It presents three musicians in a hutlike cafe with a fourth man seated just outside.

The small hutlike cottage where he had asked directions was also a heap of charcoal, burned at least a season before.

Small clusters of hutlike dwellings rested atop thicker branches or nestled against the trunk.

Lorn passes the hutlike dwelling and turns to the left, paralleling the main street, the first squad riders following him.

The maintenance shed was a large, hutlike building made of corrugated steel, located only a few meters from the fence, directly opposite the construction site.

With a sigh, he walked another fifty cubits to a hutlike dwelling set amid gardens needing preparation for the winter.

Its mountainous, hutlike, phallic shape could have risen from the ashes of a tribal fetish, or tumbled out of a Chinese painting.

In the dimness of a winter twilight, the column of replacement troopers rode past two militia foot sentries occupying a small hutlike guard post.

"Come in," a voice called from the interior in reply to Roger's clap, and Roger slipped the door catch and stepped into the hutlike building's single room.

Mike Cadwell, a professor of architecture at Ohio State University, used the idea of hutlike construction as the kind of sketching exercise an artist might employ.

Passing by them, Kelly noted that the passages led either into one of the hutlike dwellings or out onto branches as wide as driveways, with huts in the distance.

Han Chon sits at the back of an L-shaped strip mall, its entrance a small, wooden, hutlike structure that fronts the block-and-glass substance of the place.

Westchester Airport has a voluntary curfew on flights after midnight, and it restricts the number of commercial flights by limiting the number of passengers in its hutlike terminal.

At the Ghana Legion Village along Airport Road in Accra, Ibrahim Issah has a large hutlike stand filled with masks and statues.

In the cautiously low beam of the flashlight, she could see that this was an exhibit in the making; a wooden hutlike structure set atop two poles was off to one side.

A 13th-century Spanish corbel with a female head exists entirely in its own time zone; the blunt mouth, hutlike nose, incised eyes and triplicate uni-brow would have made Picasso proud.

These hutlike structures are built to remind us of how exposed we are in this world and to commemorate the Israelites' complete dependence upon God during the 40 years they wandered in the desert.

A tree-lined path may at times suggest perspective; a gate may insert scale; an unusual fountain may generate ambiguous interpretations, and a hutlike enclosure sometimes seems as commanding as a temple or shrine.

Here lay the small, shallow harbor, and here the wide wharves: A landing ran thus, up the slight slope with hutlike warehouses on each side, and here it stopped at a wide, shallow moat.

Using photographs sent by Mr. Pearl's kidnappers to news organizations while he was still alive, police officials said, they believe they have identified a hutlike room at the nursery as the place where Mr. Pearl was held.

There isn't even an airport, so forget about hordes of charter-plane tourists and raucous all-nighters - here the nightlife consists of starlit drinks at the hutlike beachfront bars known as chiringuitos, followed by a clothing-optional splash in the sea.

That adds a certain gritty realism to the proceedings that seems in keeping with the pallets' original workaday function and their often hutlike structures, but it doesn't entirely eliminate the suspicion that while Ms. Mirra has a very engaging sensibility, she could aim much higher.

A modern synthesis of flattened, schematic forms plus spiritualism and content from several cultures come together in Wifredo Lam's paintings and a powerful, hutlike construction by Raphael Ferrer, who was raised in New York, combines Puerto Rican folklore with the graffiti markings of urban streetlife.

In Emil Preetorius's set designs for the 1944 production, retained in 1952, the neo-Classical pomp of Act I gives way to a modest hutlike setting for Act III, a downward trajectory that recalls those of "Der Rosenkavalier" and "Die Frau Ohne Schatten."