nubbly

Really, though, it's the differences that make each building: Safdie builds around a prismatic skylight that renders everything reflective and cool, Saarinen encases his geometric space in nubbly, irregular brickwork that's human and warm.

Archive 2007-02-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Really, though, it's the differences that make each building: Safdie builds around a prismatic skylight that renders everything reflective and cool, Saarinen encases his geometric space in nubbly, irregular brickwork that's human and warm.

Sticks and Bricks (off-topic Friday) Matthew Guerrieri 2007

Peggy was struggling with a stout and somewhat "nubbly" piece of wood, which was slowly shaping itself under the vigorous strokes of her jack-knife.

The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Cara sighed and shifted on the rough, nubbly couch cushion.

Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

Joy picked a thick, nubbly multicolored yarn that would give the bag a fiber art look.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

Lucy took out some number six needles and picked a small ball of nubbly orange yarn from the selection Maggie had prepared.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

Joy picked a thick, nubbly multicolored yarn that would give the bag a fiber art look.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011

A sample of one of Google's gigapixel images, provided by the Freer, suggests that users of Google Art will be able to see the faintest tracery of white paint with which the artist has made his subject's eyes glisten, as well as the nubbly, grid-like texture of the canvass underneath.

Google Art Project: 'Street view' technology added to museums Philip Kennicott 2011

Cara sighed and shifted on the rough, nubbly couch cushion.

Choker Elizabeth Woods 2011

Lucy took out some number six needles and picked a small ball of nubbly orange yarn from the selection Maggie had prepared.

A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011