How To Use Interstice In A Sentence
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One always hopes that the ordering of poems in a book adds to their individual strength, breeding meaning in the interstices; but it is actually quite rare to see it in a first collection, as the poet is concentrating so much on specifics.
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Meanwhile, with all this traveling, my net access has been frustratingly erratic, and I've had frustratingly few of those little chunks of blogging time in the interstices of my schedule.
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But then, as the final drops reach the ground and many more perch unsteadily on the now dustless leaves, at that unprotected moment, when you are not quite sure that it has finally ceased raining, and neither is the rain itself, in that very interstice, everything becomes serene.
Excerpt: The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
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A network is anything _reticulated or decussated, with interstices at equal distances between the intersections_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition
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Sufficient space is left over in the interstices between the twelve balls, that they can roll around a bit on the surface of the central ball.
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The view displayed hills for miles in all directions, amongst which were many bare rocks of red colour heaped into the most fantastically tossed mounds imaginable, with here and there an odd shrub growing from the interstices of the rocks; some small miniature creeks, with only myal and mulga growing in them, ran through the valleys -- all of these had recently been running.
Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
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Notes: when install WPC products, there must be some proper interstice , and fix the products directly on the joist.
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The iterative time of the future is a becoming-space where the ‘in-between’ becomes utterable, and can return and be reiterated in the interstices of the present.
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Anything reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections. '
Life Of Johnson
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This would mean building, within these interstices, new landmarks for the transformative power of the erotic, a meetingplace where our deepest yearnings for different kinds of freedom can take shape and find rest.
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Interstices are filled with poorly sorted pebble-sized clasts and the matrix content is rather low.
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They appeared in mid-1989 precisely at the interstices of these two periods, at one of those liminal moments when new possibilities and alternative arrangements seem most readily available.
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The walls were made thick, rough, and strong; the interstices were matted and daubed with clay from the bed of the rivulet; the thatch was a sedge obtained from the lake; and the floor of earth was strewed with the leaves of the sweet-smelling rhododendron.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains
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The peasants 'houses are scattered up and down without any order or arrangement, and with no roads between, built of trunks of trees, unsquared, and mortised into each other at the corners, the interstices filled with moss and mud, a mode of building warmer than it sounds.
Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers
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As I have tried to suggest, with complex systems, it isn't so much the nodes that disappear unnoticed and unaccounted for, but the less tangible stuff that lies in the system's interstices.
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The skin roof, stretched tightly as a drumhead, I had thought, sagged and bellied with every gust; and innumerable interstices in the walls, not so tightly stuffed with moss as Maud had supposed, disclosed themselves.
Chapter 31
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His autographic punctuation can, and often does, inhabit the interstices between, for example, a period and a comma.
Introduction
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There is a gleam of luminous gold , where the sinking western sun has found a first direct interstice in the clouds.
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The moth was very still now, exploring the interstices between tumbler and table with heavy, pectinated antennæ.
Barbarians
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The white canvas fan overhead did not stir, dust and cobwebs crisscrossed the interstices, and a fat dollop of a spider dangled from the hub in front of my proboscis until I batted it away with a rolled Forbes.
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a kind of chiselled cylinder, with wide interstices, so that the stairs are open to the air.
A Little Tour of France
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the interstices of a network
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But others, and these were the better ones, were built on the ground, of logs so ponderous and so firmly clamped and dovetailed that the beasts could not pull them down, and once inside a house of this fashion its owners were safe, and could progue at any attackers through the interstices between the logs, and often wound, sometimes make a kill.
The Lost Continent
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Compressed in the foreground, the grid stretches or meanders across the surface as if it has all the time in the world, while from within its interstices the muted ground sparkles with a kind of inner life.
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The settlers' amateur dramatic production inserts the relationship between the Irish and the Norwegians into the interstices of this Irish-Afro connection.
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He lives in this space, the interstices of the paternal name, like some Lacanian allegory.
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As one walks through the different rooms, passages and interstices of the gallery, there is a tremendous but transient concatenation of sound.
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The process may be a long one, perhaps: you may have to ground with one colour; to touch it with fragments of a second; to crumble a third into the interstices; a fourth into the interstices of the third; to glaze the whole with a fifth; and to reinforce in points with a sixth: but whether you have one, or ten, or twenty processes to go through, you must go _straight_ through them, knowingly and foreseeingly all the way; and if you get the thing once wrong, there is no hope for you but in washing or scraping boldly down to the white ground, and beginning again.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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No. 5 is a species of fir which arives to the Size of No. 2, and No. 4. the Stem Simple branching, diffuse and proliferous. the bark thin dark brown, much divided with Small longitudinal interstices scaleing off in thin rolling flakes. it affords but little rosin and the wood is redish white 2/3ds of the diamieter in the Center the ballance white Somewhat porus and tough. the twigs are much longer and more slender than in either of the other speceies. the leaves are acerose 1/20 of an inch in width, and an inch in length, sessile, inserted on all Sides of the bough, Streight, their extremities pointing obliquely towards the extremities of the bough and more thickly placed than in either of the other Species; gibbous and flexable but more stiff than any except No. 1 and more blontly pointed than either of the other Species; the upper disk has a Small longitudinal Channel and is of a deep green tho not so
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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It was formed only of slabs and bark; yet the interstices of the walls being filled in with mud, and the whole of the interior whitewashed with pipeclay, of which there was abundance near, it produced no despicable effect by candlelight.
Ralph Rashleigh
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Thus the meetups create a truly public space that can exist at the interstices of an otherwise private and tightly scripted life.
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Mr. Tenniel's cartoons are put on wood precisely as they are meant to be cut, in broad, firm, sweeping lines, and the wood-engraver has only to scoop out the white interstices between the network of lines; whereas Mr. Leech dashed in a bold pen-and-ink-like sketch and trusted to the xylographer, who knew his style well and of old, to produce an engraving, _tant bien que mal_, but as bold and as dashing as the original.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865
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Each snapshot moment encapsulates a state, every congruity and interstice between them suggests a transformation, and -- assuming the viewer actually gets it -- the film resolves into an excruciatingly tender and poignant portrayal of a relationship.
Archive 2008-08-01
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Subjectivities of both the dominant and the dominated are produced in the interstices of these multiple, intersecting loci of power.
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But for those who were alive before this hyperactive culture grew up around us, it was during those interstices of life's activities that we breathed, relaxed, observed, thought things over.
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The sides of each column were corrugated to interlock with its adjacent columns, leaving interstices to be filled with the cement paste known as grout.
Colossus
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In other words, it seeks to understand de-temporalisation and de-spatialisation: interstices, gaps and fragments.
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Like urban garages, car parts shops and so on, such places tend to spring up spontaneously like weeds in wastelands and interstices of cities.
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Bourriaud considers the relational form of artwork as social "interstice," a place to learn to inhabit the world in a better way, where art "tightens the space of relations" between spectators so that art becomes a glue of social relations.
Monica Westin: Art in the Time of Midterms: Museum as Democracy and the MCA's New Show
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There is a gleam of luminous gold , where the sinking western sun has found a first direct interstice in the clouds.
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Between the stories that I do tell there are interstices, some shallow, some deep, and in these interstice lay the stories that I do not, for one reason or another, tell.
A Closer Bridge To Home - Her Bad Mother
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Aristotle noted the principle on which the camera obscura depends, having observed how the round image of the sun passed undistorted through the angular interstices of wickerwork.
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Consequently, the abundant head scalids move forward, plow backward through the water and interstices surrounding the animal, and therefore propel the animal forward.
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They go over the interior surface of the walls, breaking off projections and filling up the interstices with small stones, and then they smoothly plaster the walls and the inside of the hatchway with mud, and sometimes whitewash them with a gypsiferous clay found in the neighborhood.
A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228
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It has also occultized and enigmatized itself in their image in order to open up and clear to the way to a particular void, to a certain non-sense - unlike the media which remains relentlessly bent on filling up all interstices.
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These beliefs existed within the interstices of official faith and ritual and churchmen did not necessarily see them as pagan, unchristian, heretical or erroneous.
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In some particular environment or super - normal loading conditions ( eg , bath houses ) , the interstice should be shorter.
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With the _f_, the tone must be there already, _before_ I have pronounced it; to pass from the _f_ to the _r_ I must summon to my aid the auxiliary vowel _oo_, in order to prevent the formation of any unvocalized interstices in the sound.
How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst]
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The wall was old and crumbling with plants growing in the interstices between/in/of the bricks.
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African youth are caught between challenging authoritarian regimes they inherited and relying on the patronage networks within the national structure and its local interstices.
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The hall is shaded by a shallow half-hat of a roof which leaves a crescent-shaped interstice between it and the edge of the big carapace.
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One of the energetic obstacles to membrane fusion is represented by the void interstices that form at the neck of the stalk.
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I listen not to the country people telling it was experimented by a goose, which was put in and came out again with _life_ (though without feathers); but hearken seriously to those who judiciously impute the _subsidency_ of the earth in the interstice aforesaid to some underground hollowness made by that water in the passage thereof.
Highways and Byways in Surrey
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There is a gleam of luminous gold , where the sinking western sun has found a first direct interstice in the clouds.
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All morning it's paper and people; all afternoon it's meetings I'd rather not attend; and in the interstices there are calls from students, colleagues, members of the community.
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The trick involves searching out the city's interstices, which exist in time as well as space.
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She acknowledges that displacement here no longer spells exile; it can mean instead an exhilarating sense of life at the interstices.
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The age is approaching when Dr. Johnson will define network as 'anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections,' or will modify his hasty statement that Buckingham's comedy, the Rehearsal, had not 'wit enough to keep it sweet,' with the corrected version: 'It has not vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction.'
On Dictionaries
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The dust also on the roads is laid and a grateful incense rises from the ground, the sides of the water chatty grow dark and moist and cool themselves in the hot air, and through the dripping interstices of the khuskhus tattie a chilly fragrance creeps into the room, causing the mercury in the thermometer to retreat from its proud place.
Behind the Bungalow
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He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores.
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They could rove at will among the stars, and sink like a subtle mist through the very interstices of space.
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As one walks through the different rooms, passages and interstices of the gallery, there is a tremendous but transient concatenation of sound.
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He drank enormous quantities of water, but so great was the heat of the day and of his exertions, that the water sluiced through the interstices of his flesh and out at all his pores.
Chapter 17
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The solubility of both C and N in austenite should be greater than in ferrite, because of the larger interstices available.
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The wall was old and crumbling with plants growing in the interstices between/in/of the bricks.
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Heat-treatment of steel involves the change of austenite, a face-centred cubic iron lattice containing carbon atoms in the interstices, into a body-centred cubic ferrite with a low solubility for carbon.
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And upon tearing her world asunder in a moment, the forces leave her to go be insane somewhere else, and she doesn't even know what the fuck. points out how there is this 'interstice' between what we consider real-life and what is urban mythology.
Anime Nano!
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In the first place you have the effect of light upon chlorophyl which is important; in the second place, the melted paraffin fills all interstices in which sap would collect and ferment.
Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919