He saw her bending over pythons coiled upon the sand, or considering the brown rock breaking the stagnant water of the alligators' pool, or searching some minute section of tropical forest for the golden eye of a lizard or the indrawn movement of the green frogs' flanks.
Another CT feature of pleural invasion with accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of 79%, 82%, and 76%, respectively, is pleural puckering, which is defined as the localized thickening of pleura that is indrawn toward the tumor (24).
In the slippery world of Fingerbone, Ruth's figurative descriptions often integrate nature and culture rather than segregating them, celebrating the wild in terms of the domestic, or vice versa: "the wind in the mountains was like one long indrawn breath.
"There is no condition of snow I have not observed, from the first fall to the mild deceptive stillness at night, close to the end of winter, when a dark breath, indrawn and held, warns that death is returning after all." After her brother's death, she feels that she is "obliged to survive," but "we slipped into our winter as trustingly as every night we fell asleep," and, although it is evident that her sister Isobel has survived by starting a new life far away from her upbringing, Jean will not really "survive."
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