| 单词 | curvilinear |
| 例句 | The complex curvilinear structure of the novel poses major problems for its adapters. Review: Bolaño’s Mysterious ‘2666,’ Distilled to 5½ Hours by the Goodman Theater 2016-02-16T05:00:00Z Her arms seemed fluid, elbowless entities, shoulder to wrist, evoking curvilinear waves of sound, and she did not use a baton. Barbara Hannigan Sings and Conducts at the Lucerne Festival 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z Over the course of the first gallery lace frees itself from geometric patterns echoing the grid of textiles, and embraces more robust, less predictable, curvilinear patterns inspired by floral and plant forms. Lace, That Most Coveted Textile 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z He’s also a creature of habit and started as he usually does, with “Prelude: Discipline Is Freedom,” an early-’80s rundown of his curvilinear technique. Review: Garth Fagan Dance Honors Geoffrey Holder With Festivity, Not Sorrow 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z By design, it doesn’t tower over its neighboring vinyl-sided houses but, with its curvilinear roof, it does seem to want to envelop them. Secret No More: Louis Armstrong Center Amplifies Satchmo’s Vision 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The three sculptures of the new “Altar” series—the largest measuring 40 by 40 feet—consist of curvilinear steel elements, buffed and shining, resting atop stepped pedestals of rust-brown steel. Land Artist Michael Heizer Takes the Spotlight at New York’s Gagosian Gallery 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z And the curvilinear stone and glass addition — designed by the architect Jeanne Gang — is nearing completion. President of Museum of Natural History to Step Down After Nearly 30 Years 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z “So the curvilinear lines, the color palette — it all fits.” A Choreographer Unafraid of Masterpieces Takes on T.S. Eliot 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z The first U.K. project for the Copenhagen- and New York–based firm, the curvilinear public square will feature bridges and stairways that undulate within a two-level urban area inspired by Malaysia’s landscape. A first look at BIG’s design for Malaysia Square, a public space within London’s Battersea Power Station 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z Other inspirations were the mid-century designs of Charles and Ray Eames, evident in curvilinear patterns and natural colors and textures. On the Runway Blog: Stranded in Milan 2013-06-22T21:54:03Z Art nouveau was the curvilinear, nature-inspired style that dominated everything from jewellery to architecture at the start of the 20th century. 10 of the best European cities for art nouveau 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z And yet, turn away from that gorgeous library to face the downtown crux of Riverside's signature curvilinear streets, and it's likely to be empty, eerily so. Neighborhood watch: Riverside at the ready 2011-02-03T23:41:12Z His Buddha-like belly bulged from a blue bespoke jacket; his trademark swoop of silver hair, which by now seems to function as an alternate logo for Vanity Fair, looked like a curvilinear roof by Saarinen. Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario 2014-02-28T22:40:19Z His curvilinear white concrete roof mirrors the voluptuous clouds hanging over the distant Atlantic horizon. 2010-02-01T05:00:00Z Trained as a painter, Ruffner infuses her work with a curvilinear, painterly, unabashed beauty. Ginny Ruffner's art blooms at Bellevue Arts Museum and on film 2010-10-20T23:19:00Z He was silky and cool, infusing the strict geometries of “Temperaments” with a sinuous counternarrative: even his right angles seemed curvilinear. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Albert Evans Gives Farewell Performance 2010-06-21T22:33:00Z His paintings evolved from figurative to curvilinear abstract forms, and his work is often compared to that of Joan Miro and Jean Arp. This Brazilian artist and landscape architect was bound only by the limits of his imagination 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z But until recently it was one of the very few curvilinear buildings in the city. The East River Waterfront Dazzles. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z But it’s unified by its subversive humor and its inventive spins on traditional formline art, the distinctive ovoid/curvilinear style in which creatures of myth and legend are depicted in indigenous Northwest Coast art. Alison Marks’ show at Frye Art Museum shows satirical sensibility 2017-11-21T05:00:00Z Most of these artifacts bear witness to an abiding devotion to curvilinear, sinuous, abstract designs and an absence of the literal representation of humans and animals. Cultures of the Celts, Revisited 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z The curvilinear terminal will be accessible on Oct. T.W.A. Flight Center at Kennedy Airport to Briefly Open to Public 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z Made of curvilinear white concrete with a façade of rough-cut Agra stone, the structure will extend into the garden and feature sculptural slashes in the walls that let in light. Architect Steven Holl to design a stylish new wing for the Mumbai City Museum 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z His early works often mimicked animal and plant forms, and were entirely curvilinear. Cambodian artist evokes tumult of his homeland 2011-11-17T20:35:05Z Holl brilliantly created a curvilinear wall that allows natural light from the exterior to illuminate the galleries inside during the day, while also providing a dynamic wall of light from within at night. The Architect’s Eye: The Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki 2014-02-14T05:00:00Z But the choreography, though handsome, is less distinctive, with curvilinear phrases offset by picture-ready poses and partnering that, too often, presents woman as leggy hood ornament, hefted about by man. Dance Review: Stefanie Batten Bland’s ‘Place of Sun’ at Baryshnikov 2012-05-21T21:47:42Z Yet, at the same time, they followed the curvilinear shape of a female body and occasionally were lightened with sparkle fabrics. Special Report: Ferr?: Clean and Clear 2010-02-26T19:01:00Z The lasers sketched curvilinear phantoms, diagonal grids or a crystalline cage; in one song tiny red lights flickered like fireflies. Music Review: Antony and the Johnsons at Radio City Music Hall 2012-01-28T01:02:07Z This show also includes an uncharacteristic piece, “Dripstone,” that contrasts Mann’s usual palette with bright yellow and her curvilinear forms with hard-edged vertical and horizontal bars. In the galleries: The Old Masters, with a photographic twist, at Cross MacKenzie The first model – which asked for dripping hands to be inserted into its frowny mouth – had a curvilinear form and brushed silver body. Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z The new $1 billion arena rises at the intersection of Flatbush and Atlantic Avenues like a modern sculpture, evoking a crashed alien spacecraft with its rusted-steel-and-glass facade and swooping, curvilinear lines. Barclays Arena Rivals the Garden’s Glow 2012-09-27T16:12:33Z Her recent spring 2014 collection used elaborate workmanship to created curvilinear designs that seemed more like body architecture than clothing. T Magazine: Fashion’s Purest Visionary 2013-12-06T20:36:25Z “There’s really been no study to date that put everything together and examined this curvilinear relationship.” Why having too much free time can be as bad for you as having too little 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Area closings | | The blizzard in 60 seconds Engraved with curvilinear streets and freckled with Frank Lloyd Wright-designed homes, Riverside sits prettier than any suburb in northeastern Illinois. Neighborhood watch: Riverside at the ready 2011-02-03T23:41:12Z While most of the day clothes were fairly solid — two-tone coats and suits in cashmere with curvilinear lines, boxy metallic tweed blazers — the ruffled evening looks didn’t seem new and indeed looked a bit tortured. 2010-02-15T05:50:00Z Plans call for curvilinear rows of fixed seats facing the stage. As the Frick Expands, New York City Music Suffers 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z At the heart of the complex is a curvilinear, copper-clad library—as much a piece of sculpture as architecture, the textured surface evocative of the woven-silver jewelry the wife designs. Light Footprint 2010-08-01T04:00:00Z The curvilinear works in the Menil show are a hinge point of sorts. A Painter Who Puts It All on the Line 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z But — unlike, say, the pink marble of its neighbor the National Gallery of Art, or the weathered-looking, curvilinear limestone of the National Museum of the American Indian — the Blacksonian is brown. Visiting the African-American Museum: Waiting, Reading, Thinking, Connecting, Feeling 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z But always slinky, a curvilinear thing that snakes in and around the group’s rhythms, which are multiple and varied. Music Review: Energy Abounds, Released by a Flurry of Beats 2011-05-06T22:31:29Z The curvilinear pattern is reminiscent of the ribbed shape of a scallop or cockle shell — the emblem of Santiago, which may very well be coincidental. The mystery of an artist only deepens: The remarkable drawings of Martín Ramírez at DTLA's new museum 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z The works depict mysterious organic forms: curvilinear orbs connected by a slim tendon, networks of cavities that resemble the chambers of the heart, or battered, chunky masses that rise like miniature cliffs. With just with carved wood or terra cotta, one artist makes the miniature feel monumental 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z Call it corporate-askance: smooth reflective surfaces that project instructability and power, but with curvilinear façades and insistently interesting textures that keep a hand in the arts. When the abstract ideals of hard buildings meet the actual needs of soft bodies 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z Brows furrowed, he drags the mouse across the bright screen to layer a curvilinear drawing of a blossom atop another and hits a button. Venice artist William Tunberg is determined to keep the striking art of marquetry alive 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The skinny: The southernmost stadium is another that honors Qatar’s culture and history, Al Janoub’s curvilinear postmodern and neo-futurist design invokes the sails of the traditional dhow boats used by pearl divers. A guide to the eight stadiums hosting games at the 2022 World Cup 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Attempting to define this unique, curvilinear object is a tautological exercise. We need curves to take the edge off. In praise of the circular sofa 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The X and Y variables have a strong positive relationship, but it is curvilinear rather than linear. Introductory Statistics 2013-09-19T00:00:00Z The primary suite — one of two bedrooms in the main house and five bedrooms total — boasts concrete walls and a curvilinear bathroom with a tile tub. Flea wants $9.8 million for La Crescenta stunner 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z Its curvilinear form unfurls like a wood shaving. Office sheds give new meaning to ‘working in the garden’ 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z Its design was inspired by the curvilinear forms of existing local landmarks including the Griffith Observatory, Capitol Records building, Hollywood Bowl and Cinerama Dome, he said. 'Like a sunset' — developers propose a Hollywood office tower with a bold sculptural design 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z “As predicted,” the study found, “participants were more likely to judge spaces as beautiful if they were curvilinear.” We need curves to take the edge off. In praise of the circular sofa 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z On the curvilinear face of the bottle, like that of a hip flask, was a glass oculus through which a rich, amber-colored liquid was visible. The Fragrances That Changed the Field 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z The Owl Bureau, a visually stimulating, curvilinear design feast at 5634 N. Flamingo Estate’s luxe garden offerings come to a Culver City pop-up 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Set on a bluff with unobstructed ocean views, this home evokes the tide below with its curvilinear form. Home of the Week: La Jolla mansion has plenty of curve appeal 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z Brasília, built in the late nineteen-fifties, is a city of immense spaces, with sweeping lawns and public buildings in curvilinear shapes—a “Jetsons”-era vision of optimism for the future. Jair Bolsonaro’s Southern Strategy 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Second, the voluptuous softness of the women’s curvilinear shapes is paradoxically arranged into a rectilinear composition, with each woman’s head located at the corner of a visual box. Review: Pontormos ‘Visitation,’ a Renaissance masterpiece of extreme imagination, visits the Getty 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z This spectacular natural display is a reminder that the building — whose curvilinear limestone form suggests a boulder carved by wind and water — is a work of art in itself. The must-sees on the National Mall 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Neither are they depictions of nature, according to Rower, even though their curvilinear elements may resemble leaves and their spiky points mountaintops. Calder's black steel meets the white cube at a new exhibition at Hauser & Wirth - Los Angeles Times The dominant shapes in the composition are oval and curvilinear, which keep your eye traveling around the length and breadth of the pictorial landscape. Review: Helen Molesworth's final show at MOCA is the anti-celebrity show we need right now - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Nearly 3 feet tall, it features a hefty central iron post spouting three big, thin blades whose curvilinear flourishes might best be described as calligraphic. Review: 'Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths' shows the delicate artistry of clever metalworkers 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The curvilinear stair is sculptural, as well as practical. Alexandria house exemplified modern simplicity 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z The curvilinear walls contain offices and mixed-income housing—Rotterdam, indeed the Netherlands in general, staunchly supports mixed-use architecture—while the atrium created inside functions as the market hall for which the building is named. Why You’ll Want to Visit Rotterdam in 2018 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z It’s understated, like the daybed’s frame, with a curvilinear back that nods to the chandelier’s tendrils. Decor Challenge: Can a Clashing Daybed and Chandelier Get Along? 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z It seems the developers were aesthetes allured by the poetic platting and curvilinear inclinations of the City Beautiful Movement. The Queen Anne Park Addition was ahead of the curve 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z But in back, the single slope roof is dissected by a curvilinear roof designed by San Diego architect Lloyd Russell. It's hard to believe this gorgeous home was once a drug den for squatters 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z The first part of the neighborhood platted as Lyon Village had tree-lined streets, traffic circles and an “intricate system of curvilinear roads that complemented the less-than-one-acre housing lots,” it said. In Arlington, Lyon Village lives up to the second part of its name 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z Reinforcing the curvilinear theme, the power-reserve indicator at 12 o’clock is a semicircle; and both the rose-gold numerals and the date aperture at 6 o’clock are curved. The Best Watches of 2016 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z The impact of this strategy is visible on campus, where pristine brick Greek Revival buildings seem like toy models slipped from boxes and set on green plots amid curvilinear streets of fresh black asphalt. How the University of Alabama Became a National Player 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Others see the curvilinear form as a welcome relief from straight-lined minimalism. Spiral Staircases: High Style or High Anxiety? 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z Swirling concrete pathways inlaid with curvilinear metal that riff off a famed Danish park. Bloated police station with everything pleases no one 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z The built environment is not a backdrop, rather it is integral and distinctive in its recurring imagery – from abandoned runways, to curvilinear flyovers and those endlessly mysterious drained swimming pools. Why JG Ballard’s High-Rise takes dystopian science fiction to a new level 2015-10-03T04:00:00Z It may also signal success criteria including weight, ease of viewing in bright sunlight, and bending a screen to fit a curvilinear surface. Sizing New Markets -- Five Solutions and Four Traps for Flexible Displays 2013-11-27T12:21:00Z What business needs now is to journey, to embark on a curvilinear path that eschews quarterly reports and gives room to explore new initiatives. Throw Out Your Plans for 2013. Business is a Journey. 2012-10-16T15:37:28Z His love for the indirect and curvilinear method of approaching a subject may have had some influence in making him unable to decide the question even for himself. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z The same difficulty occurs in a round file, and the surfaces of curvilinear files do not therefore present, under ordinary circumstances, the same uniformity as those of flat files. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z To secure the greatest possible influx of light, some horticulturists recommend curvilinear roofs; but the superiority of these is largely due to the absence of rafters, which may also be dispensed with in plain roofs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z CURVILINEAR, in architecture, that which is formed by curved or flowing lines; the roofs over the domes and vaults of the Byzantine churches were generally curvilinear. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z It is possible to add to the work in pure geometry some work in the mensuration of the curvilinear figures shown in these designs. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Horizontal, dotted white bands control the flow of light, while the curvilinear — almost billowing — facade prevents a mirror effect. Making New York?s Glass Buildings Safer for Birds 2011-09-15T01:20:04Z But the most distinguishing feature of "Bacon's Castle" is the Jacobean "curvilinear" gable at each end. Virginia Architecture in the Seventeenth Century 2011-09-03T02:00:17.897Z The form of the kitchen and fruit garden should be square or oblong, rather than curvilinear, since the working and cropping of the ground can thus be more easily carried out. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Gem-engraving and jewelry follow similar lines; pottery-painting for the most part remains geometrical throughout, with crude survivals of Mycenaean curvilinear forms. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z Who can decide between rectilinear and curvilinear geometry?—between the theory of straight lines and the theory of curved lines? The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Motion, 14, 32, 36. accelerated, 36. axis of, 48. centre of, 48, 55. compound, 46. curvilinear, 47, 49. diurnal, 78. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z The rest of Rye -- sprawling lawns, tree-lined curvilinear roads, and white people -- is across the vast expanse of two highways. Segregation in the land of limousine liberalism 2011-07-01T17:01:00Z A variety is pearl spar, which has crystals with curvilinear faces and a pearly lustre. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde 2011-04-14T02:00:57.977Z The rifflers of sculptors and a few other files are curvilinear in their central line. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z What is the source of this additional pleasure which we receive, when light proceeds either by radiation or reflection from regular curvilinear objects? Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z It affords an example, on a magnificent scale, of the curvilinear motion, which you taught us in mechanics. Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained 2011-07-12T02:00:28.027Z A motley crowd of men and boys and dogs formed, at a respectable distance, a curvilinear front, with the surprised object of attack quietly standing in the focus. Memorials of the Sea My Father: Being Records of the Adventurous Life of the Late William Scoresby, Esq. of Whitby 2011-02-07T03:00:26.033Z Researchers from and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are the first to develop a curvilinear camera, much like the human eye, with the significant feature of a zoom capability, unlike the human eye. Better Than the Human Eye 2011-01-19T15:46:00Z "Yes! yes!" came the chorus from the curvilinear gentlemen at the other end of the table. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z The greater part of those bodies, on the contrary, which possess weakness, fragility, or delicacy, are distinguished by winding or curvilinear forms. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z At Gallaudet University he contemplated silence as it is manifested in so-called Deaf Architecture: an emphasis on natural light, the permeability between inside and outside spaces, “free-flowing curvilinear movement.” Books on Science: Embracing Silence in a Noisy World 2010-04-19T23:19:00Z M. Enlart has recently accepted the view that the germs of flamboyancy in the later French Gothic are to be found in the flowing curvilinear forms of early 14th-century work in England. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" He devoted himself entirely to science, and enriched mathematics with discoveries of the highest importance, upon which the moderns have founded their admeasurements of curvilinear surfaces and solids. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli They are quite unlike the oblong, curvilinear, comparatively symmetrical scats of the White-tailed Deer and the Moose. The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin If we compute, for all these different varieties of elements, the place of the planet for 1847, its locus will evidently be a discontinuous curve or curvilinear polygon. Astronomical Discovery The International Exhibition of Paris 1900 brought together examples from various continental countries, in some of which a preference for curvilinear outline was displayed, but the best examples followed very closely the well-known English styles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" The forms are, to a great extent, curvilinear, and embrace meanders, scrolls, circles, and combinations and groupings of curved lines in great variety. Ancient Pottery of the Mississippi Valley Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 361-436 The way was crooked, as all Williamsburgh ways are, but after an irregular, curvilinear journey of half an hour, the anxious inquirer stood in front of the looked-for mansion. The Witches of New York The outlines of all geometrical plane figures both rectilinear and curvilinear may be illustrated with the point as well as straight and curved lines and angles of every degree. Froebel's Gifts The fact is, that any two parallel straight lines appear to converge at one or both ends, and one or both lines assume a curvilinear shape. Notes and Queries, Number 234, April 22, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. These doctrines of inertia, and of the composite character of curvilinear motion, were scarcely apprehended even by Kepler or Galileo; but they follow naturally from the geometrical analysis of Descartes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The minor contours, out of which the larger outlines are composed, are indeed beautifully curvilinear; but they are never monotonous in their curves. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The models are of two kinds:—rectilinear and curvilinear. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science A small but intensely capable nursemaid, prone on the grass in a curvilinear attitude, was acting as tunnel to a young gentleman of three who was impersonating a locomotive. Scally The Story of a Perfect Gentleman It was from the first confidently believed that the force retaining double stars in curvilinear paths was identical with that governing the planetary revolutions. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition The origin of the forms employed in stone buildings is most clearly shewn by the frequent occurrence of the volute, a curvilinear element suggested by the use and peculiar properties of metal. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 In the examination of the various tails, he observed that the curvilinear shapes of the outlines fall into one or other of three special types. The Story of the Heavens The curvilinear line is the basis of variety and graceful movement. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures P. 41, ANEMONE, 'Sea-anemone' amended to Animal Flowers; ANGLE, invalid links: 'curvilinear' and 'rectilinear'. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A wing added in the seventeenth century, with quaint curvilinear gable, projects into the garden behind. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric Its general section is that of a cyma reversa surmounted by a flattened torus, and its appearance that of a vase decorated with curvilinear and geometrical tracery. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 It is covered with a low, continuous, curvilinear roof, and is without side lights. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings We are able to trace this curvilinear feeling through at least one-third of the great figure compositions of the Renaissance. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures The deposit in all curvilinear or serpentine rivers will always be found at the point opposite to the curve into which the ebb strikes and rebounds, deepening the hollow and depositing on the tongue. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. There are the degrees of direction of line, curvilinear or angular. Line and Form (1900) He was a placid gentleman of curvilinear type, short of limb and large of girth. Mr. Opp Some of our numerous designs for graperies, both of the curvilinear and straight roofed form, would, with slight alteration in adding to the means of ventilation, be well adapted to this purpose. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings They lie indeed along a hyberbolic line which, towards the south-west, agrees closely with the curvilinear axis of the hyperbolic band represented by the broken line in Fig. A Study of Recent Earthquakes Faraday held — and his views are gaining ground — that his experiments proved the fact of curvilinear propagation, and hence the operation of a medium. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In a rose, for instance, it would be possible to dwell on its angular side for the square, and on its curvilinear side for the circle. Line and Form (1900) Water being gradually added, the roots are well squeezed and twisted by various "curvilinear turns" of the hands and arms through the "fow," i.e. shavings of fibrous bark. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry The curvilinear roof gives beauty to the design as well as affording more head room inside than the ordinary straight rafter. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings Now it is to the curvilinear motions of the heavenly bodies that we must ascribe our subjection to the periodic law. Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge If I find it firmly attached to the apex of the tumor, I then enclose it in a curvilinear incision and proceed to detach the healthy skin to beyond the verge of the tumor. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Sinus: a curvilinear indentation more or less profound: an excavation as if scooped out: a curved break in an otherwise straight margin. Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology Speaking generally, the geometrical works are directed to the measurement of curvilinear areas and volumes; and Archimedes employs a method which is a development of Eudoxus’s method of exhaustion. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield In each bay of the Triforium there are three arches with curvilinear tracery. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See For the attraction of gravitation is always in right lines; but there is no rectilinear motion in the heavens; all celestial motions are curvilinear. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity The great west window, and the upper stages are of florid curvilinear Gothic. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The grand outline must be designed on exactly the same principles; for the curvilinear proportions, which were opposition before, will now be assimilation. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character In some cases the ring consists of isolated dark sections, with here and there a bright mass of rock interposed; in others, of low curvilinear ridges, forming a more or less complete circumvallation. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features The curvilinear rampart did not present projecting angles, the salients of which, Vitruvius tells us, could not resist the repeated blows of the siege machineryPg 96 of those days. The Wonders of Pompeii I hated the silkiness of his chestnut beard; I hated the sheen of his pink cranium; I hated his soft rotundity and his little curvilinear features; I hated, above all, his poisonous speeches. Tell England A Study in a Generation The presbytery, though Perpendicular in its main features, shows many traces of the transition from the curvilinear Decorated to the Perpendicular style, especially in the tracery of the great east window and the clerestory windows. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See So, the character of Italian landscape is curvilinear; therefore, the outline of the buildings entering into its composition must be arranged on curvilinear principles, as investigated in § 144. The Poetry of Architecture Or, the Architecture of the Nations of Europe Considered in its Association with Natural Scenery and National Character The Vicar's wife regarded her as too large and flaring and curvilinear for reputable good looks. Septimus In the next place, you may by a little observation pick out the eighteenth-century stones by their shape, which is as a rule much more ornamented and curvilinear than those of later date. In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious We next pass the circular Confectionary room, and reach the curvilinear glazed building of 300 feet in diameter. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832 The middle windows to the north and south are of very curious half geometrical, half curvilinear tracery. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The curvilinear eccentric quarter-circle expresses secrecy, silence, possession, domination, stability, imposition, inclusion. Delsarte System of Oratory Well do I remember how his nose, which he could not, if his worthless life had depended upon it, render retroussé, grew sublimely curvilinear in its contempt, as his hawk-eyes estimated my pitiful family. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 The projectile was following its curvilinear direction round the moon. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon Then the colossal phantom begins to turn, as on a pivot of air,—always preserving its curvilinear symmetry, but moving its unseen ends beyond and below the sky-circle. Chita: a Memory of Last Island The Interior of the West End of the Nave contains the famous window with tracery of the curvilinear or flowing Decorated style, and of a design only surpassed by the east window of Carlisle Cathedral. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See The reëntering external curvilinear quadrant of a circle, 7, expresses graceful, delicate things. Delsarte System of Oratory Out of simple curvilinear forms, of which he principally preferred the oval, he evolved combinations of extraordinary grace and variety, and these entered into every detail of his work. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 Beginning with the fundamental division of figures into curvilinear and rectilinear, this dictum decides, that, in general, a curved outline is more beautiful than a right-lined figure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 He saw that beauty is not a matter of opinion, a decision of love's, but a happening to be regular or curvilinear or warm of color or hospitable in expression. We Can't Have Everything Then they described a kind of curvilinear path upon the side of the fell, and both these first and last appearances were bounded by the top of the mountain. The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 Thus, it is easier by far to determine the proportion which exists between the sides of a triangle formed by the lines connecting the three principal points in any figure than any curvilinear connections whatever. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 The highest blooded and best trained hound, with his game in view, could not have run with an eye more riveted than that with which the Doctor had pursued his curvilinear course. The Prairie For a straight-lined figure necessarily requires at least half as many laws as it has sides, while a curvilinear outline requires, in general, but a single law. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The same experience has taught us that the curvilinear forms are closer to life than the angular; hence again the tendency, for aesthetic purposes, to introduce minute departures from the plumb-line and rule. The Principles of Aesthetics For, as we have pointed out earlier, observation tells us that all original movement - and what can be more original than the movements of the planetary bodies - is curvilinear. Man or Matter The course followed was curvilinear or straight, or slightly or strongly zigzag, and little loops or triangles were often formed. The Power of Movement in Plants Out of "Brandt" I defy you to get any curvilinear suggestion. Simon the Jester Another irregular, curvilinear bed of brown, compact lignite, is remarkable for being included in a mass of coarse gravel. Geological Observations on South America She was a blonde, a brunette, tall, petite, svelte, straight-featured, full, curvilinear. The Well-Beloved All masses are originally in a state of curvilinear movement whose rates change continuously. Man or Matter It might have been tall or short, curvilinear or angular. A Laodicean : a Story of To-day They are inclined at every possible angle with the horizon, or are horizontal; they are generally curvilinear, and often interbranch one with another. Volcanic Islands The cliffs in Sebastian Bay are 200 feet in height, and are composed of fine sandstones, often in curvilinear layers, including hard concretions of calcareous sandstone, and layers of gravel. Geological Observations on South America No doubt all the lines would have been curvilinear if the course had been observed at much shorter intervals. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants These experiments led to the study of the curvilinear motions of a weight suspended by a cord; in other words, of the pendulum. A History of Science — Volume 2 Who shall decide between rectalinear and curvilinear geometry? between the theory of the straight line and that of the curve? Seraphita Alhazen made the great discovery of the curvilinear path of a ray of light through the atmosphere, and proved that we see the sun and moon before they have risen, and after they have set. History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science The beds are curvilinear, owing to the action of currents, and dip in different directions; they include an extraordinary number of bones of gigantic mammifers and many shells. Geological Observations on South America |
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