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However, using the faceted hillsides of a favela as a kind of gemlike canvas for representational art actually seems to open up more interesting possibilities.

BLDGBLOG 2009

However, using the faceted hillsides of a favela as a kind of gemlike canvas for representational art actually seems to open up more interesting possibilities.

BLDGBLOG 2009

Hardcore innovation is just that: it has a core, and it burns hard and gemlike, to borrow a phrase from 19th century art critic Walter Pater.

Matthew DeBord: Innovation: When It's Phony, and When It's the Real Deal Matthew DeBord 2011

As a result, though her later works don't seem to get the same recognition as the earlier ones, I actually find many of them more wonderful, more gemlike; smaller but truer.

Archive 2009-01-01 Heather McDougal 2009

Hardcore innovation is just that: it has a core, and it burns hard and gemlike, to borrow a phrase from 19th century art critic Walter Pater.

Matthew DeBord: Innovation: When It's Phony, and When It's the Real Deal Matthew DeBord 2011

If you like this, there's a whole world of literate spy thrillers out there - I particularly recommend the polished, gemlike novels of Robert Littell.

MIND MELD: Non-Genre Books for Genre Readers 2009

Fortunately, this modern-dress version, which is being performed by a cast of six in APT's gemlike 200-seat thrust-stage indoor theater, is completely worthy of the play.

The Warrior's Dilemma Terry Teachout 2011

As a result, though her later works don't seem to get the same recognition as the earlier ones, I actually find many of them more wonderful, more gemlike; smaller but truer.

Reading, Young and Old Heather McDougal 2009

Crafted with gemlike precision, every flash fiction piece tells a complete story, never using more than a thousand words.

The Best of Every Day Fiction Two (Anthology) | Every Day Fiction - The once a day flash fiction magazine. 2010

( "Tumbled," for example, is a method for knocking barnacles and imperfections off shells, the latest thing for the new "designer" oysters like Taylor's gemlike Shigokus.)

The American Oyster Paradise Richard Nalley 2010