| 单词 | flattened |
| 例句 | Bulldozers had flattened millions of tons of coal tailings to create a black desert that stretched far down the narrow valley. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Papi had left a few boards down the center of the room and around his and Mami’s bed, to stand on until the ground was swept and flattened. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I stoop and stare at my face, my right cheek flattened on concrete. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Then I heard the shots and flattened myself against the wall. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The roots had flattened as he made his way here and there, seeking the shortest, safest route from place to place. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z She turned to him, looking not at his face, but at his shoes — old moccasins he wore as if they were slippers, the leather at the back permanently flattened. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Struggling to draw breath into lungs that felt flattened, he blinked and realized that the gaudy glare was sunlight streaming through a canopy of leaves far above him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Other protogalaxies with weaker gravity or less initial rotation flattened very little and became the first elliptical galaxies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Her red stitched smile had flattened out, like she was judging me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The tree struck him with such force it would’ve flattened me into a Percy pizza with extra olives. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z They flattened themselves against the wall and stood motionless. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The walking had been easy so far; after he had climbed over the mountain nearest Ch’ulp’o, the terrain had flattened out into endless rice fields. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But when he knew he heard Odysseus’ voice nearby, he did his best to wag his tail, nose down, with flattened ears, having no strength to move nearer his master. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sheryl stretches out a bunch of flattened soda cans strung together. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Then it became more subtle, minor disturbances :— a broken branch, a ring of flattened leaves — that I had to piece together to find a direction. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I had looked closely at the elaborate motifs of her tablecloths and doilies and had tried to draw them on lined notebook paper or on flattened grocery bags. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In the middle of the road was a flattened, bloody mass of brown prickles and white fur, with small black feet and snout crushed round the edges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I camped out as soon as the terrain flattened out. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He flattened his back to the oak pew, so I could climb over him, and I hustled down the aisle to the back of the church. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z And on the way he found the perfect slingshot stone, round and slightly flattened and heavy enough to carry through the air. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Jaja knelt beside Mama, flattened the church bulletin he held into a dustpan, and placed a jagged ceramic piece on it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was as if the bed had drawn a deep breath and then gracefully flattened itself into the grass. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Without warning, coming as a complete and unex-pected shock, she felt a pressure she had never imagined, as though she were being completely flattened out by an enormous steam roller. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z And on the floor of the thing were two poles, each flattened at one end. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She raised an arm to point to it, and the wind flattened her nightgown against her body. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Once the fire was flattened, the draccus began to follow the same pattern as before. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z So we sat for a while just where we were and I flattened out the doughnut bag with my hand on the table top. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I groped at the door, catching hold of the frame, but he lifted me off the ground, flattened my arms against my body, then dropped my head into the toilet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He took the empty bottle and the flattened straw, and sent Estha back into The Sound of Music. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleven bodies flattened against the ground at the edge of the woods. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The fence was sheltered on three sides by a screen of scrap lumber and flattened tin cans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They left stuffed animals, notes, ribbons, pieces of clothing, books, flowers, Bibles, flattened pennies, poems, photographs, jewelry, tiny trinkets. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She flattened her palms against the door and then pressed her body to the oak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He came to rest on a large maple near Sam’s lean-to and flattened his feathers to his body. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z It reached and nearly touched the delicious flattened balls of parboiled rice in my imagination. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z After all, flattened ears and a tail-wag were scarcely a conversation. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Mami propped up her pigeon pea and annatto bushes, which had been flattened by the storm, and soon they bloomed again, their leaves as new and fresh as babies. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Beyond, the road flattened out and I saw woods and steep hills in the mist. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She disappeared again, and I heard the crackle of the oil as it heated and the sighing sizzle as she dropped the flattened discs of dough in one by one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z At that point, I realized a few things: first, I had not been flattened into a pancake. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Okay,” I agreed, and drove slowly enough so that the squirrels could run relay races back and forth between the wheels of the car without getting flattened. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The couch was a threadbare blue stripey thing, with cushions flattened from long use. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z He opens it to reveal flattened caps arranged in neat rows. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Ned broke the wax with his thumb and flattened the letter to consider the king's urgent com-mand, reading the words with mounting disbelief. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The haptic chair instantly flattened itself again, then retracted so that it was flush against the wall, clearing a large empty space in the center of the room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He took it out in boxing, and he came out of Princeton with painful self-consciousness and the flattened nose, and was married by the first girl who was nice to him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Dropping to the horizontal girder, he flattened out on his belly. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z In fact, mobility, which once buoyed the working lives of Americans as it rose in the decades after World War II, has lately flattened out or possibly even declined, many researchers say. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z What Nandan is saying, I thought to myself, is that the playing field is being flattened ... The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The blast of air came like a sudden whistling gale; it took my breath and flattened my ears against my head, and I closed my eyes instinctively. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They flattened themselves on the platform and endured the deafening sound. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The culprit lay in the flattened path, raised up on his elbows, staring at the damage, guilty. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Hills flattened into nothingness, lowlands rose until they merged with promontories, and every part of Durham was revealed and intelligible in the gelid light. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And then the trail of the flattened brush widened out, and I saw him. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Now Sam, flattened out on the girder, was watching them walk toward the foreman. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to talk about it,” he said, his voice flattened. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z ‘You remember the time in Detroit, when he flattened Ma Gasket with a car engine?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then, as the angle of incline lessened, as the mound— the hill—flattened, nearing the bottom, the sled’s forward motion slowed. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z Which meant that they’d been lucky at Bright Sands, and missed being flattened. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z There were deep furrows in the cheeks, the cheekbones felt sharp, the nose flattened. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z They scrambled between the massive blue legs and flattened themselves in the mud, crawling as close as they could to his loincloth. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z My dad had my crumpled note, flattened out, in his lap. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Bigger flattened against the building, in the dark. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He flattened his hand and waved it this way and that, as if mimicking the movements of a feather falling from the sky. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Dad had it flattened out and he had the J-3 almost ready to fly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Crease by crease he unfolded it, until at last there came to view eight small misshapen seed pearls, as ugly and gray as little ulcers, flattened and almost valueless. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z The figure’s flattened ears and straining muscles convey her death throes with convincing realism. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Inside, flattened cardboard boxes covered most of the floor, which was worn from years of foot traffic. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The COs soon learned of the squadron’s prowess; angry farmers came calling after the 372nd’s hundred-pound bombs flattened an outhouse and one unfortunate cow. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z It was always better to drop down that way, feet first, arms holding on to the top of the ledge above, until you were quite steady, belly flattened against the wall. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He flattened out the two humps of wire, and with great care wriggled the charred scrap of paper on to one of them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z With the dragon’s broad horselike face and flattened body, it resembled the sort of zmeu that might adorn a medieval icon or tapestry. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z At 1000 g’s, the beam is still straight, but trees have become squashed and flattened; at 100,000 g’s, rocks are crushed by their own weight. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Sir Fig Newton crouched low, his ears flattened. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z But the claw of the crane had already flattened the roof, pinning his left leg, perhaps even breaking it. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Some got out, their bodies burnt and flattened, and went off not knowing where they were going. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She flattened up against the lockers, then backed around the comer, making sure her rubber soles didn’t squeak. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z At the base of the slab he flattened himself and perked his ears uphill. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Still, with my mom flattened upstairs and my dad working all the time, the house did feel a tad quiet and the fridge a wee bit empty. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z A few years or decades of tranquility may see grasses replaced by shrubs and trees which are in turn flattened by a violent thunderstorm, permit ting the grass to thrive again. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The sun floated over the mountains, stained the blue sky red-orange, and flattened the lagoon until it looked like a mirror for the stars. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Her feathers are flattened to her body, her eyes wide, neck stretched, and her wings are lowered for flight. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He flattened his ears to show he meant no threat, but that he would not leave. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Back in the workroom, she found that they had flattened her paper bag and set out the two bologna sandwiches mama had fixed for her. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Without warning, coming as a complete and unexpected shock, she felt a pressure she had never imagined, as though she were being completely flattened out by an enormous steam roller. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z About fifty yards away from him, the grass was being flattened by the still invisible quad as it made its next charge. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He stomped on it with all his might, stomped again and again, crushed it, flattened it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Jemmy flattened himself against the wall, and found the prince already there. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z When she winged down out of the hemlock, he ducked and flattened out in the snow shouting, “Blast off.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The ridge disappeared in darkness behind them as the terrain flattened out. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Harry could see him now, see the red eyes, the flattened, serpentine face, the pallor of him gleaming slightly in the semidarkness. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z And as the male lion finished, he lifted his paw, to reveal a flattened line of red thread. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He flattened his hand, and lifted off with it like it was a Dodge Gryphon, and he was making an engine noise, and then he flew his hand toward some books and landed it. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran her fingers along the hood of Jalil’s car, which was black, shiny, with glittering wheels in which Mariam saw a flattened, widened version of herself. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Once, she had seen a haint raise such a bluster on the sidewalk that a living man stumbled as it spun through him, falling hard into the street and nearly getting flattened by a streetcar. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z He blocked the doors with the drums and built a fire in the floor and he made beds out of some flattened cardboard boxes. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z As the ground flattened, a huge stone precipice rose up ahead of him, just barely visible in the moonlight. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He plucked what looked like a four-foot version of a string bean from a branch, split it lengthwise, and showed me flattened, shiny seeds arrayed along its length like teeth in a jaw. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The .38 slug had splashed off one side of Joe’s heart and had flattened against the ribs and torn out a section as big as a fist. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I flattened my body against the brick, steeling myself against the forceful water, and prayed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Hanako didn’t know what to expect, but she saw that Kobe was a mix of flattened ruins and damaged buildings as well as many undamaged ones. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z My mom flattened the bills on her lap. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I doze, flattened by a combination of trauma and moonshine. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z No wonder she looks as if she’s been flattened by a Mack truck. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He’s got his brown skin, like mine, and tight curls that get all flattened as he sleeps. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Wine bottles and beer cans were scattered everywhere, broken and flattened by tires. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Fiver seemed to grow even smaller as he flattened himself on the hard earth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He bent at the hip and stretched his spaghetti arms, his flattened dough hands, and his spider-leg fingers toward the camera. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Later, she told Kainene how afraid she was for Ugwu, how she felt as if she were about to turn a corner and be flattened by tragedy. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And then he opened the bus window, put the two stingers on the lip and slammed it back down, so the prongs flattened into super sharp blades—we called those “killer wasps.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z He paces on the flattened grass by the ditch, remaining remarkably clean, while the driver labors to change the tire. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Every wrinkle was a patch of sorry to be smoothed and flattened. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He held her hand over the board and smoothly flattened their palms against each other, interlocking his fingers with hers. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In the kitchen doorway, back arched, ears flattened, stands the ugliest tomcat in the world. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He stiffened and his ears flattened to his skull. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z His hair was flattened against his forehead, and dripping. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Clouds of water vapor swirled around me, winds so powerful they buffeted Hyperion and flattened the grass in a twenty-yard radius. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He handed me a flattened tin can that he’d probably been saving in his pocket for a thousand miles. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Here, the land had been cleared and flattened out. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She flattened herself against the wall, hoping they wouldn’t think to look in the library passage. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z With that noncommittal reply, he flattened himself and slipped under the door into the empty classroom. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z His right hand was jammed deep into his pocket, his thumb flattened against his leg. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Lucas found parts of the wire chicken run two miles from the house, flattened and wrapped around some trees. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The rain dashed against her and flattened her hair lankly over her cheeks. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The heavy slug struck him in the shoulder and flattened and tore out a piece of his shoulderblade. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Human” is feathers flattened, eyes wide, neck pulled in, wings drooped to fly. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A terrific, painless blow had flattened him out. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had never seen any coins from anywhere else, but he wouldn’t have been surprised if quarters in Mozambique looked like flattened beer caps. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z On the hillsides old crops dead and flattened. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Sometimes the ambulance workers must pry a flattened hand or leg off the rails to move the migrant. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He staggered to his feet and sucked the burned air into his flattened lungs until his head cleared. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Jon cracked the hardened wax, flattened the roll of parchment, read. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I flattened myself on the floor as much as possible. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z It flattened out and then pulled back a little from tension in itself. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On the raised part of the near end Hazel was crouching, his ears drooping on either side of his head and his flattened fur completely black with rain. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A few gray jays, so tame they would eat from his hand, landed nearby and started hunting for sandwich scraps in the flattened grassy area where the posse had been. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "When I first came here and saw the suffering and ruin, it nearly broke my heart. A once-great city flattened, and the people digging in the mud like dogs. I could hardly bear it." A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Tony Blair’s glottal stops and flattened vowels in office were an attempt to downplay his private school background, as is David Cameron’s plausibility-stretching insistence that he’s “middle class.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I stretched it out and flattened it with my palm. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Below them the sides of her breasts swelled out, flattened against the mattress. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Good afternoon, ladies,” she says again, her voice now tinny and flattened. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The right side of her face was red, and the hair on that side had flattened. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Taking a firm grip on the mitten, he flattened his ears in spirited fellowship, dashed down the slope and up to his den. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He was so good that Spider promptly overmatched him and got his nose permanently flattened. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z After the train had roared by, the massive wheels churning, we’d run to get our newly flattened, hot and shiny piece of metal. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She flattened the paper cup into the table, shattering their images. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Then came along this Internet-e-mail-browser phase, and it flattened the earth a little bit more. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z His upper lip was flattened and his nose was sort of squashed, and through the throbbing blur of panic and noise and people, I felt like bawling. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z She staggered through the reeds to the island ahead and flattened on the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I could tell the page had been crumpled up and flattened out. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Sarai found herself flattened against the wall, trying to make sense of the flow of faces, and they were all familiar but not as familiar as they would be if she had seen them recently. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z When she was flat on her stomach, Amaroq flattened his ears and wagged his tail once. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The monstrous army swarmed him, but the Maeonian drakon flattened everything in its path, sweeping its tail and spraying poison while Damasen jabbed at Tartarus, forcing the god to retreat like a cornered lion. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z So she doesn’t like pushy policemen very much, or pushy vice principals, and probably Mr. Canton was in more danger of a flattened face than he understood. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z The hands flattened against the panes, framed heads, and left red prints. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Kingshaw did not know which were worse, moths alive, with their whirring, pattering wings, or these moths, flattened and pinned and dead. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I walked slowly, taking my time, stepping on dead wet leaves that flattened beneath my feet. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But after I came around the corner of the final switchback, before the trail flattened out through the forest, I saw Annie ahead of me. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I flattened my hand against the table, spreading my fingers out. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z With one long jump, my brother flattened our castle. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The instant he had flattened it out he saw its significance. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He crouched low, growling an eerie warning, ears flattened tight against his solid head. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He watched as Seabiscuit’s body flattened down, his speed building, humming over the rail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z What she thought was how the city would have been full of people going about their lives before they were burned, flattened, ripped open. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z When it’s nearly time for Rosie’s act, I sneak into the big top and stand flattened against a section of seats. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z They would be even more powerful if that pox epidemic hadn’t flattened their birthrate and made them so desperate for a new gene pool and breeders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Inch by careful inch, paw by whisker, slowly painstakingly trying to make his body as small as possible, he flattened himself against the wall to get by the huge spadelike head. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The shadows flattened as she walked, and by the time she reached the other shore they had turned into sky and vanished. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see their wide, flattened, shovel-pointed heads now and their white- tipped wide pectoral fins. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like he’s still on the side of the road watching Aurora about to get flattened. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z I know I should have jumped off the bed and stomped across the room and flattened him against the wall and punched his lights out. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was knocked down, flattened, then hauled upstairs to be forcibly searched. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was bloodless, detached, floating in a world where darkness descended too soon and everyone walked around burdened by coats, and flattened by the absence of light. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She has flattened most of them to her body while lifting those between her shoulders. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As though everything around him had been flattened into a neat illustration. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Milligan had even closed the door behind him, Kate shrugged and cracked her knuckles, flattened her palms against the cement, and lifted her feet into the air above her. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z They were rather soggy, but he flattened them out. “. . . when the theatre was built, in . . . 1766,” said Joseph, reading from the notes. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z His round stomach had flattened out a trifle from the starvation winter, but he was by no means thin. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z It isn’t like that now, because so much has been flattened, and even from the creek, he can see everything all at once. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Ugwu had imagined the bald woman: beautiful with a nose that stood up, not the sitting-down flattened noses that he was used to. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z We remain flattened on the worn-out, dusty blue carpet of the bank, and Marv and I are looking at each other with eyes that argue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z They were thick-necked and brutal, with flattened noses and scars wandering across their arms and faces. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She gazes upon his bent back with flattened ears and then seems to adjust her attitude, swinging her trunk and investigating the ground in front of her. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The crucial dispute between Cartesians and Newtonians was over the shape of the Earth: Newton predicted an oblate ellipsoid, or flattened, Earth, while the Cartesians had predicted a prolate ellipsoid, or egg-shaped, Earth. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The place where he was seemed like a great field of boulders, with a flattened fortress at one end cf it—between the glass plates. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Later before the sun set she was back beside him, her body flattened, spent, but her face silent and undaunted. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z A flattened chick lies crooked, neck dangling off his palm. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He turned to look with strangely guilty eyes at Jackson, who came marching toward him through the little clusters of students, all of whom flattened themselves against the walls to let him pass. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The kind you wouldn’t want to get flattened by. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The clues here are the so-called ‘flattened’ degrees of the musical ladder, or scale, at the third and seventh positions. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z It was flattened out like an aerial photograph. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z I flattened myself against the dark red wall and averted my eyes as the techs from the medical examiner’s office took my parents away in body bags. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z You can buy miniature Christmas cards that say “Flowers from the Holy Land” and include a flattened burst of wildflowers. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Charlie pulls out a totally flattened hat, and his shoulders sag a little. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z A couple of boys would put a tin can on the car track and sit along the curb and watch with a professional eye as the trolley wheels flattened the can. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Red picked up my flattened hat and shoved it back on my head. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a spatula made from a flattened foodtin and with it he built a small village. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z In some cases, spiral arms form all by themselves in a galaxy that has already flattened to a disk. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They ceased whispering and flattened themselves into a shadow. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The agent flattened himself against the rock, thumbed back the hammer of his revolver, and waited for the horseman to show. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Bernoffski, his lungs flattened, his cold white body pinned to his freshly cut lawn. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The cave opening vanished and the mound flattened again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z I didn't feel so much as a twinge of pain, despite having been flattened by a train three days ago. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z She flattened the napkin against the altar and began to write. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I flattened it out: Ben, I’d love to go to prom with you, but I’m already going with Frank. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z As you looked out across the flattened, battered city, you could see the spire of Cologne Cathedral. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z I had seen my sisters’ scapulars and knew that the bit of cloth at the end had a picture of the Virgin or St. Joseph on it, but this scapular held a small, flattened pouch. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I stomped and flattened the dirt with my foot. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z She flattened herself like an obedient pup as he glided down his slope and up hers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside the bag, two flattened strips of white cotton, each banded with black and carrying a dark brown stain. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I used blue painter’s tape for the diamond, flattened shoebox tops for the bases, and a balance ball for the pitcher’s mound. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z Deepwood’s mossy walls enclosed a wide, rounded hill with a flattened top, crowned by a cavernous longhall with a watch- tower at one end, rising fifty feet above the hill. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The blast flattened buildings a mile in all directions and killed at least 2,000 people. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The powerful high beams picked up sprays of broken glass in the street, as well as nails, shards of metal, old hubcaps, tin cans, a flattened pair of men’s underpants. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Get back!” shouted Ron, and he, Harry, and Hermione flattened themselves against a door as a herd of galloping desks thundered past, shepherded by a sprinting Professor McGonagall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Flapping her hands on her head for ears, she flattened her fingers to make friends, pulled them together and back to express fear, and shot them for ward to display her aggression and dominance. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Next Foremole rummaged in his kit and came up with a tin of grease and a strong thin bar, one end of which was flattened like a spatula. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z For the second time that night, he ran to the door and flung it open—and was instantly flattened by Radar, who pounced on his chest and started licking his face from top to bottom. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z I flattened myself against the wall and held my breath to be less noticeable. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps the best- known subject is a man or boy gingerly holding a “were-jaguar”: a limp, fat, sexless baby with a flattened nose and a snarling jaguar mouth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He wore a green rasta-style cap, because when it rained his curly hair flattened and you could just see the tips of his horns. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Harry straightened his glasses and flattened his hair as Ron came spinning into view. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He held up a small pipe with a wide flattened bowl, and handed it to Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z When they rounded a corner, they flattened themselves fast against the building to catch what followed unawares moving steadily forward. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The bird has been flattened; its severed head is a couple inches away. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The water had flattened out some, but the wind was as steady as it had been all night. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Mia had flattened the pages, the wrinkles still rippled across the birds’ wings as if the wind were ruffling their feathers. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Twenty-four needle jabs to my rib cage later, I’m flattened out on my hospital bed, gritting my teeth to keep from begging them to bring back my morphling drip. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z On their left the stream flattened out into a large, calm, crystal-clear pond. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z They flattened themselves against the wall and listened. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z “Oh—” Stheno stepped back quickly to avoid getting flattened by the giant’s foot. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Magpies hunkered atop flattened prairie dog carcasses along the shoulder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Ropes lashed around Crusty and flattened him against the mattress. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I lost Worm and Dylan for a moment and then the path flattened and I came upon them just standing, waiting for me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z They carried shields made from flattened cars, and clubs that were tree trunks with rusty spikes bristling at the end. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z He half expected to see her come through flattened straight out like the coyote on Road Runner. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z His brown corduroy jacket was so old that its ridges had flattened out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Ernie Prang, an elderly wizard wearing very thick glasses, nodded to Harry, who nervously flattened his bangs again and sat down on his bed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z They had ratproofed it by lining it with flattened tin cans. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben and Matthew had flattened the back seats of the station wagon and inserted a double mattress so the children could sleep during the night journey through Georgia. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I see hope as Maria struggles to hold a fork in her flattened hands. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z A little owl with a slightly flattened, hawklike head peered down at them from one of the branches. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z There’s the factory worker whose hands were flattened like corn tortillas by a machine. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Arya crept back away from the well, dropped to her stomach, and flattened herself against the wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An old seamstress took a peacoat of mine, tore the lining out, opened and flattened the sleeves, added a collar, put arm holes in and handed me back a beautiful cape. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Miles’s expression flattened out the way it always did when he was dealing with information rather than emotions. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z He pulled a crumpled sheet of newspaper from a packing case, flattened it out as best he could, then pushed it underneath the door, leaving only a corner on his side of the doorway. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z I unrolled the carpet partway and immediately found something else: a flattened, empty box that had once contained twenty-four nutrition bars. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z If Kyle was in the wrong place when a shelving unit came shooting in from the side, he’d be flattened like a pancake under a steamroller. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The ground was littered with flattened soda cans and fast-food wrappers. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Again it was flattened, folded and flattened again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The street looked strange, unfamiliar; the compound gate was broken, the metal flattened on the ground. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She hopes she doesn’t get flattened by a car before she even gets out of her own state. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Even though Luxa had flattened herself on the bat’s back, Aurora barely managed to pull out of the maneuver without scraping her off on the ceiling. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z About mid-day they came to a hill whose top was wide and flattened, like a shallow saucer with a green mounded rim. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She looked down self-consciously and flattened her smile into a smirk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The area had been almost completely flattened by American bombers. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The beach at the end of this road was backed by low, rolling dunes, which flattened out to a narrow belt of sand before giving way to the placid gray water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Defenders screamed as a watery shockwave flattened them against the battlements. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As a kid during World War II, he’d sat in movie theaters, horrified by newsreel images of the smoking rubble of European cities that had been flattened by German bombs. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We pound down the cliff top path, kicking up our own dust, Manchee’s ears flattened back, running fast. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z No worry then but how to find a good stone, not round exactly but flattened and water-shaped, to use in a sling pouch cut from a discarded shoe. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Misha held an apple out in a flattened hand, and the horse munched it up. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z We flattened ourselves against the sides of the hut, and then Johnson peppered one side of it with the sixty. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, getting flattened under a plaster mountain had only energized him. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z On the day we heard this I sat sobbing in our kitchen, flattened with shame and rage. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He sprang into the dark passageway and flattened himself against the wall, listening to footsteps draw nearer, nearer, then pass and begin to recede down the street. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Salim said how huge it was and I said it had twenty-four storeys and Kat said it would be flattened any day now by our dad. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they could haul her to her feet, she yelled, “Ooooh!” and flattened herself against the catwalk. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Third, Roberval devised an experiment where a carp’s bladder which had been flattened and sealed tight was placed at the top of the Torricellian tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He glared at Ivan’s family with his ears flattened back against his head. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Her dark curls are flattened by a khaki cap, and her blue-green eyes are beaming at Dylan. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “And then, about a month ago, she suddenly went back to normal. Her face flattened out again. Back to being skinny and straight as a rail. I wondered.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z One sharp tap and the bead flattened to a tiny leaf shape, with the remainder of the wire its stem. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Tally swallowed, trying to imagine whatever was in there, flattened and buried for centuries in the dark. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He cracked the seal, flattened the parchment, and read. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I started toward the tree, but I stopped short as soon as I came around the corner of the barn, and flattened myself to the wall. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z The meadow grasses, which just a moment ago had brushed his shoulders, now seemed flattened to a broad green bowl. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Some flattened, squashing themselves along the axis of rotation where gravity is not balanced by centrifugal force. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the bright side, assuming there was a bottom, Annabeth and Percy would probably be flattened on impact, so giant spiders were the least of their worries. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He flattened himself against the wall and watched the people passing by the entrance to the passage. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z I’m utterly flattened by the knowledge that one stupid moment could bring down this kind of curtain. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, the palm trees in our courtyard were ripped and flattened from the wind of the helicopters, and looked far too defeated by war to accept my prayers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Tucker took out Number Seven with a solid hit, but Number Seven took revenge mid-period and flattened Tucker. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z All of these interoperable banking and e-commerce functions flattened the Internet marketplace so radically that even eBay was taken by surprise. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z We darted to a window that looked out on the street and flattened ourselves against the wall next to it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I said I thought a ridge that flattened out on top and had a little depth would be easier and more practical to hold than a succession of small mountains. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The little dust devil flattened into a trail. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z I rolled the dough into a ball and flattened it again into a thin circle. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Their flattened accents carry up into our apartment from three stories below. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She has the flattened soft fingertips of an old woman. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I figured she was picturing me flattened like a penny on the trestle rails. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z As we drove past an acre of flattened land and the makings of a huge building, my breath caught. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Coram and Sophie both spotted the pistol in his hand the moment before he flattened himself against the wall of the alley and disappeared into shadow. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Settled in that position, he flattened his palm against the back-in-the-day car’s door. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He tied the string again, and flattened the knot, as well as he could, then swung the satchel on to his back. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Then the road came over the crest, flattened out, and went into a forest. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He beached the skiff, took out his tarpon gaff, and flattened every single tire—I think there were, like, eight of them—on the Carmichaels’ RV. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z His nose is flattened and off to the side, encrusted with blood. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z On the brown walls of the flattened, overlapping leaves of the sturdy fibered guano there was a picture in color of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and another of the Virgin of Cobre. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The robot swung her flattened hand, and the sounds of chopping wood echoed across the water. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z With a heavy stone Constance flattened the conical brass extinguisher fitted to the top of the staff until it resembled a vicious-looking spear. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z His hair had flattened out, and it fell in his eyes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Jemmy flattened himself against the grave-cold wall, but the prince seemed suddenly to rebel at being chased down like a sewer rat. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z Pollard flattened down for a hard mile workout. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But Hester sensed her coming and flattened herself in time, and the owl’s claws just missed. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Adria had a soft spot for turtles too, but I was surprised when she ran into the empty street and picked up the flattened thing. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The wheels flattened his right foot, then sliced through his left leg above the knee. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Maniac uncrumpled the page, flattened it out as best he could. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama’s lips flattened out into a thin line that reminded me of Dinah’s. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z My father put a hand to my chest, and we flattened ourselves against the wall in the shadow of an apartment building. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It seemed as if the tops of the swells were flattened somehow. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z You flattened the ball into a perfect circle, concentrating, with the tip of your tongue between your lips. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Almost all of those in the crowd were white, and their faces had a certain flattened, nonfrilled look, like the land in which they lived. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She found him flattened out on a car track to make a miniature potsy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagrid launched himself forward on top of the skrewt that was cornering Harry and Ron and flattened it; a blast of fire shot out of its end, withering the pumpkin plants nearby. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I flattened my ear against the wall and heard a woman’s angry voice, then another, the higher voice of a girl shouting back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A Plan I don’t have to tell Brother Khoi, who heard in the halls of bis school that my face is to be flattened flatter tomorrow. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The peaks of home flattened out as they approached the coast, and then, like the first time she had come to Hampton, it came into view: the James River. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Harry flattened himself against the wall as Mr. Weasley came clattering past with his robes on back-to-front and hurtled out of sight. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z His features—the broad face, the flattened nose, the narrow, pleated eyes—looked so elegant. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z When they're flattened out and drying, I examine the contents of the first-aid kit. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z It had a conical top, slightly flattened at the summit. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A glassine bandage wrapping danced across the area between the huts, flattened itself momentarily against the small, still body of a dead NVA soldier, and then flew off into the jungle. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt considerably flattened by the evening’s events. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z The nose has been flattened until it barely exists. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Each word diminished them, flattened them against the night until they were puppets, pointing fingers in each other’s faces. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Big Ma’s smile soon flattened when the pastor said—his face still glazed in a smile—“You know you’re not really married unless you’re married in the house of the Lord.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z There’s something to do with them, something like a sentence in tiny dry print on a page, flattened out, like the dates of ancient battles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Howard flattened his sandwich between the palms of his hands. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z It’s as if a decade’s blurry reminiscence has been flattened into an indefinite, sentimental mush. ‘8-Bit Christmas’ Review: Now You’re Playing With Power 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z These works expand on the grandeur of nature with sly jokes, and they redesign its vistas into flattened shapes that keep elegance and bluntness in even balance. Art by Milton Avery, Joe Bradley and Chris Martin 2010-03-11T21:54:00Z With their flattened perspective, the book’s pages have the allure of the poster, brazen, sleek and sturdy. In Praise of Maurice Sendak 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The shoe’s toe has surrealistically morphed into a flattened, flexible extrusion flowing down the stairs. ‘All Back in the Skull Together’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Windows and screens appear frequently here, as do drop shadows, flattened gradients and the odd perspectives of video games and digital animation. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The dinner menu will also feature mafrum, a dish built around stuffed, flattened potatoes. Kish-Kash, From Einat Admony of Balaboosta, Opens 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z Soon a flattened circle of meat lay near the chancellor's left hand, the rich aroma inflaming both of his proud equine nostrils, and making one of his white legs tremble excitedly. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the coalition plays silly burgers 2013-06-29T23:06:38Z Indeed we see that early on in the series when the son of the nouveau riche Russells saves the life of Pumpkin, who is almost flattened by a carriage. The value of Pumpkin on "The Gilded Age," descended from a breed that's all about the good life 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z A solid summer lineup helped studios catch up to 2010, but ticket sales flattened again in the fall and have remained sluggish right into what was expected to be a terrific holiday season. Movie crowds dip to 16-year low as apathy lingers 2011-12-28T20:32:11Z I kept wishing for a quirky, flattened landscape or marine view by the great Thomas Chambers to disrupt the fussy verisimilitude and endless vistas of the Hudson River school paintings. Crystal Bridges, the Art Museum Walmart Money Built ? Review 2011-12-26T15:29:45Z He was "green" before the term was coined: cereal boxes were flattened and cut up to be used for endless lists, while he perfected the art of packing the dishwasher in the most efficient way. Alick Smithers obituary 2013-02-14T17:37:07Z Latter-day blues-rockers have often flattened out those quirks, but the Stones maintain them. The Rolling Stones Paint It Blue on Their New Album 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z The “Petrouchka” struggled to define its episodic style clearly, and flattened its layers of unsettling counterpoint as if polishing over them in one stroke. The Ups and Downs of Europe’s Most Interesting Opera Festival 2023-07-11T04:00:00Z Large ensembles are complex organisms, at constant risk of being flattened online. Online, Simon Rattle Gives a Preview of His Future in Munich 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z And let’s not forget the dazzling reality of Neel’s paintings as objects, the insistence of her color, light and flattened compositions, the undisguised preliminaries, drawn in blue, and her surface textures. It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z It is a little-known fact that Norman Rockwell omitted his hipster mustache and “flattened apple” hat from his self-portrait. Pen & ick: Winning captions for Style Invitational cartoons 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z Over Trump’s shoulder, another ruddy-faced man licked his teeth and flattened his lips into a straight line. Trump’s own Beltway establishment guy: The curious journey of Don McGahn 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z "Everything has been flattened into an image because of the media, but art is more than images." Social media have become a vital tool for artists — but are they good for art? 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s one thing to read about it but another to wonder whether the wide stones, so soft to the touch, were flattened by wheels of ancient chariots. In France, Narbonne takes a turn in the international spotlight 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z In addition to killing 291 people and injuring hundreds, Wednesday's 6.2 magnitude quake flattened three medieval towns in central Italy, destroying not only private homes but also churches and other centuries-old cultural treasures. Bulldozers work to clear out Italy's quake-hit towns 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z The buoyant flattened forms of “February 15” bring to mind the work of Arthur Dove, while the intimations of off-kilter still life in “February 17” can summon Alfred Maurer. Art In Review: LES ROGERS: ‘Summer Swells’ 2012-08-09T20:25:43Z His reliefs—paintings layered atop one another—invent surprising new shapes, like flattened origami. Ellsworth Kelly Debuts 18 New Works in New York 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z From one angle the iceberg looks like flattened top hat; from another, it looks like a woman's shoe. The whalers' worst nightmare sets sail again 2011-06-03T19:04:00Z “The art world has flattened the ways in which Blackness operates,” Sargent said. Beyond Beyoncé Fame, Awol Erizku Expands What Black Art Can Be 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The director Sam Bailey said making a web show allowed for creative freedom to parse out the nuances of marginalized identities that are often flattened in mainstream media. 'So often we get pigeonholed': how queer women of color found a voice online 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Weirdly inconsequential, most of the stories trail off, leaving little impression save that of sad, flattened lives. Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China - review 2012-05-22T12:31:01Z He fractured her skull and pounded one of her hands so hard that her wedding ring flattened into an oval. Death row teens: He’d committed a vicious murder at 16, but was he really incapable of change? 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z Before the cod succumbed to overfishing, the port town was teeming with rickety tables covered with flattened fish drying in the sun. In Quebec, a maritime region’s embarrassment of riches in history and cuisine 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z Realistic but with heightened colors and flattened planes, they’re homey and glamorous at once, capable of absorbing any number of idiosyncratic details. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z Rendered in vivid, high-contrast colors and flattened, variously textured shapes, these passages mix Cubism, Expressionism and Surrealism with cool, 1950s-style suavity to optically enrapturing effect. Chuck Jones’s Animated Offspring in ‘What’s Up, Doc?’ 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “I operate more with fragments,” she said, before her expressive face flattened: “I just don’t know what the show is.” Kate Berlant Can’t Hide Any Longer 2022-08-23T04:00:00Z Traylor would sometimes start one of these portraits with a rectangle or flattened oval, as if trying to capture weight and body as general categories before moving on to specifics. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine that Self’s picturesque words need any illustration, but in a world so flattened by recession and dreary retrenchment, it is refreshing to be rewarded with such extravagant fare. 2010-01-01T00:14:00Z Rather than being flattened by concentration, many small publishers still do remarkable work, alongside the larger houses. What they're reading in France 2011-03-21T08:00:02Z Photograph: 20th Century Fox/Allstar I flattened my back against the wall, feeling the rough brick scratch and pull against my new cashmere jumper. Your stories: Dragons are not what you expect them to be by Ellathebookworm 2013-01-11T09:00:00Z The bar was packed with weekend vacationers buying Bud Lights out of buckets, orange Jell-O shots off trays, mixed drinks with plastic straws that would end up flattened under a mob of flip-flops. Go Go Gadjet reigns supreme at Dewey Beach. Can the kings of the weekend go national? In lieu of lone pilgrims and natural light, package tourists making online bookings joined artificial lights that flattened the image. 15 (Long) Minutes With ?The Last Supper? 2011-07-13T13:32:08Z Look for bright orange Fuyu persimmons, shaped like a flattened sphere. Freshen up the Waldorf salad with persimmons, Asian pear and grapefruit 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z Both the black and white characters have been flattened into two dimensions. | ?Lost in the Stars?: Pursuing a Prodigal Son, Who?s Strayed to the City 2011-02-04T23:55:30Z The wintry “Tree on the Hudson,” with its elevated view flattened and divided by a zigzagging tree trunk, reminds you of the Hudson River landscapes of George Bellows. ‘Jane Wilson at 90’: ‘East Village/East End’ 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z Just as no human being consistently represents one stance or another, no character on "Mad Men" is entirely flattened out for the sake of making a point. "Mad Men" recap: Women on the verge 2010-09-20T12:20:00Z He said to me very clearly that since 1974, American wages have flattened completely per capita -- what a working man can make, union men. Oliver Stone: Our empire is in decline 2010-09-23T11:01:00Z So many of the blah aesthetic choices leave shows totally inert, wild tales flattened into PowerPoint presentations. Please Stop With the Cheesy Documentary Re-Enactments 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z Toasted, flattened, manhandled, banged up, blown apart, brought down. Trash our city, please! 2011-04-06T23:41:00Z A flattened face, a hand, all as brown as the soil. It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why. 2011-11-09T10:00:54Z I slathered the beans Guillermo flattened into a rough paste over a fried tortilla chip, topped it off with a thick piece of cheddar and a single jalapeño slice, and offered it to Guillermo. Did slaves catch your seafood? 2012-05-21T14:26:00Z But Stout’s “The Rootworker’s Table” had a lighter way of dealing with show’s mission of returning sensuality to the kinds of lives, both real and imagined, that have been flattened by cultural anxieties over time. Playing Hoodoo: Renée Stout and “The Rootworker’s Table” 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z That is, they’ve seen the tragic endgame of their data projections and became psychologically flattened by them it. Warren Ellis' 'Normal' is a fast-paced dystopia about a burned-out futurist 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z Like many of the pleasures of online life, the appeal of the videos is found in having the texture of the real world flattened by the distance of a digital screen. The “Oddly Satisfying” Pleasures of Slime Porn 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Filled with beans and cheese or shredded meat, they’re flattened and griddled until the tortillas are crisp and the fillings threaten to ooze out. The Los Angeles fast food revolution 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Once those individual sections have been flattened down, so they’re fully focused, they are joined together like a jigsaw puzzle to produce the final image. Can Art Help Save the Insect World? 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z A dish may look like little more than a scoop of black rice flattened into a puck, but when a spoonful of that rice makes contact with the palate, a deeper complexity unfurls. Estela Partners Aim to Make Lightning Strike Twice 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z It’s easy to understand why someone, especially in a creative field, might not want to give up that rush for the flattened, even suppressed emotions that sometimes result from medication. Filmmaker Paul Dalio mines his bipolar disorder for feature debut 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z The menu, in addition to the cauliflower, includes “Run Over Potato,” a baked potato flattened like a carpaccio using a meat pounder and served with sour cream and herbs. Eyal Shani, an Israeli Celebrity Chef, Makes His New York Debut 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z They were reflected in the subtle seaming that flattened the front and loosened the back. Fashion Review: Designing for the Working Woman 2014-02-12T17:06:16Z They spiral from the river like toilet water flushing in reverse and erupting out of the bowl — a corkscrew or what have you, a flattened pig’s tail, a whorling braid notched one to 20. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z Gently divide ground beef into four small piles of around 8 ounces each, and then lightly form these into thick patties of around 3½ inches in diameter, like flattened meatballs. How to make the perfect hamburger 2014-06-30T04:00:00Z Each tiny generator was a flattened spiral — imagine the head of a thumbtack, if it were shaped from a tight coil of metal rather than a single flat sheet — measuring 0.2 inches across. Science-fiction turns real: Genetically engineering animals for war 2013-03-23T19:00:00Z When I got back to my house, it was flattened. Haiti survivors 2010-07-10T10:00:00Z The partners are especially proud of their cracked pepper and salt bagel, their whole-grain bagel and their pletzel, a kind of large, flattened bialy covered with onions and poppy seeds. Shelsky’s Branches Into Bagels 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z That Ray’s work keeps him horizontal is as much a metaphor for his financially flattened position as it is for anything. Television: Thomas Jane on ?Hung,? Symbol of the Recession 2010-08-05T22:03:00Z Although you can see well into the distance, to the rolling, treed hills that serve as the camp’s backdrop, Mr. Anderson has shot the scene so that the depth of the image has been flattened. Movie Review: Wes Anderson’s ‘Moonrise Kingdom,’ With Bruce Willis 2012-05-24T22:46:29Z Beaches became cliffs, and cliffs flattened into beaches. In a Time of Crisis, Her Voice Was the One That Galvanized Alaska 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z “Poultrygeist” pulls no punches as, right at the start, we see the story’s protagonist, a chicken casually crossing the road, flattened by a trailer truck. Fright Lite 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z After barely a minute, the mixture will begin to resemble oatmeal or flattened breadcrumbs, and this is when you add the yolk mixture. The 20 best Nigella Lawson recipes: part 4 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z The bark is flattened and kiln-dried, ready for mounting. An architect couple designs a dream house 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z The history of racism in America, and of efforts to overcome it, is usually addressed by Hollywood with a solemn, anxious, churchly hush and flattened into a tableau of villains and saints. Movie Review: ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’ Stars Forest Whitaker 2013-08-15T16:52:46Z The exhibition includes roof trusses from a huge shed that housed one production line, which museum staff salvaged last year just before it was flattened. Exhibition sheds light on wartime shadow factories 2013-07-15T12:59:51Z Each is flattened into a square, and then layered, one on top of the other. Rainbow bagels – like normal bagels but psychedelic 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z Their flattened, stylized forms, and the often friezelike arrangement of the figures, suggested Greek vase art set to a jazz soundtrack. Lester Johnson, Expressionist Painter, Dies at 91 2010-06-09T00:46:00Z “Profiles,” from 1979, is one of those rites, an inventive stunner for two couples who move in flattened poses and freak out formally. Review: Watching Paul Taylor’s Road Not Taken (and Lessons Learned) 2022-06-16T04:00:00Z After Purna kneaded the dough, we formed small balls and flattened them into sand dollars. In Kathmandu, dumplings are everywhere — and now I know how to make my own 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z I turned away and covertly selected nine $20 bills from my wallet, folded and flattened them, and palmed them to him. Paul Theroux’s Mexican Journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z In Argentina and Uruguay, these potatoes are called papas aplastadas, which simply means flattened or crushed, but sounds fancy. Meat and Potatoes Get an Upgrade 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Yet they have the distant, flattened dimensions of specimens under glass. ‘A Delicate Balance’ Revival Stars Lithgow and Close 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The Dials start to seem like crazed, dimensionalized quilts, the quilts like flattened, more orderly Dials. At the Met, a Riveting Testament to Those Once Neglected 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z “Kermit has, as a character, flattened out over time and has become too square and not as vital as it should have been,” Henson said. Save Kermit! Why the Muppets debacle is so devastating 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Instead, 50 students were flattened in a resounding domino effect of fail. Stagediving, putting the danger back into live music 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z No cityscape of dreams can ever be wholly flattened. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z Only ever talking through gritted teeth, JR flattened business rivals and treated women like oil wells, to be drilled and abandoned. Your next box set: Dallas Season 14 2011-02-18T08:00:02Z Ms. Rohrwacher’s gentle expressiveness is flattened by a role requiring a monotonous strain of suspicion and mental imbalance. Review: ‘Hungry Hearts,’ a Drama About Love and Obsession 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z A large Qing dynasty vase in the form of a flattened sphere known as a “pilgrim flask” has a mesmerizing mandala on either side. Art Review: When Enamel Wares Adorned China?s Imperial Courts 2011-02-17T21:29:31Z “I wouldn’t define it, because once you define it, it’s dead — you boxed it in, you flattened it,” Halsey said. Lauren Halsey Brings Her Vision of South Central Los Angeles to New York 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z This makes their presence as overwhelming as the devastation of their falling, partly flattened bodies. In the galleries: The fleeting beauty of birds, making their final flights 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z For a long time, the Cahokia Mounds were essentially ignored, and many of them were flattened for farming and development, but now there’s an impressive visitors’ center. 2010-01-07T18:26:00Z The lot holds a half-demolished church, a flattened playground and a container papaya garden, tended by a crabby girl named Jolene. How Can a Kid Today Hear His Inner Voice? 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Deep characters are flattened; their motivations, intricate in the film, are left unexplained here. Music Review: A von Trier Tragedy, Recast as Opera 2011-07-31T21:40:49Z Chewing Gum Dreams, the dreams of the abandoned and forgotten, the ones which get flattened, stuck to filthy pavements, trodden on by those who barely register their faded existence any more. Coel: A rising star at the National 2014-03-25T08:07:12Z Eco was, of course, offended and fired back a series of sarcastic modest proposals that pretty much flattened his critics. In 'Confessions of a Young Novelist,' Umberto Eco offers his secret formula for a bestselling novel 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z But they flattened the Cavern and turned it into a car park. Ian McCulloch: 'Car parks are a bigger threat than war' 2013-04-11T16:23:18Z While the characters they play may be two-dimensional, one of the pleasures of seeing Ruth and Debbie’s journey is that they aren’t flattened into tropes at all. Fight and flight: how Glow continues to show women at their best and worst 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “I was just flattened,” she recalls happily before launching into yet another story about another one of her college-era “grande dames.” Lily Tomlin has led a singular comedic life. And that’s the truth. The result is a kind of flattened Cubism whose architectural clarity and spareness has an in-process look. A New Level of Ambition in Art by 3 Women 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z I felt uncomfortable because I wasn't really sure how to address the racial identity that is both very monolithic and flattened by American culture, and also so tenuous and undefinable. Cathy Park Hong: "Sometimes you just have to push back – being offended is part of the process" 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Still, even that is a flattened description of a novel that is more sophisticated than the leaden morality tale it’s often made out to be. How ‘Orwellian’ Became an All-Purpose Insult 2021-01-13T05:00:00Z The capsule was utterly flattened, and the buffer retro rockets in its base blew up on impact, burning what little wreckage was left. T Magazine: First Man Up 2011-03-08T14:00:35Z There are some recent drawings in the show, done on flattened paper grocery bags. Simone Forti’s Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Huynh said he wouldn’t eat it, but refused to say why, leaving the flattened, just-grilled rat on a plate staring at me. Asia-Pacific Issue | Choice Tables: In Vietnam, Cauldrons on Every Corner 2010-03-17T15:21:00Z This ephemeral piece, almost a mini-Earthwork, consisted of a pile of sand that was gradually flattened by air currents from four industrial fans. Art Review: ‘Alice Aycock Drawings’ at Grey Art Gallery and Parrish Art Museum 2013-06-13T22:08:49Z His triumphs in season 2 came too easy, as he flattened obstacles and adversaries like that Metro train flattened poor Zoe Barnes. Review: More Power, More Problems in House of Cards 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z “Blue” is an assembly of blue papers, a row of small berry cartons, a flattened Adidas box and a piece of spray-painted cardboard. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z USA Today's Claudia Puig says "The Giver" is "visually handsome, but disappointing and thematically flattened," and she agrees that it "suffers from comparison to the surfeit of teen-centered dystopian thrillers in recent years." 'The Giver' doesn't get it, reviews say 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z An earthquake has flattened Israel, and the Arab world seizes this moment to unite and attempt to crush it. ‘Here I Am,’ Jonathan Safran Foer’s Tale of a Fracturing Family 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z The new album finds the Disclosure sound flattened even further in the name of heavyweight vocal collaborations: The Weeknd on the spooky “Nocturnal,” Lorde on the heaving “Magnets,” Mr. Smith on the limp thumper “Omen.” Review: Shift in Direction Leads Disclosure’s ‘Caracal’ Tour to Madison Square Garden 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Knead lightly and shape into a flattened square. A Sophisticated Update for a Party Favorite 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z These elements were flattened in the otherwise admirable forward momentum. Schubert’s final sonatas given impressive rendering by Israeli pianist 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z And behind it all of course there was my mother, a woman whose fierce endorsement of anything her children wanted to be or to pursue flattened all resistance and brought supporters out in droves. On LGBTQ allies and angels, and Stonewall at 50 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z But you don’t want too much almond cream up there, or you’re left with a soggy, flattened pancake of a thing. How to transform a bakery croissant into something marvelous 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Some prod the object gingerly, like drivers checking a freshly flattened hedgehog for signs of life. Dynamo: Magician Impossible – now that's magic 2013-07-06T05:00:00Z “It’s a French twist we destroyed a tiny bit, because we want a modernity,” said Odile Gilbert of the hair — a chignon and slight bangs flattened to one side using Kérastase Double Force hairspray. | Thakoon 2012-02-13T16:00:38Z He did, of course, collect many plant specimens, but they were immediately flattened and did not show a flower or plant as it looks in life. A Botanist in Swedish Lapland 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z “Pink” builds on the deep red of an Indian paisley bedspread, with flattened boxes for fruit and beer, Brillo and Coke. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-01-27T05:00:00Z The flattened use of a child narrator's point of view forces the historical context to be relayed in heavy-handed dialogue. In the Shadow of the Banyan by Vaddey Ratner – review 2012-09-29T21:55:01Z Prescott left the room flattened, wondering, “Do I keep going?” A Novelist Inspired by the Cold War, a C.I.A. Typing Pool and ‘Dr. Zhivago’ 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Her blonde curls flattened to her shoulders and neck as I poured a cup of dull water over her head. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The underlying stone structure is hidden by a smooth, slightly flattened and peaceful-looking grassy lawn. Jane Smiley Explores Ancient Ireland’s Mysterious Tombs 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z And her renderings, despite their realism, are flattened to emphasize their artificiality. Review | In the galleries: ‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death 2019-12-24T05:00:00Z So was Matisse, who had one eye on Renoir's Orientalist dress-up fantasies like The Concert, with its flattened space and overall patterning, when he produced his odalisques. La Vie en Rose 2010-02-18T17:35:00Z Without the angles and artistry of Coppola, “Solo” lost its luster, flattened out by the predictable patterns of the choreography and Anthony Huxley’s wistful stares into what is known as the modern dance corner. Review: City Ballet Dresses Up for Another Fashion Letdown 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z But the rest of the storytelling is more traditional, and it is flattened by a humdrum plot and a poorly written female protagonist. Where Does ‘Unicorn: Warriors Eternal’ Rank in the Tartakovsky Canon? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z Her framing didn’t touch on the realities of the wage gap, and her later remarks flattened the fact that people embody multiple identities at once. “Fight for us now”: What Patricia Arquette got right (and wrong) about equal pay 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z The country was broke, battered, and in parts physically flattened, but certainly it was no longer bowed. The Spirit of '45: where did it go? 2013-03-02T16:00:02Z The last time Chicago saw itself flattened was the Chicago Fire of 1871. Trash our city, please! 2011-04-06T23:41:00Z Each bar is gently flattened a little bit on the side turning towards you. Danish marzipan ring cake recipe 2012-10-12T12:00:00Z Both vehicles sustained major front-end damage -- the taxi hood was caved in, and the front of the van was flattened. Two-car wreck hurts four outside City Hall 2011-12-23T13:00:00Z I cross the Nueces River into rain and watch a buzzard picking at a deer carcass so thin and flattened it bounces up and down like a piece of cardboard. Driving Through the Heart of Texas 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z If you’ve got that document flattened out beside your typewriter, it will be easier to sound authoritative as a food critic. Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov 2013-05-09T21:24:23Z She’s flattened all 80 pounds of herself against my legs, smacking her mouth and whimpering. Dog is love 2013-02-23T14:00:00Z However, with the advent of capitalism and modern media, Benjamin believed that faraway horizons have been flattened, and differing experiences have cancelled each other out. Li Er: the future of the novel in China 2013-03-15T15:49:26Z The last panel of this sequence shows Marcie flattened on the floor, her face sad and exhausted. What “Peanuts” Taught Me About Queer Identity 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Her early work focused on her own body, flattened to a silhouette, often depicted nude and rendered in bright acrylic colors. Kay WalkingStick, painting her heritage 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z And then there was “the steak,” which Mr. Rubisel said consisted of a flattened top hanging off a shaved head like a comb-over. Forget Retro. The Men of Havana Embrace the Reggaeton Look. 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Often a flattened perennial will spring back once the weather dries. The late-spring trim can do wonders for summer perennials 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z By digital means Mr. Campus abstracted his imagery, simplifying it into flattened, generally rectangular planes that slightly shift and flicker as you study them. Art in Review: PETER CAMPUS: ?Calling for Shantih? 2010-12-09T23:20:00Z A bright yellow 1965 three-wheeled BMW bubble car comes complete with a flashing a flashing orange light fitted after he was almost flattened by a lorry. In pictures: Jimmy Savile auction 2012-07-27T07:44:21Z Which explains why he flattened the Hollywood sign and put an active volcano beneath Austin. When the World Feels Like a Disaster, ‘9-1-1’ Is on Call 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Half its muscular form is rendered from messy rivulets of plaster, half from flattened surfaces that bear the imprint of heavy pencil-marks. Artist of the week 120: Thomas Houseago 2011-01-05T12:52:15Z When the last underground seam stopped producing, the company began a mountaintop removal operation that has already flattened seven mountains and created a toxic slurry pond that threatens to contaminate the town. Book review: ‘The Secret Wisdom of the Earth’ 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z Onstage, that dynamic was somewhat flattened by compositions that tended to highlight the men or put everyone in an undifferentiated swirl. Debating ‘Hamilton’ as It Shifts From Stage to Screen 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Earlier today I nearly got flattened by someone getting on the elevator car I was trying to leave. Modern Etiquette: Doors, Elevators, and Escalators 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z He bought it in the 1960s when he was resident DJ at the New Elizabethan Ballroom in Manchester and fitted a rotating orange beacon on the roof after he was nearly flattened by a lorry. Jimmy Savile's treasures put up for auction 2012-06-28T17:27:14Z There are flask-shaped bottles in the form of spheres flattened into canteen forms. Art Review: Vessels of Clay, Centuries Old, That Speak to Modernity 2011-04-07T20:56:46Z “In that way, she feels like it plays to our moment,” he said, “when so much of culture is globalized and flattened.” An Ellsworth Kelly for Football Fans 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Now spread out on the Great Lawn and imagine a completely different landscape: perfectly symmetrical, flattened formal gardens composed of topiaries patterned as stars and spirals and paisley flowers. 10 Places That Define New York City, Reimagined 2017-10-30T04:00:00Z Their sharp twitches are in dramatic contrast to the soft, languid, flattened movements of the lovers. Christopher Williams’s Garden of Fantastical Delights 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Their postures often resemble the flattened profiles of figures on a Greek vase or bas relief. Love, death yield mild results from Mark Morris Dance Group 2014-02-15T17:36:00Z Then he digitally processed individual sections of the photographs to create a new, flattened perspective of each dome. See Rome’s Most Beautiful Rotundas 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Now, Ukraine’s second city was being flattened; shells were landing daily, even as western Ukraine found an unsteady calm. The Life’s Work of Photography’s Great Trickster, and Ukraine’s Greatest Artist 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z Interrupting these abstract forms are five red birds, flattened and simplified into icons of a new age. The Wandering Creativity of Sophie Taeuber-Arp 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z The pieces of cake mass are now shaped into rings with the flattened part turning up. Danish marzipan ring cake recipe 2012-10-12T12:00:00Z When the rollers turn, the grain is flattened — almost like rolling dough through a pasta machine. How to make oatmeal perfectly every time 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z A month on I’m still finding flattened tangerines in the garden. Teenage parties – a parents’ guide 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z He obscured the extent to which he “strip-mined” her story; he flattened her into a temptress. The Salacious Non-Mystery of “The Real Lolita” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Peeled green plantains are fried in vegetable oil, seasoned with salt, squashed into flattened rounds and refried until golden. A Day to Celebrate Haiti’s Flag, and Its Foods 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z The Fantasia contains many of Vaughan Williams's trademarks, particularly the way he whets his chord harmonics with the flattened seventh, a staple of English folk, and the minor third, the key feature of Tallis's setting. Cloud of knowing 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z An explosion flattened a home in the 6600 block of South Keating Avenue before 7 a.m. on Sunday, according to the Chicago Fire Department. Explosion reported in West Lawn 2011-11-13T13:09:00Z Ah – the fist uncurling to reveal a flattened .38, it never gets old. Cable girl: No Ordinary Family 2011-01-11T07:59:02Z She is taking all the issues flattened out by aid appeals and rhetoric and weaving a story around them that defies you to resent Darling for her departure for America. ‘We Need New Names’: harsh vision of the African Diaspora 2013-08-24T15:12:52Z The boulevard flattened out, but for all my pedaling I was slowing down. Euro crisis? vultures 2012-05-17T15:25:00Z If you flattened out his looping pale resin forms, the loose brush work and smeared paint coursing across their surfaces might resemble second-generation Abstract Expressionism from the 1950s, except for occasional additions of spray paint. Ernesto Burgos: ‘Monotony of Type’ 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z For example, to fluff a flattened down sleeping bag, launder the item with an extra rinse and two dry cycles. What to do while you can’t travel? Prepare for when you can. 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Before it, a flattened stuffed doll painted with Blümli’s face lies on an ermine-covered cot with one eye open — the better to spot anyone who might be tiptoeing closer in order to tuck him in. | Kai Althoff's Crash Pad 2011-01-26T19:33:28Z It’s flattened on the grill under a weight so that the flavors seal into one. Cooking, Inspired by Grandma, at My Cuban Spot in Brooklyn 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Now that I’m a can’s throw from the house, with its mosaic of beer can parts — flattened aluminum strips from the cans here, circular bottoms there, garlands of lids everywhere — I’m less awed than incredulous. A hometown girl goes looking for the quirky heart of Houston 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z On the word “beladen” she flattened her voice into a moan. Music Review: Angelika Kirchschlager and Ian Bostridge at Lincoln Center 2013-02-05T22:13:38Z This is the same newspaper, after all, that just a few months ago published a photo of a man taken moments before he was flattened by a subway train. Boston bombing: We would have been standing right there 2013-04-30T00:00:00Z The surface of the flattened, breaded chicken breast was green with asparagus — in late fall. RPM Italian review: If only it tasted as good as it looks — and feels 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z It would interfere with the flattened image of democracy she wants to create. Will the digital age kill off art? 2013-07-02T15:36:28Z Rendered in dramatic contrasts of mustardy yellow and powder black, “The Man at the Café” is one of those hide-and-seek Cubist compositions whose flattened and diligently tilting planes conceal as much as they reveal. These Shadow Boxes Are Striking. The Story of Their Origin Is, Too. 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z The director Craig Belknap finds ingenuity in simplicity, as with a dishcloth that, at one point, is wadded up into a basketball then later flattened against the waist into a too-tight dress. ‘Hong Kong Mississippi’ Review: The Bluesman Next Door 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The image had that tense, flattened, edged quality that digital still has—the slight outlining, the slight shallowness. “The Godfather” at the Philharmonic 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z The once verdant place was laid open, stripped, flattened. When the Winds Died Down 2011-07-18T15:50:05.740Z Phil, the orchestra could not be on its usual risers, which flattened the acoustics. Dudamel plants seeds for the future with De Falla and flamenco 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z The long-term decline in new cases that began just before Biden took office has flattened considerably; in some states, infections have started to rise again. ‘Now we are trying to figure out how to live with it’: Inside Biden’s push to crush covid 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z “Apology” is a gorgeous miniature of a human figure bowing to the ground, its flattened face flush with the surface supporting it. At Greg Kucera, catch 2 Seattle artists at the top of their game 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z I let the dough rise, divided it into balls, flattened them with a rolling pin, and baked them in batches on sheet trays. In my 40th year, I finally made pita bread 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z Though delightful and star-like, glitter flakes are essentially flattened microbeads, a particle plastic banned in the USA and soon to be banned here, too. The problem with sex and glitter 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z Differences are flattened out: music really does stream, in an evenly regulated flow. The Anxious Ease of Apple Music 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Entire neighborhoods were left in shambles, homes completely flattened. TV makeover show to build 7 homes in Joplin 2011-10-19T17:33:13Z There wasn’t much of a vision, maybe it tried to go in too general of a direction, and the voice flattened. Citizen Kushner 2011-06-24T21:35:16Z Working on the album, he said, “flattened the world” for him. After His Coup With Beyoncé, Boots Strides Out of the Shadows 2015-02-14T05:00:00Z In the masterly “Rescue,” painted on Nov. 20, a gasping woman is pulled from the waters by an equally nude savior, their bodies flattened and distended into supple panels of lilac and blue. Picasso in 1932: Ingenious, Exhausting, Relentless 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z But that led to bland, flattened illustrations like those you might find in a mass-market Bible. Art Review: Henry Ossawa Tanner at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts 2012-02-09T22:46:14Z I push some flattened rice into something moist on the plate and get a pleasing crunch in the mouth. Review | Help save this restaurant: Everest Kitchen’s Nepalese fare is worth the trek 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Years ago, Tom and Paul protected Bill Erickson, the golden boy quarterback, from getting flattened by blitzing linebackers. Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z And he served in a regiment that flattened doubts about the grit of Black soldiers. How a forensic artist attempted to re-create the face of a Black Civil War soldier 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The sets and costumes of the production are drawn from Mexicanismo, the art movement embraced by both Kahlo and Rivera, and feature a cheerful, almost garish palette, and a flattened perspective. Frida Kahlo Could Barely Walk. In This Ballet, She Dances. 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z Much sunnier are Arthur Day’s slightly flattened New York vignettes, notably one of an unpopulated Penn Station. In the galleries: From destruction, a call for transformation 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z But, because his view of Cleo is willfully, cavalierly vague, his view of the public and historical events in which she becomes entangled, and which he dramatizes, is similarly flattened and obscured. There’s a Voice Missing in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Debate about cultural topics, in our era of insta-judgment and unwarranted conclusions, becomes so flattened and foreshortened that the initial subject disappears from view. “American Sniper” and the culture wars: Why the movie’s not what you think it is 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Especially in these later paintings, he created an autonomous universe through the flattened picture planes, in which figures, fish, trees and geometric patterns jostle against one another in freewheeling abandon. The Inventive Chef Who Kept His 700 Paintings Hidden 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z The most distinguishing characteristic of MacKenzie Bezos’ fiction is how she uses flattened emotion to portray the world in which her characters live. The lives of four damaged women intersect in MacKenzie Bezos’ ‘Traps’ 2013-03-08T18:22:10Z There were a bunch of dead baby turtles, flattened by cars on the thoroughfare between two wetlands, Ventura Marsh and Clear Lake. These boys found turtles squashed on the road. Now they spend their days helping other turtles get across. 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z Ravi introduces Triton to the American Wild West, cages parrots and mynas in his house and shoots arrows tipped with flattened nails. His Nation in Turmoil, One Boy Finds Refuge and Adventure in Friendship 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z To approach them from my neighborhood, you walk through one of the oldest districts in the city, filled with early nineteenth-century brick row houses, and ascend a cobblestoned street to a flattened plaza. The Impeccably Understated Modernism of I. M. Pei 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z The company's trademark avant-garde style, layering an elaborate technical design over a nonliteral, nonlinear approach to stage action, is strangely flattened. A licensing decree prohibiting reviews of 'The Room' at REDCAT overshadows the production, which is iffy 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z When Jason is flattened and killed by an onrushing truck, Marcus is left alone, with nothing but his dead twin's ashes and cap to comfort him, and perhaps speak to him. 'Hereafter' Review: Clint Eastwood Goes Supernatural 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z When Becky aced her first challenge at the staff meeting, a couple of people in my audience applauded her achievement, as if she'd just flattened the villain or won the big game. Morning Glory's Rachel McAdams: When Perky Makes Perfect 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z Some years there have been sculptures like a giant flattened soccer ball or a seven-foot-tall waffle that looked as though it had been enveloped in thick syrup. Inside Art: A Museum Exhibition Assembled on the Fly 2010-10-14T21:32:00Z His unconventional looks — flattened nose, full lips and muscular frame — allowed him to play roles from thug to police officer, thief to priest, Cyrano de Bergerac to an unshakable secret agent. French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo dies at 88 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Kind bars are a "this meeting is definitely not ending soon" item you scrounge, flattened and slightly melty, from the bottom of a messenger bag. A number of Democrats running for president are kind of weird about food 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z What happens behind the scenes is also captured, flattened and projected. Review: ‘Network’ With Bryan Cranston Is Convulsive, Immersive and Still Mad as Hell 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Her father died when Carmen was young, and she was sent to a convent school, where the rules, censorship and silence, as she put it, nearly flattened her. Carmen Callil, Founder of the Feminist Press Virago, Dies at 84 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The metal pieces get wild and unruly, becoming bristling bunches of pin-sharp metal rods that shoot straight upward or lie horizontally as if flattened by a sideways wind. Gego: Drawing in Space at the Guggenheim 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In “Subway,” the flattened arms of a trench coat-wearing rider nearly break the picture into quadrants. Mernet Larsen probes perception and experience 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z This acquisition looked unwise in March 1941, when the interior was flattened by a bomb directed at British diplomats on the run from pro-Axis Bulgaria. City lights 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It helps, when looking at his pictures, to imagine them as flattened convex surfaces. Hating Renoir is Just a Phase 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Her prose heats up when it needs to: “Summoning a will she didn’t realize she possessed, Mara flattened her palms against his chest,” reads one scene in “Hidden Sins.” How Stacey Abrams turned heartbreak into a career plan — and romance novels 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z Their flattened and anguished faces were informed by the sounds of the torture of civilians he heard at night outside a suburban Paris asylum. ‘Soldier, Spectre, Shaman,’ an Alternate History at MoMA 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z “Good Luck,” from 1987, is nothing more than a black wool ski mask cut open and flattened out. Jim Hodges at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z "Fried Green Tomatoes," however, has an opportunity to insert additional nuance into a story that was flattened for the big screen in 1991. From "Hillbilly Elegy" to "Fried Green Tomatoes," Hollywood has a rural perception problem 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z What if someone crawls underneath and gets flattened? ‘You buy a lot of flowers and tampons': things you only know when you have seven daughters 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z But a large area of sand around the mound, and perhaps parts of the mound itself, were recently flattened with heavy equipment. Drones Are Used to Patrol Endangered Archaeological Sites 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z It showed only this flattened idea of Baltimore as: drugs, poverty, criminality, corruption, violence. ‘They Conflated “The Wire” With Reality’ 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z This idea of flattened, three-dimensional shapes ran throughout the 40 looks. Paris Fashion Week goes colorful, soft and underwater 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z To test the seasoning, form a walnut-size portion of the mixture into a flattened disk about 1½ -inches wide. Build a better breakfast sandwich with this homemade turkey sausage patty 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z Imagine squares of dough folded into tubes by a lazy second grader then flattened. An Ancient Corner of Italy Finds the World on Its Doorstep 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Simplified forms, flattened color, irregular perspective — stylistically, landscape paintings and genre scenes by Jessie Homer French might be termed naive. Jessie Homer French at Various Small Fires: In death, she finds life 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z Elevators lead down to pristine white platforms, still miraculously unbesmirched by flattened wads of gum. The Best Part of Calatrava’s Oculus 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The eruption left a swath of devastation covering more than 200 square miles; the images of flattened forests that were so stunning in 1980 are just as startling today. | 'Mt. St. Helens: Back From the Dead': And You Thought Iceland Was a Problem 2010-05-04T00:01:00Z Artifacts from that installation and others — including lots of flattened brown paper bags with statements of purpose and outrage written on them — adorn the walls in the stairwell leading up to the theater. Review: ‘{my lingerie play},’ a Glitter-Dusted, Song-Filled Call for Liberation 2017-10-09T04:00:00Z Hand-hewn cedar flattened out with axes and rounded. Red Mill Totem House: it's a go at Ballard landmark 2011-04-13T02:01:06Z Later work uncovered coils within the gelatinous coils — the helical trace of the polypeptide — and the atomic details of the flattened porphyrin molecule that myoglobin clasps to its bosom. Myoglobin: turd of the century? 2013-04-19T06:29:00Z Local residents are struggling to rebuild after the hurricane flattened some poor neighborhoods. Getting updates on Los Cabos hotel, airport reopenings after the hurricane 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Their black feathers stuck up in patches before being flattened again by the rain. Modern Love: Diving Deep to Reach the Surface 2010-09-17T20:18:00Z The moms-in-waiting of What to Expect... also get flattened as the Marvel superhit takes less than a month to rise to No. 4 on the all-time worldwide blockbusters list Somebody Tweet Loki. Unstoppable Avengers Sinks Battleship, Ousts The Dictator 2012-05-20T20:45:12Z One crashed through a wall, ran over a Panavision camera and flattened it. Pierce Brosnan on GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Through the hyperspeed game-of-telephone that is the internet, a lot of the discourse surrounding this bill has been flattened to, "California is trying to ban Skittles." "Toxic chemicals in our food": California bill would ban additives already prohibited in Europe 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z The works in the new series, called "Pressed Flowers," were flattened sideways by a shipyard press in the Netherlands, “so they remain like a cartoon version of the car,” says Arad. Designer Ron Arad’s Crushed Cars 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Here, too, is a block of leche flan like a sinking ship, under a flurry of pinipig, flattened grains of sticky rice. At Lahi, Filipino Dishes, Classic and Idiosyncratic Alike 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z He played percussively with fingers flattened and splayed, he left unexpected spaces others would have filled with showers of notes, and his chords clanged with dissonance. 50 great moments in jazz: The renaissance of Thelonious Monk 2010-04-29T15:28:00Z The guitars’ planar composition is explicit in the proto-installation piece “The Bathers,” whose six flattened sentinels Picasso made in 1956, using more decrepit lumber and the occasional ingeniously placed open frame. Review: Picasso, Completely Himself in 3 Dimensions 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z He climbs over the boundary wall to search for it and finds a flattened house that was once "the home of people from the other side" and, beside it, the entrance to a dark tunnel. The Wall by William Sutcliffe – review 2013-04-13T08:17:09Z The uphill climb flattened out into a hostile field of gray boulders. Our most dangerous hike 2012-05-21T01:00:00Z Cobb picks up Ariadne in a second car, but no sooner has she entered than they’re nearly flattened by a locomotive that comes barreling down the middle of the street. Everything you wanted to know about "Inception" 2010-07-19T13:01:00Z As one observer here so aptly tells Bud, "If you try to go straight on a crooked road you'll only get flattened." 'Glass Chin' a neo-noir knockout with fight-ready cast 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z He simplified the silhouette to a more flattened and spread out front-and-shoulder emphasis in 37 black, white and gray looks. Givenchy, Hermes and Celine get elegant 2012-10-01T02:46:03Z We were passing flattened houses and we could still see the corpses. The Creole Choir of Cuba: the a cappella aid agency 2010-08-19T21:15:00Z Mr. Uribe’s sun, measuring nine feet in diameter, is constructed with approximately 200 yellow Puma sneakers that he disassembled, flattened and mounted on the wall, and countless radiating shoelaces. | Westchester: Federico Uribe’s Man-Made Nature, in Yonkers 2013-06-21T23:35:51Z While her unusual habits, wardrobe and mannerisms are decidedly funny, she doesn't exist to be flattened or paired off, or spend the film languishing as someone's sexual interest. The most authentic part of "Happiest Season" is Jane, who conquers the "quirky woman" trope 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Two excellent revivals, so alive onstage, feel flattened on their cast recordings. Listening to the Best (and Worst) of Broadway 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Within this rich world is the sort of stoic stillness that Mr. Morris can stage so effortlessly: dancers stand with their palms flattened at their hips, legs separated and feet firmly planted. Dance Review: Old Rituals to Shape Young Dancers 2011-03-24T21:31:21Z Within this stretchable cocoon Ms. Childs slowly extended her legs so that her back flattened against the floor. Dance Review: Lucinda Childs at Danspace Project 2012-09-18T21:21:02Z Female vendors hand-pat the corn dough into the shape of a flattened football and then cook the patties until crisp and freckled on both sides, often at charcoal grills that sit inches from their laps. Must-Eat Dishes, From Myanmar to Mexico City 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Their engagement with the European canon housed in the Louvre, their physical proximity to it, shouldn’t be flattened into a shorthand for transgression. What It Means When Beyoncé and Jay-Z Take Over the Louvre 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Snoopy’s flattened form and smiling face were considered so shocking that editors on the Telegraph and Argus and the Dundee Evening Telegraph put warnings at the top of their stories. How to dispose of a dead pet: is taxidermy the very best option? 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z It flattened homes within a five-block radius and destroyed a nursing home, an apartment complex, and a nearby middle school. Could regulators have prevented the Texas fertilizer plant explosion? 2013-04-28T14:00:00Z By opening the gates of publishing to all, the internet has flattened hierarchies everywhere they exist. The sugar conspiracy | Ian Leslie 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z In Batman v Superman, I wanted everyone to get flattened by a Cadillac. Why Captain America: Civil War is better than Batman v Superman 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z The first pasta was a "derivation of unleavened bread cut into flattened strips similar to tagliatelle," the Publishers Weekly review reported. National Spaghetti Day: A look at the history of the dish 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Pashtun-style patties of spiced beef, lamb or chickpeas, flattened by hand and fried in a cast-iron skillet, are the specialty of Chapli & Chips, a sidewalk cart on the eastern edge of Queens. New York’s Top 10 New Restaurants of 2021 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Besides the flattened villages and towns, rolling farmland, forests and broad river valleys became wastelands of mud and splintered trees. How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z The first 50 patrons wearing carnival masks will get free tickets to the sold-out event, so dozens wait eagerly behind creations made of everything from paper, glitter and feathers to flattened soda cans. Seattle's Sandra Jackson-Dumont makes art a party 2011-05-26T18:46:02Z On the kaiseki menu another night, finely shredded Japanese mountain yam, burdock and carrot had been flattened with slivers of scallop beard to make a crisp, airy, hand-held latke. Restaurant Review: Shuko in the East Village 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z It’s such a flattened major key, and it really does sound like that. ‘There’s Nothing Quite as Distressing as This Piece’ 2022-01-30T05:00:00Z Though even I will admit that the scene where a villain gets flattened by a bathroom fixture was pretty cool. ‘The Tax Collector’ Review: Street Gangs and Family Values 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Some sort of gun-metal gray canister has been squashed and made useless, its flattened valve staring out like a Cyclopean eye. 'Junk Dada' assembles Noah Purifoy's overlooked, pivotal works 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Inside that house, with Sears family portraits from every Christmas leading up the staircase and my trophies on the mantel, a flattened hand was a mercy. So much for “family values” 2012-10-28T21:00:00Z Bared teeth or flattened ears mean back off or risk being kicked by their powerful back legs. Learn more about zebras on their big day 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z And then they had this huge storm and it flattened my tent. Hannah Gadsby meets Roxane Gay: ‘Trolls get incensed by a woman daring to think she's funny. I'm very funny’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Dostoyevsky’s intense, expressionist novel was paradoxically sapped of its dimensions and flattened into the pedestrian. | 'The Demons': Peter Stein Takes Dostoyevsky to Governors Island 2010-07-11T23:13:00Z The results were flattened patterns of light and line with occasional Hopper-esque views of humans stranded in the immensity of urban geometry. How Google Street View is inspiring new photography 2012-07-14T18:36:10Z At the flattened top of granite summit were two women with three children among them frolicking on the rocks . . . and us. For hikers, Yosemite National Park rewards originality 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Put the flattened, tenderised chicken in a bowl. The weekend cook: put sunshine on a plate this mango season – Thomasina Miers’ recipes 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z It's a really crucial year, because the income of the average working man flattened out in '73 and never went up in spending ability. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z As for the Mahler symphony, its first movement was Mr. Gilbert at his best: tense and taut without exaggeration, its episodes unified — but not flattened — into an organic journey. Review: Alan Gilbert Leaves the Philharmonic, Violin in Hand 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z At its finale, Stanley is returned to his 3D status with the help of a bicycle pump, though a later book sees him flattened once more. Flat Stanley set for a new dimension in live action film 2011-08-10T10:53:27Z The coda with Roseanne getting flattened by a log is maybe a notch too mean, but even there, the message is crystal clear. Super Bowl advertising hits and misses 2011-02-07T14:33:00Z But after chewing on a cheeseburger at Gordon Ramsay Pub & Grill here this spring, Curtis Jackson, better known as 50 Cent, leaned close to me and stuck out his flattened tongue. 50 Cent, Renaissance Man 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The head is also oddly distorted — flattened in such a way that it resembles a digitally manipulated three-dimensional photograph or a hologram. Critic?s Notebook: Sculptural Surprises Grace the Streets 2011-08-18T22:26:28Z It’s a powerful and intelligent message of female solidarity, but it’s also one that is predicated on a flattened experience of being female. Joy is a feminist (comedy) act: With her playful, dirty swagger, “Broad City”’s Ilana is breaking the mold 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z Even Nicholas Clegg extols Byron Burger's succulent flattened beef pads. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the coalition plays silly burgers 2013-06-29T23:06:38Z Where “High Flying Bird” is both confrontational and elusive, intensely physical and analytically abstract, “What Men Want” is plainly foregrounded and simplistically flattened. Review: Taraji P. Henson Redeems “What Men Want” 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Liebig mostly keeps flattened wrappers or boxes, which he stores in larger plastic and cardboard boxes he crams into a closet. Wrapper’s delight 2012-12-16T17:00:00Z The chicken is spatchcocked, flattened, smeared with marinade and then settled in the garlicky bath overnight, where it grows more fervent with each hour. At Chicks Isan in Downtown Brooklyn, the Grilled Chicken Stands Above 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z In most cases she depicted these women upright, flattened out into simple two-dimensional totems, and relied on color — especially runny reds and pinks, which stain the paper like blood — to provide the jolts. The Psychosexual World of Carol Rama Still Shocks 2017-05-11T04:00:00Z It’s disappointing — if not shocking — that Nolan and Warner Bros. couldn’t come up with screening options more visionary than forcing people into indoor venues before the curve has fully flattened. Perspective | This is not a ‘Tenet’ review. (Here’s why.) 2020-08-31T04:00:00Z He sees his wife flattened out, studded with glinting light bulbs on an enormous poster. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z By eating salads first, before proteins, and finishing the meal with starchy carbohydrates, she says blood glucose spikes will be flattened, which is better for you. Here's what science says about eating salad before carbs 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z This lent a flattened clarity to his role and Calliope's, and to Richard's, who has no qualms about assaulting Calliope as long as it gets him what he wants. "The Sandman" retrofits an old story into a cautionary fable about opportunistic "male feminists" 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z There's a grass broom, two drums, a woven reed basket, a broken umbrella and a whole stack of flattened, empty, corrugated cardboard boxes. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part One 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z The artists remind us how this impressive spot has been flattened, not by explosives, but by sheer repetition; it is just another photo op as well as the wallpaper on our Apple computers. Artists turn L.A. gallery into a museum of nuclear dystopia 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z Knowing of their impending doom, I worried their humanity would be flattened, leaving us not with any embodied story of Black people but with yet another tale about pain inflicted on Black bodies. In ‘This Other Eden,’ a Historical Tale of Paradise Lost 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Tivnan said cookbook sales as a whole had flattened off in recent years, but there was certainly "much more of a foodie interest" in Britain now than a decade ago. Jamie Oliver's 30-Minute Meals breaks book record 2010-12-09T21:09:00Z In “Boyhood” Mr. Coetzee writes: “He knows Voëlfontein best in summer, when it lies flattened under an even, blinding light that pours down from the sky.” J.M. Coetzee’s Boyhood, in Black and White 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Characters are similarly flattened by their penchant for destruction. Shrewd Short Stories That Merge the Hopeless and the Hopeful 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z Glowing at me through my screen, they felt flattened and far away — and, oh, how they made me wish I were in the room to sense all of their dimensions. The Fourth Wall Is My Laptop Screen 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z "Vegetables!" he cried, hovering over the plants, which didn't burn well butwhich stomped and flattened beautifully. Read the Wicked young writers' awards 2012 winning entries 2012-12-08T08:15:12Z Prints by Gauguin and Whistler imbibe Hokusai’s blocky colors and flattened spaces. How Hokusai’s Art Crashed Over the Modern World 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Here, they’re a tender meld of ground pork flecked with carrots and green onion, slightly flattened into a kind of carnal currency. At Ejen in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, a Mother’s Touch Infuses the Menu 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z And I was just overwhelmed and flattened by my grief for her. "You have to think about hope": Author Silas House on democracy's demise, climate refugees and dogs 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The final works look something like flattened, truncated torsos and feature Greenham-related symbols including witches, tents and a missile. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z He lives alone in a Utah town in nice house with a white picket fence that he’s flattened, doubtless after a hard night. Review: In ‘Small Town Crime,’ Trouble Is His Business (Natch) 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z That dig, in November 1998, turned up a glass marble and a flattened saucepan, but no bodies, according to Tribune accounts of the Chicago police excavation. Sheriff wants new dig for Gacy victims 2012-03-29T22:29:00Z In this flattened landscape of false enthusiasm, something genuinely boundary-pushing and heartfelt becomes a kind of threat. Beyoncé Parodies Reveal the Limitations of Late Night 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Some contemporary theological scholars disagree over whether this portrait is prescriptive for modern-day followers or simply descriptive of expectations of the time, but such discourse was flattened in the lilac room. On "engagement chicken" and redefining the meals for which we marry 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z A few generations later, an even more passionate gardening duke bought and flattened another neighbour's property and added magnificent features including the longest conservatory in England, filled with camellias imported from China and the Himalayas. ?12m facelift for historic gardens of Chiswick House 2010-06-14T17:39:00Z Elizabeth Ruf-Maldonado, director, professor and community activist, remembers seeing a garden opposite her apartment in 8th street – a large plot where about 50 households gardened – flattened by bulldozers to make way for a housing development. In New York City's Lower East Side, gardening is a political act of resistance 2015-08-11T04:00:00Z "Parboiled and flattened savoy cabbage leaves replace the pasta, and sautéed ground pork takes the place of the meat sauce." A cheesy, creamy sausage pasta for cozy fall nights 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z That pandemic bump has flattened but demand for local fish remains higher than it was previously. Community supported fisheries prove seafood can be local, too 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Despite a few stunning decorative touches … and that brief central sequence of multiple Reys, the movie comes off as a work that’s ironed out, flattened down, appallingly purified. 'Yay, porgs!' – critics' verdicts on Star Wars: The Last Jedi 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z Political slogans that ricochet across the internet can be flattened once they’re co-opted. The Trump Resistance Will Be Commercialized 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Line has a different function in a painting by Mr. Mehta, part of a late-1960s series in which strong diagonals cut across the canvas and through flattened figures in an explicit reference to Partition. Art Review: ‘Modernist Art From India: Approaching Abstraction’ at Rubin 2012-06-21T21:10:16Z But today I was speeding, going faster when the road flattened nearer Puebla. Paul Theroux’s Mexican Journey 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The town of Recco sticks out like a concrete pillar in a forest, all modern buildings, a result of it being flattened by Allied bombs in 1944. Scenes From an Italian Summer 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z But as “gaslighting” slips into common parlance, he worries we’re not always using it correctly: “It ends up getting flattened, and it begins to mean nothing.” What we talk about when we talk about Donald Trump and ‘gaslighting’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Bae, flattened into a liberal feminist villain, bursts into many scenes as an interruption of her girlfriend’s thoughts and monologues. ‘Zoetrope’ Review: And You Thought Your Apartment Was Small? 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z "American Idol" was once known in the industry as "the death star" because it flattened every other program in its path. Kevin Reilly exits Fox Broadcasting after tough season 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Rubnitz, who produced funky relief paintings of flattened furniture, was also a video maker with roots in the East Village drag scene. Art of the AIDS Years: What Took Museums So Long? 2016-07-28T04:00:00Z Vanishing into the distance was a wasteland of flattened trees, burnt tanks, ruined villages and abandoned fields. Ursula Wills-Jones: Vusi Makusi 2011-07-22T22:02:23Z The resulting body of work — large-scale flattened images of domestic interiors — was exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia in 2015 and featured at the Independent Art Fair in New York last year. Becky Suss’s Painted Memories Have a Solo Show in Chelsea 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z The trail eventually flattened out into a transit hub where cabs picked up tired trekkers for the second leg. Himalayan refuge: Tibetan traditions find a second home in India’s Dharamsala 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z The men walk swiftly in profile, on bent legs, their palms lifted and flattened like figures from Egyptian hieroglyphs. Dance Review: From Japan, a Reminder That We Are Dust, and to Dust We Return 2010-10-06T21:44:00Z They described themselves as feeling "dulled", "numbed", "flattened", or "blocked". Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z Foy showed us a vibrant young woman being transformed, and flattened, into a national symbol. Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Now, depending on the show, the experience has flattened out, as if there were a seven-year itch. Dance Review: Sometimes a Little of This and Some More of That Add Up to a Lot 2010-10-01T22:56:00Z The bright, painted forms look like flattened flowers, drying liquid or pieces of translucent paper. Jack Davidson: ‘love, mistake, promise, auto crackup, color, petal’ 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z I utterly forgot that Stevens was English while watching the film; his physical and verbal language are completely natural, with none of the overacting or ostentatiously flattened vowels that so often accompany Brit-doing-Yank. “The Guest”: “Downton Abbey” heartthrob wreaks havoc on America 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z He reasserts control by staging himself as exotic, emphasizing that the people and objects flattened by the Western gaze have always possessed their own spirits. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z In this flattened music world, old and new rest alongside one another, equally valid files within databases that have little regard for chronology. Throwbacks: Reissues from Led Zeppelin, Flesh Eaters and more 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Remove the top plastic wrap, then use a spoon to place a dollop of mustard on top of each flattened piece of beef. Schnitzel, simplified and amplified 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z In one wall piece, a blue grocery bag hangs, in flattened, unused condition, from a horizontal length of wire, evoking a tank top and thus a human torso. Art Review: An Artist Who Makes Much Out of Very Little 2011-06-30T22:05:51Z What we end up with is a deeper understanding of Lincoln as a flawed and haunted man, not just a character flattened between the pages of a history textbook. ‘I Am Abraham’: inside the mind and heart of Lincoln 2014-02-26T20:15:46Z Armed with nearly a dozen sandbags, two turbine leaf blowers and one bike pump, eight sweaty volunteers unfurled the baby’s flattened skin and inflated it in parts: first, its tiny orange hands. Evening in America: What it felt like on Trump’s Fourth of July 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Mildly intriguing movements, as when Mr. Stanley quickly ducks under Ms. Isaac’s turning arabesque, are flattened the moment they reappear. Review: City Ballet’s ‘Americana x Five’ Offers a Comforting Mix 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z His voice retains the clipped cadence and flattened vowels of his Bronx upbringing, and he is given to frank disclosure. Arts & Leisure: Richard Price and CBS?s Harlem Crime Drama ?NYC-22? 2012-04-05T16:11:57Z But last week, it was mostly flattened and impatient, loud but not powerful. Review: The Philharmonic’s ‘Passion’ Is a Surprising Achievement 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z A reward for the city’s having flattened the curve, lines of culture-starved New Yorkers now snake out the doors of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History and the Morgan Library. Carnegie Hall and the Jewels of Midtown: Stroll the History 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z The 24-year-old Haft, wearing purple Everlast trunks with a Star of David stitched on, lasted into the third round when a barrage of blows from Marciano flattened him. A Boxer at Auschwitz and the Pain He Carried 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z In these genetic tales, modern racial dynamics become flattened into a kind of shared origin story. The Racial Spectacle of DNA Test Result Videos 2018-05-06T04:00:00Z You might designate garden beds for these late crops, covering them with a mulch such as hay, a tarp or flattened cardboard boxes, to keep the beds from growing weeds. Perspective | Missed the boat on spring gardening? Relax and follow this guide. 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The top of the mound is made of flattened Happy Meal boxes. Hoarders’ Loot Onstage in ‘The Capables’ 2013-07-26T21:47:42Z “Purgatorio,” which featured amplification and acoustic design in the hall, is comparatively flattened, its preserved recording of an ancient Jewish prayer less stirringly grand when balanced with the orchestra. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z The location, Fulton Street, seems significant, as do the flattened perspective and the row of darkened windows in the background. Art In Review: PAUL GRAHAM: ?The Present? 2012-03-08T22:17:51Z Colonialism and the Western art canon flattened non-Western cultures into monoliths, Ms. Sung said. Coloring in the Margins: Pacita Abad 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z To feel flat, or to love in a flattened way, or to love flat things, is one step, we're taught to think, from deathliness. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z Behind her, the flattened filigree of the coral fans out. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The narrative is interspersed with wide shots of flattened towns and mangled buildings destroyed by the tsunami, bringing the disaster to the big screen less than six months after it happened. Japan film in Venice captures tsunami aftermath 2011-09-06T12:32:30Z Or perhaps it’s more correct to say that the social landscape is flattened; Powell translates the high bohemia in which he participated into a sort of fantasy. A Portrait of the Artist as a Droll Slacker 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z The growth in sales flattened to just 0.3 percent last September, a low not seen in decades. We may be drinking less wine, but it’s better wine 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z People who have left with their pets have held them close as they travel through flattened towns or find refuge at transportation hubs and border checkpoints. Amid war, Ukraine refugees flee with their pets despite the travel risks 2022-03-13T05:00:00Z Seen as a slum, the district was flattened in 1939 to make way for a public housing project. New Orleans jazz landmark razed in rebuilding push 2011-01-07T11:01:04Z It was the top part of a dress whose skirt was constructed with flattened Japanese lanterns. Paris Fashion Week goes colorful, soft and underwater 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z A vivid human being gradually gets flattened out as a 2D figure on a poster or TV screen. What the Robert Redford film The Candidate teaches us about Nick Clegg 2010-04-21T09:53:00Z His portrait of the Virgin, made of flattened beer cans and bottle caps — a commentary on Cachita’s closeness to the people — is included in Cueto’s book. Can one man’s Cuban road trip fix 56 years of cultural disconnect? 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z Still, it’s complicated: The same hype that has broadened demand for birria has also flattened its perception. The Birria Boom Is Complicated, but Simply Delicious 2021-02-08T05:00:00Z The brief clip showed crumbling buildings, a flattened train and human bodies flattened like bugs, then a glimpse at the massive, multi-limbed monster. Godzilla is coming: Comic-Con gets first look 2012-07-14T22:59:08Z Cue innumerable shots of Lister striding determinedly across the moors in a series of heroically horrible "miffed widow" numbers, one of which appeared to consist entirely of flattened crows. Last night's TV 2010-06-01T05:45:00Z His face is flattened so that, unlike some of his stuffed peers and all of their natural counterparts, he always enjoys full binocular vision. Ted: the bear necessities of our love affair with the cuddly toy 2012-08-06T14:02:07Z A flattened, vertiginous perspective and an illuminated sky unsettle the viewer. The Rivalry Between Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Sister Ida 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z But many more stayed put, through air raids that flattened great swaths of the city and killed 20,000 residents. For History-Minded Tourists, London Marks Blitz Anniversary 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z In pleasing contrast to the American couple, who seem flattened by their self-delusion, the couple in Rome are brought off the page by their complexity. A Debut Novel About Two Couples, Divided by Countries and Creeds 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Spreadsheets certainly can look like flattened office blocks, and in the poem they build them, nocturnally and in secret – "Even after closing time..." Poem of the week: City Boy by Peter Daniels 2012-05-22T15:23:00Z But hamburgers — frozen ones, flattened ones, even ones that are inexplicably dyed black — are an almost embarrassingly easy sell. Vegetables: Are they the new bacon? José Andrés and other chefs think so. In a single implacable legato sequence, a look upward under a raised arm leads is not up but down, as the legs and torso lower the dancer into an almost flattened squat. Review: A Lost Merce Cunningham Dance Solo, Found 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z “The natural and domestic worlds are unified on the flattened surface of the image,” he wrote in an e-mail, “however, the ambiguous, obscured figuration suggests a shattered world.” This Curator?s Rule: Go With What?s Amazing 2010-08-13T23:10:00Z A cook standing outside over a large black vat of bubbling oil flattened the dough for our pooris and fried them to a golden finish. Pursuits: A Culinary Pilgrimage to Punjab 2014-03-18T20:25:02Z “The Girl on the Train” pockets these traits like soon-to-be flattened pennies. Rise of the sane and angry woman: “Girl on the Train” is the 2016 rejoinder to “Fatal Attraction” 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The real income of the American worker flattened out in 1973, but American productivity went way up. "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps": Gekko's back! 2010-05-14T15:15:00Z District Six was completely razed, flattened practically to smithereens by bulldozers. Cape Town inspires art in all forms 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z The words, unreadable by nearly anyone in this flattened form, are ironic. In the galleries: 3 artists explore 3-D 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Mothers are made to suffer, and then they are flattened into a long-suffering mother persona. When Motherhood Is a Horror Show 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z Now, he’s been flattened out of having a personality at all. ‘Pinocchio’ Review: As the Story Grows 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z She also told me how Sita flattened the balls of dough using her fingertips, working her way from the top to the bottom, and then back up around the edges. In my 40th year, I finally made pita bread 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z She seems a person of flesh and blood, brimming with thoughts and emotions generally erased in the flattened visages that greet us in the portrait line-up of Henry’s six wives. Obsessed with Anne Boleyn 2012-06-18T22:01:00Z Seating 1,100, it somehow escaped the bombing that flattened most of the city and currently operates as a typical German regional theater. Music Review: Kurt Weill Festival: One Man, Many Different Beats 2011-03-08T13:00:06Z Equally important: Pictorial space is now carefully controlled — and mostly flattened out of existence. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Phrases like those are clichés, examples of the kind of banal, flattened language Williams avoids the way her characters avoid permanence — temperamentally and also programmatically. The Wild, Rangy, Unclassifiable Delights of Joy Williams’s Fiction 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The “respectful little distance” that is left around a CEO “like the flattened circle of corn that surrounds a rising helicopter.” ‘The Silkworm,’ by Robert Galbraith a.k.a. J.K. Rowling Throughout albums like Innervisions or Songs in the Key of Life you'll find plenty of what you might call 'jazz chords' – flattened 9ths and secondary dominants and extended blues progressions and all that business. Stevie Wonder: jammin' with the jazz set 2010-06-17T21:44:00Z Hit by a bus, flattened by a meteor, crushed by the neighbor’s pet python, maybe a dozen others. | 'Curious & Unusual Deaths': ?Curious & Unusual Deaths? on Discovery Fit & Health 2012-02-16T22:55:02Z His lack of imagination and conscience is registered in a tiny linguistic detail: that kind of "bomb", a shaming failure, is very different from those that pummelled London and flattened German cities. Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn ? review 2012-05-17T12:35:57Z Uninjured but unable to get out, the couple decide they have nothing left to lose, and they get buzzed in flattened Baton Rouge waitin' for a crane. Style Invitational Week 1383: Questionable Journalism 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z All was well until a rainstorm flattened them. The slow-starting husk cherry surpasses itself “So there is much less linear patterning and he is using more flattened ribbons of color. It was trying to move onto something else.” The Afterlife of Willem de Kooning 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z |
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