| 单词 | sloping |
| 例句 | We raced out of town in the spitting dark, vague blue outlines of cottages giving way to sloping fields, then charged up the ridge, sheets of water streaming over our feet, making the path treacherous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z I pulled in behind the approach to a concrete bridge, but couldn’t find a level place on the sloping roadside. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Frodo thought he could hear the voice of Gandalf above, muttering words that ran down the sloping roof with a sighing echo. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The fog ebbed away as they climbed a sloping hill. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Across the desperate eatery, through the rain-greased windows and beyond the access road that bounded a strip of sloping littered grass, ran the Interstate. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The passages were sloping steeper and steeper downhill now. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Here was a hush in the night, moonlight and shadows, a thick carpet of dead leaves underfoot, densely, wooded ridges sloping gently down to the streambed, the underbrush thinning as the ground fell away. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She went to look out the window and saw the sloping shoulder of the fortress, dusted with snow. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z To the left, across gently sloping sageland, the gorge opened for a startling instant. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Notice how all these passages are sloping downwards!” called Mr. Wonka. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z The hospital is a compound of beige stone buildings situated on the crest of a softly sloping hill. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The dark place was like a long tunnel with brick wall on one side and sloping roof on the other. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z I can tell from his sloping shoulders and meek look that Gary's me. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z We start to move down the sloping trail. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I sat down across from her, my back against the cold sloping porcelain. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z When I caught up to Emma she was standing near the plateau’s edge, gazing out at the countryside below, sloping green hills falling away to a distant plain. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Kohl pencil marks map the changes I'll make: higher cheekbones like her mother's, a button nose like her father's, and deep sloping eyes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Only now the soil is several inches higher than it was, sloping upward behind the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I sat on a sloping embankment and waited. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground was sloping downward now, and becoming more and more like a rubbish dump. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When the alpine sun filled Awkaypata, with its boldly delineated horizontal plain of white sand and sloping sheets of gold, the space became an amphitheater for the exaltation of fight. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The current master of Ashton Place had the same long and narrow nose, sloping forehead, and prominent, somewhat pointed ears depicted in the ancestral portraits that hung on the wall behind where he sat. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The path was crooked, rocky, and potholed, sloping downhill like the last one, and it seemed to be heading for a patch of dark trees a little below them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z My feet slip in the sloping gravel—it’s like running in sand, and I overcompensate by pitching forward. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z But the greatest moment of all was when the biggest hump broke like a small earthquake and out came the sloping back, the large, wise head, and the four baggy- trousered legs of an elephant. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z None of them answered, but my father, who was one of those hidden among the rocks, came forward down the sloping beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A cleverly built home, with one wall, a sloping roof, and two entrances. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The room faced the yard and overlooked the long, sloping garden, which was filled with flowers: bright red geraniums, sweet-smelling mignonette, and purslane with red, orange, yellow, and pink blossoms. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The window is crowded with women’s hats perched on gray, featureless heads, with sloping necks nearly a foot long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But the viselike grip against my ribs eventually lifted, and then, fingers clasping a sloping ledge, I pulled myself out into a small grotto. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z That crimped, tiny cursive, each letter sloping slightly farther uphill. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She left the palace grounds and continued down the sloping avenue, and when she neared the sounds of the crowd in the City Square, she went on. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He has to brace himself against the sloping wall to avoid falling over. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Aragorn looked at the pale stars, and at the moon, now sloping behind the western hills that enclosed the valley. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A cutting had been made, at some distance from the Hedge, and went sloping gently down into the ground. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At low tide the shed sat on a sloping mud bank, listing twenty-five degrees from bow to stern. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The climb of the sloping roof was extremely treacherous. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Just a sloping field down to the creek. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z They ventured cautiously into the long sloping passage, digging in their heels to prevent themselves sliding right down as Guosim probably had done. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z It was a long dark tunnel sloping down the side of the quarrystone. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “You mustn’t ever tell anyone about the Spinney,” Gram had whispered, taking my hand and leading me down the sloping hill to the glade. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z A sloping mound of rocks and dirt, floor to ceiling, cut off the tunnel. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The board walk ended and he moved a little ahead of me as we descended a sloping path toward our first class. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The college lay in summer twilight, set back from the road by a long, sloping lawn. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The car rolled slowly round and round the sloping curves. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z There was, instead, the subtle curve of the cupped hand—the metal flesh sloping gently upward to form a kind of great shallow bowl so that you couldn’t simply walk off the edge. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Between Westerly and Mystic, the tracks are at an angle, embedded into the sloping land, so that the whole train threatens, ever so slightly, to topple over. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Ahead of them a sloping lawn rose directly out of the floodwater and led smoothly up to the white facade of the house, the columns and the pediment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In wild terror, I ran along the bed of that dry wash, cut right up a sloping bank. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z But as Chestnutt led me down the gently sloping Thicket tunnel, this one with cherry-red flowers budding along the walls, I heard the echo of Gum Baby’s voice ahead of us. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The road was just like he said, sloping downhill. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z By now, Taisin recognized parts of the fortress—the long, sloping corridor; the cavernous ceiling hung with icicles sharp as swords; the endless ranks of golden cages. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z They were on the top of a sloping bank, and the Road, now dim as evening drew on, wound away below them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At the front, and on both sides, there was the lawn, sloping downwards to a gravelled drive, and then into the lane, and without any tree or flower-bed to relieve the bald greenness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z It is actually the attic with long, sloping walls, and I cannot stand straight in many places. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The grounds are sloping, white tiles carrying the sounds of their feet as they run. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z At last she saw a modern building that nestled against the ground, down a low sloping hill. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk down a sloping promenade and along curving pathways, headed for the palace. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The ruffians came tramping along the East Road, and without halting turned up the Bywater Road, which ran for some way sloping up between high banks with low hedges on top. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Half an hour later, we turn onto a quiet street sloping up a hill and stop in front of a hotel near the top. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z What she had imagined before—the smooth, gently sloping path leading out—now seemed childish. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A tall sloping R, with the letters de W interlaced. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They liked to line up their candy along the low handrail that ran along the far side of the sloping porch. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The host passed through the breach and halted on the sloping sward above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She could sense the tunnel ahead, sloping gently down for about three hundred feet, then opening into a large chamber. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z And then, as it bubbled through the nib, it came a little thick, so that the name Rebecca stood out black and strong, the tall and sloping R dwarfing the other letters. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They were heavy constructions of plywood, a sanded dowel for backstroke starts, puke-green carpet torn from somebody's basement stapled into the sloping tops for traction, and lane numbers spray-painted in orange on the backs. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z The room was small, an attic room with a sloping ceiling. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Yossarian and Milo were covered in their bower by tissue-thin tiers of sloping green and largely surrounded by other gray chestnut trees and a silver spruce. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z It was like looking down on to a sloping cloud-roof from above. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They made camp in a sloping pasture rimmed by enormous oak trees and pines and nut trees, a stream moving down through the center, over steps of rock. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the hospital was a wide, sloping lawn, bordered by flower gardens. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They skimmed up the sloping side, dodging a few boulders and hardscrabble trees, until they reached the top. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z "When the children were small. This closet was inefficient—deep and sloping—so I asked if he would close off part of it for a pantry and have the other part for storage." Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z In the view of the white authorities those days, sloping shoulders were one stereotype of the Coloured physique. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was just a sloping building covered with corrugated tin panels hammered together. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then without another word he turned away from the lights and voices in the fields and tents, and followed by his three companions went round into his garden, and trotted down the long sloping path. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z So instead of sloping off upstairs I went into the living room to watch Tomorrow's World on TV. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z With the melting of the last of the twilight there grew a kind of expectancy and tension, as though it were thawing snow about to slide from a sloping roof. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the lane curved to the left and fell away, sloping steeply down a hillside, so that they had a sudden, unexpected view of a whole valley laid out in front of them. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The trees that used to shade the big, sloping yard—they’re gone, too. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z And at one point during an impeccably white noon he closed his eyes and nearly fell asleep standing up in the middle of a sloping, unblemished snowfield; he almost died. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry walked beside them in silence as they went down the sloping lawns to Hagrid’s hut on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The ten readers sat at long sloping desks. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A long sloping valley marched inland, dotted with scraggly olive trees and limestone boulders. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The whole complex was somehow shocking, alien to the sloping hills and fields. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It was indeed a lovely spot, trees and grass and a sloping hill. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a circular, sloping patch of ground, with a steep gravel driveway looping around it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Watch closely: Lefty, setting his derby at a rakish angle, walks down the sloping streets of Bursa. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The parlor came next, where the furniture, loose and sloping with age, was set about helter-skelter. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z As far as she knew, the monks had worked at desks with sloping tops in the scriptoria of their monasteries, but she kept this information to herself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There was no sloping hillside as there had been in Rook Hill; here the land was flat, and between the house and the trees was a meadow, the grasses golden and knee-high. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ifemelu imagined him growing up, riding his bicycle down the sloping street, returning home from primary school with his bag and water bottle. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The high banks had been sloping down gradually, and now they came to an end, the water and the ground were level again. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z A house with a sloping red roof and a barn where cows mooed, a sheltered well right in front. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z I sketch, adding contours to capture the sloping land, trees, no trees, some rocks and boulders, collapsed logs. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Drawing their cloaks more closely around themselves, they set off up the sloping lawns. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “If we were walking to school, we’d turn that way,” James said, pointing down the sloping street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z When we arrived, damp and uncomfortable from Francis’s sodden car seats, cars lined the road on both sides, as if for a rural dance or bingo night, sloping gently into the grassy ditch. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She headed up the sloping ramp that curled around Isihlangu’s walls. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z As soon as they were down they went on again with Gollum leading, eastwards, up the dark sloping land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At one end, heaped high against the sloping ceiling, were the folders and exercise books from the last months of his preparations for finals. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z In the pale ray of the wizard’s staff, Frodo caught glimpses of stairs and arches, and of other passages and tunnels, sloping up, or running steeply down, or opening blankly dark on either side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Piggy lay back against the sloping sand side of the pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In his leather windbreaker, his shoulders were powerful, but narrow and sloping. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Forty-five feet above me the wall eased back onto the sloping summit shoulder. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The seaward side of Storm's End perched upon a pale white cliff, the chalky stone sloping up steeply to half again the height of the massive curtain wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The gleam of light from the shutter still shone white and clear on the golden coverlet of the bed, picking out clearly and distinctly the tall sloping R of the monogram. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A minute later they came into her line of sight: dirty, sweaty men with sloping shoulders and stooped postures. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z This pit, like the others, had a sloping ramp that allowed entry. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there;—but her face? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The crowds on the highway and sloping hills are not so frenzied yet. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z On one side, there was a sloping garden of rosebushes and stone benches, ending at a round gazebo by the edge of a stream. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z At one time he must have been immensely strong; now his great body was sagging, sloping, bulging, falling away in every direction. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The top of the climb brought several hundred yards of bare, gently sloping granite, like walking along a whale’s back. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the soft white dress in its folds of tissue paper, and how it would hide my flat dull figure, my rather sloping shoulders. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z After taking an elevator to the top of the building, the visitor begins a leisurely descent down the gently sloping ramp. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His right hand described the circle of the hills, the sloping fields and the mountains, and ended at his hat again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry stepped in, his head almost touching the sloping ceiling, and blinked. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z His back is purplish-brown in the dim light, sloping downward from the gentle hump of his shoulders. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I give her my mother's face—thin sloping nose, light brown freckles, a pink bow of a mouth. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z “If we were walking to school, we’d turn that way,” James said, pointing down the sloping street. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Eagerly the two youngsters dropped their bikes and scrambled down the sloping riverbank to watch as the bargelike boat passed, its open deck heavy with wooden containers of various sizes. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z His sloping shoulders were bent forward and he walked heavily on his heels, as though he carried the invisible grain bag. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z A path led through the rough field, at the back of the house, and beyond this were only more fields, sloping this way and that, overlapping like so many pillows. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z At the edge of the lawn, behind the building, there was a line of underbrush and trees sloping down a hillside. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while, they noticed that the ground seemed to be sloping downward, though the trees were as thick as ever. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z It lay ten feet lower than the surrounding country, with sloping banks, and the snow had been swept off it. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z He gestures for her to wait outside, and a moment later, he locks the door behind him and leads her and Max down streets narrow and sloping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It could have been the way his shoulders sagged, sloping down in a way that was so defeated. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The route took us up the gently sloping floor of the Western Cwm, the highest box canyon on earth, a horseshoe-shaped defile gouged from the heart of the Everest massif by the Khumbu Glacier. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Her forehead is high and smooth, her jawbones sloping and unusually long. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Where they had been grassy and sloping away gradually, the banks were steeper and cut away, exposing the dirt and mud. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Every time her head moved left or right I thought it was about to roll down her sloping shoulders like a boulder down a hill. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I noticed for the first time that his smile was lopsided, his mouth sloping up on one side. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z All she could be certain of was that the terrain was still sloping down. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The ground kept sloping up and the cows ran up the hill. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther down the sloping meadow he found a ruined ox yoke left by a careless peasant which would burn long and well. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z The undercarriage of the rover is taller than any of the rocks around here, and the hills are gently sloping affairs, smoothed by eons of sandstorms. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The tea was in smaller bins: beautiful bins with sloping covers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Robert was out there under the shed, reclining in the shade against the sloping keel of the overturned boat He was reading from a book. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Our store was at an intersection at the edge of town on a long, sloping hill. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The sloping walls of her prison were a canvas for her morbid inquiries, particularly between sundown and Martin’s late-night visit. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It overlooked Baby Kochamma’s ornamental garden, the gravel driveway looped around it, sloping down towards the bottom of the slight hill that the house stood on. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She scrambled forward onto the high, sloping ground above the wall. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Etienne takes Marie-Laure’s hand and together, beneath the low, sloping roof—the record spinning, the transmitter sending it over the ramparts, right through the bodies of the Germans and out to sea—they dance. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The shelter—a basic, three-sided affair with a sloping roof—looked crowded, and a dozen or so tents were scattered around the open ground. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z As we walked down the sloping driveway, I noticed she was shivering. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Between the sloping walls of the peaked roof, the attic was crammed with years of castoffs. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I sat down to rest on a broad, sloping ledge, but after a few minutes a deafening boom! frightened me back to my feet. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The carriage picked up speed on the long, sloping drive up to the castle; Hermione was leaning out of the tiny window, watching the many turrets and towers draw nearer. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The ground gets way firmer and easier to run on and it’s sloping more downhill than it is up, which may be the first piece of luck we’ve had. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z The room contained a twin bed under a sloping ceiling, a brown oval rug, a basin with an exposed pipe, and a chest of drawers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Half of its farmland is devoted to labor-intensive, high-yield, irrigated rice agriculture, facilitated by abundant rivers flowing from the wet mountains onto sloping lowland plains. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Pertwee was more sensitive than his imposing eyebrows, sloping eyes and boxer's nose suggested. Bill Pertwee obituary 2013-05-27T16:13:38Z These particular rocks have a sloping back that can be walked up, but the other side presents a steep vertical challenge. Dads and Daughters Scale the Gunks in Upstate New York 2010-07-08T21:49:00Z We walk away from the unlit sloping roofs of the Tibetan Buddhist Lama Temple, where two red, motorized tuk-tuks and their drivers are waiting for us. Delving into the hutongs of Beijing, chopsticks at the ready 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Mr. Storyk proposed sloping the glass wall outward to reflect the sound around the room. With Help From Herb Alpert, Letting the Light In at the Harlem School of the Arts 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Le Panier, a neighborhood of gently sloping streets that cut between brightly colored buildings housing art galleries and clothing boutiques, feels far removed from the chaos of the rest of the city. Two French Cities, Neither of Them Paris. Which One to Love? 2019-10-08T04:00:00Z Techniques include digitised lighting displays, a pavilion roof that is also a large sloping lawn, and a recently completed bridge that takes people across one of the moat-like roads that bound the complex. Liz Diller: 'We thought we would have been fired a long time ago' 2012-12-30T00:05:24Z The makers of the show are not unaware of the “Raiders” comparison — Steven watches a movie called “Tomb Buster” whose title is rendered in the same sloping style. ‘Moon Knight’ Review: Raiders of the Lost Identity 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z After an hour or so on the old Roman salt road, the Via Salaria, hills become mountains, and fields become sloping pasturelands. Hunting for the Real Pasta all’Amatriciana 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z The structure consists of a sloping bank of seats for watching films and events, which then turns and grows to form a café in the shape of a house. Folly for a Flyover 2011-07-09T23:05:57Z Falsely accused of attempting to murder Bran Stark and imprisoned in the world’s scariest prison cell — a ledge sloping toward a 600-foot drop-off. The horrors of ‘Game of Thrones,’ character by character 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Behind the addition Mr. Piano has also designed a giant greenhouse with a sloping glass wall. 2010-01-21T06:29:00Z Mr. DeWolff, the other vice principal, was a white man with a disability at a time when there were no sloping curbs or much else to aid mobility. Anna Deavere Smith: The First Time a White Person Wrote ‘Love’ to Me 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z At the top of the sloping causeway leading up to the Citadel's entrance, wide enough for horses to ride abreast, four soldiers scrolled through their phones under posters of Assad. In the rubble, Aleppo's citizens work to save battered heritage 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z “I always follow the architecture,” he said, referring to flaws that often come with old buildings, such as “sloping floors” and “parged walls above fireplaces with smoke stains from years of use.” Ready to install a barn door in your home? Learn about farmhouse style first. 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z I was so taken with the view that I nearly missed the vineyard right under my nose, sloping up the hill. ‘Paris is where I learned, like Hemingway, to be poor and happy’ 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z Completed in 1995, the Cleveland structure — with his signature sloping shape — amounts to a huge glass tent. Six of I.M. Pei’s Most Important Works 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z There will be a reflecting pool, a grove of trees and a sloping lawn that will serve as an informal amphitheater for free simulcast screenings of performances going on inside the original theaters, he said. First glimpse of Kennedy Center’s much delayed expansion unveiled 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z You might also note that the stage is raked, with the floor sloping toward the audience; a man unsure of his footing could slide right off the edge. Review: August Wilson’s ‘Jitney’ Magnifies Marginalized Souls 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z For about six months, the seven-foot-tall sculpture stood in Page’s sloping yard next to a cherry tree. Home & Design: Yard art, Washington-style, including a Calder and a fiberglass cow A reviewer described Mr. Finkel’s distinctive visage: “His cheeks are two doormen flanking the long sloping awning of his nose. His darting eyes can illuminate or annihilate.” Fyvush Finkel, Pillar of Yiddish Theater, Dies at 93 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z I can see Richards now, tottering distractedly down the sloping, tongue-shaped stage to create a cacophonous discord. Is Keith Richards a 'good thing'? 2010-10-23T23:06:00Z There’s Bogliasco, whose sloping alleyways all lead to a rocky beach. Scenes From an Italian Summer 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z The movie opens with a fixed, perfectly framed shot of a dun-colored, gently sloping terrain. ‘Earth’ Review: Humanity Is Digging Its Own Grave 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z The unlikely location for a new year-round ski track is the sloping roof of a state-of-the-art green power plant. Ski slope to open on new Copenhagen power plant 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z There was crown molding, a fireplace, dusty ferns everywhere and a sloping, worn-down hardwood floor covered with blankets. My night at the cuddle party 2014-12-20T05:00:00Z At ground level, the sloping form is also a piece of deference, a way for the building to respect its neighbours' space. The Cheesegrater: Richard Rogers sprinkles the Square Mile 2013-06-16T17:00:01Z The upward sloping roofs in both wings conferred a generosity to the rooms’ modest dimensions, as did extensive floor-to-ceiling window walls that splashed sunlight across the flagstone floors and opened to the greenery outside. Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer House Matter? 2022-02-06T05:00:00Z This sloping piece of central Paris was known as “La Nouvelle Athenes” during the 19th century for its classically styled architecture and the Grecophilia of the many artists and writers who lived here. | Bobo Heaven in Paris 2011-04-12T21:28:49Z The setting was spectacular: a large, sloping lot with gentle terracing that created two discrete levels. Step Inside The Contemporary Beverly Hills Home Of A Sports Power Broker 2015-01-06T05:00:00Z I reached the top of the South Tower, and made my way up and out through a skylight, onto the tower's sloping pyramidal roof, as Brother Quirke came round the end of the stairs. Extract: Jude in London by Julian Gough 2011-08-25T11:18:47Z They also recommended the Hollyhock Cafe, known for its cozy atmosphere and bucolic setting, overlooking a hill sloping down toward the Thames in the public Terrace Gardens. Frugal Traveler Blog: In Richmond, a London Day Trip That Fits the Frugal Bill 2011-12-20T17:17:37Z Arranged on a sloping plank, video footage of a running figure slides, flickers and jumps across the TV monitors in an alternative study of time and motion. This week's new art exhibitions 2010-07-09T23:06:00Z The scene unfurls, from the sloping lawns of Arlington National Cemetery to Memorial Bridge to the Lincoln Memorial and on to the Mall. An ecologist speaks for the silent giants: Old-growth trees 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z It is built on higher ground, up from the road with a gently sloping driveway. Perspective | A love letter to Houston: What outsiders don’t get about my home town. 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z My favorite, created by landscape designer Bill Noble, has two gorgeous plots, one with flowers, one with veggies, sharing a place of honor on a gently sloping hill. Give flowers and vegetables equal status in the home garden 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The road starts to get hilly near Milledgeville, as the Antebellum Trail roughly follows the Fall Line, where the elevation drops dramatically before sloping and leveling off to the sea near Savannah. The Ga. towns that Sherman spared in his March to the Sea There’s a sloping, wooded traffic island there right in the middle of Riverside Drive, and at its peak, atop a narrow pedestal of Mohegan granite, sits Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington’s gorgeous equestrian bronze. Take a (Solo) Stroll. Your Next Art Fix May Be Around the Block. 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z Ultra-short babydoll dresses with Mao collars or sloping side toggle closures were served up in jacquard with Chinese designs and transparent chiffon. McQueen successor Burton carries on his legacy 2010-10-05T22:09:00Z The area where the band plays is flat, too, perched on top of the more familiar sloping disc you normally see. Space Needle to rock at the top with Mudhoney performance 2013-07-11T04:05:27Z Above the central hall sits a big sloping disc covered with solar panels. Maggie's cancer care centre, Newcastle – review 2013-05-18T23:05:22Z A gently sloping roof accompanies outdoor terraces, with a brick extension of the house creating some uncertainty on the location of the front door until I saw a large arch marking the entrance. Tracing Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z The gently sloping shore was one of the most expansive beaches I had visited, wider than many roads. Finding sun and seclusion by beach-hopping on Puerto Rico’s west coast 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z Her sloping shoulders became muscular, and her legs strong; her feet were light and quick, always moving. The Particular Drama of Simona Halep 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z Tacking east, rounding the southern bend of Decker Island, we passed the rusted remains of a pair of barges, the sloping decks covered with scrubby brush, before dropping anchor near a sprawling oak tree. Setting Sail on the Winding Waterways of California’s Delta 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z The deep bowl with sloping sides traditionally sat on the hearth, simmering continuously for hours, or even days, with scraps of food added at different intervals. Tasting France Through 5 Signature Dishes 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z The house had light walls, dark wood, beams, sloping ceilings, cozy little nooks. Salinger’s House, Artist’s Retreat 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z Just as important to the piece, however, is something that has been there since the former butcher shop was erected in the 1920s: a sloping floor. Review | In the galleries: Paintings reflect light’s luminous effects 2022-01-12T05:00:00Z It deals beautifully with sloping terrain, allowing internal and external public routes to run through it. Coming up short 2010-07-24T23:05:00Z I was crouched, barefoot, on the shingle-covered, sloping roof, 20 feet above the concrete of the driveway. “They ripped him apart”: Searching for answers in the suicide of bullied teen Jadin Bell 2013-09-08T11:00:00Z Baldwin Street experienced a large tourist boom as a consequence of holding the record, with a street sign boasting of its sloping significance. Welsh street takes world's steepest title 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z But this 227-square-mile island of forests and fields, rocky coastlines and sandy beaches, and towns sloping down to little harbors, is mostly a Danish destination, and its attractions are on a Danish scale. Frugal Traveler Blog: Touring a Danish Island on Two Wheels 2012-06-19T20:55:58Z The vegetable garden is a crescent-shaped fifth of an acre, ringed in wire deer fence and sloping in a way that reveals the raised growing beds. Inn at Little Washington offers peek at its carefully concocted grounds 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z The sand is still cottony and cool by the naupaka shrubs at the top of the beach, sloping down to firm wet velvet under the foam. Return to Kailua, Hawaii 2011-09-02T18:14:23Z Then, nothing but empty, white sand beaches flickering between clusters of sloping palms. Next Stop : Surfing and Serenity on a Remote Philippine Island 2013-06-05T15:47:04Z It’s another capriccio, showing the Pantheon half buried in a sloping field, with a curious fountain in front. Hubert Robert, the painter for the ‘don’t go there, live there’ crowd 2016-06-27T04:00:00Z We find a suitably easy pool for sloping into and I find myself stripping off in -25C temperatures. Nome, Alaska: ‘The spring water is as hot as I can bear. The effect is miraculous’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Though the back yard in Alexandria, Va.,was steeply graded and abutted protected forestland, landscape architect Morgan Washburn transformed the heavily wooded, sloping zone into a verdant outdoor living room. Country house or city house, there’s a way to extend living space outdoors 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z But placed in conversation with its companions, the work starts to resemble an oversize blank slate, its sloping central plane suggesting a scroll. Monuments That Celebrate Communal Struggles, Not Flawed Men 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z As with the other walks we took during our Cotswolds stay, which were almost entirely through level or gently sloping fields, the one along the Windrush Valley trail was remote. It’s hard not to be charmed in unspoiled south-central England 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Approaching this David Adjaye-designed museum for the first time, a line of visitors — confused and a bit disoriented — snaked up the gently sloping ground. ‘Thinking of the past, considering the future.’ Inside the African American History and Culture Museum. 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Its delicate sloping hood settled around my face in the shape of cathedral. Is This the Store for Grown-Up VSCO Girls? 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z Before anything happens in Alain Buffard’s “Baron Samedi,” the set alone tells us a lot: a sloping, sleek white floor, like a barren hillside, curled up at two corners and slightly warped around the edges. Dance Review: At ‘Danse’ Festival, France, America and Magic Meet in Haiti 2014-05-07T01:18:15Z I don’t know what they thought about the sloping floor, but I hope they weren’t drunk. ‘I Want to Live in That Room’: Designers on Their Broadway Sets 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Upstairs in the galleries, the light is channelled through high studio windows and from bands of glass set into the high, sloping roofs. Turner Contemporary's boardwalk empire 2011-04-06T20:30:00Z Most of the new construction is underground, with two pavilions on the sloping landscape. Biden celebrates ‘new vision’ as work begins on Kennedy Center expansion Sometimes they appear in great congregations on a sloping hillside; other times they poke up flamboyantly as psychedelic-colored exhibitionists from the base of a tree; or as solitary, stately monuments, like this one. "You never forget spotting your first mushroom in a Finnish forest": My day with the Mushroom Queen 2021-11-19T05:00:00Z When I arrived, I recognized from the movie the hillsides and streets sloping to the river’s edge, but not entirely. We’re all “Goonies” in Astoria: Following the lucid dream of the Goondocks, 30 years later 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z From Chastleton, and across stiles and through sloping pastures where once again it was just us and the horses and sheep, we wound our way to the village of Adlestrop. It’s hard not to be charmed in unspoiled south-central England 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Currently, the Music Center manages the sloping, three-block-long Grand Park and books its events. Supervisor Molina starts new foundation to oversee Grand Park 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Spruce, pine and gently swaying aspens give way at the tree line to boulder fields and their sloping shoulders of ice. Facing death on the mountain: What my father taught me on his last great climb 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z Curving wood inspired by the shape of the clouds during Chinooks serves as its skeleton and a sloping walkway separates the floors, which get progressively quieter as you ascend. In a Year of Abrupt Transitions, a Trip to Tahiti. And Calgary. 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z The set designer, Marsha Ginsberg, offers a long, shallow stage with a white backdrop sloping sharply to the floor. In ‘Love in the Wars,’ Achilles Battles an Amazon Queen 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Arriving at their seats, the women wearing them looked down at the sloping deck chairs lining the runway, contemplating how to best sit down. Brief Encounters With a Micro Miniskirt 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Manhattan is mostly flat, but the bridge that takes you there — the Manhattan Bridge — is a mini mountain, sloping up toward its apex for what feels like an eternity. The Bike That Saved My Life 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z At the edge of the existing woods, a retaining wall was constructed to reshape the sloping land. Leave it to a botanical garden to find beauty in a parking lot 2016-06-14T04:00:00Z Covering four blocks, the museum was conceived as an urban composition, a series of terraces with low buildings and gardens stepping down a softly sloping artificial hillside built over parking. Critic?s Notebook: Turning a Rearview Mirror on Kevin Roche 2011-02-22T23:36:55Z Far from proclaiming their presence or provoking visual confrontation with my fellow pedestrians, the long-tailed shirt, dark turtleneck and belted overcoat with softly sloping shoulders skewed toward anonymity. One Man, Five Designers 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z It’s both small and dark, still replete with the original wood wall panels and precariously sloping floorboards, and in its own way as striking as that of its upstairs neighbor. Separated by 2 centuries and one wall: visiting Hendrix’s and Handel’s houses in London 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z I followed the gently sloping trail for three and a third miles, where it intersected with the Appalachian Trail just below the summit. Explorer: 6 Days, 6 States, 6 Peaks 2010-09-04T03:29:00Z Locals ferry visitors in golf buggies from the port to Sunj beach, a 1km strip of sand sloping gently into limpid, shallow waters on the island’s south coast. The 50 best beaches in the world 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Lake Iseo as a whole is a beautiful place to explore, a dramatic landscape characterized by cliffs, gently sloping hills and the Alps. Love bubbly? Visit this sparkling wine region instead of Champagne 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z He devised the sloping paths that hug the water and meet the plaza at the foot of the lawn. Louis Kahn’s Four Freedoms Park to Open 2012-09-12T22:25:05Z “A sloping forehead, a protruding jaw, prominent cheekbones, thick hair.” Camille Laurens’s “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” Is a Fascinating Hybrid, and Obsessed with Obsession 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z “A dreary rock appeared at first sloping up from the sea and into the fog,” the author wrote in “The Aran Islands,” his classic account of his time here, first published in 1907. Ireland’s Aran Islands, Hiding in Plain Sight 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z Preternaturally serene and imposingly tall — roughly seven feet high — with sloping eyes and long fingers expressive of exceptional reach, they speak as messengers from an Afrofuturist-inflected otherworld that all her work invokes. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Opened in 1953, the building is set on a gently sloping site, oriented so that the front of the building deceptively shows only one floor and the back reveals the second. Eero Saarinen’s Michigan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Set on a sloping lawn overlooking the reed-lined Lieutenant River, it is easy to see why the artists returned year after year. Overnighter: On Connecticut’s Quiet Coast 2012-07-19T19:52:28Z Between the east side of the house and the river lies a four-acre sloping hillside. The American Horticultural Society faces its uncertain future, uneasily 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z In a spirit of freedom and rebellion, women of all classes took it on: “shoulders sloping, chest dropped, hips slung forward and the knees… slightly bent.” Don’t slouch, young lady 2014-04-13T00:00:00Z If they looked up, they'd see slim neon wall lights, stylish saucer lamps and a smooth, sloping ceiling with elegant fluting. Rediscovering Birmingham's movie meccas 2010-03-30T15:38:00Z A root house was “partially dug into the ground and roofed with a sloping mound of grass-covered earth.” How Frank Lloyd Wright Tried to Solve the City 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Like all “real” tennis courts, the Royal Tennis Court features sloping roofs, called penthouses, which abut three of the four interior walls and are in play. ‘Real Tennis’ May Be Obscure, but It Has Fans in Britain 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Here’s the prompt: Create an exhibition of new work in a spiral space with a sloping floor, shifting natural light, and 200 works by another artist leading into your own show. Sarah Sze and the Art of Tracking Time 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z On the colder sides, sloping earth banks, which will be made pretty with meadow flowers, help to insulate the building. Maggie's cancer care centre, Newcastle – review 2013-05-18T23:05:22Z The sloping countryside an hour from Cape Town is famous for wine. In Cape Town, forget the wine and go for the brandy instead I felt as though I were inside a gleaming funnel with steeply sloping sides, sliding toward a final tiny point that would lead to something I couldn’t imagine. Breathing 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Find it in Cognac’s backstreets and then stumble into its Dickensian office, with clerks bent over antique sloping desks. 10 of the best cognac distillers, tours and tastings, France 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The amphitheater, a minimally restored elliptical arena with banks of seats built into a sloping hillside. Overnighter: Near Barcelona, Gems From Ancient Rome 2011-06-03T19:03:42Z Setting out on a hot weekday morning, I drove hours along peaceful highways, the mostly flat and infinitely green, serene farmland punctuated by rolling pastures sloping toward streams and lakes rushing past me. On a Civil Rights Trail, Essential Sites and Indelible Detours 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The room’s highlight was the sloping roof and skylights, allowing you to look at the stars or across Marseille’s terra-cotta chimneys and tiled rooftops. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: Mama Shelter in Marseille, France 2012-08-10T17:46:43Z Her 800-square-foot, reddish-brown straw-bale home sits on a gently sloping hill that she shares with 20 people living in nine structures huddled closely together. The New Generation of Self-Created Utopias 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Slope: A sloping site requires some sort of terracing to prevent erosion, and the steeper the incline, the larger the challenge. How to grow your own food in a modern-day victory garden 2020-04-05T04:00:00Z A sofa with a sloping backrest framed the room’s large windows, giving way to a bird’s-eye view of trains pulling into the station and of the palace gardens. Check In, Check Out: Hotel Review: The Shangri-La Hotel in Tokyo 2010-08-28T05:01:00Z We would be in silence, except during therapy; there was no alcohol, no drugs, no cigarettes, no mobiles, no contact with the outside world, no sex, and no sloping off to hide in your room. I thought I’d grieved the death of my sister – until I found this retreat 2019-03-23T04:00:00Z Like seats in an amphitheater awaiting a performance before the curtain rises, the campsites were spaced out along a gently sloping hill that faced Mount Denali, which was covered by clouds. Seeking out Alaska’s Denali National Park in a summer of overcrowded outdoor spaces 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z The tent in which this all plays out, with little more than chairs for a set, is a temporary structure nestled at the foot of a sloping hill. ‘Romeo & Juliet’ Review: Older, Gentler Star-Crossed Lovers 2022-07-25T04:00:00Z Armani presented completely updated versions of shirts, from cotton pullovers with shawl collars to a silky pajama-style top, and a jersey top with sloping shoulders that turn into gingham cotton shirt-sleeves. Milan designers nudge men to dress with derring-do 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z The sloping floor of the Great Hall was made level. Dance, music, art and more mix it up at Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle 2011-01-24T17:32:04Z It shows the stranger yelling while walking down a sloping street, whipping around intermittently to yell some more. The phrase ‘Black Lives Matter’ is now a common sight in America. Is it a sign? 2021-06-13T04:00:00Z NICE, France — On a late summer afternoon last week, on the sloping driveway of a palatial 1920s villa high in the hills above the city of Nice, sat three large white trucks. Elton John’s Farewell Tour Wardrobe, Explained 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z Across the pond is Kuerner Hill, a gently sloping mass that was the source of many of the artist’s most imaginative works. Footsteps: In Pennsylvania, Exploring Wyeth’s World 2013-05-24T17:13:58Z Seventeen brick steps led up a sloping hill to the entrance, which was framed by a Colonial-style portico, a stained-glass crest and six white columns. Confident. Incorrigible. Bully: Little Donny was a lot like candidate Donald Trump 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The next is 7ft tall, bald, with a sloping forehead, and wearing a stevedore cap and jackboots, like a cartoon of evil. Where are the world's scariest bouncers? 2010-03-29T15:31:00Z Retracing our route up the sloping meadow into the forest, we dropped onto a large sedge flat on our way to the shoreline. U.S. Issue: It?s a Bear?s World in Kodiak, Alaska 2011-05-13T20:16:28Z Similar-minded families built sand castles and picnicked between the wooden fishing boats with pointed prows beached on the sloping dune as fishermen carried away their catch in buckets. Morocco’s Other Coast Emerges as a Destination 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z “It was almost disturbing how beautiful it was. Hills and valleys teeming with all sorts of color, sloping farmland, little red-roofed houses.” Review: In ‘The International,’ Those Who Treat a Massacre as Entertainment 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z If you climb up the sloping rocky outcrop at this point, you will be rewarded with sweeping Atlantic views and, if you’re lucky, eagles riding the thermals. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z The requirement, which essentially guaranteed a bland skyline packed with flat-topped towers, was finally scrapped; just before the official change the Wilshire Grand was granted a variance allowing its sloping crown. Ride the US Bank Tower's glass Skyslide with 70 floors of nothingness below you 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z The house is fine; the garden – sloping and scraggy – isn't. Love Your Garden: TV review 2013-06-26T06:00:10Z The entry’s design points to the Yiribana Gallery of Aboriginal art, which has been elevated from a lower floor of the original building, and it offers an expansive view of landscaped terraces and sloping walkways. Can the Sydney Modern Change How a ‘Sporting Nation’ Sees Itself? 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z And so slalom, fittingly, is from a Norwegian word: slalåm, literally "sloping track." The etymology of 15 weird and wonderful Olympic words 2021-08-07T04:00:00Z When you live in a city of potholes, sloping sidewalks, and perilous subway stairs, the six-inch stiletto is not your friend. Kinky Boots – review 2013-04-05T09:57:07Z Close to a century old, it’s set in a six-acre oasis of sloping lawns and towering trees, a rustic holdout against the tidy brick suburban houses that peer in over the driveway fence. Emilie Brzezinski is her own kind of power player: an artist with a chainsaw Woolf roamed free in the salty air of the sloping garden, with the expanse of the bay and its distant lighthouse before her. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The sloping land to the south and west of Mr. Minter’s dooryard belonged to the two historically black graveyards called Grace Hill and Shadow Lawn. House Proud: Joe Minter’s African Village in America 2013-04-24T22:17:36Z Then stroll along the new waterfront promenade, Havnepromenaden, which loops past the angular opera house and its sloping white roofs. 36 Hours in Oslo 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z He points to a sloping field that repeatedly changed possession between Union and Confederate troops. A black college closed in 1955, but its fading alumni fight to pass on a legacy 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z A long, sloping grand staircase cuts through the center of the space, slowing one's transition from the world outside to the contemplative interior upstairs. Pollock's stellar 'Lucifer' and impressive Anderson Collection 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Nine years later, embarking on the career that looks like worrying lunacy to his family, he's pointedly wrapped in a thick overcoat, with palette beside him and the sloping timbers of a garret ceiling above. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z His most impressive designs — a pyramidal apartment building in Manhattan, a power station in Copenhagen with a ski run on its sloping facade — are cheeky, monumental and ecologically friendly. Google's new headquarters design takes transparency to new levels 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z The Enzian shows free outdoor movies twice a month on its sloping lawn, and once a month in nearby Winter Garden, Orlando's historic neighbor. Frugal Traveler Blog: Going Beyond Disney in Orlando 2012-12-27T14:16:48Z I watched as he worked himself into a sprint — he was a gangly six feet four inches tall with handsome, boyish features and awkward, sloping shoulders, but he ran gracefully. Love and basketball 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z But Dad was already crouching on the steeply sloping bay window roof. Extract: Moon Pie by Simon Mason 2011-07-29T09:59:02Z “He was so very cool, always,” Mr. Gerhaher recalled, adding that, sloping around with long hair and a taste for cigarettes, Mr. Huber “was kind of a hippie.” 30 Years on, the World’s Greatest Song Partnership Flourishes 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z Clinging to the side of one of the town's steep ridges, the inn offers eight rooms, each boasting a memorable view of the sloping vineyard and the picturesque village and spires below. Toast Missouri Wine Country 2011-04-14T14:50:11.947Z As we drove down the sloping main street, past the boats anchored in the harbor, it was hard to resist the lure of the lakefront park and beach, with its sand dunes and wooden walkways. Journeys: Beach Hopping Along Lake Michigan?s Eastern Shores 2011-08-26T19:00:00Z Mr. Porsche also modified the body of the 356, rendering the signature sloping back end and extended hood into a sleeker silhouette. Ferdinand A. Porsche, 76, Dies; Designed Celebrated 911 2012-04-06T01:00:23Z "It was sort of sloping the wrong way, and that made it difficult to think about how you would enter the house." Richard Meier Designs a Minimalist Home in Luxembourg 2013-12-17T05:00:00Z The fossil was transported in two parts, the tall and sloping skull in one specially crafted protective case and its lower jaw in another. What big teeth you have, Edmontosaurus. 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Holmes knew that the floors in old houses, hastily constructed, are susceptible to “sloping.” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: A new dog. A closed door. A mysterious puddle. Can Sherlock Holmes solve this case? 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The three-acre plot sits on a largely sloping site and includes a nursery and several outbuildings, though the main garden sits nestled around the house. Gardens: a riot of colour on the Emerald Isle 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The gesture takes form next, in “A Weeping of Doves,” as wailing vocalise; and is subtler in “Night-Shining Clouds,” as the slowly sloping sheen of harmonics in the strings. Review: Doleful ‘Vespers’ Pray for an Earth in Crisis 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z Teenage ballet students lounge on the sloping Illumination Lawn. Mark Dendy’s ‘Ritual Cyclical’ Unfolds at Lincoln Center 2013-07-21T21:42:34Z Most were built of faded red brick and topped with sloping gray roofs. Teaching the People’s Republic 2012-09-03T13:00:00Z The dining rooms — one beneath beams and decorated with model boats, another outfitted with windows, a sloping roof and roomy red booths — call to families and date nighters alike. Review | Tom Sietsema’s 8 favorite places to eat right now 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The concrete floor follows the sloping topography of the original site, a subtle move that reminds you where you are. Louvre-Lens: helping a mining town shed its image 2012-12-05T15:11:46Z This is a trouble-shooting tip for those who just can't seem to keep their edges from sloping down once they hit the oven. How to make bakery-worthy pie crust designs 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Landscape A flat, wide, boulevard strip of old downtown Knoxville, sloping down toward the railroad lines and cobblestone streets on one side and the Tennessee River on the other. Big Ears Festival Resists Commercial and Genre Constraints 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z Bill had Dave Sparrow make a bedroom in the attic for himself, its ceiling sloping low with a window at each end. My backup mom 2013-02-27T23:30:00Z That first night, at the sloping corner where the Rue Garreau merges with the Rue Durantin, I watched a woman with impressively curly hair sit on a step, rolling a cigarette with utmost concentration. Lost in Paris 2011-10-07T18:55:00Z The Polovtsian scene is a sloping poppy field, seen through a scrim. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Prince Igor’ Aims to Integrate Movement and Storytelling 2014-03-07T23:01:11Z The bricks appear to be suspended in the air, in a brick road-like formation, slowly sloping upward, or perhaps restaging their descent. The Strange, Still World of Cornelia Parker 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Among the features they added were masonry based on a Josef Albers fireplace and a thatched roof, inspired by Anni’s textiles, whose sloping surfaces collect rainwater, a precious commodity in the arid climate. Toshiko Mori Designs a Cultural Center in Senegal 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z On one side, it is bordered by a sheer cliff, on the other by sloping sheep-nibbled grassy fields. ArtsBeat: Deborah Warner and Fiona Shaw Bring 'Peace Camp' to England 2012-07-20T18:48:34Z These are called monadnocks — after the eponymous mountain in New Hampshire — consisting of more erosion-resistant rock than their gently sloping, less elevated neighboring hill. How Earth’s tumultuous history gave the Mid-Atlantic its beloved destinations 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Martin is a history teacher with the listless, sloping posture of a comma. His Dancing Days Were Over. Then Came ‘Another Round.’ 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z On a recent snowy, Swiss-like morning, Mr. Fischli, 63, who had traveled from Zurich to oversee the installation, looked admiringly down the Guggenheim’s sloping ramps as dozens of carpenters prepared plinths and pedestals and cabinets. Fischli and Weiss: Anarchy at the Guggenheim 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z There were similarities to Neanderthals - a sloping forehead, long face and large pelvis - but the Denisovans were also unique in their very wide skull and large dental arch. Scientists reconstruct skeleton of elusive, pre-historic human 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z A grass-topped roof will emerge from the ground in a sloping semicircle that creates a natural amphitheater on one side, allowing for public performances, while offering floor-to-ceiling studio windows on the other side. Bard College Announces New Maya Lin-Designed Building 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Designed by the Mountainworks firm, the getaway nestles within its sloping terrain to capture full views of the surrounding lake. Best New Cottage 2010-09-17T16:13:00Z "War is madness," he said in his homily before the massive, sloping granite memorial, made of 22 steps on the side of hill with three crosses at the top. Pope says world's many conflicts amount to piecemeal World War Three 2014-09-13T04:00:00Z “With sloping eyes and long fingers expressive of exceptional reach, they speak as messengers from an Afrofuturist-inflected otherworld,” Nancy Princenthal wrote in the Times. Met Museum Acquires Two Sculptures by Wangechi Mutu 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z To the west, we could see the cape pointing like an outstretched finger to the Bay of Fundy, its ridge looking hairy with conifers and sloping down to gray rock at the water’s edge. Walking and talking in Nova Scotia, a small province with sweeping vistas and welcoming locals 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z It’s baked and served in a deep, handmade earthenware vessel called a cassole, with traditional sloping sides. The Right Dish for the Cassoulet 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z The roof turned into sloping walls, which stopped a few feet off the ground, like a big skirt. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z I had no idea whether his handwriting was bold or crabbed, sloping or upright, italic or rounded, elegant or slapdash. Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters 2012-10-06T23:05:27Z This west London show raises the bar for how best to translate this billion-dollar business into public art when it's not sloping down a Parisian runway. The Enchanted Palace makes art of fashion 2010-04-02T10:52:00Z Twombly’s signature line, nervous and diagonally adrift, makes a tentative appearance, faintly penciled, suggesting a sloping hill in six drawings near the entrance. Cy Twombly, Redefined by His Drawings 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z For Mr. Virilio, the bunkers’ interior environment was troubling because of the vertigo its tilted walls and sloping floors provoked. Claude Parent, Visionary Architect of the Oblique, Dies at 93 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Cruising down the gently sloping pasture above the deep Ordesa Canyon in the soft, late afternoon sunlight was bliss itself. Empty-nesters take up where they left off on Spain’s most storied mountain trail 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z “Full Body Burden” is a simmering and sickening book that runs on two downward sloping tracks. Book Review: ‘Full Body Burden’ by Kristen Iversen 2012-09-27T21:30:42Z It has other practical attributes: It will hold sloping soil against erosion and — unlike other ground covers — it doubles as a self-anchoring climber that will soften bare walls and hide plain fences. Revered, then reviled: Tracking the rise and fall of ivy 2017-11-28T05:00:00Z It will have "bold geometric forms, large retractable awnings" and a 12m-high, sloping wall rising above the lawn. Serpentine's star pavilions 2010-05-22T23:04:00Z There also will be a gently sloping introductory racecourse to instill confidence in pint-size daredevils. These ski resorts with expert slopes are also trying to cater to families with beginners 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z I tiptoed up the sloping path in soggy sneakers. Blond hedgehogs, and more alluring strangeness of the Channel Islands 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Mr. Darcy-in-real-life’s slim, sloping shoulders were often found in the landed gentry at the time, with strong legs and “well modeled thighs a sign of virility, a good fencer and horseman.” Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The front door, with sloping lines etched into the wood much like the lines of the roof, was also Jim’s design. Home & Design: A Japanese-style house with pagoda roof in a traditional beach town Except it was not the usual ultrasound profile of sloping forehead, dainty nose, and chin. Waiting to love my child 2013-05-07T23:45:00Z The tomb consisted of numerous chambers that dated from 323 B.C. to 30 B.C. and that were accessible through a corridor and sloping set of stairs. Egypt Unveils Dozens of Newly Discovered Mummies 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The new version moves the performance space and cafe from the water to the four sloping acres on the south side of the Edward Durell Stone-designed building. Kennedy Center swaps planned floating stage for pavilion on grounds 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The Danieli’s sloping parquet floor, its high ceilings, marble pillars, noble proportions and beveled glass reminded me of some of the better places I had spent my childhood, but the luxury was weirdly galling. T Magazine: Vexed in Venice 2011-12-01T00:10:20Z We stumbled up the mountain at different speeds and arrived around noon at the first so-called venue: a sunny hillside sloping down to a stream. Music Shows With a Brooklyn Feel, but Getting to Them Is a Hike 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Sources at the company said they had found a spot that was geographically similar to Cadaqués, with its gently sloping hills and protected bay. Salvador Dal?'s home town to be recreated in China 2010-08-10T20:53:00Z Wright, the architect who works nearby, points to the crest of New York Avenue, sloping down from what used to be the boonies. What’s a Wendy’s doing there? The story of Washington’s weirdest traffic circle. 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z We took advantage of our only sunny morning to set out on the trail, where we watched shepherds guiding huge flocks across the impossibly sloping sides of mountains. Cobblestones? Check. Castles? Check. Budget? Check. Why Romania Is Worth the Trip. 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z The moon illuminated the earthen rows of the now barren vegetable garden and threw shadows of the umbrella pine trees onto the sloping lawn like spilled ink. Seduced by Tuscany in Winter 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z We drove up the sloping hill to the site and walked around the leveled area — an expansive piece of property. First village relocated due to climate change 2012-09-19T19:03:00Z Outside, he put roofs over the bow windows—a typical Regency touch—and, with three new gables, the rear façade now has a pleasantly formal air as it looks over the sloping lawn. 2009-12-21T05:00:00Z This action is the focus of “Northeaster,” where a sloping wave parallels the slant of an immense rock; water curls toward shore at the right, and disintegrates into a large plume toward the left. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z The restaurant sits atop a hill overlooking sloping vineyards, and most of the seating is on an outdoor patio. Attica Summer Camp, Outside Melbourne, Is a Dreamy Distraction 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z “Reach” is a sloping agrarian scene distilled to its simplest essence: outbuilding, bare trees, winding lane, mountain peaks on a tilted horizon, stylized sun overhead. September gallery highlights: From Antarctic ice to apocalyptic flames 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z As the sun sets, a perplexing array of sounds waft over the gently sloping meadow of our campsite. Visit Jersey Zoo – and stay the night 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z Several blocks west, a monumental Miró bronze stood guard by a skyscraper known for its sloping glass facade and masterpieces inside. What Will Become of a Tycoon’s Art Gems? 2020-12-20T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Santa Barbara setting, with its lush landscape, natural light and long shots of Jamie riding his skateboard down wide, sloping streets — streets Mr. Mills skated on — helps evoke an only-in-California nostalgia. A Boy Raised by a Few ‘20th Century Women’ 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z Installed on six acres of cleared land on a gently sloping hill overlooking downtown Montgomery, the memorial is in the form of an open-sided pavilion. A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z For much of its running time, “Letters to Juliet” is content to provide touristic evidence that Italy exists: hillsides bathed in golden light; steep and stony little towns; tile roofs and gently sloping vineyards. | 'Letters to Juliet': Amanda Seyfried Helps Reunite Lovers in Verona 2010-05-13T21:17:00Z They look unlike anything typically built by municipalities, with sloping ramps and oblong bowls that appear like sculpture jutting out of the terrain. Skateboarders Won 2018-04-07T04:00:00Z I also like the new Bushwick Inlet Park, where there’s this weird sloping man-made hill. In New York, Everywhere a Writing Nook 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z This is particularly true of my present study which overlooks, from the second floor of our house, the rear of our property sloping down to a creek that flows into a lake. T Magazine: The Writer’s Room 2014-02-14T17:37:13Z The initial three words — minted by Richard Nixon a half-century ago this week — are printed in sloping pink cursive. All eyes are on Wisconsin, the state that’s gearing up to define the presidential election 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Walking across Genoa’s sloping urban patchwork can sometimes feel like stepping into one of Piranesi’s intricate engravings, a cityscape that seems to have been cut up and glued back every which way. Genoa Isn’t Rome or Florence. That’s Part of Its Charm. 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z Not all Swiss wine is the same, with a range of climates and grape varieties, said Vincent Chollet, standing among his sunny vines sloping down towards Lake Geneva. Swiss raise a glass to winegrowers in rare vintage festival 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z The hotel is still a quick, if gradually sloping, walk to the most Instagram-ready sights — especially the late Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s fanciful Valparaíso home, La Sebastiana, rising like a ship’s prow from Bellavista. Hotel Review: The WineBox Valparaíso, Chile 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Cake Shop is a dismal place to play, a dark windowless basement with a sloping floor that ends in a claustrophobic stage. ArtsBeat Blog: Relationship Tension, Over Screeching Feedback 2011-10-19T05:46:55Z In his ramshackle apartment, we belted out Bob Dylan songs as he twirled me across the sloping floorboards. Modern Love: A Lost Child, but Not Mine 2011-07-28T22:12:45Z The sloping downward and forward line that Degas’s dancers maintain from toe to hand in arabesque penchée is a single absorbing diagonal. Degas?s Ballet at the Phillips Collection and Royal Academy 2011-09-02T12:39:28Z Its buildings, tucked into a sloping site overlooking a lake, include broad overhanging roofs to shade walls, intimate courtyards and covered outdoor corridors that encourage fellowship and exchange while aiding ventilation. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z There was some comfort in seeing the sloping patterns of the underside of the island beneath us. My swimming odyssey: ‘It felt like a last chance to prove what I was capable of’ 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Kids walked to Eastern High School, their breath forming puffs of steam in the air, and the sloping roof of RFK Stadium loomed in the distance, its white crest blending into the cool gray sky. Former anti-drug activists reflect on marijuana legalization 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z With the floor sloping upward from front to back — as it would seem to in a photograph or a painting — it induces a dreamy, slightly dizzying effect. Roxy Paine: ‘Denuded Lens’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z And he would have been slightly undernourished, with sloping shoulders — “more ballet dancer than beefcake,” according to one of the authors of a new study. Mr. Darcy, You’re No Colin Firth 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z The lake’s far shore may or may not have been a giant, gently sloping slab of gray-pink granite. Trekking through fire and ice on Greenland’s 102-mile Arctic Circle Trail 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Police vehicle examiner Mark Richards, who is also an expert on baling, said it was safe to use round bales on flat ground but great care was needed on sloping fields, especially those above roads. Family of ELO's Mike Edwards calls for new safety rules after hay bale death 2011-03-15T16:57:07Z The most immediately captivating of Mr. Sachs’s works is a small, cylindrical fish pond surrounded by a sloping plywood construction, like a flagstone-covered hillock. ‘Tom Sachs: Tea Ceremony,’ at the Noguchi Museum 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z The Na Pali Coast is a bucket-list must with towering green spires, deep canyons, and perilous cliffs sloping into the sea. These Are the Best Views in America 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The grate itself is formed of downwardly sloping V-shaped bars that channel off dripping fat to reduce flare-ups. Cooking Over Wood: A Guide to the Grills 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z We found our way to a wide, gently sloping trail that wound for several miles along a wadi, or gorge. Next Stop: Jerusalem Outings Go Beyond the Biblical 2011-06-10T18:55:00Z Exit through the excellent gift shop and meander down a sloping ocher-colored walkway into a pyramid sprouting grass and shading a turquoise lagoon. 36 Hours in Canberra, Australia 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z Artifacts sit in free-floating glass cases, the sloping walls serving as projection screens for looping art films. What’s New in Doha? Basically Everything 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s star painting is Bruegel’s “Harvesters,” with its sloping slab of yellow wheat and peasants lunching in the foreground. Critic?s Notebook: The Work of Art in the Age of Google 2011-02-06T22:50:35Z The greenhouse is one of three clustered on his sloping, 1½ -acre garden in Exton, in southeastern Pennsylvania. The mysterious appeal of the dainty snowdrop 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z While sloping front ends did not reduce the risk posed by vehicles with the tallest hoods, they did make a difference for vehicles with hood heights of 30 inches to 40 inches. Vehicles with higher, vertical front ends raise risks for pedestrians 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Every few minutes a figure would appear on the sloping lawn, moving slowly through the lines of gravestones. National Cemetery in Westwood, a place for quiet reflection on Veterans Day 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z The disaster unfurled in a narrower, sloping side alleyway connecting the street and the alley. One year after South Korean Halloween tragedy, wounds remain raw, accusations fly 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Audiences were inserted into the theater via a pneumatic grandstand, after which they were treated to films about man’s relationship to technology on a series of nine geometric screens adhered to the theater’s sloping walls. The Las Vegas Sphere interior's first film is both mind-blowing and Disneyfied 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The 18th Century pub, near Dudley, was known for its sloping walls and floor, caused by mining subsidence in the area. New arrest in Crooked House pub fire investigation 2023-10-04T04:00:00Z There was a 25% increase in the risk of a fatality for vehicles with flat hoods — those with angles of 15 degrees or less — compared with vehicles with more sloping hoods. Vehicles with higher, vertical front ends raise risks for pedestrians 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z The 18th Century pub, in Himley, near Dudley, was known for its sloping walls and floor because of mining subsidence in the are, and was one of the best known landmarks in the Black Country. New arrests in Crooked House pub inquiry 2023-09-28T04:00:00Z Dickey’s are 3 feet wide and 3 feet high at the back, where the lid hinges, sloping down to a foot tall in front. The art of forcing bulbs 2023-09-20T04:00:00Z The 425-square-foot home is contained by a gently curving concrete form equipped with a generous porch and a dramatic sloping roof. L.A.'s first legal 3-D-printed house is here. It was built by students in just 15 months 2023-09-19T04:00:00Z The grassland fire on Aug. 8 raced down the base of a volcano sloping into the tourist resort town of Lahaina, destroying or damaging some 2,200 buildings. Death toll from Hawaii wildfires drops to 97 2023-09-15T04:00:00Z The Himley Road site has been a centre for several protests and gatherings since the legendary sloping pub was destroyed in an arson attack and demolished without full permission. Man held after violence at Crooked House site 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z The site has been a centre for several protests and gatherings since the legendary sloping pub was destroyed in an arson attack and demolished without full permission. Probe as violence breaks out at Crooked House site 2023-09-11T04:00:00Z Supporters who stretch across the world, civic leaders and many who have visited the site near Dudley where the famous sloping building once stood have called for it to be rebuilt, exactly as it was. Can fire-hit Crooked House rise from the ashes? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The landfill site falls next to the land where the 18th Century pub, famed for its sloping walls and floor, stood. Firm linked to Crooked House owner was taken to court 2023-09-05T04:00:00Z There is no grand lobby with barrel vault ceiling; instead, the viewer is greeted by the sloping walls and gentle asymmetries of a rough-hewn cave, our most archaic form of shelter. Can the new wing of New York's Natural History Museum help reframe outdated ideas? 2023-08-29T04:00:00Z Fans of the pub dubbed “Britain’s wonkiest” for its slumping foundation and sloping walls had hoped it would be restored and many are now pushing for it to be rebuilt brick by brick. Police arrest two men in suspected torching of British pub cherished for its lopsided walls 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z The pub, known for its sloping walls and floor due to mining subsidence in the area, was bought from Marston's by ATE Farms Limited in July. Crooked House: Wonky pub's bricks and foundations to stay 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z But, the Crooked House, with its sloping floors and windows had been shored up with steel work so, in his view, it was "a stage set building". Can fire-hit Crooked House rise from the ashes? 2023-09-08T04:00:00Z The grassland fire on Aug. 8 raced down the base of a volcano sloping into the tourist resort town of Lahaina, killing at least 110 people and destroying or damaging some 2,200 buildings. Maui officials defend decision not to sound sirens during wildfire 2023-08-17T04:00:00Z The pub, known for its sloping walls and floor, was bought from Marston's by ATE Farms Limited in July. MP pledges to push for Crooked House law 2023-08-16T04:00:00Z There have been calls for the 18th Century Crooked House at Himley near Dudley, famous for its sloping walls and floors, to be rebuilt after its destruction last week. Miniature Crooked House wins plaudits from across the globe 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z The 18th century building, famed for its sloping floors and walls, was bulldozed less than two days after the fire, prompting anger from residents and former customers. Crooked House scandal 'must be catalyst for change' 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Typically, investors expect to be paid more interest for lending for longer periods of time, creating an upward sloping curve. Wall Street’s recession warning has been flashing since last year. Some are wondering if it is wrong. 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z In the 1980s, land movement in the Flying Triangle — a sloping, sea-view area of Rolling Hills — destroyed several expensive homes. What's causing luxury Rolling Hills Estates homes to slide down a canyon? Here's what we know 2023-07-10T04:00:00Z We recently drove there via Yakima, through the Satus Pass, then descended through sloping green meadows populated by flocks of white wind turbines overlooking the river. Beyond camping and festivals, the Gorge is the PNW’s prime playground 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z They parked on the far edge of the outcrop, then continued on foot through a sloping scree field of glassy black stone until they reached a view of the mud flats to the east. Scientists warned of a Salton Sea disaster. No one listened 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Over the years, Seattle replaced a natural, sloping beach with rigid sea walls, poured pollutants into the water and invited massive ships into Elliott Bay. Downtown Seattle’s new beach offers refuge for people, salmon 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Standing on the sloping bank of a levee, the group said a prayer. 'This water needs to be protected': California tribe calls for preservation of Tulare Lake 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The gently sloping valley spilled down toward Death Valley National Park, whose snowy mountain peaks towered over a landscape dotted with thousands of Joshua trees. Solar sprawl is tearing up the Mojave Desert. Is there a better way? 2023-06-27T04:00:00Z The runway came alive with models resembling modern-day gladiators, adorned in Owens’ signature long pants and sloping, oversized shoulders. Fashion, star power and a martial aura fuse at Givenchy’s collection at Paris Fashion Week 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z By continuously growing out their jaws and pushing old sections forward, rhynchosaurs ended up developing a sloping, grin-like curve to their mouths. The Sad Story Behind a Prehistoric Reptile’s ‘Grin’ 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The newly dated bones come from a massive, sloping cave named Tam Pà Ling, high in the verdant mountains of northern Laos. Ancient humans traveled half the world to Asia before main migration out of Africa 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Over the years sand should filter through its holes and extend the shallow, gently sloping habitat favorable to native littleneck clams. Indigenous people from across Pacific help build Swinomish clam garden 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z The late afternoon sun cast a warm glow over the gently sloping beach. For These Bird Flu Researchers, Work Is a Day at the Very ‘Icky’ Beach 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z This Seattle Center tradition draws moviegoers to picnic on the gently sloping Mural Amphitheater lawn while watching contemporary and classic films each summer. Where to watch outdoor movies this summer 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z Two teams of four wore ritual protective padding and passed the ball to each other without using hands or feet on long I-shaped courts flanked by sloping walls. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z But the installation titled “Diver” features a stainless-steel plumb bob swinging elliptically over the level surface of a container of water that sits on the Guggenheim’s sloping ramp. Review | Two visionary women ignite the Guggenheim 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Ice is less dense than water — and in these flat areas, with no sloping bedrock pressing up against the bottom of the glacier, ice is especially buoyant. Glaciers May Melt Even Faster Than Expected, Study Finds 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z A sloping ice bed, she explained, would be harder to pop off the seafloor. ‘Scary’ new data on the last ice age raises concerns about future sea levels 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Cradling a 3D printed copy of a horse skull from Mongolia, Taylor points to a groove midway along the long, sloping nose, caused by pressure from a bridle. Horse nations: Animal began transforming Native American life startlingly early 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Intense lines register loud moments, soft blurred patches are quiet hums, and a stack of bars sloping upward might represent the bugling of an elk or the howling of a coyote. What does a hoot look like? What about a croak? Or a howl? Northeastern Albania is known for its natural Alpine beauty and green sloping landscape. Eager young Albanians risk everything for new future in UK 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Over long periods, sloping bedrock tends to facilitate higher rates of ice loss. Glaciers May Melt Even Faster Than Expected, Study Finds 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Coyotes roamed nearby, sniffing the ground before disappearing below the hillside’s sloping edge. L.A.'s only Indigenous school helps return land to California's Native population 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z The surgery left a 1½-inch square opening in the skull and was likely created using a stone or metal implement with a sharp, sloping edge, Kalisher said. Biblical city yields unusual case of 3,500-year-old head surgery 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Light blue sloping streaks, lower left and lower middle, rising above the cormorants’ calls depict the calls of the great-tailed grackle. What does a hoot look like? What about a croak? Or a howl? Plot a series of radiocarbon measurements as a function of time, and a Miyake event will look much like a cliff that’s nearly vertical on one face but much more gradually sloping on the other. Mystery of Ancient Space Superstorms Deepens 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Elsewhere, a pink 1940s coat with sloping shoulders became a statement piece in textured pink. Valentino holds black tie Paris show, Lanvin goes simple 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z Your children play in the creek in the summer and ride sleds down sloping white hills in the winter. In a growing petrochemical hub, the East Palestine derailment triggers ‘an uneasy feeling’ 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Over the years, the pyramid started falling apart, taken over by squatters and swarming with young people who used its sloping concrete outer walls as slides. Despised Dictator’s ‘Scary’ Shrine Becomes a Bet on Albania’s Future 2023-02-19T05:00:00Z Video of the landslide captured one sloping town street transformed into a running river of mud, rocks and debris, with homes and other structures torn down immediately upon contact. At least 15 dead from Peru landslide, president pledges to speed help 2023-02-07T05:00:00Z Tourists flock to the spectacle of the blue-grey hatchlings scurrying madly down the sloping beach to reach the water after they are released. Love of sea turtles turns Philippine poachers into protectors 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z The long drive there from Bucharest winds through mile after mile of snow-muffled forest, branches iced thickly to their tips, mountains sloping towards the horizon - it's like driving through a Christmas card. Andrew Tate: Inside the Romanian town where brothers' empire began 2023-02-04T05:00:00Z Often, these spaces are found under stairs or in top-floor rooms with sloping ceilings. Room to grow: Finding ways to add space to your home without a major remodel | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z If the outside of the berms is riotous nature, the interior is sleek and calm; gently sloping white walls bear glyphs inspired by Hohokam petroglyphs found in Southern Arizona. How a new Tucson memorial found a way to mourn mass-shooting victims 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z A cluster of farm buildings was partially visible, set amid cypress and eucalyptus trees on a sloping hillside a couple of miles inland from the Pacific Coast. Alleged Half Moon Bay gunman targeted his own workplace, police say 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z It shows temperatures gently sloping cooler for the first 800 years, then wiggling up and down while sloping warmer until a sharp and sudden spike hotter from the 1990s on. New ice core analysis shows sharp Greenland warming spike 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z It is built on a sloping hillside surrounded by coconut trees. Sierra Madre: The deadly battle to save a rainforest in the Philippines 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z His four-painting series, “The Four Seasons,” showed the changing light and environs over a year on a sloping woodland near his house and studio in Rüschegg, Switzerland. Franz Gertsch, master of photorealism painting, dies at 92 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The farm, on a sloping bit of land surrounded on all sides by hills, looked beautiful as a sliver of fall moon rose above the snaking Eel River below. California taxes, regulations are killing small legal weed farms the state vowed to help 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z “Avi Kwa Ame’s story is one of perseverance and passion,” Ms. Titus said in a statement, adding she hoped to safeguard “these sloping bajadas, scenic canyons, and ancient cultural sites for future generations to enjoy.” Biden Promises Protections for Nevada’s Spirit Mountain 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z Mauna Loa is a shield volcano, a type that erupts fluid lava to form sloping, dome-shaped mountains. Mauna Loa, Earth’s Largest Active Volcano, Just Woke Up after 38 Years 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z The new wall should allow in some sediment to slowly create a gently sloping habitat. Fish farming in WA goes back millennia — how will it survive? 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z Officials said the sloping terrain and unstable soil contributed to the extent of the damage. Death Toll Rises From Indonesia Earthquake 2022-11-25T05:00:00Z The sloping, hilly terrain of the district of Cianjur, an agricultural region that was the epicenter of Monday’s earthquake, made it especially vulnerable to landslides, he said. In Indonesia, an Earthquake, Landslides and Homes ‘Flat to the Earth’ 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z One dune would crest at 3.7 meters above sea level, and a second, farther up the sloping beach, at 4.25 meters—almost 1 meter shorter than the earlier proposed wall. Shelter from the storm: Can a giant flood barrier protect Texas cities from hurricanes? 2022-11-16T05:00:00Z An underwater canyon and sloping hills — vestiges of the Mediterranean coastline submerged by rising seas at the end of the last Ice Age — provide oases for underwater life to gain a foothold. Israel rushes to protect marine life as Mediterranean warms 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The tight conditions led to a dangerous surge of people through the sloping streets of Itaewon—especially one narrow alleyway. What to Do if You’re Trapped in a Surging Crowd 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z The narrow, sloping alleys of the district became clogged with people, leading to what experts call “crowd turbulence.” 3 tragedies in Asia take hundreds of lives in 1 month 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The first caller described in detail how throngs of people disgorged from the subway station in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in central Seoul, were jamming into a narrow, sloping alleyway nearby. Pleas for Help Went Unheeded for Hours in Deadly South Korea Crush 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z The latest call released by the police came at 10:11 p.m., minutes before people packed into one particularly narrow and sloping alley began to fall over each other shortly before 10:30 p.m. Emergency calls reveal growing desperation before South Korea Halloween crush 2022-11-01T04:00:00Z Many head straight to a nearby 10-foot-wide, 130-foot-long, sloping alleyway because it is a shortcut to the area’s hip bars, restaurants and nightclubs. Halloween Crowd Crush in Seoul Was ‘Absolutely Avoidable,’ Experts Say 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z “If you look at the terrain, apparently the streets are uneven and sloping, so of course that would have added” to people’s lack of control, she says. What to Do if You’re Trapped in a Surging Crowd 2022-11-03T04:00:00Z But chaos erupted when people poured into one particularly narrow and sloping alley, even after it was already packed, witnesses said. South Korea vows thorough investigation into deadly Halloween crush 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z Mr Ahammed and a group of friends spent the evening in Itaewon, hanging around a narrow, sloping alley off the district's main street that was about to become the main focus of the tragedy. South Korea: How the Halloween tragedy unfolded 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z People poured into one particularly narrow and sloping alley, even after it was already packed wall-to-wall. How Halloween parties turned deadly in popular Seoul district 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z A steeply sloping alleyway became a death trap - apparently the crowd surged forward and people at the front fell over and were trampled by those behind. Itaewon crowd crush: 'I could not catch their pulse or breath' 2022-10-30T04:00:00Z One video appears to show hundreds of people packed tightly together in a narrow, sloping road in the district. Itaewon crowd surge: Nearly 150 die in Halloween crush in Seoul 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z The newest cocoon, with its straight sides and sloping roof, creates a new look for the Hanford skyline, much different from the other cocooned reactors, which retain much of the original shape of the reactors. Plutonium reactor in Eastern WA encased in steel to protect river 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z There’s no mention on the “Welcome to West Seattle” sign greeting drivers sloping up the end of the newly reopened West Seattle Bridge. Is West Seattle the rock ’n’ roll capital of Seattle? 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Scientists don’t know exactly what causes the whales to strand, although it appears their location systems can get confused by gently sloping sandy beaches. 477 whales die in ‘heartbreaking’ New Zealand strandings 2022-10-11T04:00:00Z Now, 55 wind turbines can be seen but not heard on the sloping farmlands around Feldheim and residents enjoy some of the cheapest electricity and natural gas rates in Germany. In one tiny German town, nobody worries about energy bills 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z VIX futures, which plot volatility expectations for several months ahead, normally remain upward sloping, with near-term futures relatively less pricey than those that target coming months. 'Fear gauge' futures close to signaling U.S. stock selling crescendo 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z To the southeast he noted an alley filled with scree — it was a timeworn ball court, 350 feet long and 16 feet wide with sloping sides. Unearthing a Maya Civilization That ‘Punched Above its Weight’ 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Most of its groves are on sloping hills where expensive new machines like olive harvesters — essentially, massive $500,000 tractors that drive over 14 foot trees — can’t operate. The Olive Oil Capital of the World, Parched 2022-09-10T04:00:00Z Over time, the sturdy but porous structure should capture sediment on its upland side and expand the shallow, gently sloping habitat for things like butter clams and littleneck clams. Swinomish Tribe builds modern clam garden, reviving practice 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Plans for the Dunn property made the most of the sloping land with a western exposure and enhanced many of the site’s natural features. Dunn Gardens partners with Black quilting group to build inclusivity 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z The demand curve is downward sloping with the negative sign for the price of roses. Introductory Business Statistics 2017-11-29T00:00:00Z The agreement is backloaded, with the disbursements gently sloping upward in the first two years and increasing significantly in Years 3 through 7. Big Ten reaches seven-year TV deal worth nearly $8 billion after adding UCLA, USC 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z In Hancock Park, a historic enclave in the center of Los Angeles, Bill Newby, 65, said that sloping lawns were essential to his community’s identity. In Los Angeles, the Grass Isn’t Always Greener This Year 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z YORK, England — Pints in hand, a group of men sat hunched over chessboards under the sloping ceiling beams of the Eagle and Child pub in York, in northern England. His Next Move: A Ukrainian Boy Starts a New Life Through Chess 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Tucked between two mountains, hidden in the rolling, sloping hills of Hood River Valley, you’ll find a tiny canyon, each depression carved out by the winding road, each hillside a vineyard-topped border. 5 stops to make to connect with nature in the Columbia River Gorge 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z Already, air scrubbers and excrement-sweeping robots operate in barns, while sloping floors are encouraged to reduce contact between the manure and urine - but in most cases they still meet in the cellar. Why Dutch farmers are protesting over emissions cuts 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Plotted out on a chart, the various yields for bonds create an upward sloping line — the curve. A Recession Alarm Is Ringing on Wall Street 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z In contrast, steeply sloping areas in highlands may experience erosion and have thinner surface horizons. Environmental Biology 2018-09-06T00:00:00Z This large boulder has bedding still visible as dark and light bands sloping steeply down to the right. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Thurman asked Wright to place on the sloping Dean tract site a complex that would include a hotel, an apartment house, a parking garage, a movie theater, a shopping center and other commercial spaces. Perspective | Frank Lloyd Wright once designed a shimmering complex near Kalorama 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z The approach is open to a sloping green, but it should be a high shot to avoid the humps and bumps in front of the green. BRITISH OPEN ’22: A hole-by-hole look at St. Andrews 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z When this happens, it can be difficult to achieve the sloping required for water to drain away from the foundation. Prevent wood rot by avoiding some basic mistakes 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z Saucon Valley will present a typical Open test, with a premium on accuracy off the tee to avoid the deep, gnarly rough and set up manageable approaches to its speedy, sloping greens. Jim Furyk completing daunting double at US Senior Open 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z The sloping beds on either side of an axial plane are limbs. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Grime collects mostly on the hood, not the chimney section, so if you clean frequently, you might be able to focus on the sloping surfaces and skip the vertical parts most of the time. How to clean a greasy range hood 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z The farther left the tee shot, the more difficult the approach, with a bunker on the left and the green sloping away to the right. BRITISH OPEN ’22: A hole-by-hole look at St. Andrews 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z They bought a 1911 Craftsman style house that day, but for Schwartz, the biggest attraction was the huge oaks that sprawled across the bottom of their sloping lot. Oh, no! Your native plants look dead. Here’s what to do 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z But the bend between the wall and the base must be more than 90 degrees, sloping away so water drains at the base of the siding. How to repair damaged shed siding 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z A rock slide is the sliding motion of rock along a sloping surface. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, some older homes are built with the driveway sloping toward the house — sending rain into the garage — so that needs to be addressed. How Seattleites have gotten more out of their garage spaces — without remodeling | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Once you have the ground sloping away from the foundation on all sides, it’s necessary to slope your yard so water flows to the lowest point of your lot. Keep your crawlspace dry by redirecting rainwater 2022-05-31T04:00:00Z Then they proceeded to a long, narrow road sloping up from an open area to a cluster of concrete buildings where an Israeli army convoy was parked some 200 meters away. Reconstruction of reporter’s killing points to Israeli fire 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z It worked so well that I built a stunning patio in the back of this house with sloping terraced steps to get to it. Perspective | How to build stunning brick patios and sidewalks 2022-05-17T04:00:00Z Bedding is visible as light and dark bands sloping steeply to the right. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z McIlroy successfully navigated the tricky sloping greens of the Southern Hills Country Club with deft chipping, bunker play and deadly accurate putting. Tiger Woods: My Leg Feels OK, as Long as I Don’t Play Golf 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z Severe drought, gusty winds and sloping topography were a devastating combination for this seaside housing development in Laguna Niguel. California properties at risk of wildfire expected to see sixfold increase in 30 years 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z Now the Bosporus seemed to flow north to that cold lakelike sea of villages of blackened wood, sloping muddy streets and red-bearded men with bright blue eyes. Returning to Istanbul, a Place of Competing Identities 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z The slight dogleg to the left features a tee shot to a blind landing area on a fairway sloping to the left. PGA CHAMPIONSHIP ’22: A hole-by-hole look at Southern Hills 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z In Figure 14.5, the water table is sloping; that slope represents the change in gravitational potential energy of the water at the water table. Physical Geology 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Each of the Dolomites’ natural skyscrapers was pointy or sloping in its own way. In Italy’s Dolomite mountains, a peak experience for hikers 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z Lush landscaping and a sloping roofline touch up the exterior, and inside, beamed ceilings and hardwood floors sandwich bright living spaces. Former 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh sells Bay Area mansion for $11.78 million 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z This method worked so well on our sidewalk that I kept going, eventually building a stunning patio with sloping terraced steps. Sidewalk talk: Brick walkways and patios offer charm and durability 2022-04-13T04:00:00Z He flies the green at 1, leaving himself a treacherous chip back up onto a green sloping away from him. The Masters 2022: second round – live! 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Klari’s own files are largely subsumed by her husband’s, and four of us spent the better part of a week there, looking for anything we could find in Klari’s tall sloping hand. Lost Women of Science Podcast, Season 2: Episode One - The Grasshopper 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Usually, longer-term Treasurys offer higher yields than shorter-term ones, resulting in a chart with an upward sloping line. EXPLAINER: Why bond yields may be warning of a recession 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z They likely have their eyes trained on "real" interest rates; stripping out inflation, 10-year yields remain deeply negative while "real" yield curves are so far sloping upwards. Morning Bid: Trade-offs 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Once the brambles were subdued and countless stumps removed, local landscapers volunteered to begin contouring and terracing the steeply sloping hillside. Community honors founder of Plant Amnesty with the Cass Turnbull Garden 2022-03-19T04:00:00Z They ran water through a long, sloping wooden box. myWorld: Building Our Country 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z It looks a bit like a cube pushed off the vertical axis, with its western face sloping away from the 1929 temple building. Review | A famous L.A. synagogue added a strange new building — and they get along perfectly 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z And when that chart has a downward sloping line, Wall Street starts getting nervous. EXPLAINER: Why bond yields may be warning of a recession 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z The byway’s 27 miles of snakelike curves follow the river, surrounded by gently sloping, tuft-covered hills that climb to stunning basalt columns. Discover Ellensburg: Vintage charm and Sunday drives | Provided by Western Washington Toyota Dealers 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Silva had grown up in the mountainous state of Veracruz, chasing slow-moving lorries up sloping country roads. 3,134 miles, 18 pairs of sneakers, multiple cartel checkpoints: A run across Mexico |
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