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The government pumps enormous sums into high-profile cultural undertakings, like the roughly three billion yuan ($460 million) for Beijing's egg-like National Center for Performing Arts (NCPA).

Creativity Among the Commissars Nicholas Frisch 2011

They maintain their egg-like appearance during the sunlit hours (maybe an egg-like disguise?), then deflate at dark, manifesting finger-tentacles that feed on plankton, etc. See more of this beautiful creature at Environmental Graffiti.

Bubble Coral 2009

It was here that the couple designed the Lord's media centre, an egg-like structure sheathed in aluminium panels.

The Saturday interview: architect Amanda Levete 2011

Then came a range of Parmesan-inspired ravioli and a macaroon—a huge Ostrich egg-like sphere, which we were encouraged to crack open with our fingers and break pieces off.

The Legacy of El Bulli Bruce Palling 2011

The iconic egg-like object functions as the foundation for new life – it is a material visualization of digital and sensual technology and nature synthesizing.

GROBAL GREENING: ‘Techno-Organic’ Self-Watering Planters | Inhabitat 2008

Most of the Web sites I came across said that if you mix one tablespoon of ground flax seeds with three tablespoons of water, you get a milky consistency that is very much egg-like.

Lisa Lacy: Icing on the Proverbial Vegan Cake... or Not. 2009

  The sweet, putrid smell of the fish, their thick whiskers and egg-like eyes, reminded Yvette of the drunken crémier who had once put his sticky thumb on her cheek when she was a girl.

Eclipse Jane Delury 2008

 The sweet, putrid smell of the fish, their thick whiskers and egg-like eyes, reminded Yvette of the drunken crémier who had once put his sticky thumb on her cheek when she was a girl.

Eclipse 2008

In some markets I've seen them called prunes, and in others Italian plums, or prune plums, but they are the very small plums with the egg-like shape and the dusky purple skin.

JEWEL-LIKE, TANGY-SWEET ITALIAN PLUM JAM Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007

In some markets I've seen them called prunes, and in others Italian plums, or prune plums, but they are the very small plums with the egg-like shape and the dusky purple skin.

Archive 2007-09-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2007