This means that the squiggle is reversible, so a squiggly brow need not be squiggly forever. Phew.
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Since most states wouldn't need to be subdivided at all under PR, the "squiggly district" problem would be entirely eliminated except insofar as some states (looking at you, Maryland) are themselves squiggly.
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Do they not understand the meaning of red squiggly lines?
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Ladies: are we here for this new squiggly lip trend?
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Hawn's snaps draw a squiggly line between slapstick and sincerity.
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When I see wavy, squiggly things, I think of sound.
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Wavering masses of sound are jarred with squiggly instrumental riffs.
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There should be no more squiggly lines in your document.
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It was that squiggly AIDS painter guy from the nineteen-eighties.
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Sometimes his pregnant women had dozens of squiggly babies around them.
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One of the berries had a squiggly passenger along for the ride.
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Variations, he sent his friend Dora Penny a coded letter of 87 squiggly
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But between those features you have a squiggly border running through privately owned land.
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People who missed the show woke up to see the squiggly trails it left behind.
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Drones, rippling figures and squiggly inner voices ran through whole stretches of the instrumental writing.
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Georgia O'Keeffe's bold, squiggly lines and lack of punctuation ignored conventions of grammar and penmanship.
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Otherwise, errors will appear as blue (grammar) or red (spelling) squiggly lines under the word.
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Some hunters carry knives fashioned years ago by grandfathers who etched squiggly designs across the blades.
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There are human footprints, a tortoise, more bull's-eyes, more goats, squiggly lines and a rainbow.
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Forky is an adorable, demented little spork outfitted with pipe-cleaner arms and a cute, squiggly face.
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In early stages you're making squiggly lines or basic curls, later you're generating ornamentation worthy of Alhambra.
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She drew a couple of squiggly lines over a Word document to highlight portions of the text.
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Lemire breaks up the river's temperate wash of purple and navy blue hues with inked squiggly ripples.
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Adding to the difficulty are curvy and squiggly streets, one-way roads, dead ends and traffic circles.
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Yet Parliament built entire songs around the bassist Bootsy Collins's squiggly lines, sensual growls, and mighty thumps.
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I sat down and peered through the lens where some squiggly lines, presumably the worms, were visible.
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When you think of the most divisive beauty trends, squiggly brows and glitter vaginas may come to mind.
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Note that after opening the 10th tab, Quantum begins to show a squiggly loading sign on new tabs.
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That software was introduced decades ago and all you have to do is follow the red squiggly line.
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The results reveal the board's path of flight on the screen, which looks like a wicked squiggly spiral.
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Most internet users know CAPTCHAs as the squiggly words or sequence of photos that they are asked to identify.
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AMLG: Right — a lot of failures and a lot of squiggly lines on the way to the eureka moment.
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These inventive scores abound in squiggly dialogues between the instruments and cyclic spinning figures in a tart musical language.
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Outside, a crowd watched a Jumbotron, on which squiggly lines tracked the participant's empathetic expressions against the average reaction.
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His is a distinctive voice, spiked by cluster-like harmonies, at once piercing and ethereal, and squiggly rhythmic riffs.
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If you've made a grammar mistake, a squiggly blue line will appear under the phrase as you write it.
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It's a process that 40 pages of partial differential equations can barely wrap their squiggly little symbolic arms around.
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I'm not even sure what those squiggly creatures are, but I'm especially captivated by the one with bright yellow dots.
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When we draw the ocean, for example, we tend to draw a bunch of squiggly lines, not huge, crashing waves.
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The figure's top panel shows side-by-side squiggly lines representing the gravitational-wave signal detected in Livingston and Hanford.
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Bright, squiggly lines are used to indicate when contacts are typing or to separate out unread messages, among other things.
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And there are those who believe that every corndog deserves a perfect squiggly line of yellow mustard down its middle.
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A squiggly blob appeared on the screen, started swapping between different colors, and before I knew it, I'd died. What?
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The Ice Worm could be the name of a terrible superhero, but in this case it's a little squiggly robot.
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They were more skilled, more purposeful, more poised, carving squiggly lines through the defense with cadenced passing and braiding movement.
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Eleven "portals," squiggly vertical flags made with multicolored metallic fabric, hang at different heights in groups of two or three.
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And a neural network might find those squiggly lines in unexpected places — in someone's haircut, for example, or a rumpled blanket.
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If you're looking at a textbook, the high-frequency beam of energy is probably represented by some dull squiggly red arrow.
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Mr. Dilworth used a flat-edged marker to make four squiggly marks in a notebook he uses to tally the visitors.
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The system also broke through the defenses of captchas, the squiggly letter identification tests on websites meant to foil software intruders.
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A little bit is subtracted from each category and two new ones are added: burgers and bowls of squiggly yellow ramen.
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The other is that Texas portion of the border is squiggly, largely following natural features, rather than a straight, wall-like line.
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Their tagline—"Let me be weird," paired with a sketch of a squiggly skateboard—neatly sums up their approach to covering skateboarding.
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Each drawing is made up of a larger or smaller rectangular block of squiggly ink or pastel lines, which mimic cursive writing.
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The wedding scene is wonderful, with guests dancing to gyrating music; at one point the orchestra becomes a riot of squiggly riffs.
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Scrolls painted with rainbow, hieroglyph-like messages unfurled next to star-dotted paintings of black circles and squiggly cutouts of glistening, holographic paper.
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The Chicago architect designed a squiggly waveform office tower, dressed in white, standing beside a black antenna tower nearly three times as high.
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On the front of his shirt was a black and white cartoon mouse steering an old wooden ship wheel with his squiggly arms.
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However, this gallery is a bit too jazzy…when it's empty, it has a busy, squiggly line-filled background that seems entirely unnecessary.
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The Slovakians' sweats had colorful squiggly circles and squares printed on them that may or may not have been designed by Lisa Frank.
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Hamilton County and the city of Cincinnati, for example, were split in a "strange, squiggly, curving shape" to divide Democrats, the judges wrote.
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Taylor Mulitz plays solidly squiggly riffs over a glowing bed of guitar fuzz that conjures waves, light, the sun's heat against your skin.
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The varied program opened with Babbitt's short, squiggly and rhapsodic "The Crowded Air," written in 1988 as a tribute to Elliott Carter's 80th birthday.
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Lately, they come in every which way — from the Nike swoosh to squiggly lines — that do the work of finding a costume for you.
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McMillon said in a company blog post on Wednesday that employees who incorporate the Walmart "squiggly" into their cheers, may continue to do so.
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Outfitted in squiggly patterned linens by Dusen Dusen, a Brooklyn designer, the bed was somniferously comfortable but seemed smaller than the advertised king size.
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He said the compactness of a district — and how squiggly or rectangular it was — was rarely a good indication of how gerrymandered it is.
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The doctors roll their eyes, and the girl vomits right onto Dr. April Kepner who, while washing her hair, finds a giant squiggly, squirmy worm.
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The paintings are patiently built up, with surfaces and colors that recall cake frosting, and squiggly lines made by squeezing paint directly from the tube.
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I watched it thinking it was going to be appallingly amateurish but as far as squiggly retro funk goes, the production values are pretty high.
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With my tongue pressed gently on my screen, I licked alternating big and small loops, quickly and then slowly, with some squiggly lines thrown in.
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Because you expect there might snakes, your brain quickly identifies the squiggly thing as one — whether or not it actually is — and tells you to run.
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It felt like the former professor was giving an algebra lesson to the nation, scribbling squiggly red lines on PowerPoint slides to illustrate production and income.
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Three rooms were fully decorated in Omega style, from hand-painted walls with squiggly borders, to vivid geometric rugs, to floor-to-ceiling hand-screened curtains.
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Linnaeus kept a detailed journal of his travels, often called his "Lapland Journal," with maps of the mountains, rivers and lakes, drawings and his squiggly handwriting.
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Everything about this game — from the pastel tones of the quaint English village to the little squiggly shout lines from the goose's honk — is overwhelmingly lovely.
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Reading between the squiggly lines, jamming and being friends with people with different backgrounds and life experiences, particularly those of color, just seems natural to Muir.
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Her squiggly pink, yellow, and green lines are filled with caramel brown epoxy resin and set atop three steel curving pedestals, confections parked on highway off ramps.
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With the addition of a couple simple squiggly lines representing fingers, the thing becomes something else entirely—or more of itself, depending on your point of view.
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When Google Docs detects a spelling error or a word that&aposs been incorrectly used, a red or blue squiggly line will automatically appear under the word.
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Fed up with the situation, she took her lament to the street, drawing up signs with squiggly lines under a nose to draw attention to the odor.
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The psychedelic, formless shapes and squiggly brushmarks look like they might have been made by someone in a trance or possessed, which is perhaps exactly the point.
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To differentiate it from standard spellcheck, which highlights misspelled words in red, the grammar checker will use blue squiggly lines to underscore an error that should be addressed.
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But his vocal writing is charmingly idiosyncratic, alert to the revealing irregularities of speech in dialogue and, in arias, animated with squiggly ornaments reminiscent of the early Baroque.
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It is typically considered, by those of us who don't depend on it, little more than a boundary separating Mexico from Texas, a squiggly moat on a map.
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Depending on the state, the party that controls the government draws the squiggly congressional maps designed to elect House members of the same party for the ensuing decade.
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He opened it and flipped by memory to a page with a squiggly, vibrant orange, blue, and red line: the hockey stick, the indelible image of climate change.
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Most people can't read those squiggly lines, so our software will interpret it and tell you whether you're in normal sinus rhythm or you have possible atrial fibrillation.
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The browser adds a squiggly line any time you use words like "just" or "sorry" in a message, so hopefully you'll start treating those words like spelling mistakes.
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If you add a tilde — that squiggly symbol "~" next to your 1 key — before any word in a search term, that word's synonyms will also appear in the results.
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When you take a photo from an airplane, the last thing you'd expect is for a complete and utter stranger to draw a load of squiggly lines over it.
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Makeup sticks are made to resemble the classic crayons, while compacts are adorned with the Crayola logo and that unmistakable squiggly line ripped right from the crayons' paper wrapping.
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Up close, his skin is brown and beaten like lizard leather, stretched over a chest crossed with squiggly veins and battle scars from carving himself into ribbons at shows.
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For example, Fuisz and his team showed me how they could dance around their office while bright, squiggly lines overlaid their bodies — and then they erased their bodies entirely.
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Jordan, who has portrayed two Marvel superheroes onscreen, was referring to a third: Spider-Man, whose instinct for nearby danger is illustrated by squiggly lines emerging from his head.
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From a stern, stiff-postured eagle to silly, squiggly jellyfish, this celebration on Sunday in Queens will honor Muppets and puppets, and all that they can do on film.
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About all they had in common with cartoons was that critics dismissed these squiggly and lumpy legislative lines as loony tunes, and courts rejected some of them as unconstitutional.
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" — JIMMY KIMMEL "I honestly think the president believes that the squiggly red line under the misspelled word is Twitter's way of letting him know that he's doing a great job.
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The phrase was still relatively unknown (the word "appropriation" still showed up as a squiggly red underline in my word processors), and the concepts weren't commonly discussed outside of academia.
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You see Will Smith flop back having caught this baby that's ejected out of his mom's station wagon so he kind of lands on his butt holding this squiggly thing.
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Maika has only one arm, though sometimes she wears a magical clockwork prosthetic; hidden in the stump is a squiggly, many-eyed monstrosity that periodically pops out and eats people.
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Ryan is a 43-year-old white man from Youngstown who represents a somewhat squiggly-looking congressional district that includes large numbers of African Americans and working-class white voters.
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Owner Brianne McCabe commissioned artist Morely Talmor to create squiggly, amoeba-shaped laser cut No Smoking (Even E-Cigs) signs and a Choking Aid Poster featuring playful geometric cut-outs.
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" Though the title ostensibly describes the work, it offers little in the way of visualizing the powder blue paper, adorned with squiggly cutouts and the handwritten words, "tuck tuck tuck.
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Proponents of the initiative oppose a mixed-use complex in West Los Angeles that would replace a car dealership, and a squiggly Frank Gehry-designed project in West Hollywood, among others.
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From squiggly brows, to contouring with inanimate objects, to placing literal insects and plants onto your lips, artists and influencers have taken to weird and outlandish ways to display their craft.
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In a wig studio in a Midtown Manhattan office building, I saw the headforms of the cast of "Hamilton," and dozens of other musicals, complete with squiggly hairlines, drawn in Sharpie.
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He has sold two companies to Google, received a MacArthur grant and helped develop the type-the-squiggly-word thing we use online to prove we're not bots (it's called reCaptcha).
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Let's say you're walking in a forest where you know there are poisonous snakes, and all of a sudden, you see something squiggly in the path in front of you, Kirsch says.
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There is nothing cheap or snarky about the way the movie festoons its action sequences with "POW!" and "BLAMMO!" word bubbles, or shows us squiggly little lines whenever someone's Spidey sense tingles.
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As far as make up and hair goes, my glam squad Rebecca Epifano and Troy Zestos wanted a modern, clean, lashy, glowy makeup look with soft, squiggly, undone, waves for the hair.
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Several drawings reference WWII, including a seemingly unfinished work that starts with detailed soldiers trudging in the foreground and ends in a huge, squiggly line snaking through the landscape in the background.
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Although Goldberg acknowledges that she is a workaholic who spends much of her time thinking about men who cause women "irreparable misery," she maintains the bright, squiggly demeanor of a screwball heroine.
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The lines may be squiggly, the rounded corners imperfect, but almost everyone you pose this challenge to will present you with the shape of a rectangle containing another rectangle sat atop a circle.
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With all of 155 horsepower, the Miata MX-7923 leaves two squiggly rubber smears imprinted on the asphalt as I peel out on a quiet two-lane road somewhere south of San Francisco.
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The dingo fence, a network of wires and posts, runs from the southern coast to near the eastern coast in a squiggly line, almost twice the length of the United States-Mexico border.
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Slowly, I worked my way through a map of 30 or so restaurants, connected by a squiggly, grease-smeared line that traced a history, stretching back in some cases more than a century.
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As you hold down for video you'll immediately recognize one of the more subtle design changes in this new version of Skype, a squiggly line that represents the amount of time for a recording.
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Sharma: Let's talk about a string of four shots I really enjoy, starting at your shot of the eye in the mirror with red drop and ending at the squiggly leg in the water.
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There are other goals on his list, but they are hard to decipher because the board doubles as a canvas for his children, who have drawn squiggly lines and amorphous figures over his writing.
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Stone's makeup artist, Rachel Goodwin, posted a behind-the-scenes slideshow of their perms going down, complete with black salon capes, squiggly orange and blue foam rollers in their hair and cotton covering their foreheads.
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The squiggly horns, shuffly percussion and occasional bleats of "HEY...ARNOLD," are as easy to access as the taste of crustless ham sandwiches or the smell of a puddle of sick in a ball pit.
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At the end of the seminar, Grossman uncaps two markers, bends toward the easel, and writes the word LOVE in large block letters on a fresh sheet of paper, underscoring it with a squiggly flourish.
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"The foot will become very itchy and inflamed, but you can actually tell where the larva is migrating through the skin because it creates red, squiggly raised lines in the shape of a serpent," Pritt says.
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I wouldn't say there's much about US culture that's particularly fun right now, but a Collina Strada dress in a sheer lime-green organza, with an empire waist and colorful sequined squiggly lines all over it?
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"A Squiggly Story" is a charming little book that may help first-time storytellers keep trying to write stories, even if they lack the ability to draw proper letterforms, let alone put a complete sentence together.
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Such ghosts, and the squiggly David Hockney mural at the bottom of the pool, and the ashy traces, among the palms, of a party the night before, seemed to call for a round of Bloody Marys.
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This terrific show finds the painter still relying fruitfully on his signature vocabulary of generic forms: grids, squiggly snarls, patterns of loosely knit lines, absurdly thick lines in primary colors and black areas painted with wide brushes.
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But while you were playing around with that squiggly, colorful text, Microsoft's team was busy honing another tool that has since been deemed by Investopedia as "the most important computer program in workplaces around the world": Excel.
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Drawn in the familiar squiggly style of MS Paint, wearing a blue robe and wielding a staff, the Bitcoin wizard is the centrepiece of what is arguably the most celebrated and iconic Reddit ad of all time.
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She foregrounds musical elements that code exotic (oud, kazoo, Asian percussion, high, squiggly keyboard) and fit in harmonically, as suits an album whose songs concern, dwell on, or simply project signifiers relevant to borders, refugees and othering.
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They focused their criticism on the experiment's famous first signal, a squiggly line—representing the collision of giant black holes more than a billion light-years away—that was printed in newspapers worldwide and tattooed on bodies.
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While it's fun to dip in and sample, the album unfolds its full mesmerizing effect when you follow the singers on their squiggly line through music history, weaving together the ancient and the new in wondrous ways.
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Mr. Close has placed two self-portraits (one seen above) in the station; the squiggly individual tiles that make up the hairs of his gray beard are alone worth missing a train to inspect at close range.
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We had just beat the crowd, which descended later to pick up quarts of faloodeh, a rose-water ice studded with squiggly rice noodles, and golo bol bol, saffron and rose ice cream, the namesake of the shop.
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The great white splash at the end of 'The High Board' in 'George and Martha Back in Town' is a marvel of weight on white, with a squiggly line to delineate the shuddering catastrophe of a diving hippopotamus.
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Screenshot: Kraft-HeinzIn a video that accompanied the announcement of the new product, Jell-O shows its squiggly bricks being used to assemble a small house, but it's doubtful your results will be as perfect as this CG creation.
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It's a "methodical and controlled" composition, as per Jeng's premise, that nevertheless retains a zing of spontaneity, as does "34 Gatherings" (2014) by Emil Lukas, a squiggly grisaille abstraction produced by fly larvae slithering through ink across the canvas.
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Like millions of Latino kids educated in California public schools, I never took a class in Spanish grammar or Spanish literature, nor was I ever asked to write a single word with an accent or a squiggly tilde over it.
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As I sat in a computer room in my dorm working away on an early Macintosh, a red squiggly line immediately appeared underneath the word "Chicano" after I typed it into the paper I was writing about my family's background.
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The only features on the figure's matte-black face are a couple of squiggly white eyes, but hundreds more eyes also cover her body, slipping over her shoulders like water, modeling her legs like scales, licking at her throat like flames.
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Then, you ask them to, say, draw a pig with a cat's head, or to visually subtract a foot from a horse or sketch a truck that looks like a dog or build a boat from a few random squiggly lines.
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Students arriving at dorms in their parents' minivans drop their Kenmore mini-fridges in their rooms, lock mountain bikes to squiggly racks, and then perhaps check out early-evening showings of films like I Never Thought It Was Rape or It Was Rape.
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Under the grouping titled "Prisoners," sallow faces peer at us from behind bars made out of found wooden beams or bits of cord and rope ingeniously nailed to the painted panel, while throngs of rioting figures hoist their squiggly arms in the air.
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What started in the above example with user tommoody posting science gifs of squiggly protein-folding simulations soon became, through additions by five or six other dumpers, a kind of asemic poem on the question of language in general and dump language particularly.
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The actor's formidable 22017-year-old limbs—bulging with squiggly veins, and just itching to swing—get a fair amount of screen-time in Blade Runner: 20493, Villeneuve's sweeping, deeply affecting new sci-fi drama, and the sequel to Ridley Scott's future-redefining 22049 original.
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The EP's rollicking closer, "Menace II Society," once again showcases the young Australian's trademark of coupling throwback hip-hop bars with some dusty 4x4 rhythms—topping it with a squiggly bassline that's sure to test all the hip flexors within range of the audio assault.
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The BFG has no formal education, and tends to "say things a little squiggly," complete with his own elaborate Dahlian vocabulary: Those frobscottle-induced farts are whizpoppers; a good, satisfying dream is a phizzwizard; a particularly bad nightmare is a trogglehumper, and so forth.
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The museum will offer family tours in which children can explore exhibitions like "Stuart Davis: In Full Swing," a show focusing on an artist who translated the rhythms and improvisatory spirit of jazz into bold, abstract paintings filled with squiggly symbols and jagged lines.
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He scored a tournament-best six goals, including two — a roguish toe-flick over a goalkeeper to cap a squiggly dribbling run and a 180-degree-turning, left-footed volley walloped in from 25 yards — that offered particularly tantalizing indications of an immense skill set.
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His trademark style is single-needle, fine-line tattooing, what his fans simply call tiny tattoos: hearts and flowers and city skylines etched in black ink and shrunken to emoji size; the names of loved ones and inspirational mantras rendered in his squiggly, miniature cursive.
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Suddenly Jackmaster's troops have grown considerably in size, Ben UFO is playing squiggly techno to rugby players and acts like Bicep—able to provide enough obscure trance-cum-Italo for the heads, and enough chunky takes on 90s classic for the rest—are cross-pollinating these crowds even further.
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Digital Touch In what should be a familiar looking interface for Apple Watch users, Apple also brought it's Digital Touch messages over to iMessage, where you can send taps, quick squiggly drawings, and hearts by tapping the heart icon next to the text box in the Messages app.
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They can get it, or at least what passes for wisdom, in real time by watching squiggly lines on their television screens that represent focus group impressions of the candidates, or by following an avalanche of opinions put forth by the commentariat on Twitter and other social media.
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The illustrator, Matthew Forsythe, isn't reinventing the wheel by depicting the bad mood as a cloud, but of course, that particular wheel is perfect as it is; it's remarkable, really, how with only a squiggly outline and a wash of color the artist creates so vivid an antihero.
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Examine the naked back in "Room With a View," dashed off in a patchwork of brown, pink and brick-red; the squiggly water in "Watersports"; or "Thank You," a portrait of a plastic shopping bag whose layers of crisscrossing strokes have the methodical space-covering glee of papier-mâché.
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The piece begins with seemingly distinct statements, with pauses in between: a mini-episode of pastoral-like sonorities with an ominous cello line lurking below; sustained, bustling high harmonies with squiggly flights from the piano; an episode of staggered drum bursts; a haze of dense, piercingly dissonant chords; and more.
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Up now is a stellar show of vintage prints by the French modernist photographer Claude Tolmer (29608-211), whose images of the 235s include dense, high-contrast visions of airplane propellers and merry-go-rounds; spectral photograms of scissors and goblets; and still lifes montaged with squiggly hand-drawn additions that recall Cocteau.
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Above: Old Trending on left vs New Trending on right Instead of a "topic" (often just a word, person or place, like "China" or "Donald Trump") and squiggly arrow icon, the news stories here include a headline, a photo, the name of a major media outlet that's reporting it, and how many other sources are available on the topic.
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Beyond the ambient instrumentals, mainly included for pacing and flow (one called "The 1975," one called "Please Be Naked," and be grateful it's an instrumental), the basic style here is bubblegum funk, keyed to the interaction between chunky squiggles of rhythm guitar and squiggly chunks of wah-wah synthesizer, jam-packed with goofy computer blips and shiny guitar licks and atmospheric keyboard wash yet somehow superlight on its feet.
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Dry, aching voices, crude horn honk, noodling jazz guitar, quietly crackling flickers of static, all this gets played against clean electronic surfaces and squiggly synthesizers to shape a sonic disparity that also serves to contextualize both sides — the soul/jazz material sounds old and weird partially because hearing it during a speedy dance mix creates the illusion of discovery, as if Moodymann were sorting through piles in the back of a record store, playing Big Muff's "My Funny Valentine" cover for the first time, and falling in love with the glittering keyboards and liquid bassline.
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It's a pricey, lightweight device that's designed to prevent heat damage to users' hair and combines a number of design elements... Twitter reported its first-quarter earnings today, and they came in under expectations: the company's haul of $595 million was less than the $607.8 million that analysts expected, and so is the... The 3.5mm headphone jack is one of the elder statesmen of the personal tech world, having become ubiquitous with the rise of mp3 players, smartphones, and other mobile devices, but now it's those... With all of 155 horsepower, the Miata MX-5 leaves two squiggly rubber smears imprinted on the asphalt as I peel out on a quiet two-lane road somewhere south of San Francisco.
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ONE LONG RIVER OF SONGNotes on Wonder By Brian Doyle If you are in love with language, here is how you will read Brian Doyle's posthumous collection of essays: by underlining sentences and double-underlining other sentences; by sometimes shading in the space between the two sets of lines so as to create a kind of D.I.Y. bolded font; by marking whole astonishing paragraphs with a squiggly line in the margin, and by highlighting many of those squiggle-marked sections with a star to identify the best of the astonishing lines therein; by circling particularly original or apt phrases, like "this blistering perfect terrible world" and "the chalky exhausted shiver of my soul" and "the most arrant glib foolish nonsense and frippery"; and, finally, by dog-earing whole pages, and then whole essays, because there is not enough ink in the world to do justice to such annotations, slim as this book is and so full of white space, too.
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