was rolling down her neck. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Are you certain? It looks like an ink blot test.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z “Look! Look! Look! See, two horsemen follow fast, coming up from the south. It must be Quincey and John. Take the glass. Look before the snow blots it all out!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It didn’t last very long, but while it went on the outside world was blotted out, and she seemed to be listening to the struggle in her body. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Omakayas heard a loud scream, her own scream, and pain blotted her sight then as she swirled into the dark. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Small at first, encompassing with my body, the room, the building, the city, the country, until I know that if I look down I will see my shadow blotting out the earth. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I blotted the tears from my eyes and laughed. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He wiped his mouth, blotted his sweaty brow from one wasted temple to the other with his sleeve, and gave me a quick glance. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I decided to use ink instead of pencil, which made the whole process nerve-racking, but I ended up with only one tiny blot. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The white marble tomb, an unnecessary blot on the familiar landscape. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was good to be circled by hands that smelled of pine cleaner and to be blotted by her coffee-breath kisses. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Oh, Mina dear, I can’t help crying: and you must excuse this letter being all blotted. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She threw two dishtowels over the milk, got a fresh one from a drawer of the cabinet, and blotted the milk from her father’s trousers and shirt front. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z She pulls a small cloth from her pocket and blots my face. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z “Fill this place with a sandstorm so strong that it blots out the sun. Then I can look to heaven without blinding myself.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When she joined him, she saw the hole in the ringwall—a dark blot in all that white stone, men running through, firing futilely at the tank’s dusty wake. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He took out his handkerchief and blotted furiously at his upper lip, his freckles standing out like specks of dirt against his reddening complexion. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I thought, A drink could blot out all the ugly and painful things around me. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He heard the gritting of sand as they blotted their pages. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Sudden screams pierced the quiet and startled me so that I dropped my pen, blotting my words with smeared ink. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Someone approaches silently and sits down next to me, and I try to blot my eyes with my sleeve. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He wanted to wave his hand and blot them out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The snow blotted out all sound and scent. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Also, I have blotted out some names as lam afraid of getting innocent people in trouble. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the hard flat light of the West was blotting out his birthplace. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I got behind it, anything to blot out that heartbreaking scene. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds have blotted out any trace of sunshine. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He’s making a determined effort to remove the blots from his copybook and keep his affairs in order. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He forced himself to listen to the sermon just to blot out the picture of Major and Hollis. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “She did not think it within her power. The blot was beyond her.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He stood in the middle of Rollins’ opulent office looking like a dark blot of ink, his face grim, his hands resting on a crow-handled walking stick. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The father of the family lifted the melon high over his head—his big arms looked taller than the trees to Cholly, and the melon blotted out the sun. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “See, sir, that ain’t your normal type of blot. It’s some kind of novel, philosophical blot.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z There were papers neatly arranged and ink bottles, pens, sand for blotting the ink, and a stack of maps. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The clinging, overpowering conviction of death spread steadily with the continuing rainfall, soaking mordantly into each man’s ailing countenance like the corrosive blot of some crawling disease. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z I didn't like it; the vet was too much a part of an experience which I was already trying to blot out of my consciousness. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesper had watched it make slow progress from Ketterdam in the early dawn light, a tiny black dot that grew into a hulking blot on the horizon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I got on and it went on again, blotting the half hour. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I could not summon enough courage while she sat there looking at me to reach over the yawning space of twelve inches and blot the wet ink on the envelope. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sweat dripped down my chest, blotting the front of my cotton blouse. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z There would be a tiny red blot in my field of vision for the rest of the morning. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z It is most extraordinary—not a single word of this letter has blotted. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The small hand trembled so that the first eager stroke sent a great blot of ink sprawling across the page. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Like a giant ink blot poured over the bleachers, the platform, the entire field. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He finishes filling a page, blots the ink carefully, then looks up at me. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z For a split second a roaring noise in his ears blotted out sound. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z A shadow fell across them both, blotting out the sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the Great Square, half a dozen children screamed back at the night, trying to blot out the sound. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I slide a brown pencil along my upper eyelids and feather my lashes, apply Terra Coral lipstick, then blot my lips, apply it again, and tuck the gold vial in my purse. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Bigger wanted to whirl and blot them from sight. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One hunger sharpened another hunger, and one crime blotted out the one before it, and the little crimes committed against those starving men flared into one gigantic maniac crime. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If dark glasses and a white hat could blot out my identity so quickly, who actually was who? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z We all know how our imagination sometimes makes us see all sorts of images in chance formations such as clouds or blots. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the books has careful notations along one side, while the other is covered in blots. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I used the coffee grounds to blot texture into the hair. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She blotted them with a wet paper towel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I let that floaty feeling move into every part of me: my arm and legs, my belly, blotting out the pain as another pin slid inside my skin. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z By the time the Argo II reached top speed, Fort Sumter was only a blot in the distance, and they were racing across the waves toward the ancient lands. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I had Hassan hold the string and sucked the blood dry, blotted my finger against my jeans. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “They threw out the body on the way. And you, do you carry this evil blot on your soul as well?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In response, the grootslang drew itself up to its full height, blotting out what little light filtered through the trees. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She blotted some of the orange juice with the paper napkin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z She blotted it, but the black spread up into the body of the letter. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z But Arm lay down on the sofa and stared at a blot on the ceiling. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z My head felt hot with confusion and desperation; I did not know what to do; I wished my mother were present; I wished the police were blotted off the surface of the earth. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She wrote, “To forever blot out slavery is the only possible compensation for this merciless war.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I took the order and blotted it and put it in my pocket. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I fear I shed none, anticipation of coming adventures blotting out remembrance of those past; I fairly trembled with eagerness to reach the shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z My first view in the mirror blotted out the hurting. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It is rising, rising from the ground until it is so big that it blots out the sun. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z But the sun was blotted out by the ash and smoke. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Like other unpleasant things, I began to blot it from my memory. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z With his wrist, he briefly blotted his perspiring upper lip, and then he began to use the orange stick to push back his cuticles. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z A haze blotted out the stars, and when dawn came, the sky turned a milky pink. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The lettering was minute, but jet-black and passionately legible, if just a trifle fancy in spots, and without blots or erasures. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I want his mouth on mine, blotting out everything else. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z But he felt that such would never happen to him and his black people, and he hated them and wanted to wave his hand and blot them out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One’s eyes, cheated of sight, sent starbursts and fiery blots whirling through the black. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry yelled, trying to blot the screaming from his ears. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The sky is soft and gray, low, damp and blurred like wet blotting paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The day had dawned clear, but now there were clouds beginning to patch the sky with hazy blots of cottony white, and not even any motion there, just the white silence against the blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a dark figure blotting out the sun. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Sweat dots her top lip, and she obsessively blots her face with a handkerchief. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z If not that, he wanted to blot himself out. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The haggling that ensued was a blot upon an otherwise pleasant day, but I finally won my point by explaining to the man the dangers of my valve and of my health in general. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “At least he’s dry,” said Constance, who was blotting her hair with a napkin. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z She carefully blotted the dark patch, staring down at the spill. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The smoke blotted out the stars and the thin crescent of moan, so the roof was dark and thick with shadows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Suddenly a dark cloud swept across the sun, blotting it out and leaving the earth in shadow. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z And Violet stops to blow her nose and blot tears with the back of her hand. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh!” cried Miss Bingley, “Charles writes in the most careless way imaginable. He leaves out half his words, and blots the rest.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z Billowing clouds of smoke surrounded her, blotting out the sky. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Mom turned away from him and I saw his eyes, usually a bright hard blue, soften into liquid blots. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She used a compact mirror and quickly, lightly blotted her brow with a leaf of Kleenex. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z I had long had the feeling that this was the best way to “enclose” the reader’s mind in a new world, to blot out all reality except that which I was giving him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Samuel said satirically, “It’s my duty to take this thing of yours and kick it in the face, then raise it up and spread slime on it thick enough to blot out its dangerous light.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I crane my neck, peering through the crowd, which has blotted out the paintings; only a few tops of heads are visible, a few skies, a few backgrounds and clouds. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The shape of him just stands there, blotted out by snow. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Aphrodite blotted out Paris once, saving him from certain death at the hands of Menelaus. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Worse, I knew that die smoke might have blotted out the lines of rocks that spelled help. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The frustration blots out everything so that all I can focus on is this weird heaviness in my chest. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Now, take a blotter from over there and blot each envelope after I’m through writing on it,” she instructed me, pointing to a blotter that stood about a foot from my hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, even her lipstick seemed a shade or two lighter, as though she had just blotted it with a leaf of Kleenex. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z He wished he could clench his fist and swing his arm and blot out, kill, sweep away the Bessie on Bessie’s face and leave the other helpless and yielding before him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry scrawled, blotting the page in his excitement. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Which tower is a blot on the skyline, or a bully to its neighbours? Carbuncle Cup: what's the ugliest building of the year? 2013-05-21T10:36:49Z She pulls a tissue from a Kleenex pack to blot her running nose and says, “At least it’s not from another orifice.” Karen Finley Relives the AIDS Epidemic in ‘Written in Sand’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z The single unifying thread is how Bruno is like many Americans — he has no insurance and has ignored treating the blot for too long, and is now in grave danger. Alexander Chee on Jonathan Lethem's 'A Gambler's Anatomy': 'Oceans 11' meets 'Escape to Witch Mountain' meets a meningioma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z In setting out to erase a blot on his father’s legacy, Albus rejiggers history and unleashes malevolent powers thought to be forever vanquished. London theater forecast after Brexit and Trump: Overcast skies with a chance of apocalypse 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z As a bookish adolescent I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid. Will Self: modernism and me 2012-08-03T21:55:10Z But it doesn’t prepare you for when he closes his moist eyes — as if to blot out her image — and crashes. Movie Review: Philippe Garrel’s ‘Burning Hot Summer,’ With Monica Bellucci 2012-06-28T23:21:23Z He also made a series of Rorschach blots. When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella 2017-06-05T04:00:00Z Large Rorschach blots painted directly on the booth walls by Stockholder tie it all together. Two Critics, 13 Favorite Booths at The Armory Show 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z He used to keep a roll of paper towels in his car to blot his perspiration-and-oil sheen, but now he uses the original lotion from Matte for Men. Skin Deep: Men Seek to Reduce Oily Skin 2010-07-21T15:47:00Z The slim, handstitched book is a poem penned by Reeves, with a line on each page accompanied by simple blotted ink drawings by Los Angeles artist, Alexandra Grant. Ode to happiness 2011-06-22T02:42:32Z She discreetly blotted her wounds with the powder puff. Which actress is Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'? (And yes, that's a trick question) 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z Yet as a theatrical experience, a great deal of somberness and impenetrability can blot out the subtler qualities, no matter how lovely they are, and leave you feeling trapped. At the Kennedy Center, moments of sunlight are glorious but fleeting in ‘The Day’ 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z I have this trick: I apply, then blot it and then reapply again when I’m there. How Anya Taylor-Joy Learned to Soothe Herself 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z While the oil is heating, blot the tofu as dry as possible with fresh towels. How to make the perfect crispy fried tofu 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z He's landed in Manhattan with a choice sliver of time to advance utter destruction as the moon blots out the sun. 'The Strain' recap: A vampire free-for-all begins in 'Occultation' 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The injuries are the latest blot on the airline's record with the new Airbus A380. 7 passengers injured when Qantas A380 superjumbo hits severe turbulence 2012-01-08T10:38:00Z Drain chicken on a wire rack, blotting with paper towels if necessary. Fried chicken recommendations? -- and recipes! 2010-06-15T23:31:00Z Break and wash the lettuce, then drain and blot with a paper towel. Hints From Heloise: Brown-sugar blues 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z This movie may well function as a sort of Rorschach blot, and while I’m sure it’s not universally true that women will understand it one way and men another, some gender division is almost inevitable. Revenge against rape culture: Micro-indie film “Felt” is a Rorschach test for gender relations 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Then blot off with a cloth moistened in clean water. How to repair an heirloom radio At home asleep with your head under a pillow to blot out the noise is a much cozier alternative. | ?New Year?s Eve? : Garry Marshall?s Star-Filled ?New Year?s Eve? ? Review 2011-12-08T23:43:32Z Nestle the spoon in the folded dish towel or paper towel, tilting it as necessary to blot excess liquid from the egg before depositing it on toast or a plate. Have we been making poached eggs all wrong? 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z My view of the water and trees began to blur and was gradually blotted out entirely. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z The woman who smoothes ointment on bloody backs and sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” is never seen as culpable, even though she closed the door or turned up the radio to blot out the screaming. I can’t forgive my mother 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z Or maybe the brain subconsciously yearns for music to memorialize the global catastrophes that a cataclysmic, nonstop news cycle might otherwise blot out of our memory. Review | As the world burns, Julia Reidy is making music you can see 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The watery red blots that underlie some of Andrew Wapinski’s paintings are the remains of pigmented ice, melted on expanses of white linen or paper. In the Galleries: Music and art collide with a pop A clean dish towel or folded paper towel: This is essential to blot excess water from the eggs. Have we been making poached eggs all wrong? 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z Rivers has prospered in comedy as a human Rorschach blot who embodies the most toxic forms of female self-loathing, an unfortunately familiar formula for successful women. Joan Rivers gets her (scary) close-up 2010-06-10T00:20:00Z Two of Schmidt's drawings here riff on Rorschach blots, specifically the notion that we see what we want to see. Transformation and transgression at M+B 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Out of accidental blots, random images would begin to emerge which Cozens would then develop using grey or brown wash. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z He blotted out faces of Black children in picture books. From Family Trees to 23andMe, and Back Again 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z “The world is blotted out as you are enveloped in the sweep of a story rich with conquest, conspiracy and mazy human psychology,” wrote the U.S. paper’s reviewer Parul Sehgal. Mantel unveils final volume in award-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z The flags decorating a crinkled fast-food wrapper are blotted with ketchup and the mangled remains of some fried chicken. The Colors of American Patriotism in the Age of Trump 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z This worthy book solidifies the positive image amassed in recent decades, blotting out the caricature of a military butcher and political incompetent engraved in national memory by Jim Crow era historians. Ulysses S. Grant: New Biography of ‘A Nobody From Nowhere’ 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z “He held me down on the bed and he forced himself on me orally,” the witness said, blotting tears from her reddening face during her testimony. Is Harvey Weinstein a rapist? As trial concludes, jury will be faced with a complicated case and a heavy task. 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z In the background, a beautiful miasma of red, yellow and blue blots drifts past with several areas studded with the signature chocolate-chip dots. Roy De Forest’s Greatness Shines Even in a Virtual Display 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Above us, 150-foot-tall trees towered, their canopy blotting out the stars. The Cool, Wild and Very Remote Andaman Islands 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z The songs are part of our communal memory; they are also emotional Rorschach blots. Bob Dylan’s Sinatra Album 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Nowadays every single blot and blemish is available for all to see in withering clarity. High-definition TV is the nemesis of every actor of a certain age 2013-02-18T11:05:22Z He exhausts patience and blots out the sun. Tesla owners love their cars. Elon Musk? Not as much. 2022-06-04T04:00:00Z If the test shows no problem, apply the cleaner with a cotton cloth, then blot several times, using a fresh part of the cleaning cloth each time. How to fix a shoddy masonry repair 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z Every time I come into the kitchen, I find a few coffee grounds to sponge up here, or a dried-up splatter of last night's red sauce to blot out there. "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z “Hamilton” notes that slaveholding by some of the forefathers is a blot on their legacy. Review | ‘Hamilton’ opens in Washington, and it’s a worthy successor to Broadway 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z While I doubt the critics' disappointment will hurt this film's box office results, I hope it is not a blot on its overall legacy. "The Rise of Skywalker" fixes the sins of "The Last Jedi" 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z His grandmother ritualistically prepares stationery and blotting paper to write letters to relations from County Kerry to America. Once Upon a Time in Ireland 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z This was the trade-off for coming to America: you became as small as the country you came from, a speck on an ocean I could blot out with my thumb. 12 Authors Write About the Libraries They Love 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z Doylies: Amazingly crafted creations on newsprint, decorated with 2,000 blots of ink. Style Invitational Week 1275: That Is the Question 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z “This is a shocking blot on the BBC’s enduring commitment to honest journalism; and it is a matter of the greatest regret that it has taken 25 years for the full truth to emerge.” Report: BBC reporter used deceit to get 1995 Diana interview 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z It may be all about his mother, but he makes sure not to leave any gaps or blots on his unbroken swoon of filial piety. Mike Mills’s Too-Sweet “20th Century Women” 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z If the stain persists, try blotting a bit of the soap right onto the wall and gently rub. How to tackle smudges and chips to keep painted walls looking new 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z In Week 1290 we honored Loser Since Week 7 Tom Witte — yes, pronounced “witty” — for his 1,500th blot of Invite ink. Style Invitational Week 1294: As the word turns — a neologism contest 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Between these animations, the screen is blotted out, sometimes with white paint or wash, sometimes with black, with the occasional skull appearing and disappearing in the dark voids. Perspective | A new generation of portraits asks: Can you see these people? 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z He’s completely out of his element, intent on using his free time to become a writer but soon becoming bored and restless, blotting out his loneliness with alcohol. ‘My Struggle’: Book four of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental memoir 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z The images are also asymmetrical Rorschach blots: A desert battle scene by Delacroix, high seas by Turner, one of Courbet’s watery caverns are among the images that different works may bring to mind. Urs Fischer 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z But J. Edgar is a blot on their collective résumé. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z The little people, whose history Ruskin academics such as Raphael Samuel made a part of the national story, risk being blotted out. Ruskin archive: dust-up 2012-10-28T23:24:13Z Some outfits were stone encrusted; others were made in what looked like polyester organza blotted with flowers commonly associated with a sentimental greeting card, or a shower curtain. On the Runway Blog: In London, Burberry Hints at a Sports-Couture Theme 2011-09-19T21:24:54Z The haphazard discovery blots out all the delight. ‘Summer of Soul’ Review: In 1969 Harlem, a Music Festival Stuns 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z The hospital ruled the cause of death coronary thrombosis — a blot clot in a heart vessel. Looking for Uncle Allan: A queer odyssey 2021-06-12T04:00:00Z The Sorrow of Love The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,And all that famous harmony of leaves,Had blotted out man's image and his cry. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z The invader eventually manifests itself as “a large rectangle the color of rust,” which blots out the stars and sends out waves of debilitating redness across the landscape. Michael Dirda on the evolution of science fiction 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Place the cherry tomato slices on paper towels and blot so they’re as dry as possible. World Chefs: Aliya LeeKong adopts global flavors for home kitchens 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z This image conveys nationhood as simultaneously magnified and tragically "blotted out". Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z For a good many of our writers, slavery seems the ultimate mockery of our native pretensions, blotting all our moral claims. Considering the American Voice 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z The 32-year-old former school band teacher from Woodbridge, Va., and mother of two preschoolers blotted up 87 spatters of ink in Year 21, just a year after her debut. Week 1072: The Tile Invitational — our second ScrabbleGrams contest She achieved a civil settlement, in which Strauss-Kahn denied assault but admitted a “moral error”, but the failure successfully to prosecute such a high-profile case was a blot on Vance’s office. Weinstein inquiry: police departments likely to join forces, experts say 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z Wait 20 to 30 minutes, then blot with a cloth moistened with the same mixture. How to repair an heirloom radio Gently blot the slices on both sides with paper towels and reserve them on the pan. The crunchiest fried green tomatoes only take 10 minutes to cook 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z The man’s a 24/7 neologism factory, which is the primary reason he has almost 1,400 blots of Invite ink. Style Invitational Week 1163: Put it in reverse 2016-02-17T05:00:00Z If, however, after all this back and forth you remain decidedly anti-press though still open to crispier tofu, López-Alt offers up a few alternatives for drying it really well beyond blotting vigorously with paper towels. Tofu: To press or not to press? 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z Warhol’s large-format “Rorschach” blot paintings of the 1980s recall the “blotted line” technique he used as a young artist to create delicate, slightly tentative ink drawings. Review | Warhol said he wanted to be ‘a machine.’ Two new shows prove he was anything but. 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Complex human interactions once textured by actual facial expressions, body language and vocal intonations are now negotiated through blots of pixels. What lies beneath the grinning visage in 'Smiley Suicide' 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Viking is a perfect ideological Rorschach blot of a villain: You could read him either as a preening liberal elitist or as a coldblooded Ayn Rand techno-capitalist, depending on what you hate most. ‘Cold Pursuit’ Review: Liam Neeson Is a Killer Snowplow Driver 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z Top with more paper towels and blot out the excess moisture. Cozy ricotta gnudi is a restaurant-worthy dish that only looks complicated 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z A series of striking new sculptures resemble Rorschach ink blots whose organic shapes suggest moths and pelvic bones, heraldic lions and many-armed deities. Art We Saw This Summer 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Dave may be patrolling the city, listening to the radio, smoking a cigarette, but the neighborhoods under his watch are nothing but blots of color and light. | 'Rampart': ?Rampart,? Starring Woody Harrelson - Review 2011-11-23T00:13:07Z Mr. Shriver proposed Rorschach blots and then made several small ones in the conventional inking-and-folding manner that harks back to the blotting technique that distinguished Warhol’s advertising work in the 1950s. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z A Shakespeare play is not a political statement, it’s a mosh pit of subjectivities, and here the audience was expected to sit back and rationally parse a theatrical Rorschach blot. Shakespeare Conquers America! Starring Ulysses S. Grant as Desdemona 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z He used bullying low-end blots, wild arcs of pitch-shifting and intricately flickering background layers, barely audible under the braying or shattering top lines. Tinnitus Concerts Big on Volume 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z “An unprotected checker, sitting singly on a point, Köhler called a ‘blot.’ Alexander Chee on Jonathan Lethem's 'A Gambler's Anatomy': 'Oceans 11' meets 'Escape to Witch Mountain' meets a meningioma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Dead bodies, blindfolded and hands tied, blot bucolic landscape paintings. Mexican artists confront violence with song, brush 2011-07-01T17:51:09Z Three others are covered entirely in gently pulsing blots in a narrow range of colors, a mode the artist called “allover.” Review | In the galleries: The Washington colorists and the CIA 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z He spoke with Burgess about the feeling of vulnerability he experienced when he looked homeward from space and discovered he could blot out the Earth with his thumb. ‘We Choose to Go to the Moon’: Kennedy dream inspires a dance 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z The diagram took on a tumescent shape that became so graphic the network blotted it out. We’ll pick a president, but the search continues for a perfect late-night host 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Mishka Henner’s “Dutch Landscape” series at Yossi Milo features satellite images in which security sites have been stylishly blotted out with colorful polygons at the initiative of the government of the Netherlands. Art Review: Experimental Strategies at Aipad’s Photography Show 2014-04-10T22:13:56Z Rub it into the fibers with a butter knife or spoon, then blot up the solvent with a clean white cloth, using an up-and-down motion. How to get nail polish off carpeting 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z Let others seek Pulitzer Prizes; Our aim, for which each of us vies, is Some new blots of ink — Empress says we don’t stink! Style Invitational Week 1336: Two ways about it — a double-entendre contest 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to blot, dab, rub or scrub that wine/ketchup/mystery substance you just spilled on your favorite silk dress. Don’t get burned by that ‘dry-clean only’ label 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z If it’s a new stain, says David Weidkamp, sales manager at rug manufacturer Tufenkian, “blot up the excess liquid as quickly as possible, then use a cleaning solution and blot again.” Our homes have taken a beating over the past year. Here’s how to undo the damage. 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Over this, he ladles a few blots of tomato pulp. The New York Slice that Slices Through Tradition, at Mama’s Too 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z If there are still grimy areas after you dust or vacuum, dampen a cotton cloth and gently blot the area to clean it. How to clean an antique basket 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Then I blotted the excess with a tissue. | The Cherry-Stained Lip 2011-09-15T12:00:59Z This funny, stylish, satirical, gripping story about what happens to MI5 spooks who blot their copybooks by, say, leaving sensitive material in red folders marked "HMG TOP SECRET" on the tube is Herron's sixth novel. Audiobook review roundup 2010-08-20T23:06:00Z We make noise to drown out noise: an iPod to muffle other commuters, a bit of EastEnders to blot out a bad day at work, conversation to cover up social discomfort. In praise of... silence 2010-12-09T00:04:00Z Magda takes on a presence of her own — it’s an increasingly dark one, like a wing blotting the sun. Ottessa Moshfegh’s Latest Is a Murder Mystery, but Where’s the Body? 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z But sometimes he covered the surface with soft, partly overlapping blots, or placed just a few circles on a brightly hued background, as in “France Blue,” one of this selection’s most striking works. Review | In the galleries: Six artists go deep into the weeds 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z Suddenly, I was in a forest so thick that the tree canopy overhead all but blotted out the noonday sky. A Little Theatre That Might 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Her prominent role in fashion history has largely been blotted out. When it comes to providing insight, Apple's "The Super Models" only goes skin deep 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z “It would be a blot on the reputation of the city.” How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z Don’t be afraid of the anchovy; rinsing and blotting the fillets tames the harshness. Weary of Cooking? This Simple Dinner Will Invigorate 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z His most famous painting is "Eclipse of the Sun," its orb blotted out not by the moon but by a dollar sign. A chilling portrait of Germany's Weimar era emerges in 'New Objectivity' at LACMA 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z He backhands me hard enough to blot out the world. So much for “family values” 2012-10-28T21:00:00Z Mohammed was still in the storyline, but his name was bleeped, and his image was blotted out with the word "Censored." "South Park's" radical patriotism 2010-04-22T18:23:00Z “He held me down on the bed and he forced himself on me orally,” she told a jury, blotting her eyes with tissues as she tried to compose herself. Second Harvey Weinstein accuser takes the witness stand to describe alleged 2006 sexual assault 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z It can be "lifted off" – blotted out with a rag while still damp – or "scratched out" when already dry. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z The method: Generously blot the stain with rubbing alcohol, air dry, and then rinse with cold water. The best grass stain remover is already in your pantry 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z It came to a head in the 1980s with a series of “abstractions” that did double duty as camouflage tarps and Rorschach blots. At Auction, Unknown Warhol Sculpture That Was Gift to Boyfriend 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z But overall the movies are, collectively, a damp, drab, multibillion-dollar blot on pop culture. Why is the Marvel Cinema Universe so drab? 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z She then scans the results, which sometimes resemble Rorschach ink blots, and digitally morphs and multiplies them to create patterns. How Microbatch Textiles Became Cool 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z At other times he seems to be blotting his work, like a parent patting a baby dry after a bath. Obsession, Mourning and Migration at Under the Radar 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Some want to celebrate the year just past, some to blot it out; some anticipate the coming year, some hope to stave off the dread. New Year's Eve Entertainment in New York 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z But whether viewers see a gender-fluid likeness of Duchamp in the ethereal Rorschach blot — or just a mirage — may depend on their taste for a good ghost story. Now You See Him, Now You Don’t: Duchamp From Beyond the Grave 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z Several players can be improvising at the same time, but no one’s being blotted out. Steve Coleman Plays His Sax at the Stone 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z His dancing is not without beauty, but tension keeps blotting his solos and his partnering. In City Ballet?s Season One Jewel Still Sparkles 2010-03-01T05:54:00Z War obliterates all, seeding a thicket that blots out the sun. What Does War Feel Like to a Child? 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Keep spraying and blotting until the slime is gone. Paint, crayon, slime and other kid messes — and how to clean them 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Between takes, Trainor is surrounded by hair and makeup people, blotting sweat and adjusting every loose strand of blonde hair. How Meghan Trainor Became 2014's Most Unlikely Pop Star 2014-11-01T04:00:00Z The most striking of the Baltimorean’s pieces is “Migration,” which pits a central white blot, with glimmers of pink, against its saturated green background. A genteel brush with Victorian themes I felt so much happier in her hands that I started to blot out the terribleness of losing my breast. ‘Cancer I could deal with. Losing my breast I could not’ 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Spray the mixture over the affected area, then blot with towels. Paint, crayon, slime and other kid messes — and how to clean them 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z When squid is lightly browned, after about two minutes, remove pieces and blot on paper towels. Recipe: Five-Spice Crisp-Fried Squid 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z This week’s contest was suggested by Loser Since Week 106 Art Grinath, who earns his 400th blot of Style Invitational ink with his idea. Style Invitational Week 1395: Always room for one more 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z The quatrefoils will blot out not just some of the sunlight but any clear picture of what Johnson and Schuller wanted the cathedral to suggest architecturally. The Crystal Cathedral redesign: Why tasteful updates add up to architectural disappointment 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z There’s something in the air — or so it seems, although the California light here tends to blot out the shadows. Review: 1 Teenage Boy and 3 Mothers in ‘20th Century Women’ 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z No moral blot can be allowed to blacken the reputation of a visionary. Theater Review: ‘Public Reading About Death of Walt Disney,’ at Soho Rep 2013-05-10T17:23:50Z Instead, he blots out the wails by playing The Everly Brothers’ “Bye Bye Love,” only to have it silenced by his imposing mother, Essie, holding the baby. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: For Virginia, Work = Love 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z Use a paper towel—or Unpaper Towels—to blot each scallop dry, then place the scallops on a baking rack sitting inside a baking sheet, and refrigerate until you're ready to cook. How to make the best grilled scallops 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Wordlessly, Ms. Garcia blotted away the offending tint, warming what remained with a hint of orange. Countdown to Fashion Week: Hair and Makeup 2013-09-04T13:44:07Z “La Lune Rorschach,” a 3-D version of a Rorschach blot that depicts two bodies seemingly merging into one another, offers the clearest connection to the Belgian provocateur’s earlier pieces. | New Provocations From the Belgian Bad Boy Wim Delvoye 2013-05-16T19:00:48Z "Using an enzyme-based stain remover can be great for many materials," Bell and Dixon advise, "just be sure to use a clean, damp cloth to gently blot or rub the fabric." Your couch is calling for a clean (and you must go) 2022-07-24T04:00:00Z The new layout uses the dark-gray curvature of the hotel towers to both highlight Saarinen’s sculpture and blot out some of the surrounding mess. Review | The TWA Hotel revives a magnificent, mid-century vision of the friendly skies 2019-06-12T04:00:00Z Unless minor trauma has provoked an outsize erasure and blotted out bad memories, my frustration and even rage hardly burst into argument. Rosh Hashanah with Miles Davis 2015-09-11T04:00:00Z After all, no one willfully becomes existentially sickened to the point where it looks advantageous to blot out consciousness with constant heroin shots. “I should be among the dead”: Young, white, and economically advantaged, I was hungry for meaning and found heroin instead 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z I used to spill vast blots of ink, all the time. Possessed: Better Penmanship, Less Pain 2011-02-05T00:51:47Z It pits one of the Sisters' most exuberant choruses against one of their darkest lyrics, which has the narrator blotting out the spectre of Aids by indulging in a night of passion. F&M Playlist 2010-07-08T20:45:00Z “Interviews mumbled and blotted, the simplest of earnest rehearsed queries lost and pondered and lost again … The endless noisy boredom of the tour.” Groundbreaking photographer Robert Frank dies at age 94 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, "The Killer Inside Me" has already become a Rorschach blot that reflects the public's widely varying ideas about extreme media depictions of violence, especially violence against women. "The Killer Inside Me": Much ado about misogyny 2010-06-17T14:01:00Z Beyoncé does not blot out the Venus de Milo; she dances next to it. What It Means When Beyoncé and Jay-Z Take Over the Louvre 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Allen might understandably be trying to blot out reality with the magic of romance, amid a dark period in his personal life. First look at Woody Allen's 1920s romance Magic in the Moonlight 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Ditto the ambiguous legacy of Andrew Jackson, the American president whose enforced relocation of the Indians is viewed by many as a major blot on the nation’s moral escutcheon. Theatrical Stumbles of Historic Proportions 2010-12-10T16:02:00Z The most satisfying was the one with shavings of country ham and sliced peaches punctuated by melted blots of soft, grassy cheese made from raw cow’s milk. Restaurant Review: Bruno in the East Village 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z Dancers crouch and contract to look like ink blots — it helps to squint — and, once again, Ms. Lang’s imagination is impeded by her inability to stretch beyond the representational. Dance Review: Jessica Lang Dance Brings New York Premieres to the Joyce 2014-02-20T23:18:11Z In speaking of its unexpected release, he blots his brow with a handkerchief. Theater Review: Athol Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ at Signature Center 2012-05-25T02:00:01Z When she asks for the makeup tech to blot the shine from his face, Logan explodes. On "Succession," why bother simply surviving when you can fake what it means to be living ... plus? 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z In this heat, trying to mop an oily forehead with blotting papers is a bit like plugging a hole in a dam with a finger. Skin Deep: Manhattan?s Target Store Brings Cosmetic Delights 2010-08-04T00:54:00Z Place another clean dish towel over the wheat berries, pressing down lightly to help blot any remaining moisture. To commemorate a loved one’s death, some turn to the comfort and memories of food 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Following his retirement from the Eugenics Record Office in 1934, Davenport continued to support German eugenicists—even as the Nazis began the systematic annihilation of millions of “inferior” Europeans, the darkest blot on Davenport’s career. Hitler’s favorite American: “Biological fascism” in the shadow of New York City 2014-03-23T10:58:00Z In the context of this terrible blot, should Parker be lauded as a filmmaker? Why You Should See The Birth of a Nation, No Matter How You Feel About Nate Parker 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z The simplicity is as crucial to the comic’s power as is Hergé’s ability to turn a recognizable world into bold lines and blots of color. | 'The Adventures of Tintin': ?The Adventures of Tintin? by Steven Spielberg - Review 2011-12-20T22:03:02Z In just over five months, a total solar eclipse will blot out the sun across a wide swath of North America for the first time since 2017. Want to Marvel at Next Year’s Total Solar Eclipse? Book Now. 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z The book ends with the narrator and her mother watching through a window as a flock of crows takes flight, “tiny ink blots on a sea of sky.” If Graphic Novels Are Hip for Adults, Why Not Picture Books? 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z Spray the mixture on the slime and allow it to soak, then blot the area with paper towels or a clean white cloth. Paint, crayon, slime and other kid messes — and how to clean them 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Once cleaning and rinsing is complete, blot the area with a dry towel. Our homes have taken a beating over the past year. Here’s how to undo the damage. 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Edna O’Brien, in “The Country Girls,” wrote that a blob of Vicks VapoRub placed on the back of the tongue would blot hunger. Jacques Pépin and the Art of Making the Most of It 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Jimmy Ray rather mysteriously disappears from the narrative during this interlude, and Josiah’s obsessive need to erase the potential blot on the family escutcheon leads him to an appalling act I shouldn’t divulge. ‘Bright Star’ Is Steve Martin and Edie Brickell’s New Show 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z The episode does end with the orcs settling into their new homeland, where the sun has been blotted out by the volcano’s smoke and ash. ‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ Season 1, Episode 7: Out of the Ashes 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The violence is a bloody blot on an otherwise beautiful canvas. Michael Winterbottom on The Killer Inside Me 2010-05-22T23:05:00Z “The darkness helps you blot out the strip malls,” Mr. Hofler told me from New York, where he lives now. Hollywood Gets Its Groove Back 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The Frederick Douglass Homes was not always one of the blots on the landscape. Housing project where Supremes lived coming down 2012-11-15T22:31:36Z The presenters haven't gleefully laid into the government as much since the Tories were elected, and the whole palaver over the unmasking of The Stig put a permanent blot on the Top Gear copybook. Why Top Gear has stalled 2011-02-28T10:18:16Z He declares her beautiful, and her self-image, blotted away by one man, is restored by another. Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z The only blot on the horizon was the moment I realised my father couldn’t really be my dad. ‘My sister turned out to be my mum’ 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z Already blind, Milton signed the document with a scrawled and blotted signature, his surname falling off the edge of the page. Lambeth Palace to exhibit 400 years of religious and royal treasures 2010-05-12T17:31:00Z First, try to blot, dab or scrape off the stain. Love your down coat? Learn how to wash it. 2020-03-09T04:00:00Z He laughed, he played, he dunked his head in the bath and then frantically blotted his eyes with a washcloth. A Dark Ride 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z If I’d put them on, the world would once again have been blotted out. Review | Japanese artist’s ephemeral fogscapes transform Boston’s Emerald Necklace 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z When any library is destroyed, a climactic era in the life of its community is blotted out of memory. Germaine Greer: Reading rooms are an oasis 2010-09-05T21:29:00Z She winces and frowns a lot, and the camera conspires with the lighting and makeup to catch every twitch of distress, and the sweaty, oily sheen she never seems able to blot away. Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z Strong stripes and chevrons provide a structural component that plays against the messiness of Rorschach blots and the words of the title in Grant’s trademark mirrored writing. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z The Broadway polish hasn't blotted out the down-home charm a bit. A Broadway update, on the eve of the Tonys 2010-06-13T13:39:00Z When dabbing, rotate to a clean side of the towel as you blot so you don’t spread the stain. Paint, crayon, slime and other kid messes — and how to clean them 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Lang was at her most musical when syncing movement to a soundscape of gurgling, dripping and plopping noises that accompanied a cinematic backdrop of roving ink blots. Fresh moves from Jessica Lang Dance at Lisner 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z Two of the show’s most recent works, abstract “Blot” paintings from 2014-15, exploit Warhol’s late-career motif of giant Rorschach ink blots. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Suh Se Ok, 89, uses a traditional ink brush to paint heavily blotted calligraphic abstractions, some composed of just a few strokes, on knobby mulberry paper. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z So maybe sometimes all you need for a passing grade is authoritative handwriting and a few ink blots? Lucy Mangan: Don't stop with Steinbeck – let's can all of Eng Lit 2014-05-31T04:00:00Z He wants to make a Rorschach blot of his film, to shrug and ask “who, me?” when someone cries that they’ve been triggered. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z The Black Thing, as they call it, appears as an immense shadow, a smothering blot of darkness. Perspective | ‘A Wrinkle in Time’: Let’s hope the movie is better than the book 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z He had been playing a different role with audiences; he had become a star who blotted out the importance of his sidemen. Music: Coleman Hawkins Outplays Himself in Savory Collection 2010-08-17T22:17:00Z The events left a blot of regret on the Judge’s conscience; the dead man left his bloodstains on the fender of that Coupe de Ville. Review: The Judge: To Mock a Killing Bird 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Convinced that slavery was not nearly as serious a blot on their country’s history as the Holocaust was on Germany’s, Americans use that fact as a means of blinding themselves to its horrors. Slavery and the Holocaust: How Americans and Germans Cope With Past Evils 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z At lunchtime Saturday, as alumnae members of an a capella group called the Sweet Tones harmonized on familiar songs, a classmate standing next to me blotted her eyes. Our college was closing, and we were angry. That didn’t mean we’d skip the reunion. 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Most of the smaller pictures are punctuated with metallic-gold blots, which effectively contrast the aqueous pigment. Review | In the galleries: Building on an artwork expressed via different media 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z The 1997 death in a car crash of Princess Diana, whom Brown memorialized in a best-selling biography, “The Diana Chronicles,” 10 years later, was an indelible blot. Tina Brown Catches Up With Royal Intrigue in ‘The Palace Papers’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z All your blots told me lots, And now everything’s come up Neurosis. Style Invitational: Twist of fete: Parodies for birthdays and more 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z Was he a bit of a Rorschach blot himself? What Does Everyone See in Jesse Plemons? 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Clearly the woman is a saint, as she also reminded me to take the blotting tissues out from under my arms before I went back to my seat. The Secret Actress at the Oscars: Meryl Streep helped me dry my sweaty armpits 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z It is for blotting up any oil that runs off the tempura’s crust. At Tempura Matsui in Murray Hill, the Pleasures Lie Within 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z MAC released a lip conditioner and blot film wrapped in Bathing Ape’s black-and-white camouflage print. Skin Deep: Makeup Brands Create Demand With Limited Editions Like RiRi 2013-12-19T01:28:17Z The show’s earliest paintings are by Young, who adapted the staining technique of earlier Washington colorists to sow fields of pulsing, overlapping blots. In the galleries: Brave new worlds and fantastic heroines 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z I like to give inexpensive oil-packed anchovies, which can sometimes taste strong, a brief rinse in lukewarm water, followed by blotting on paper towels. 3 Quick and Savory Recipes for Peak-of-the-Season Tomatoes 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s a strange thing, I said: It becomes blotted out by the other sounds, such that you forget it’s there. ‘Soused,’ Scott Walker’s Unusual New Album With Sunn O))) 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The main event is a dim chapel where The Word gives a sermon on mind, learning and technology while Rorschach-like blots slowly morph on the wall. At Seattle’s Museum of Museums, a pseudo-religion generated by artificial intelligence and machine learning 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Bruno is the blot, an unprotected point in the game, a game as hidden in some ways as the tumor in his face — a global economic system that makes gamblers and playthings of us all. Alexander Chee on Jonathan Lethem's 'A Gambler's Anatomy': 'Oceans 11' meets 'Escape to Witch Mountain' meets a meningioma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Starting in February, the artist will return to the gallery and start blotting out his work piece by piece, slowly extinguishing the imagery he painted during the course of the fall. Why you should see Hugo Crosthwaite's L.A.-inspired mural — before he destroys it bit by bit 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z But I try to blot these thoughts out. Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano: my dad, the mafia underboss 2013-02-15T21:00:06Z Wait a minute, then rinse and blot dry. Bleach isn’t so scary — if you know how to use it correctly 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z “Help me,” she screams, before a “Technical Difficulties” card blots her out. The Urgent, Giddily Imaginative Vision of “Random Acts of Flyness” 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z It’s an effective manifestation of the way grief can fill an entire room, sucking up its oxygen — a Raggedy Ann bled of color, nearly blotting out an entire window’s worth of daylight. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z The set, with their large black slashes and blots lumbering across the canvases, appeared to be related to an acclaimed Motherwell series known as “Spanish Elegies.” Arts & Leisure: Authenticity of Trove of Pollocks and Rothkos Goes to Court 2012-02-22T13:00:00Z For mattresses, first blot the area with towels. Paint, crayon, slime and other kid messes — and how to clean them 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Tomorrow's Harvest is another intriguing Rorschach blot of a record from a splendidly arcane band. Boards of Canada: Tomorrow's Harvest – review 2013-06-08T23:05:05Z The twenty-mile loop wound through scraggly woods that blotted out the sun, muddy swamps, and lakes full of creatures I’d never seen in California. I ran an overnight ultramarathon on blistered, bloody feet 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z Some look like giant Rorschach blots, others like oversize Chinese ink brush swaths. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z This chocolate hamantaschen might be even more exciting with a blot of raspberry jam in the center of each pocket. 13 Purim recipes to feast on this year 2022-03-16T04:00:00Z This misguided, mishandled decision is a blot on the reputation of the youth symphony and its justly praised First Music competition, which has awarded commissions to 139 young composers since it began in 1984. An Argument for Hearing a Work With a Nazi Reference 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z Two fluid ink blots are connected by a curving staircase in “Descending Disposition,” and a vintage locomotive perches atop an inky reef in “Naughty Runaway.” Review | In the galleries: Finding inspiration in a mythical herb 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z Before she won best actress in a motion picture drama for portraying Judy Garland, Zellweger applied lipstick, used a mister on her face, and blotted it with tissue. Off-camera at the Golden Globes is a sight to behold 2020-01-05T05:00:00Z Her “How the Past Returns” features a bay-shaped black blot and text from a booklet titled “Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay.” In the galleries: Works on paper at Marsha Mateyka Gallery 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z One of her first discoveries was aburatorigami, the traditional handmade blotting papers used in ancient Japan to protect gold as it is hammered into delicate gold leaf. | Bottled Secrets of the Geisha 2013-05-13T18:47:23Z The higher law was embraced by Northern radicals who argued that man’s law lacked the force to address the moral blot of slavery. Searching for the Real Abraham Lincoln 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z The critic for The Los Angeles Times called it “a blot on the American film industry.” Herschell Gordon Lewis, a Pioneer of Gore Cinema, Dies at 90 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z “You can’t blot your pizza, which I like to do to get the grease off, with someone’s cloth napkin with an embroidered flower on it.” Noted: More Seek A Slice Of the Pie 2013-05-29T21:44:25Z One of the show’s highlights, the drawing is symmetrical, if not a Rorschach-style blot. Review | In the galleries: At three venues, modernist art that looks to the past 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Bruno is overcome by a nosebleed then, and rushed to the hospital, where the truth of the blot comes clearer. Alexander Chee on Jonathan Lethem's 'A Gambler's Anatomy': 'Oceans 11' meets 'Escape to Witch Mountain' meets a meningioma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z There's the Dohm white noise machine, which helps blot out both screaming street noise and my spouse's snoring. Can I spend my way out of my anxiety? 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z For example, one series of links is formed by Andy Warhol’s, Christopher Wool’s and Kara Walker’s very different uses of the unpredictable flows of Rorschach blots. Review: ‘Pretty Raw’ Recounts Helen Frankenthaler’s Influence on the Art World 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z It is not a blot that’s susceptible to the kind of scrubbing and tidying of which Charlotte Walker is a master. Review: A Sex Crime Disarranges a Tidy World in ‘Something Clean’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Or you can dribble on a little soda water and blot that up. How to repair an heirloom radio Doctors face it daily, reading scans blotted by tumours the way others scour market data. As he lay dying 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z So, in advertising, the pubescent girl blots out all else. 'Not quite a paedophile' ? John Humphrys' strange correction 2011-03-08T09:00:03Z Because, in my mind, that’s what addiction really is — people trying to blot out the pain of being human with chemicals that inevitably just make the pain even worse. Drug cocktails can kill 2012-06-12T16:00:00Z And we waited, with these other bright lights blotted from the firmament, for one player to arrive. Indian Wells tennis tournament draws fans — and top players — to Palm Springs 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z He unmakes his heart, blots his love out for art, While you stare with a puzzled “Je ne sais quoi…” Call him daft, call him crazy. Style Invitational Week 1078: Hyphen the Terrible — neologisms plus winning parodies The blots and the words—both bilaterally symmetrical like a body—flicker between legibility and nonsense. Two artists try to portray the indescribable at Pasadena Museum of California Art 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z And Last: With inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. Style Invitational Week 1279: Justly do it — give us ‘accurate’ directions 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z I blot the wand with a tissue, wipe it through the hair and let dry. Hints From Heloise: Shop with kindness 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Immediately rinse off all residue, not by directing a gush of water onto your lamps but by dabbing and blotting with a clean cloth, he said. How to clean a yellowed marble lamp 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z I likewise can't close my eyes and blot out the sight of what the ravages of cancer look like, any more than I undo my own experience of it. "American Idol" is saving my family 2011-03-23T15:55:00Z The Capital Fringe Festival is the city’s great open forum, a Rorschach blot of uncurated acts from around the city and the world. Review | Fringe Festival’s early returns: Politics in the lead 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z Still running — deadline Monday night, Aug. 1: our ink blot contest. Style Invitational: Happy to verse you—write a poem based on an anagram 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z And since my higher self knows this, I needed to keep numbing myself in a vicious circle to blot out this truth. I got hooked on Uber Eats. Not as a customer — as a delivery driver 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Lay the clothing on a clean white towel and blot the spot with rubbing alcohol. Paint, crayon, slime and other kid messes — and how to clean them 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z And then, after all that varnishing, strategically undo what you’ve done: engage in some artful blotting. | The Stained Look Comes to Lipstick 2013-08-16T13:00:25Z Printed on unadorned white paper, blotted with fingerprints photocopied into the page, it looks a mess because it’s been passed around, copied and recopied so many times. Hustlers Anonymous 2012-10-15T22:38:00Z But it was telling that she made her entrance with stock gestures familiar from operatic “Carmens”: striding over to a pool of water and blotting her sweaty brow with a wet handkerchief. A jazzed-up ‘Carmen’ goes where Carmens have gone before 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Alcohol and medication are common props, but trying to blot out the trauma can make it harder to deal with. Seven ways to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z When she arrived about 2 p.m., the sky was dark, the sun blotted out by smoke. In an age of worsening fires and floods, museums are reinventing themselves — and their mechanical rooms 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z The paint sinks into the surface, seeping, running, spreading disastrously or drying too fast, forming suggestive blots or stains. Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z Like clouds — or Rorschach blots — Prieto’s shapes draw the imagination into action. Monique Prieto at Chimento Contemporary: Finding a face in the clouds 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z A Towering Career; a Collision With War THE mass imprisonment of Japanese in remains a painful blot on our history. Streetscapes: Streetscapes - Yasuo Matsui: A Career Collides With War 2012-09-09T04:47:06Z According to the whistleblowers, key Western blots—which use antibodies to visualize specific proteins within a tissue sample—seem to have been improperly copied and flipped horizontally. Misconduct concerns, possible drug risks should stop major stroke trial, whistleblowers say 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z Midway through her halftime show, the singer blotted her nose with her own setting powder, which saw sales skyrocket after the big game. 20 female celebrities with lucrative businesses beyond Hollywood 2023-11-02T04:00:00Z Colombia’s Tatacoa desert was playing host to astronomers helping a group of visually impaired people experience the eclipse through raised maps and temperature changes as the moon blots out the sun. ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse will cut across the Americas, stretching from Oregon to Brazil 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Interestingly, an early draft of the lyrics had the couple fleeing the city and blotting out the pressures of the world, an idea which eventually resurfaced in I Know Places. Taylor Swift's 1989: The stories behind her biggest album 2023-10-13T04:00:00Z Many of the 31 allegations the panel reviewed involved apparently improper alterations of Western blots, a technique to distinguish distinct proteins within a tissue sample. Co-developer of Cassava’s potential Alzheimer’s drug cited for ‘egregious misconduct’ 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z As the moon lines up precisely between Earth and the sun, it will blot out all but the sun’s outer rim. ‘Ring of fire’ solar eclipse to slice across Americas on Saturday 2023-10-10T04:00:00Z In August, a team of paleontologists announced the discovery of another extraordinary creature that was blotted out of existence. An Ancient Whale Named for King Tut, but Moby-Dinky in Size 2023-09-25T04:00:00Z Some survivors jumped over a sea wall and sheltered in the waves as hot black smoke blotted out the sun. Residents prepare to return to sites of homes demolished in Lahaina wildfire 7 weeks ago 2023-09-24T04:00:00Z Tsunamis washed away coastlines, raging fires engulfed forests and dust and debris blotted out the sun for months. Wiping Out the Dinosaurs Let Countless Flowers Bloom 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z The panel also found that Wang “starkly siloed” Western blot preparation in his lab, apparently preparing nearly all such images himself—a highly unusual practice for a lab’s principal investigator. Co-developer of Cassava’s potential Alzheimer’s drug cited for ‘egregious misconduct’ 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z Perez's crash, from which he emerged unhurt and did only relatively light damage to his car considering the high speed at which he lost control, blotted what had otherwise been a strong day for him. Perez crashes during practice as Sainz fastest 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The smoke was starting to blot out the sun. They were alone in a fight to survive. Maui residents had moments to make life-or-death choices 2023-08-14T04:00:00Z Day turned to night as smoke blotted out the sun, occasionally bared as a red orb. As flames swallowed Maui, survivors made harrowing escapes 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z This is a dark stain on the profession, but it should not completely blot out the light. A crisis of lawyering: DOJ must act now 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z The committee noted in its report, however, that three of its members “routinely conduct experiments involving protein biochemistry and two out of four routinely conduct and publish western blot experiments.” Co-developer of Cassava’s potential Alzheimer’s drug cited for ‘egregious misconduct’ 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z One complainant called the plans "a blot on the landscape" with another accusing the applicant of "considerable removal of existing hedgerow on the site". Crooked House scandal 'must be catalyst for change' 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z On Sunday, Mr. Trump’s seven rivals seemed to hope voters simply ignored that the former president was blotting out the sun. In Iowa, the Cattle Calls. And Republican Candidates Look to Answer. 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z It also blotted Lowe's copy book with a powerful investment community that otherwise might have been more voluble in his defence. Australia's central bank loses chief to public ire over rates 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Wildfire smoke engulfed the iconic skyline of New York, blotting out the Empire State Building in a dystopian orange haze. This extreme weather from coast to coast: Is it 'a new abnormal'? 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z On this night, the Russians were trying to blot out his projections with ones of their own, including two giant white Z’s — a nationalist Russian symbol of the war effort. Russia’s Embassy in Washington Becomes a Different Kind of Battle Zone 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Whatever French people see in the ink blots seems to be increasingly ugly and irreconcilable. France Splits Into Rival Camps Over Police Shooting of a Teenager 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z “Use hot water alone instead of a chemical. Do not rub, just blot. Never scrub or you will ruin the fibers.” What you need to know before you move our of your home | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Were facts about that war blotted out in the same way as happens so regularly in current arguments? How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of "alternative facts" 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z I hope the mayor can reach a sound compromise because the scourge of open drug use is a terrible blot on civic life, even as the drugs kill more people every day. Fentanyl scourge is bigger than Seattle | Horsey cartoon 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z An overall record of 20 wins from 62 group and knockout games is a significant blot on the record of a manager who has achieved many excellent things in his career. 'Rodgers would have it all to prove in more testing arena' 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The indictment news has blotted out other developments on the campaign trail. How Trump Plans to Beat His Indictment, Politically 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z By losing two successive finals of the World Test Championship, however, India have blotted their copybook somewhat. WTC final: Why has India stopped winning ICC tournaments? 2023-06-11T04:00:00Z Exactly like their opponents' blame-Congress mantra, that scenario identifies a single cause for a historic change, blotting out a long list of other relevant factors. How the trauma of the Vietnam War led to the age of "alternative facts" 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Smoke from massive Canadian wildfires has been blowing thousands of miles across the U.S., blotting out the sun and shrouding many cities in a cough-inducing haze. Wildfire Smoke Reacts with City Pollution, Creating New Toxic Air Hazard 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The haze blotted out New York City's famed skyline and drew comparisons to Mars and a post-apocalyptic scene. La Guardia and Newark flight delays over Canada wildfire smoke 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z In reality, it’s a thick, hazardous haze that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. and Canada, blotting out skylines and turning skies orange. Smoky haze blanketing US, Canada could last for days as wildfires rage, winds won’t budge 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z The effects of hundreds of wildfires burning across the western provinces to Quebec could be felt as far away as New York City and New England, blotting out skylines and irritating throats. Canada wildfires are leading to air-quality alerts in US. Here’s how to stay safe 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z The following year set a state record with a million acres torched and a choking pall of smoke that blotted out the sun. Could prescribed fires offer the best protection for Washington's lynx? 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away, is so dazzlingly bright that it blots out the faint light of other stars around it. Webb Telescope Finds a Star Cloaked in 3 Rings of Ruined Worlds 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z This is the landscape of memory — hollow shapes, blank space and, here and there, a blot of ambiguous color and ambivalent feeling. They were once inseparable: A defiantly odd graphic memoir seeks a lost best friend 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z He has refused to allow wind turbines in the Duchy of Cornwall, calling them a “horrendous blot on the landscape.” Opinion | How King Charles can make himself relevant 2023-05-01T04:00:00Z “Being able to get my day in court finally is everything to me, so I’m happy,” Carroll said, as she lost her composure and blotted her face with a tissue. E. Jean Carroll testifies Trump raped her, then ‘shattered my reputation’ 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z That a person can be charged with a crime for having acted wrongfully as a result of a conceded mental health crisis is a blot on the prosecutorial system that authorizes it. Opinion | We shouldn’t criminalize mental health crises 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z In a hybrid eclipse, depending on where viewers stand, the moon either blots out the sun, a total eclipse, or obscures the center while leaving a ring of light visible, an annular eclipse. Hybrid solar eclipse draws thousands to remote Australian town 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z Mr. Trump monitored cable news while his aides took note of how much the coverage was blotting out almost everything else. For Now, Trump and Allies Focus on Political Upside of a Criminal Case 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Another aspect of The Trump Show is that it can blot out the story lines of the former president’s political rivals. Welcome Back to The Trump Show 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z At the time, I was in California and there were these extreme wildfires that were blotting out the sky, so it looked like nighttime in the middle of the day. NPR’s Ari Shapiro discusses his new book ahead of Town Hall Seattle talk 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z But to many French people it looked like presidential diktat, a blot on his reputation and a blow to French democracy. Macron Faces an Angry France Alone 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z For days, she'd been consuming tequila and Ouzo with wine chasers in an attempt to blot out her depression. Libianca: The true story behind the star's 'more alcohol' song, People 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Sappho is an apt avatar for Schwartz’s project: The totalizing excess of queer art can overwhelm you with laughter or longing, blotting out the painful experiences it sometimes describes. Review | A brilliant novel about the dreams and desires of queer women 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z A substantial supply of gray clouds overhead, often seeming to roll from horizon to horizon, blotting out sunshine, helped to hint at the blankness and bleakness that many associate with winter. Monday suggested a last February effort to be wintry 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z "They are a massive industrial blot on the landscape in the wrong areas. And in a little place like ours, we just felt that it was just not the right place." Onshore wind: 'I've saved £200 because of my local turbine' 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z The owner, Daniel Avissato, told the Times he later discovered in his bank records that someone had blotted out Friends of Pets United on the check’s recipient line and replaced it with Anthony Devolder. Rep. George Santos had 2017 theft charge expunged, lawyer says 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z The hanging of the 11 men convicted will be a blot on the American record, which we shall long regret. Making excuses for dictators is nothing new: "Mr. Republican" and the Nazis 2023-01-07T05:00:00Z “Right now data signals are mixed — like an ink blot, investors can see what they want,” Elsa Lignos, RBC Capital Market’s global head of FX Strategy, said in a note to clients this morning. Kevin McCarthy’s Business Ties Complicate His Rise to Power 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z A total eclipse on April 20 will be more of a Southern Hemisphere event, and the moon will only blot out the sun in remote parts of Australia and Indonesia. Space and Astronomy: What to Expect in 2023 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Beside us, a semi-tractor roared to life, its poorly maintained engine temporarily blotting out the sun with a cloud of malodorous black smoke. Reporting Vignettes From the Past Year in Canada 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z |
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