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.
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.
The sky would go gray, with dark clouds building on the horizon.
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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.
The extraordinary lobby of the palace is centered on a marble fountain supported by cherubs, while the sky-blue walls are frescoed with cotton-ball clouds, birds, garlands and idealized rural scenes.
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Clouds that had blackened a far quadrant of the sky pulsed with lightning.
Looking at this list, it should be obvious that are as many different clouds in the computing world as there are in the sky.
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