She blotted her eyes with a tissue, sipped her water.
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Marge Sandberg slowly blotted out her cigarette in an ashtray.
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One coat gives you that trendy, blotted velvet lip look.
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So we blotted it off and went with the matte formula.
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Well, hell, I don't give a damn if we're blotted out.
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Men lurching home after midnight, collars and shirtsleeves blotted with blood.
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Two first-half yellow cards against West Brom blotted Juan's perfect record.
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"The sun is almost entirely blotted out by the smoke," Lareau says.
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In 2007, a planetwide dust storm blotted out the sun for two weeks .
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" Her own scream in response is silenced, implicitly blotted out by the "Mr.
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Then, still holding it up, blotted off the moisture with his left arm's sleeve.
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He jerked some fresh towel down from the roll dispenser and blotted his hands.
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To drive home his point, Jefferson submitted the subpoenaed material with portions blotted out.
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Doctors face it daily, reading scans blotted by tumours the way others scour market data.
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Using the pointy edge, he blotted it up and down the cheekbones and blended it.
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"It's a real neighborhood," where the sky hasn't yet been blotted out by excessive building.
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Everyone wears modern black athletic shoes or cleats, but the logos must be blotted out.
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"Because the sun is never completely blotted out, it doesn't get particularly dark," he said.
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The social company's epic repricing in the middle of the week blotted out the news sun.
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On his book tour, Mallory has said that depression "blighted, blotted, and blackened" his adult life.
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Wasps, by comparison, don't suffer from frizz, so they can just be blotted and air-dried.
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Silvery clouds blotted out the rising sun, until they were streaked with pale pink and orange.
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The storm blotted out the sun on Mars and left the solar-powered Opportunity gasping for energy.
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The second result of impeachment is that it has blotted out the Democratic nomination race for weeks.
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Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
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By the early 20th century a proud record of toleration was blotted out by the genocide of Armenians.
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In Pancake Rally, I didn't plan to include Trump but he just showed up in the blotted forms.
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Clouds blotted out the Sun's light, eventually killing 75 percent of plant and animal life on the planet.
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Not even the arrival of a very despondent Jon Snow can dim her moment in the blotted-out sun.
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Ahead, she brushed, patted, and blotted this summer's most popular lip shades onto six models with different skin tones.
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On Monday, the smoke created by the fires blotted out the sun over 2,000 miles away in São Paulo.
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That vote in the House on a resolution of condemnation was carried live and blotted out all other news.
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Instead, one lapse of concentration at 5-6 blotted his copybook to allow Muller to snatch the second set.
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Pieces of ash fell like snowflakes, and a pall of white smoke across the city blotted out the sun.
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Another fabric consisted of the Union Jack blotted with black silhouettes of parrots, like images from a Rorschach test.
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This is an ultra-sheer orange-y red that gives you that low-maintenance blotted look with minimal effort.
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It cited "widespread, systematic and grave" irregularities, which included results sheets with sections blotted out or altered with correction fluid.
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But when Hess's location was disclosed by the British, Hitler became enraged and ordered his name blotted from public records.
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The solar-powered rover got trapped in a massive dust storm, which blotted out the sun, its source of energy.
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It blotted out the sky and left the residents of the former port, Muynak, in western Uzbekistan, chewing salty grit.
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Ink-blotted and brooding, Mr. Cohen's latest release for ECM Records, "Cross My Palm With Silver," has an immanent seductiveness.
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The court cited "widespread, systematic and grave" irregularities, which included results sheets with sections blotted out or altered with correction fluid.
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They've been a staple in Korean beauty routines for years and are key when creating the ever-popular ombré blotted effect.
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To start with, it would have blotted out the corona as well as the disk, robbing eclipses of their silvery beauty.
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As much as Rwanda has progressed on the economic front, its record is badly blotted when it comes to human rights.
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As the ship went by, its vast blue hull and stacked-up containers blotted out a good part of Staten Island.
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Mr. Trudeau blotted his eyes and dabbed his nose with a handkerchief, and former students and others in the crowd sobbed.
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The most dramatic display will be near the Oregon border, where roughly 90 percent of the sun will be blotted out.
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A photo captured by TMZ of the final result shows Trump's name on the star blotted out almost entirely with white paint.
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Anything and everything Clinton had accomplished was blotted out by the affair, the president's denial before confessing, and the impeachment that followed.
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Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.
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As the storm blotted out the sun, it also silenced Opportunity, one of the two NASA rovers studying the planet's surface features.
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By the time McCain was running for re-election to his Senate seat in 2010, immigration had blotted out almost every other topic.
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When the Moon blotted out the Sun over Zimbabwe during a 2001 eclipse, a pod of sleeping hippos woke up from their nap.
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The electoral commission declared Mutharika the winner despite complaints of irregularities including results sheets with sections blotted out or altered with correction fluid.
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A total lunar eclipse that blotted out the full moon on March 13, 103, in India sent tropical bats into a flying frenzy.
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When the muzzle was blotted with creamy froth, we pulled him away from his mother's udder and placed a pail under her teat.
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But the ringing quality of his voice was too often pushed to strident ends that blotted out the potential for varieties of color.
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The corpse in the cart has been blotted out with brown paint; the body on the ground is shrouded in a white cloth.
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Ms. Lonsdale blotted my relentlessly shiny face, told me to lay my hands palm down on the sensors, and moved behind her camera.
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It sounded crazy, but a solar eclipse in 13 provided the opportunity to test it as starlight passed near the blotted-out sun.
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The world is blotted out as you are enveloped in the sweep of a story rich with conquest, conspiracy and mazy human psychology.
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It glides on like a balm, but leaves a sexy stain, as if you blotted off lipstick, and it lasts for a couple hours.
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Sam Smith, waiting in the wings, sips water and has his forehead blotted by an aide as it gets closer to his live performance.
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LONG lines of lorries once blotted the chocolate-box alpine landscape of the Brenner Pass, an important road link between southern and northern Europe.
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"Some super-duper ultra Orthodox Jews think women's faces should be blotted out of ads and photos," Bialik, who is herself Orthodox Jewish, posted.
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As I sat by the river in the rain forest, in rushed all the thoughts that noise had blotted out, and held at bay.
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As the total solar eclipse crosses South America on Tuesday, it won't just be people oohing and ahhing as the sun is blotted out.
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The unremitting focus on war iconography blotted out the opera's main narrative thrust: the deterioration of Wozzeck's mind in the grip of military routine.
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Peter Mutharika, the current President, had been declared the winner, but some voter sheets had sections blotted out or were altered with correction fluid.
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The electoral commission declared Mr. Mutharika the winner despite complaints of irregularities, including results sheets with sections blotted out or altered with correction fluid.
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What has been remarkable during the last two weekends is how thoroughly Mr. Trump's own media personage was blotted out by scenes of protesters.
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Faces are blotted out, black suns hover over farmworkers, and unnatural voids in the earth seem to haunt these scenes from the Great Depression.
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She referred to those times, and even to that adorable indie game, as a dark, black hole in her life that she had blotted out.
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Urban Decay took a crack at the powdered lip trend with its bouncy, pigmented mousse that wears like a blotted stain that never flakes away.
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Boycotting Fox News is not the same as boycotting other networks, but Mr. Trump blotted out all coverage of his rivals for another news cycle.
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But what was passing between the couple, what inhabited the small magical space separating their fingertips, and how had it momentarily blotted out the shelling?
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For tens of millions in the U.S. and abroad, the annual cosmic show will likely be partly to mostly blotted out by light pollution and cloudiness.
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This is one sentence from the review: For decades, Bloch has streaked, dripped, and blotted ink on paper or Isorel, a highly frangible type of chipboard.
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Like the partial solar eclipse Perry and her mother witnessed two days before the murder, this blackness blotted out the daughter's and the mother's former selves.
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The tragic fact is that Einstein's scientific celebrity is so bright that it has blotted out the man behind it, the man who did the work.
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But that reputation has been blotted repeatedly in recent years by investigations of illegal beatings, killings and theft, and reports of drug use in the ranks.
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The transit ran from 3:56 PM EDT to 4:56 PM EDT on Sunday and blotted out 59 percent of the Sun's light at its peak.
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To prep the lips, Henao brushed on a lightweight moisturizer (he loves Weleda's Skin Food because of it's intense moisturizing properties), and blotted off excess with a tissue.
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Due to particularly strict royal dress codes, you'll most likely never spot Kate rocking a blotted lip or thumbprint eyeliner outside of Kensington Palace or in a selfie.
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The MEC has confirmed receiving 147 cases of irregularities, most to do with the use of results sheets which had sections blotted out and altered with correction fluid.
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According to Gulick's team, the impact vaporized sulfur-rich rocks, releasing a haze of gaseous sulfur into the air that blotted out the sun and cooled the planet.
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And sometimes the sun is utterly faithless, here today and gone tomorrow — blotted out by the behemoth going up next door, down the block or across the street.
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A forest ranger named Ed Pulaski was among those encircled by the fire, and he feared death was as certain as the smoke that blotted out the sun.
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That morning, after the moon briefly blotted out the sun, Mr. Morton was lounging poolside in swim trunks, purple mountains arrayed above him, eclipse glasses at his side.
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The anxiety over who is best equipped to defeat Trump has blotted out the policy battles and put electability at the forefront of voter minds to an unusual degree.
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In the past year, Californians have lived through a historic drought, a massive wildfire that blotted out the sun, and a strangely warm winter followed by that unseasonable freeze.
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A huge dust storm that's now 14-million square miles wide, covering a full quarter of the red planet, has blotted out the sun above Perseverance Valley, Opportunity's home.
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At the very same time and by the very same token, the targeting of black Americans by police over minor cannabis-related crime is blotted out in white imaginations.
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When I wrote in my notebook, "3 guys from CIO watching soccer," Columbus bent over the page, drew a dark circle over the word CIO, and blotted it out.
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Because Wolf 1061 is so close, telescopes would have a good chance of producing a distinguishable image of the planet without it being blotted out by its main star.
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This means the rover had enough power to send a message despite the fact that the sun was blotted out by dust, preventing a full charge to its solar panels.
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But if you mosey up to the Spur itself, you'll notice the figure's blotted-out eyes, which more effectively position her as someone to be seen, not simply looked at.
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The defense produced its own bloodstain experts, who argued that the specks in question were actually "transfer stains" — blood that blotted Camm's T-shirt as he tried to render aid.
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Garcia blotted his copybook when he found water with his tee shot at the 13th and Mickelson at least extended the contest to another hole with a long birdie putt.
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"The world is blotted out as you are enveloped in the sweep of a story rich with conquest, conspiracy and mazy human psychology," wrote the U.S. paper's reviewer Parul Sehgal.
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Then they put the hagfish on a dissection tray, blotted them dry, and zapped them with electricity to make the muscles contract and expel the milky pre-slime from the pores.
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The trick to wearing a look like this is starting off with a smooth canvas, so Deenihan first prepped the lips with a scrub and lip balm, which she blotted off.
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Fire roared next to the highway as they crept along in bumper-to-bumper traffic; she used her headscarf to breathe through the heavy black smoke that blotted out the sun.
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In the port town of Seward, thick smoke blowing south from the Swan Lake fire blotted out the normally spectacular views of mountains and glaciers and forced cancelation of tourists' excursions.
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I take up the invisible oars put by for just this occasion: a banishing scald of sun blotted inexactly by a succession of windblown clouds able to lift the entire flotilla.
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The serendipitous, spontaneous romance I'd wanted from our trip was blotted out by the reality of our flaws and the situations in our lives, much like what happens in any failed relationship.
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Sebastian followed that with a mini-TED Talk on dopamine, glutamate and serotonin receptors, covering the various pleasure sensations unleashed when certain neurons are activated by tiny tabs of acid-blotted paper.
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I also was very attracted to "Les Combattants" (1901), one of his photographs of a detail the monument, in which he has blotted out the background with white paint that has cracked.
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"Parasite," Bong's seventh and latest feature film, also recreates drama in the dark cellars and stinky, infested underground apartments that have been blotted out in the official story of South Korea's economic miracle.
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Blotted out by Wilfork as a backup nose tackle last year, Texans fans want to see this young man step into the spotlight and make them forget about free-agent departee Jared Crick.
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Opportunity's equipment may have been compromised by the storm, which struck while the rover was at a site called Perseverance Valley and blotted out sunlight needed by the robot's solar panels, officials said.
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The smoke plumes from blazes in the Amazon have spread far from the state of Amazonas — on Monday, smoke blotted out the sun in São Paulo, a city more than 2,000 miles away.
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The samples revealed that the asteroid crash caused a mile-high tsunami, wildfires, and the release of billions of tons of sulfur, which blotted out the sun and led the planet to cool.
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The right blush can help bring an entire makeup look together, wake up your complexion on tired mornings, or reinstate some life on your cheeks after you've blotted out your natural color with foundation.
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QAYYARA, Iraq (Reuters) - His face blackened and helmet coated in soot, Hussein Saleh watched the oil fields of his home town in northern Iraq burn, belching up thick smoke that blotted out the sun.
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The asteroid crash spurred a mile-high tsunami, wildfires, and the release of billions of tons of sulfur that blotted out the sun and led the planet to cool, killing many land-based species.
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Preparations were most frantic in the so-called "path of totality," the locations where the sun will appear to be completely blotted out by the moon, with only a thin corona of light visible.
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Ultimately, the eclipse is a reminder of how important solar energy has become to our power generation, and that with preparation, this system can work even when its energy source — the sun — is blotted out.
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Burr, Fingerhut, and Forma state: In this panoramic landscape the sky is blotted out by black smoke; ships and dead fish litter the ocean shore; and an army of skeletons experiment with myriad death techniques.
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Solar energy stocks mostly dropped on Monday as a rare total eclipse blotted out solar power in many parts of the United States, but analysts say this is likely a case of correlation, not causation.
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Residents earlier posted pictures on social media of the sun blotted out by the towering plumes and the South Coast Air Quality Management District issued a smoke advisory, warning of unhealthy air conditions in the region.
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The best blushThe right blush can help bring an entire makeup look together, wake up your complexion on tired mornings, or reinstate some life on your cheeks after you've blotted out your natural color with foundation.
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"There is this web of connectivity, even this undercurrent of Islam in America, and it kind of got blotted out of the mainstream narrative that we wanted to tell in the early 20th century," Lawton said.
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Here's another lovely image of the event: In case you were wondering, the sun is being blotted out by a coronagraph so that its light does not swamp out the action taking place around the periphery.
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In Andy Warhol: By Hand, we see how Warhol moved fluidly back and forth between pencil, pen and ink, blotted ink, graphite, and even magic marker, in travel sketches and portraits, still lifes, and life drawing.
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Somewhere far below, the island lay bathed in sunshine, ringed by the hypnotic azure of sky and sea, but up here a permanence of cloud blotted out the sun, and an icy mist banished the heat.
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Even still, it's much better than it was in the hours following the morning of January 28, when huge fires erupted around the site, immediately cloaking the area in thick, black smoke that blotted out the sun.
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By Monday, smoke plumes had spread from the western state of Amazonas to the nearby states of Pará and Mato Grosso, and even blotted out the sun in São Paulo — a city more than 2,000 miles away.
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Some explanations for the dinosaurs' disappearance blame clouds of debris and soot that blotted out the sun and cooled the planet, while others say it was noxious gases from worldwide volcanic eruptions, or even a great plague.
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The revised formula includes the addition of new moisture-retaining ingredients — sunflower synthetic beeswax, blue agave, and safflower oil — that promise to hydrate your lips while still delivering the same blotted effect we've come to know and love.
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After weeks of anticipation, onlookers from Oregon to South Carolina whooped and cheered as the moon blotted out the sun, transforming a narrow band of the United States from day to night for two minutes at a time.
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Also, in our own solar system, the sail would need to cap one of the Sun's poles to prevent sunlight from becoming amplified into a death ray that incinerates Earth and other worlds, or getting blotted out entirely.
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MEXICO CITY, June 19 (Reuters) - As Mexico opens its energy market to more private investment, the country's drive to exploit untapped deepwater oil riches has raised safety concerns due to mounting accidents that have blotted the country's safety record.
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Smoke billowing into the sky during a Reuters visit on Monday blotted out the sun in central districts hours before nightfall, producing an apocalyptic scene in this desert settlement which lacks electricity amid 49 degree Celsius (120°F) temperatures.
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On a recent day, trucks rumbled up a steep dirt road to the top of the garbage pile, where crows blotted out the sun and wind kicked up fumes from moldy vegetables and feces discarded in saggy plastic bags.
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The shock and awe of a New York real estate developer-turned-reality television star's winning the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday night blotted out the other major, parallel story of Hillary Clinton's victory in the Nevada caucuses. Mrs.
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Like Samuel Delany, a 77-year-old renowned science fiction novelist who identifies as a "gay black man," I view the deployment of new terminologies as a way to expand understanding, but I simultaneously feel blotted out by the latest nomenclature.
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In June 2018, NASA announced that Opportunity had entered "sleep" mode after a massive dust storm had blotted out its sunlight, draining the rover's batteries and sending it into a "low-power fault" status that required days to ride out.
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Although about 97 percent of the sun's light will be blotted out by the moon during the eclipse, it will still be very dangerous to look directly at the sun with unprotected eyes, and that's where the eclipse glasses come in.
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The smoke plumes from blazes in the Amazon have spread from the state of Amazonas to the nearby states of Pará and Mato Grosso and even blotted out the sun in São Paulo, a city more than 2,000 miles away.
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Somewhere, down the line, maybe soon, your harvest will be set upon by waves of metaphorical inky birds; they will make the sky blotted and black, and cover the ground in half-eaten corn kernels stolen from some other irate farmer.
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This diminished and belittled in every way the very real and very credible accusation that Ford made and completely blotted out the incredible courage it would take for a person to appear before them if it indeed happened to them.
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Circumstances—some extreme and some quotidian—compiled to back us up against a wall with the feeling that nothing we ever did could ever repair the damage done, and that all last traces of hope had been blotted out completely.
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The team said it hopes that 2MASS 0249 c&aposs huge distance from its faint host stars could make the planet easier to study, because it won&apost be blotted out by the enormous amount of light coming from a nearby star.
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Soft blurring powders are sprinkled into the mixture, which give the final stick formula that almost powdery blotted-matte finish, while the viscous emollient gel additive gives a silky consistency, and binds the film formers that give the color its long-lasting wear.
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Results had been due at the weekend but had to be delayed after a court on Saturday granted the opposition an injunction after the electoral commission received 147 complaints of irregularities, including results sheets with sections blotted out or altered with correction fluid.
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There is still conspicuous passion, measured by the odometers of canvassers in "I'm a Warren Democrat" apparel; the "BOOT-A-TRUMP" shirt at a Buttigieg rally; the blotted tears of a grateful, cane-shuffling Biden supporter after a hug from the candidate.
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The Stone BEIJING — In the space of a month in 2014, at separate art exhibitions in Beijing and Shanghai that included my work, my name was blotted out — in one case by government officials and by exhibitors themselves in the other case.
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But it's the foreground images — of the goblin bears, Dachau-like, and the turbulent, fascist darkness of crisscrossing, blotted seas — that enable this particular picture to reach beyond political aspersion, saying something in the scratchy language of line about the textures of fear.
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Swinney described the long scores by Howard and the onside kick as "the three critical errors" that blotted out Clemson's positives: the 550 yards of total offense (to Alabama's 473) and quarterback Deshaun Watson's 20,2128 yards passing and 220,221 yards rushing in a season.
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After a militant upbraided him for displaying a poster with an image of a baby on the wall of his pharmacy, Abu Osama blotted out its eyes with a black marker pen and then did the same to every label featuring a human being.
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But M5s's record running 16 small local administrations has been blotted by a rubbish crisis in the Tuscan city of Livorno and mafia allegations in a district of Naples, which were seized upon by opponents as a sign it is not fit to govern.
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While her nomination has already revived the country's unresolved debate over interrogation methods that many experts consider torture, nearly everything Haspel has done in her long CIA career has remained secret, blotted out by the black ink that obscures classified information in public records.
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Though he wasn't found guilty for the above charges made against him, the now 26-year-old remains a promising boxing talent, but has a copybook so blotted that you can't help but wish he could save this energy and aggression for the ring alone.
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I used a wet makeup sponge, blotted on the foundation (one pump was sufficient enough to cover my entire face) and marveled at how it melted into my skin, leaving behind a surprisingly sheer, soft real-skin matte finish that offered 24-hour coverage...how?
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Because the politicians who watched over decades of immiseration, happy to let anything halfway decent on this little island sink into fallow fields or be blotted out by shiningly inaccessible housing developments, were also happy to let the country's most precarious and unrepresented people take the blame.
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There's a pretty dank rolloff dunk at about 2:30, although it's the kind of move that would probably get blotted out by any self-respecting psychotic NBA defender, trained as they have been since birth to foul pretty much anyone they can at the rim.
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And it will be the first in 99 years spanning the entire continental United States, offering a brief glimpse of the sun completely blotted out - except for the corona of its outer atmosphere - across a 70-mile- (13-km-) wide, coast-to-coast path through 14 states.
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Included will be a $15 powder bronzer/highlighter duo to leave skin looking sun-kissed, three $6 Blotted Lip shades — in a sheer red, pinky nude, and orange-red — along with an Ultra Matte Satin Lip in peach and Ultra Matte Lip in a red-orange for the same price.
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If Trump does eventually lash out at Barr, it wouldn't be the first time a favorite has blotted his copybook and undermined an apparently impregnable position after falling out with an often-impossible boss who resists any constraints on his conduct and often seems to sabotage his own political interests.
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The idea of blotted-out forms producing new ones, as in the abstract shapes created by graffiti painted over in public spaces, is suggested in "Earth Colonic" (all works 21901) and "All That Something…," while "Sand Lines" and "White Blockhead Stack" conjure other line forms, including the whiting out of text.
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I wondered what had torn them apart or whether—as these things often go—they hadn't been torn apart but slowly undone by some dark, unspoken dissatisfaction or resentment that gradually multiplied until there was so much cumulative darkness between them that it blotted out whatever had been luminescent about their love.
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Later, when people recognize your gift for re-creating the sensations of childhood—when a critic describes your work as going "so deep into the special alertness, loyalty, and ardor of children that it makes you see things you had forgotten or blotted out and feel things you were embarrassed to feel"—it's this sensitivity they're often talking about.
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A champion of the world, a superstar of the ring, a legend in his own lifetime; lots of fight fans in Britain kind of forgot about Conteh in the 1980s and 1990s as new boxers, like Lloyd Honeyghan, Herol Graham, Michael Watson, Nigel Benn, Chris Eubank and Naseem Hamed, rose to prominence and blotted out the glorious past.
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The sale gives the new owner, Visual China Group, control over photographs of immense cultural and commercial value — Marilyn Monroe on a subway grate, Rosa Parks on a bus, Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue But it has been the transfer of images from the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square, an event that China's Communist Party has aggressively blotted out of public view ever since, that has perhaps raised the most alarm.
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In Dubuffet's ecstatic inventory of the morphology of blotted ink there's no mention of extraterrestrials, but he attests to a mystical experience of materials as the vehicle of sentient beings, insisting that "the being — more or less whimsical or spectral — populates materials we believe to be inert, in immense numbers; that supposedly deserted places are as rich in events as the heart of a great city […]" He seems to say that not only are we iconophiles, yearning to discern imagery in the arbitrary ebb and flow of pigment, we are lovers also of stories.
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You were already losing your eyesight last winter in Rome when you paused in the doorway at nine o'clock on a Saturday morning and a baker swept by on a shiny bicycle waving a cap and singing under his breath, you didn't know bakers wore white aprons dusted with flour and floated around the city like angels on a freshly baked day, you weren't sure why morning halted up and down the street as you stood in the doorway and a baker winged by on a weekend morning so new and pristine that you looked into the sky and for one undiminished instant of misplaced time you saw brightness, brightness everywhere, before a shadow crossed the rooftops and it was blotted out.
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