The idea that any of them might want to see my daubings began to seem nutty.

I could spend months sweating over my own daubings, but I'd produce something you wouldn't want to hang in your living room.

A 4-year-old's costly daubings suggest that they do.

And it is this inverted snobbery that seems to lie behind admiration of Cook's daubings.

It reported an 18.5 percent increase in anti-Jewish vandalism, including arson, bombings and swastika daubings.

The artistic daubings before their removal by sand-blasting (photo Jerry Rawson).

They were disguised in black-and-white paint and daubings of mud and feathers, but there was a Diné among them.

They were astounded both that Jantiff's daubings could command value and that he yearned for far strange worlds.

The number of incidents of vandalism last year was 694, ranging from swastika daubings to arson and pipe bombings.

Edward Steichen was particularly skilled at delivering prints that looked like daubings untouched by any mechanical process and wholly innocent of the industrial world.

Parsons wrote that tattoos "remain ugly, hideous daubings that make my flesh crawl with revulsion every time I see one."

Ugly, discordant daubings."

But he said he would not have hesitated to report daubings such as those suffered by the Young Israel of New Rochelle synagogue.

"OUR charlady's mop limns a nobler vision than these scrofulous daubings, which, for inspiration, are bested by the scrapings off my car tires.

Despite what often is very little physical damage to property - swastika daubings can be covered up with a coat of paint - a burned cross can be removed and the damage repaired.

And Kherzaki, in his room, breaks his prayer sticks over his knee, leaves his robes in the closet, washes the ritual daubings from his face, and goes forth to make revolution.

And within their mysterious mechanical technique, uncharacteristic intimations of touch have been added: daubings of color, stipplings of white and reverberating outlines that all seem laid on by hand, despite the seamless surfaces.

Out the museum window, Queens hunkers like Moscow in the gray cold, but Morris Hershman is caught up in the blood-red daubings within, haunted like no other American by the Cold War.

We don't know whether such daubings were common and intended for viewing by all, a census of beasts or a record of hunts, or ceremonially esoteric and restricted to the purposes of a particular caste.

U Map Decorated with children's daubings of clowns, this is a thoroughly laid-back and charmingly personal spot for reading the newspaper, chatting over cappuccino, reasonably priced pasta or gelato, and relaxing on the roof terrace.

Naked from throat to navel, their dark brown bodies painted with white lines ("like asphalt tennis courts," Lenina was later to explain), their faces inhuman with daubings of scarlet, black and ochre, two Indians came running along the path.

STUDENTS in their thousands gather at the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, Taiwan's holiest of holies, to demand democracy; teenage idealists begin a fast; daubings (one is the Chinese character for 'pig') disfigure Chiang's monument.

Compared with the skill sets possessed by any artist of the preceeding four or five centuries, Cezannes work was indeed hopeless amateur daubing but a combination of events and chaotic concatenation of relatively unrelated theory "reprogrammed" the 20th century brain to see beauty in such daubings.

Certainly the deserted room in the Hall of Records, emptied so that the writing-priests could make their Elysiamansa observances, was as good a place as could be found on short notice for a clandestine meeting-but why couldn't they leave enough room among their damned daubings for a grown man to move around?

Their imitation was not so slavish as to suppress a certain decorative joie de vivre-it had been painted so gaudily it looked like the male of the species in search of a mate-but beneath the daubings was a machine that might have steamed into King's Cross or Marylebone in the years following the Great War.

But now his target was not a daub of white paint upon an old door.

But in the end, all this is just some daubs on a piece of canvas.

This daub could have come from one of three distinct periods.

"How could he have been taken in by such inert daubs?"

On Friday he was thinking in daubs that bled into each other.

Up close the paintings look like "daubs of paint," nothing more.

From what I could see of them, they appeared very bad -mere daubs.

"Yet you tricked me into buying one of his daubs?"

He can create just the perfect facial expression with a daub of paint.

The next daub proved to be a small hay barn a little way back in a field.

You should be out of town and on the first daub inside of thirty minutes.

Perhaps a daub of stuff which, in response to a search ray, returned a signal?

The original church may well have been built of wood or wattle and daub.

Daubs on the walls which must be what were known as rich men's impressionists, cost millions.

Wattle and daub is one of the oldest building techniques.

He stared at what seemed a careless daub of paint, then stepped away.

They reined up in front of the little daub?

It's good, she thought when she laid the last daub of white in the young boy's eye.

A strange old flat picture, made with rough daubs of colored paint.

If the letter got wet, the daub of paint it contained would be useless.

In Europe, long houses built from wattle and daub were constructed.

On the other hand, some said Allen "applied a daub of whitewash."

Not a single daub of paint marred the inn's natural beauty.

Shapiro and Daub were still with the largest contingent.

He said Officer Daub was referred to a counselor, probably outside the department.

They came into the living room, which was daubed here and there with Tom's blood.

He suffered from inflammation of the eyes and may have daubed them with the water.

Newspapers daubed with dark paint were still spread over the floor.

The mother daubed at the little girl's bleeding head with a towel.

In the spaces between them she daubed animal blood onto the floor.

Only this metal canvas has been daubed with human parts.

The phrase "thank you" is daubed on a nearby wall.

The original sense seems to have been, to daub on, to smear.

Other bees followed, and he daubed them too, glancing at his watch.

There are freshly daubed signs on the walls to point the way.

The killers in one case daubed a message on the nearby bridge.

Huge slogans were daubed on a wall facing the hotel.

Every window is smashed, the walls are daubed with graffiti.

He daubed her face and the backs of her hands.

He daubed at his forehead, found it was still bandaged.

The attackers daubed graffiti on the walls inside the building.

She used her paper napkin to daub at his damp forehead.

A crow silhouette has been daubed in blood there, now dry.

Why must we daub the heavens as well as the earth?

I got up feeling contrite and daubed at her with a paper napkin.

She continued to daub the mixture onto his face.

Their faces were daubed with black and brown paint.

He took some toilet tissue, and was daubing the offending bit of color away.

In a second, I was by her side daubing her eyes with my handkerchief.