This surface suggests the American Heartland, where towns and farmlands tend to follow a grid plan.

Their lively surfaces sometimes suggest game boards and at other times the heavily stylized nature symbolism of Japanese screens.

The glitzy surfaces suggest a desire not only to enter the space age but also to participate in global consumerist economies.

Small sailing craft skimmed the sur- face on a current that must be swifter than the turgid surface suggested.

Its steep sides plunged down to water whose black surface suggested enormous depths.

All have the same convoluted duets and thrusting movements, more erotic than their pure-movement surface suggests.

Their unruly surfaces, which can bring to mind de Kooning's sculptures, suggest something vulnerable, almost fleshlike, if not decaying.

Round this bend was another platform whose uneven surface suggested it was natural, and a stunted tree had managed to find a foothold.

She realized that the students' emotional undercurrents are not as placid as the surface suggested.

In one example, a heavily impastoed surface suggests a roughly formed ceramic ball.