gnarled Betydning & definition

Eksempler på gnarled

• In this type, the trees are small, more or less crowded, and present a stunted and gnarled appearance.

• Here is the woman-as-nature trope gone wrong: the trees are gnarled, the background is a cold, barren wasteland, a metaphor for the subject's own sterility.

• Do they have anything meaty or even interesting to offer to the intellectual historian who delights in charting rich mental worlds and untangling gnarled intellectual genealogies?

• The twin focus of the picture lies with the gnarled, but precise hand threading the needle, and her etched brow and laughter lines framed by an ornate mutchkin cap.

• There are one or two gnarled specimens left.

• The painting shows a simple house, barely outlined, framed by two gnarled pine trees.

• He is a short, elderly man, with balding, white hair, a gnarled nose, and he is always seen with a big pipe.

• On the opposite side of the twisted and gnarled tree stands a naked nymph, listening attentively.