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Example sentences for: hourglass

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Steiner opens the collection with "The Uncommon Reader," a tour-de-force meditation on Jean-Siméon Chardin's painting Le Philosophe lisant , which becomes, through attentive reading of details--"his folio, his hourglass, his incised medallions, his ready quill"--an emblem for the vanishing culture of book and reader.
Like Sands Through the Hourglass
The loops containing the NPA motif, located to the carboxy-terminal side of TM2 and TM5, respectively, overlap in the middle of the lipid bilayer ('hourglass' model) and form two hemipores that generate a narrow channel [ 15, 16, 17].
Crisply radiating pleats and sumptuously layered folds of fabric were deftly manipulated into sweeping skirts, draped shawls, billowing bows--a universe of precious textiles, often embroidered or sequined, to spread out from the hourglass torso.
John Galliano won at $25,000 with a black cotton-satin hourglass corset covered with jeweled sprays and stars and faintly suggesting Jane Russell; followed at a great distance by a $2,000 Yoshibi Ishinuma bikini made entirely of swooping black coq feathers; and a Robert Beaulieu bikini made entirely of pale mink, available at a modest $750.