patternings

Yuasa bases each print of an enchanting garden or dreamy bedroom on a photograph that has been digitally processed in monochrome and thus afforded an almost impressionistic haze of inflected patternings.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

In each case the material put forward for consumption has a certain shapeliness, a self-awareness of its own patternings, and an underlying message.

Blogs and Essays « Tales from the Reading Room 2008

My self, that is to say, is not so much a thing, as it is a mass of self-reflexive, loopy patternings.

Archive 2009-04-01 enowning 2009

Given that the class list so dear to Nabokov's heart (52) surrounds Dolores Haze's name with Roses (a tangle of thorns), I believe the art that is Lolita (the tangle, the parodies, the mask, the marvelously disguised patternings) is what can be more extensively looked at than someone seeking Christ's atonement.

The murderer’s fancy style 2009

My self, that is to say, is not so much a thing, as it is a mass of self-reflexive, loopy patternings.

enowning enowning 2009

They have slightly different patternings, and vary quite a lot in size.

I don't need your stinking logic StyleyGeek 2007

The archaeologist studies the patternings of such finds—finds like a scatter of stone tools and animal bones at the site of a big-game kill 20,000 years ago.

2. Space 2001

His eyes traversed skein after skein of the brilliant colorful patternings, but he was unable to find a very closely netted region.

The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

A look of relief came over the long face, but he still gazed at the serpentine patternings.

The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

He scratched upon a bone and found resemblance and pursued it and began pictorial art, moulded the soft, warm clay of the river brink between his fingers, and found a pleasure in its patternings and repetitions, shaped it into the form of vessels, and found that it would hold water.

The World Set Free Herbert George 1914