tapestry
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Our collective lives are like a tapestry of the adorable and the dreadful thrown together, and there’s no way to untangle the two.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
In the process, McElwee creates a patchwork tapestry, comprised of vignettes across time.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2026
"It's our responsibility, this generation's responsibility, to do what previous generations have done, which is look after this tapestry so it's there for all time".
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
It is the first time the tapestry has been seen in England for 1,000 years.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Celaena looked to her right, but all she saw was the tapestry that concealed the tomb.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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They select complementary textual threads from vast data warehouses and weave them together to create tapestries of prose.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
The Battle of Pavia, a pivotal encounter during a series of wars fought for control of the Italian peninsula between 1494 and 1559, was vividly portrayed in seven huge tapestries presented to Charles in 1531.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Highlights include the first painting he completed entirely on his own, as well as tapestries designed for the Sistine Chapel.
From Barron's ● Mar. 27, 2026
Some jackets and skirts featured gold fabric and tapestries.
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026
“She casts aside even her own daughter. The goddess would never allow my tapestries to be shown in the palaces of the gods. She was always jealous of me.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
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The showiest destination of all is table 56, a dome-shaped tapestried booth.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2020
The film academy took the backdrop from the “Fit as a Fiddle” number in “Singin’ in the Rain,” the eerie landscape of “Forbidden Planet,” the tapestried walls of “Marie Antoinette,” the office from “Adam’s Rib.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2019
Their music echoes among the buttresses of the Hall’s ceiling, and dies in the tapestried dimness beyond our tables where the servants come and go.
From Salon ● Jun. 8, 2019
A wedding party of Africans and African-Americans tripped through, decked to the nines, some in gleaming white linen and tapestried skull caps.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2015
In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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Trees vaulted the way tapestrying it with their leaves, between which one caught peeps at the sea, a shimmer of blue through a shimmer of green.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
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