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“That head looks a bit funny,” Aerill says quietly to Thoven, pointing out the odd tendril-like hair, and the bat wings extending from either side of the head.
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My other minor complaint about the Pandoran reality was Cameron's apparent obsession with optical fibers, tendril-like versions of which kept popping up all over the place, from the Na'vi-animal interfaces to the Tree of Souls.
Chris McGowan: Immersion in Pandora: The Virtual World of Avatar 2010
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Self-Portrait with Flowered Hat (1883/1888) is one of several instances exhibited here displaying changes to the image — the flowered hat itself and tendril-like brushwork across the face — to up the ante on dandyism, and tease us with anti-conventional stances.
Ensor Unmasked 2009
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Self-Portrait with Flowered Hat (1883/1888) is one of several instances exhibited here displaying changes to the image — the flowered hat itself and tendril-like brushwork across the face — to up the ante on dandyism, and tease us with anti-conventional stances.
Ensor Unmasked 2009
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In this sense, the shifting patterns of tendril-like light are most reminiscent, not of any outer world, but of an inner one.
Archive 2007-11-01 Ed Howard 2007
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In this sense, the shifting patterns of tendril-like light are most reminiscent, not of any outer world, but of an inner one.
11/11: Crimes and Misdemeanors; Pittsburgh Trilogy; The Text of Light Ed Howard 2007
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On the other hand, to thrust himself in front of her, consuming the road in his tendril-like advance, seemed an incivility — greed.
The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll Herbert George 2006
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A wave slid across my chest, and inside it I saw the pinkish blue air sac and long tendril-like stingers of a Portuguese man-of-war.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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A wave slid across my chest, and inside it I saw the pinkish blue air sac and long tendril-like stingers of a Portuguese man-of-war.
Dave Robicheaux Ebook Boxed Set James Lee Burke 2002
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A wave slid across my chest, and inside it I saw the pinkish blue air sac and long tendril-like stingers of a Portuguese man-of-war.
The Lost Get-Back Boogie James Lee Burke 1986
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