They reflect sky, clouds and each other in fractured images and with a shimmering brilliance that has nothing to do with, or any need for, architectural distinction.
It is then that I realise, under an endless sky, with clouds caught mid-scud above me, that the Rizk DBR2 isn't really a car.
You remember when you were little and you would keep checking the sky for snow clouds on the offchance that you got a snow day?
In Jacob van Ruisdael's captivating "View of Haarlem" (c. 1670-75), a totally flat, almost totally dark landscape lies under a canvas that is two-thirds billowing, sky-broken clouds.
For two days and two nights, she stupidly watched the sky, the clouds that passed before her, running the way the children of the village would doubtless run after her from now on.
Goux at his window, watching clouds float through the sky over Paris and comparing them unfavorably with certain clouds in paintings by Pissarro or the clouds in his nightmare.
As the sky darkened and storm clouds gathered on the horizon, our jeep turned towards home.
While there, Lamb helped Hunt paint the ceiling of his cell sky blue with white clouds.
The Wednesday after Sandy hit, the sky was full of clouds.
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Dark clouds filled the sky, as strong winds could be heard whipping against the microphone.
Mr. JERMAINE JACKSON: When there are clouds in the sky, you'll get by if you smile.
There are fewer clouds in the sky and the sun is finally starting to shine a little brighter.
We were into open country now, running straight up the coast about a mile from the ocean on a two-lane blacktop road across the dunes with no clouds in the sky and a full moon blazing down on the Pacific.
Its chief concern today is to avoid being blamed when the mushroom clouds appear in the sky.
In the morning the still world returned: the innocent waters, the ferocious mountains, the pale sky dotted with small, newborn clouds.
Mr. Faranda particularly appreciated the puffy clouds drifting across the sky.
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July 2009: The sky is gray and heavy with clouds.
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It was colder than ever now, but the sky had cleared, and a bright moon had emerged from the clouds, cold and white in a pool of indigo sky right above the garden.
A. hospital, sending nicotine clouds into the cloudless sky, wondering whether it would be better to have one leg and no arms or, if you were lucky enough to have an arm and a leg left, whether it would be better to have them on opposite sides, for balance.
The sky would go gray, with dark clouds building on the horizon.
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It was a day like this one -- a clear blue sky, but a sky that would soon be filled with clouds of smoke and prayers of a nation shaken to its core.
She found that a simple, ten-minute imagery task (such as picturing clouds in a bright blue sky or a cheery stack of watermelons in a pickup truck) can turn brooding into focused action.
With the sun setting, the sky is etched with a calligraphy of pink clouds, their reflection a soft wash on the river surface.
Dark clouds are still present in the sky, however.
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Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.
Rain came down heavily a half hour at a time, then pulled back into a silvery sky of fast-moving, fuzzy-bottomed clouds.
Meanwhile a team of Swiss researchers are harnessing rays of light for an entirely different purpose -- they've figured out a way to create rain clouds by shooting laser beams into the sky.
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