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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

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