: a metamorphic crystalline rock that has a closely foliated structure and can be split along approximately parallel planes
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Woolery encourages a broad, telegraphic style in her actors, but Tousey, as Bobbie, operates from a stillness as foundational as that Manhattan schist.
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Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
Atop the unchanging schist, the people replaced each other, the ethnic tribes from all over trading places in the tenements and townhouses, which in turn fell and were replaced by the next buildings.
—Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
Stephen Rowland, a paleontologist in the UNLV department of geoscience, told me that the Precambrian granite and schist at the base are about 1.7 billion years old.
—Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2011
In her book, there is a picture of a giant boulder in Upper Manhattan sandwiched between two residential buildings on Bennett Avenue, a protrusion of Manhattan schist about three stories tall rising out of the ground.
—Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
The lightness proved helpful both in forestalling fatigue during the long overland stretches and in facilitating the pair’s most triumphant moment: scaling the hundred-plus feet of schist up to the castle with canoes perched on shoulders, and stumbling only briefly near the top.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
In the southern province of Otago, rivers also carry gold eroded from the basement schist across the landscape.
—Bill Morris, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
Downstream, Wu Qinglong and his team found a wide swath of sediments that matched what a raging flood would have carried from Jishi Gorge: mostly fragments of purple-brown mudrock and green schist, washed into the lower Jishi Gorge and downstream into the Guanting Basin.
—K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2016
No, but the bedrock schist beneath them is studded with opal, beryl, chrysoberyl, garnet, and three kinds of tourmaline.
—Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
Atop the unchanging schist, the people replaced each other, the ethnic tribes from all over trading places in the tenements and townhouses, which in turn fell and were replaced by the next buildings.
—Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
Stephen Rowland, a paleontologist in the UNLV department of geoscience, told me that the Precambrian granite and schist at the base are about 1.7 billion years old.
—Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2011
In her book, there is a picture of a giant boulder in Upper Manhattan sandwiched between two residential buildings on Bennett Avenue, a protrusion of Manhattan schist about three stories tall rising out of the ground.
—Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2023
The lightness proved helpful both in forestalling fatigue during the long overland stretches and in facilitating the pair’s most triumphant moment: scaling the hundred-plus feet of schist up to the castle with canoes perched on shoulders, and stumbling only briefly near the top.
—Ben McGrath, The New Yorker, 28 Mar. 2022
In the southern province of Otago, rivers also carry gold eroded from the basement schist across the landscape.
—Bill Morris, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2023
Downstream, Wu Qinglong and his team found a wide swath of sediments that matched what a raging flood would have carried from Jishi Gorge: mostly fragments of purple-brown mudrock and green schist, washed into the lower Jishi Gorge and downstream into the Guanting Basin.
—K. N. Smith, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2016
No, but the bedrock schist beneath them is studded with opal, beryl, chrysoberyl, garnet, and three kinds of tourmaline.
—Rebecca Coffey, Discover Magazine, 5 July 2011
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: a metamorphic rock that can be split along nearly parallel planes
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