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Counterbalancing this is the quasi-Egyptian inscrutability of her eyes; the mask-like ivory oval of her face; the light blue halo effect around her head; the shield-like rigidity of her bodice; and the chain-mail of her pearl and gold partlet.

Bronzino's Medici portraits – review James Hall 2010

Field of vision is fantastic, with no frame to get in the way and large, shield-like lenses that end out of my field of vision.

Clothesline: Briko Endure Pro Duo and Smith PivLock V90 MAX eyewear 2010

In the 1970s, a Greek scientist supposedly caught a ship on fire using 70 shield-like, copper coated mirrors.

Five Cool Inventions by Archimedes | myFiveBest 2010

It's not that Mr. Houseago's work is unfinished, but that the combination of bold drawing on huge plaster shield-like surfaces of limbs, with plaster and hemp faces, feet and hands splatted on the floor, combined with the iron rebars and wood of the massive "Baby" 2009-10, shown in splendid isolation at MAO, pulses with urgent, energy-charged emotion.

Energy Pulses Through Houseago's Sculpture Paul Levy 2010

The Ceratopsians are most famous for many of their later members having impressive eye and nose horns coupled with spectacularly large shield-like frills.

Life's Time Capsule: The Ceratopsians Gallery Traumador 2009

The Ceratopsians are most famous for many of their later members having impressive eye and nose horns coupled with spectacularly large shield-like frills.

Archive 2009-03-01 Prehistoric Insanity 2009

The rostrum in rorquals is long and tapers to a point (though it is comparatively broad in blue whales) and, in contrast to other mysticetes, a stout finger-like extension of the maxillary bone extends posteriorly, overlapping the nasals and abutting the supraoccipital (the shield-like plate that forms the rear margin of the skull).

Archive 2006-10-01 Darren Naish 2006

The rostrum in rorquals is long and tapers to a point (though it is comparatively broad in blue whales) and, in contrast to other mysticetes, a stout finger-like extension of the maxillary bone extends posteriorly, overlapping the nasals and abutting the supraoccipital (the shield-like plate that forms the rear margin of the skull).

From cigar to elongated, bloated tadpole: rorquals part II Darren Naish 2006

Members of this family have big heads, powerful jaws, long tails, and a shield-like carapace.

Reptile families 2008

I turn to the forepart of the body I see, at first, nothing but a great shield-like shell, called technically the

Essays 2007