My bras were serious architecture, buttresses, straps, masterpieces of restraint.
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Flying buttresses had been darkened by pollution and eroded by rainwater.
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That buttresses Democrats' demands for documents and witnesses during the trial.
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Another eight meters' rise was being held back by some unstable buttresses.
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Gargoyles were broken, balustrades had collapsed, flying buttresses were stained by pollution.
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This analysis buttresses the view that technology is already playing havoc with employment.
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At the same time, the NFIB report buttresses the Fed's more cautious stance.
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Jutting hip buttresses that stuck out from the side under enormous pink bows.
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After construction had begun, flying buttresses were added to the design of the cathedral.
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The roof appears to fold and slide in under the C8 Corvette's distinctive flying buttresses.
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More broadly, research on why democracies do and don't slide into authoritarianism buttresses Chenoweth's argument.
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It's remarkable for its stained-glass rose window, flying buttresses and, until Monday, it's towering spire.
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But Larsen C buttresses a much larger mass of ice that sits upon the Antarctic continent.
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Now, of course, Notre-Dame's famous buttresses and centuries-old lines have been warped by disaster.
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These soaring pillars and buttresses survived the destruction of the French Revolution and Hitler's mad jealousy.
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When your erroneous belief is wrapped up in your value system, it buttresses your sense of self.
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The French Gothic building is remarkable for its stained-glass rose window, flying buttresses and large spire.
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The Pine Island Glacier ends in a floating ice shelf which buttresses the land-based ice behind it.
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The notion that congestion costs drivers money buttresses proposals to do everything from widening freeways to synchronizing traffic lights.
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But these essentially serve as buttresses to the ACA's insurance-market reforms, which reconciliation can do nothing to change.
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It is not that she builds a house of cards, it is that she buttresses her house with steel.
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At 12 stories, it has a Gothic-style tower that recedes from the larger structure and features stylized buttresses.
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Rain, some of it acid, is slowly eroding the flying buttresses and their decorative pinnacles, built with delicate limestone.
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The vault is still punctured by gaping holes, and the flying buttresses are propped up by giant wooden blocks.
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The flying buttresses are meant to provide support to the structure but also add to the cathedral's Gothic style.
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Both extol an insider's world, and both, increasingly, are impressed with celebrity and the commercial power that buttresses their existence.
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He and Mr. Dinkeloo disagreed on what concrete pouring method should be used for the buttresses at the T.W.A. terminal.
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The fact that combining support for Sanders and Warren would eclipse Biden's buttresses progressives' arguments that the party is lurching leftward.
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But the structure still shows its splendor at night, the flat, dark silhouette of its flying buttresses visible through the trees.
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Abraham buttresses our case that the state is arguing for an unconstitutional regulation of religion that impinges on the First Amendment.
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A beam and support buttresses were bent, and crews were expected to work through the night to make repairs, the governor said.
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It is considered one of the finest examples of French Gothic architecture with its hallmark flying buttresses, rose windows, and rib vault structure.
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The cathedral's roof offers fantastic views of Milan as well as close-ups of the elaborate buttresses that go undetected from the ground.
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The addition of the ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu also buttresses the hawkish image of a government already dominated by right-wing and religious parties.
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We walked a long, lead-covered stretch of roof flanked by a line of flying buttresses so close that I could touch them.
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Notre-Dame is renowned for its rib vaulting, flying buttresses and stunning stained glass windows, as well as its many carved stone gargoyles.
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Data gleaned by M.L.S. during testing buttresses that confidence: A review was conducted once every three games, and it lasted 1 minute 16 seconds.
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In the case of several large, especially powerful drawings in graphite, faces seem to emerge from the arches and buttresses of complex Piranesian structures.
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He stretched T-shirts into cardinal's hats and patched leather and canvas into processional robes, sometimes with giant flying buttresses jutting from the side.
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Arborists test for microbes in the soil and build wooden buttresses for the lower branches of some of the oldest trees in the collection.
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Well, part of what made those 1995-96 Bulls so memorable—and what buttresses their continuing aura of greatness—is that they enjoyed sustained success.
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But for investors, the interest rate and earnings environment has become friendly again, and without these buttresses, the outlook for stocks would be much gloomier.
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In that period, a new spire was erected to replace an earlier one, flying buttresses were redone and new features were added, including the chimeras.
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With involute orchestration and levitative harmonies weaving like gothic flying buttresses, Grizzly Bear can risk indulging in ornamental complexity that can snuff the emotion out.
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Germany's economy has many buttresses: an over-sized trade surplus; lots of foreign assets; an enviable share of global trade; solid public finances; and full employment.
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It may look like one in profile, but it has flying buttresses, a recessed rear window and a targa top, just like Magnum P.I.'s Ferrari.
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"Vessel with Blue-Green Neck and Six Handles" (2016), nearly two feet high, has handles that seem like flying buttresses compared to its delicate, undersized base.
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The heart of the cathedral is an enclosed stone vault, supported at the sides by buttresses and with a timber-framed roof built atop the ceiling.
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Many Senate Republicans are nervous about the prospect of voting on any healthcare measure - no matter what legislation it may be attached to - that buttresses Obamacare.
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The great flying buttresses seeming to arc improbably out of the river were — and fortunately still are — an astonishment and a satisfactory substitute for closer contemplation.
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The 12th century had just entered its second half, and to achieve new heights, the builders made early use of external supports known as flying buttresses.
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"We typically think of the threshold issue as pushing people out [who don't hit 15%], but it also buttresses the people making it in," said Mook.
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The top also gives everyone within 50 feet a ballet performance as the buttresses rise rearward and the roof panel pirouettes back behind the two seats.
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The fact that the UK is following the US's lead in banning some devices on some flights buttresses the idea that there's a specific threat in play.
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Echoing the laissez-faire affability that buttresses the brands of Lyft and Airbnb, Common and WeLive flaunt the opportunity to foster relationships through communal kitchens and suites.
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Germany's oldest political party and one of the buttresses of the European left for 150 years, the SPD struggled to differentiate itself from Merkel's conservatives in coalition.
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"Hanging over the city like a flying mountain in a dream was an enormous building—a building with towers and buttresses and an arched roof," Severian writes.
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In recent years, Notre Dame had fallen into a state of disrepair, with its buttresses eroding and its famous gargoyles replaced with piping because they were disintegrating.
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Then, as if touched by an angel's wand, the entire southern facade of the cathedral lit up, its pillars, gargoyles and flying buttresses bathed in bright white.
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And it buttresses an argument long made by the Harlem African Burial Ground Task Force that black people, free and enslaved, helped build Harlem from the very beginning.
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Based on Art Deco skyscraper decoration – think the Empire State Building's handsome arches or the swooping buttresses of Gotham city – this watch is interesting for a few reasons.
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The results are beautiful and flexible single-piece structures that can take almost any form — useful for creating structural elements like tiny springs and buttresses, as well as circuits.
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Today, with its towers, spire, flying buttresses and stained glass, Notre Dame is considered a feat of architecture as well as a major religious and cultural symbol of France.
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Across the river, still smouldering, loomed the burnt-out form of Notre-Dame de Paris, its spire collapsed, its bell towers and buttresses standing silent in the dawn light.
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Much of the interior is original, including heart pine floors, ornate buttresses and large stained-glass pieces, as well as dark-wood wainscoting and columns with carved-wood bases.
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"That certainly buttresses an argument that the president has been making quite frequently of late, about the country not being as divided as it might seem," Earnest told reporters.
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But close up, they were meticulously and gorgeously constructed; their rough-hewed, blunted exteriors encased in thoughtful and ergonomic scaffolding, buttresses of padded wiring, canvas boning, industrial-strength crinolines.
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The book helped spur significant overhauls from 1844 to 1864, when the architects Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc redid the spire and flying buttresses.
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It created a machine called Vantage, which looks like a futuristic, angular motorbike, with the wheels ripped off and replaced with buttresses supporting a ring of five large rotors underneath.
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Inside, it is a study in light and texture: Eight immense round windows bend around its corners, the continuations of their arcs spreading into the hollow columns like flying buttresses.
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In contrast to the sobriety of the shaft, the mooring mast rises 200 feet above the 86th-floor observatory, a glowing glass tube with exuberant Art Deco bird-wing buttresses.
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For example, in the Pescia flower market (now used for truck parking), the notable flying roof is anchored on either side by streamlined versions of the buttresses found supporting ancient cathedrals.
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Flick a toggle switch and the rear section — comprised of the buttresses connected by a basket handle — rises up to expose the bin where the Miata soft top's roof normally goes.
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Mr Meade's cross-party background buttresses Mr López Obrador's claim that there is no difference between the big parties, and that only he can rescue Mexico from the "mafia of power".
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"At least for the moment, though, this is indeed a fabulous economy and it buttresses the notion that the stock market's run isn't all that crazy," the "Mad Money" host said.
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But after more than three centuries of shaking, the church began the 21st century with eroding bricks, walls coming apart at the seams, missing buttresses and a tattered, leaking wooden roof.
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It recently completed a vast underground retention pond at a cost of S$227m ($164m), a cathedral of concrete buttresses fed and drained by pipes you could drive a car through.
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Sometimes, if I craned my neck out my bedroom window, I could even see the steeple — a rusted cross perched atop an enclosed pantheon of 1950's stained glass and yellowed buttresses.
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The mycelium buttresses and living fungal structures of the Reconciliation Wing are now in high demand, but it took Mangakāhia's persistence and the algorithm's faith in her design to reach this plateau.
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And if it's not the final design, there's a chance Tesla will be able to use some of Honda's tricks to reduce the flying buttresses and produce a more conventional pickup design.
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But by focusing on declining participation in labor unions — which can create class solidarity across racial, ethnic and religious lines — Stanley illustrates a key mechanism through which economic stress buttresses fascist politics.
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The first generation of Ridgelines, built from 218 through 225, with its fuselage-style body and flying buttresses, looked like a "Back to the Future" prop that had gone soft in the sun.
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The ride will, for the first time, offer glimpses of the intricate steel framing that supports the mast, the backside of the aluminum buttresses and translucent panels that transmit the mast's nighttime glow.
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This pressure to lower international oil prices also buttresses gasoline consumption abroad, lowers the appeal of energy efficiency investments and reduces the competitiveness of renewables, all of which undermine efforts to reduce emissions.
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A large work from 1959 — 65 x 69 inches — is dominated by two vertical shafts in the center of the canvas, which resemble black scaffolding or buttresses topped by a reddish-gray blob.
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Still, their take buttresses the case — made by analysts on both sides of the partisan divide — that Trump's abrasiveness and controversial rhetoric is likely to turn off as many voters as it draws in.
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But there is an additional and little noticed piece of evidence within the executive order itself, which buttresses the idea that the order is indeed a ban on Muslims, and not merely a "geographic" restriction.
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Crude oil does more than deliver billions of dollars in profits to Saudi Aramco, the state oil company, and Sabic, the chemical giant; it also buttresses energy-intensive sectors like cement production and aluminum smelting.
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The shale boom has been one of the strongest buttresses supporting the recovery of the U.S. economy following the Great Recession, helping to lower energy prices for businesses and consumers and shrink the U.S. energy trade deficit.
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See, for example, the power puffs on Dakota Fanning's lilac Dior, and Lucy Boynton's metallic Louis Vuitton; the emerald green flying buttresses of Jodie Comer's Mary Katrantzou and the blood red balloon sleeves of Olivia Colman's Emilia Wickstead.
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The basement will hold inflatable boats, ropes and other rappelling equipment, scuba tanks, training suits, a welding station to fix and make tools as well as a lumber yard to build buttresses and shoring devices for collapsing buildings.
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Positioning one group of low-wage workers against another group of low-wage workers is an insidiously effective method of fomenting resentment and tensions among workers of different racial and ethnic backgrounds, which only buttresses the status quo.
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The building, an amazing feat of technological improvisation in the days before computer design, was a populist proto-emoji for flight, all free-flowing, liquid curves, improbably poised on four slender buttresses like a winged bird on skinny legs.
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You find a diversity of age-classes and species, from young hemlocks latched onto fallen trees like octopi; to gnarly red cedar, with their flared buttresses and candelabra tops; to towering Douglas fir trees, with their deeply furrowed bark.
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I sit as close to the front of the cafe as I can, and I sip the cocktail, nibble the marshmallow, and look at the spire and flying buttresses of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, Our Lady of Paris.
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Set within the woodlands of Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Lews Castle is a Gothic Revival relic, complete with flying buttresses and gargoyles, that was first built as a country house for the Victorian opium baron Sir James Matheson.
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Ice shelves act like floating buttresses to the mainland glaciers, so If the giant Larsen C were to collapse into the sea, glaciers from West Antarctica would end up sliding into the ocean, and ultimately raising sea levels—possibly by many feet.
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Along with refreshed stone foundations, new adobe bricks, three new buttresses and a new A-frame roof, some parts of the church and the bell tower were also wrapped in a nylon-like mesh and then covered with mud plaster for extra support.
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And then on Monday, across the Atlantic at the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, an intense fire felled the spire and tore apart the roof of a building known for its stone gargoyles, flying buttresses and the legend of the hunchbacked Quasimodo.
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Built in the 22013th and 22014th centuries, Notre-Dame received one of its most significant overhauls between 22013 and 1864, when the architects Jean-Baptiste-Antoine Lassus and Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc redid the spire and the flying buttresses and added several architectural tweaks.
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When a model appeared in a gray knit body suit and tights beneath a big-shouldered sweater, scarf ends like flying buttresses extending to the floor behind, it was hard not to wince at the extreme contrast between her upper body and her frail legs.
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Construction had already been underway by then on the cathedral, modern implementations like flying buttresses altering its ascent — the external stonework supporting the weight of the ceiling, allowing for the walls to extend higher, leaving room for countless windows and the spilling forth of euphoric light.
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Gently etched into my memory is the feeling of slowly following the paths, talking to a friend about some big life choices I was facing, then sitting down and gazing up at the buttresses, trying to figure out how they worked, feeling tiny next to them.
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Or the nights I sat in warm summer air outside Shakespeare and Company, listening to a visiting author read from their novel, sipping wine out of a paper cup and letting my eye roam over the buttresses and the spire I could see just across the river.
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Jaws dropped when Ford unveiled the GT in Detroit in 2015, and the car that eventually hit the streets in 2016 is essentially identical, defined by sharp, aggressive lines, a low roof and a pair of aerodynamic flying buttresses arcing from the engine compartment like sweptback wings.
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It forms an open space beneath the canopy, a common natural form that has clearly inspired centuries of architects of spiritual spaces: flying buttresses soaring high into the air, shafts of light piercing through slivered openings, multicolored stained glass where leaves and sky interact in the spaces between.
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The three Christian communities vigilantly guard the property they already control to an extent that can feel baffling to outsiders coming to the Holy Sepulcher, a cavernous jumble of Byzantine and Crusader architecture, with soaring domes, sunken rooms, gloomy light, heavy bronze lamps, squat buttresses and elegant arches.
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I have to wonder about the need for clarification in this case — whether or not Banksy intended to entirely shred the work is a little beside the main point, which is that it is a publicity stunt which continues to accrue the notoriety that buttresses the artist's market value.
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Then it's mostly Gothic and High Gothic, when the churches reached unprecedented heights in the naves and spires, thanks to the distribution of weight made possible by the Gothic arch (and flying buttresses, like those on the beautiful Flamboyant Gothic Church of the Holy Trinity, in Vendôme, France).
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The workers have sorted the rubble under tents set up in the forecourt, strengthened flying buttresses and other damaged parts of the buildings, and prepared to remove a massive scaffolding that had been set up around the cathedral's roof before the fire to help workers carry out renovations.
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The profundity of human emotion in response to this unexpected call from a foreign land achieves greater emotional resonance, for me, than any of the original music that buttresses the conversation — but then, I am a writer, and drawn to character and narrative more than melody and beat.
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The problem, they say, is that the whole saga buttresses existing negative perceptions of the Trump administration: that the White House is too impetuous, too in thrall with the idea of breaking with "business as usual," and too blind to the pitfalls that might dot their preferred path on any given issue.
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Built over a period of 44 years, from 1772 to 1816, the simple, organic geometry of its beehive buttresses and off-kilter, hand-troweled walls have inspired such early American modernists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Ansel Adams, and Paul Strand to capture the stark interplay of shadow and light across the building's Cubist forms.
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And a building like Notre Dame, which has walls and arches and buttresses that contain centuries of history, a work of praise to God and a testament to the outstanding artistry of generations of craftspeople, is where we deposit some part of a shared history, in all of its messiness and failure and glory.
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On an intellectual level, Warren's story buttresses a key theme of her broader policy agenda, reminding her listeners that a half-century ago, unlike today, America provided opportunities to strivers—whether it was the possibility of supporting a family on a minimum-wage job or attending a four-year college without going into lifelong debt.
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Two of them were born in Paris, city of gilt and gravel, its islands pointing their prows to the bridges, its arteries anchored by Notre-Dame; the cathedral always there across the Seine, reassuring, its facade as solemn as the twin bell towers, its flanks fanciful as the flying buttresses and gargoyles, monumental from any angle whatsoever.
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