Voorbeelden van 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.

• It has also been described as gnarled nu-metal with all the poise of a rhinoceros in a tutu.

• Commonly growing as a gnarled tree up to 15 m (50 ft) in height, it can be much smaller in more exposed areas.

• Julien has portrayed him in an ample cloak, with a gnarled tree on which a vine with grapes is climbing.

• During his career he broke his hands countless times, and was left with deformed, gnarled knuckles and fingers.

• Only the best trees were felled, leaving the gnarled puriri often found on farm paddocks.

• The sparsely scattered houses wear a surprisingly uniform aspect of age, squalor, and dilapidation, while the gnarled, solitary inhabitants are silent and furtive.

• Nutrient uptake is hampered and the trees are stunted and gnarled.