From time to time a figure would form from the clouds, the crystalline shapes strangely beautiful.

They grow in ornamental crystalline shapes, like pieces of Steuben sculpture, which nature has originated and bested.

This happens typically when a mineral of one composition changes by chemical reaction to another of similar composition, retaining the original crystalline shape.

In a very large room, he was constructing all sorts of different shapes out of small crystalline shapes.

Opaque, crystalline shapes rise to either side in the opening scene; the columns of Sarastro's palace are no more substantial.

Czech Cubists distinguish their work through the construction of sharp points, slicing planes, and crystalline shapes in their art works.

Paradoxically, it is these late works, with their crystalline geometric shapes and almost scorelike compositions, that seem closest to painted music.

The other side of the pane was patterned in the crystalline shapes of frost.

Instead the pentagonal crystalline shapes stood like podiums, with a matched set descending from overhead.

Then by dispersing they let those crystalline shapes dissolve.