The caps are usually clustered and imbricated, that is, they overlap. ❋ George Francis Atkinson (1886)
The hawks-bill turtle, which gains that name from its narrow, sharp, and curved beak, like that of a hawk, is also called the imbricated turtle, because its scales overlap each other at their extremities, as tiles are placed on the roofs of houses. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
I walked to a fragrant climbing rose, Madame Alfred Carriere in spectacular bloom, the snowy imbricated petals almost glowing in the predawn shadows. ❋ Marta Acosta (2010)
And for all the dazzle of modernity the simple, stolid book is still the best way to tell an elaborate, imbricated, enchanted tale. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Moreover, part of the difficulty in reading Hegel lies in the fact that epistemological issues are always imbricated with ontological issues. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2009)
The personal is always imbricated with the landscape (a la Hardy): there is something so familiar in what is said ❋ Unknown (2007)
McCain, like Bush before him, is deeply imbricated in the radical religious constituency that buttresses his party. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Gender as a class-system is imbricated with economic class, and with race and nationality. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Senator Clinton's position is symptomatic of a deeply troubling, imbricated pattern of her campaign: selectively playing-by-the-rules, while universally claiming the high ground as both moral leader and political victim. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It is imbricated with what Carole Pateman called the "sexual contract," a deeply-rooted cultural notion that women have to exchange obedience to one man for protection from all other men. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Whatever the outcome of the current confrontation, we have the right and the duty of engagement with a people and a culture very much imbricated with our own. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It's a Foucauldian thing: we are imbricated within the power relations we simultaneously resist. ❋ The Pedgehog (2007)
For an astute account of the way the heart becomes emblematic of and imbricated in contestations about ❋ Unknown (2005)
Large sinuous pancake – sheets were spread over the floe in places, and in one spot we counted five such sheets, each about 2 1/2 in. thick, imbricated under one another. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Walls under walls under walls, fortifications buried under successive layers of fear and power: the imbricated, urban Gothic. ❋ Unknown (2006)
But that the station's structure itself had somehow become imbricated with the space-time tangle outside it had become an accepted — if not precisely an acknowledged — fact. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)
The snow was lipped and patterned by the wind into shapes like the imbricated scales on a fish. ❋ Maguire, Gregory (2005)
