| 单词 | flatness |
| 例句 | It was going through the flatness of nowhere, to no place. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It was in the right corners of his high cheeks and the smooth flatness of his lips. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The flatness was all gone out of her voice. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z These were the total features of his world— the sea sound and the three small lights: darkness, flatness, vastness, wetness: and, in the gulf of night, the gulf-stream of the wind. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Rafik and Nadine were collecting the popped bodies of balloons from the ground and handing them to Sitti, who stretched out the elastic skins and let them spring back to flatness. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Again Roy was astounded by the immense flatness of the terrain, the lush horizons, and the exotic abundance of life. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I want objects that breathe out light; a luminous flatness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The eyes are hidden by the flatness of the image. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The flatness of the stub under her feet reminded her of her home perch. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z But he is black-haired and gold-skinned and though his eyes are the same pale gray as the Commandant’s, there is no trace there of the gimlet flatness that defines most Masks. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z From the flatness of her tone alone, I know it’s a phrase she uses on Rosa all the time. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the stalled boat there were other boats, and a few water-skiers, and the smooth July waters, and an immense flatness everywhere. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A wide plain spread out beneath them, bare and brown, its flatness here and there relieved by long, low hummocks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Early American writers, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne, complained bitterly about the bleakness and flatness of the American scene. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z His hand hovered and selected a shining elliptical can whose flatness seemed reminiscent of salmon or similar delicacy. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Kaede found the stone floor as comfortable as a feather bed after days of sleeping on lumpy ground, and she fell asleep so quickly she barely had time to enjoy the flatness beneath her back. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Olanna knew the tranquil flatness of the yard would change soon, when the children came back from school. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z All about me was flatness and infinity, an endless panorama of blue. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z That’s where the Augurs have left me, in this salt-white flatness that stretches for hundreds of miles, marked by nothing but angry black cracks and the occasional gnarled Jack tree. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He was equipped with an excellent diaphragm, and the presence of overtones in the sound unit robbed him of much of that metallic flatness that marks the usual robot voice. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Maniac felt a hard flatness against his back. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z European-style roads, constructed with horses and cars in mind, view flatness as a virtue; to go up a steep hill, they use switchbacks to make the route as horizontal as possible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The place in which he found himself was absolutely flat In the human world we seldom see flatness, for the trees and houses and hedges give a serrated edge to the landscape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Running to the top of a low hill, she scanned the flatness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the advantages of all that surrounding flatness is that you can see danger from a long way off. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The words fell with a hollow flatness on to Jay Cee's desk, like so many wooden nickels. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It presents the visual and philosophical richness of a style long at odds with so many first principles of New York painting in decades past: flatness, simplicity and straightforward process. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z I starting applying layers of pure powdered black pigment on unstretched, unprimed canvas on the ground to engage with the dialogues around “flatness” then exemplified by the soak-staining methods of the Color Field painters. A Painter and Social Activist With an ‘Unruly Nature’ 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z The spare flatness of the images, the tamped-down performances, and the restricted scope of the incidents contribute to the sense of didactic clarity and earnest purpose. The Historical Imagination and “Free State of Jones” 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z And they, along with Miyake and other designers, were intrigued by the principal of flatness. SAM’s ‘Future Beauty’ presents Japanese couture as art 2013-06-19T23:09:32Z With “The Western Book Of The Dead” and “Night Finds You,” there were moments of flatness that I attributed to setting up or settling in. “True Detective” recap: A redemption, a murder, a rescue and a descent back into the underworld 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z There is crazy greatness in “Young Mungo,” along with corny lapses and moments with the expository flatness of a TV voice-over. ‘Young Mungo’ Explores Love and Violence in Emotional Technicolor 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z When flatness returned it again fractured into the elaborate rectangular archipelagoes — or clusters — of small shaped canvasses. Elizabeth Murray: A Singular Style, Steeped in Many 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z But it’s a flatness more expansive than any notion you may have walked in with, one that makes the world seem much larger than you realized. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z The flatness of Mary and Michael, in turn, makes Joel—whose disapproval of his parents, and, especially, of their long-soured relationship, is his defining trait—oddly central to the movie’s tone. “The Lovers” and the Limitations of the Modern Rom-Com 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z In the era of 3-D printing, flatness and volume are closer than ever on a continuum. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Standard bearers of gender fluidity, they conceive their work as a vibrant and often risqué corrective to the flatness pervading New York runways of late. Beyond ‘Queer’ Fashion 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z In these works, the flatness of painting is in tension with the in-the-roundness of moving bodies. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z There is a flatness that feels apparent in every shot — and not just because the movie is filmed in bright, low contrast lighting. ‘Me Time’ Review: In Search of Lost Dad Jokes 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z The flatness of the screen, compared to the three-dimensional performance, I couldn’t face it. When Europe’s Theaters Reopen, Will Fans Return? 2021-03-05T05:00:00Z By “radical flatness” the firm means a square with all those walls removed — a square that is directly open to the streets and sidewalks on all sides. Women's March Los Angeles demonstrates city planning's need for 'radical flatness' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z But there has long been a flatness to the identities of the kids doing the rescuing. 2 Literary Novels Find the Poetry in Animal Rescue 2022-06-03T04:00:00Z It’s a completely different approach to space than the heightened flatness of those colorful pictures of naked women sitting in chairs with thick black outlines. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z I was not among them; the smallness and flatness of the image visually represents claustrophobia with a terrifying, unprecedented fidelity that traps the viewer along with Foy in the mental hospital of her nightmares. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z But it’s primarily the piece’s whiteness, in combination with its flatness, that gives it the illusionistic malleability of a painting without relinquishing the solid presence of sculpture. For David Smith, Sculptor and Painter, a Happy Equilibrium in White 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z There is some flatness to the production, though. Review: ‘The Tempest’ Starkly Amplifies Prospero’s Evolution 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Without question the deadening flatness of fashion seen online can feel like a bummer when you compare it with the experience of the shows in their hectic, wackadoodle glory. Diversity: A Movement, Not a Moment 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z That’s why the movie’s flatness, its superficial approach to its material, is all the more disappointing. Brad Pitt’s “War Machine” Stays on the Surface of American Politics 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The characterizations may not have sufficient time for psychological complexity, but they have a vivid flatness that hints at greater depths. At South Coast Rep, a stunning, gravity-defying stab at 'Moby Dick' 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z He is delighted by paradoxes of flatness and depth, for example, the way the flat surface of a television showing an old-fashioned two-dimensional movie changes the volume of a room. ‘Goodbye to Language,’ the Latest From Jean-Luc Godard 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z The tune was simple and a bit meandering, but its flatness served a purpose, throwing the rest of the set into relief. Music Review: Pee Wee Ellis All Star Band Plays at Iridium 2010-04-23T22:43:00Z And this flatness extends throughout most of the performance. Review: Gibney Dances Ohad Naharin, Minus the Inner Drive 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Murnane’s sentences are little dialectics of boredom and beauty, flatness and depth. A Strange Australian Masterpiece About Our Relationship to the Land 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z The image’s flatness complements “My Grandmother Might not Approve,” a construction whose fabric, paper and other ingredients are literally layered. In the galleries: Works in progress 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z He is trying to compress the woman, squeeze her into the flatness of the picture plane, while on the walls around them hang late modernist abstractions that Greenberg once heralded as the future of art. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z Plastic strands and other objects also protrude from some of the pictures, which resist flatness. In the galleries: simplicity, spontaneity and the beauty of imperfection 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z It was supposed to teach us to leave behind the deep space of old master pictures and love modern art’s flatness instead. The Secrets Lurking Inside Matisse’s ‘Red Studio’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z As “Trio A” links a series of apparently unrelated physical tasks into one chain, it seems to deny what’s usually recognized as phrasing, with everything delivered in the same cool matter-of-fact flatness. Review: The Humanity of Yvonne Rainer’s Natural and Peculiar Dances 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z She says she's "attracted to the tension" of working with materials that are challenging, and that flatness seems like the least obvious place to start. Why we're watching: Alice Channer 2012-06-16T23:05:26Z But Mr. Bradshaw’s flatness is also free of judgment, which does not give characters or the audience any easy way out. Review: Fixing a Dispassionate Stare on Slavery in ‘Southern Promises’ 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Sure, you can hike to the top and see the great expanse of ... flatness covered by trees. 'You can't see the Empire State Building from the top': readers on overrated tourist sights 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z He kept the formality of the fabrics by adding knife-sharp creases and pressing the shapes to a papery flatness. Fashion Review: Young Designers Lead the Way at London Fashion Shows - Fashion Review 2011-09-21T17:58:26Z That unity suggests the influence of fabric design, as does the flatness of Engida’s style. Review | In the galleries: Exhibit upends male-centric myths, legends and folklore 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z A notable exception is William Tinto’s “Chair,” an essay in pink and blue stripes that uses shadow and perspective to simulate depth while acknowledging the image’s inherent flatness. In the galleries: The free-for-all that is Artomatic 2015-11-25T05:00:00Z Modernism is clearly on Mr. Galván’s mind, and in the Nijinsky flatness of his hands. Dance Review: ‘La Curva,’ Israel Galván’s Absurdist Yet Serious Act 2014-03-14T21:30:09Z The stilted affect that so often characterizes Ishiguro’s prose and dialogue — an incantatory flatness that belies its revelatory ability — serves its literal function. A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The flatness of these satellite characters would be easier to tolerate if they didn’t loom so large throughout the plot without much deepening our understanding of Saba or her worldview. In This Novel of Exile, Sulaiman Addonia Writes From Experience 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The pleasingly bright flatness of Mr. Katz’s designs offers no resistance to the bland people cavorting with a sailboat in blithe disregard of any tonal changes in the music, selections from Poulenc’s “Les Biches.” Review: Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance Offers New and Old 2015-03-22T04:00:00Z For all the CGI grandiosity, there is a flatness to the mood. Prometheus has landed … to mixed atmospheric readings 2012-06-01T13:59:40Z They deliver their lines in an emotionless, crystal-clear manner that verges on the unrehearsed; not entirely affectless, but rather with the slightly enunciated flatness of an audio tutorial. Review: In ‘Field of Mars,’ a March Toward Oblivion 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z Considering the flatness of time spent in quarantine and the sadness and isolation of the last year and a half, perhaps it’s not surprising that seasonal devotion has seeped into the lexicon. October Isn’t Just a Month Anymore. It’s a Whole Szn. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z Whilst he has some reservations both about the villagers' extraordinary phlegm and the flatness of the characterisation, Savage is still convinced by the "insidious nature of the alien invasion" which remains "startling and strange". Reader reviews roundup 2012-06-29T14:44:12Z Jane is a bit of a blank slate as a protagonist, and her flatness feels jarring when she encounters other characters with more depth. ‘The Seven Faces of Jane’ Review: One Movie, Eight Directors 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z It also doesn’t help that the vivid imagery of the book’s video-game scenes, which helped compensate for the flatness of the narrative and the characterizations, isn’t done justice in the show’s prosaic 3-D animation. ‘Three-Body’ Review: A Chinese Series Beats Netflix to the Screen 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z Where, in the flatness of contemporary society — which in this novel, as in so much of his work, Murakami evokes with a masterful understatement — do we find some point of intersection, some lasting depth? Haruki Murakami's 'Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki' paints haunting picture 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z There's a perhaps purposeful flatness to the overall tone; it's like cinematic Musak. 'Space Station 76' roams pointlessly 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z But the flatness is also quintessentially American; he considers roads, he said, to be ideal sculptures. For Carl Andre, Less Is Still Less 2011-07-17T02:00:06Z Subdued to the point of flatness, it drains the life out of Ms. George’s humor — a particular shame for the beautifully written monologues. Review: The God of Wine Stirs No Sexual Whirlwind in ‘Hurricane Diane’ 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Are you ready for “radical flatness” at Pershing Square? French landscape firm wins Pershing Square competition with call for 'radical flatness' 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z The 3D is well suited to the film's theatrical flatness in depth. Tales of the Night – review 2012-05-26T23:05:43Z Swanberg forges diverse elements into a unity that retains loose ends, that keeps the foreground and the background together in what may look like a deceptive flatness. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z My feet were tender, but the flatness of the Marchfelddamm, a high berm that doubled as biking path and flood deterrent, ensured that I wasn’t struggling. A Walk From Vienna to Budapest 2010-05-22T02:41:00Z Initially, though, his performance conflates mature concern with emotional flatness. The "Willow" legend continues, only now the quest is open to all who would take it, including girls 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z But the contrast between their flatness and the dancing of Ms. Dorvillier — when she did appear — was not as great as seemed to be intended. ‘Diary of an Image’ Tries to Define DD Dorvillier 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Yet while “In Bloom” is, to some degree, an act of memory, there’s a flatness about it. ‘In Bloom’: Coming-of-age tale unfolds during time of turmoil 2014-03-20T21:37:20Z To remedy the flatness of a traditional painting, he stitched together hundreds of close-up digital photographs—walls, shoes, noses—to form the works. David Hockney Plays with Perspective in an L.A. Exhibition 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Their dynamic helps the main story line rise above its relative flatness. ‘The Good Fight’ Season 1, Episode 3: Who Voted for Trump? 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Adding a second story was hardly an option, since the Zumthor design relied for much of its visual power on an exaggerated, pancake-like flatness. Peter Zumthor's L.A.-LACMA vision in need of update 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z In this new book, he writes with deliberate flatness, eschewing stylistic flourishes – except when describing North American landscapes – so that Dell speaks in the cadences of a permanently damaged spirit. Canada by Richard Ford - review 2012-05-25T09:00:01Z Greenberg's belief in flatness was at the heart of an evangelical praise for American abstract painting in the middle of the 20th century. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z Unfortunately, that flatness is endemic to the production. Review: Even With Hugh Jackman, ‘The Music Man’ Goes Flat 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z But it’s a short step sometimes from rigor to rigor mortis, and by the early 1970s Stella was tiring of his own militant flatness. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z The high priest of flatness became the king of giddy overload. A Survey Shows How Frank Stella Knocked Abstraction Flat, Then Sent It Flying 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z I like the flatness of it, the decoration and all of the meaning put into it. Artist Ed Templeton on capturing the weirdness of Huntington Beach 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z To cope, he seeks “to remember nothing, think nothing, until all that exists is a flatness — a flatness that he now identifies as himself.” 7 must-read novels to kick off 2020 right 2020-01-06T05:00:00Z What’s most remarkable about the location, however, is the way its flatness helps blur the line between heaven and Earth. Review | In the galleries: A multi-sensory exhibit with cherry blossoms and a dire warning 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Where the Grimms’ flatness of tone is harsh, Comyns’s voice is insouciant and — yes — charming. Evil Stepmother, Reimagined 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Her tone is controlled and understated; the flatness is effective but highly unsettling. What Happens to Siblings Who Survive a House of Horrors? 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z To combat the dread flatness, she recommends everything from leg lifts while on all fours to simply “squeezing your booty at the bus stop.” For Posteriors’ Sake 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z The Simpsons short cleverly blends the bright-colored flatness of the television show with the gimmickry of 3-D. Review: ‘Ice Age: Continental Drift,’ With Ray Romano 2012-07-12T13:54:00Z A group show brings together artists who play with ideas of depth and flatness. Datebook: A performance art fest, an online opera and African American abstraction 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z They are given such narrow and precise roles to play — abandoned sister, loyal partner, flighty daughter — and they play them so responsibly, never deviating from their scripts, that repetitiveness and flatness creep into the writing. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z It didn’t help that some theater critics were underwhelmed, including Ben Brantley of The Times, who said her delivery “sometimes has a flatness that I associate with cold readings of scripts.” Jessica Chastain Returns to the Stage With Nothing to Prove 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z “If you want to enjoy them in their original flatness, they’re there to enjoy.” Jar Jar Binks, Coming at You in 3-D 2010-09-29T22:27:00Z He made no comment, but I saw the studied flatness of his expression. A Dose of Empathy From My Syrian Doctor 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z “It’s the skin coloring, the flatness of the faces, the sandy blond or brown hair, the blue eyes.” Waif vs. Adonis: Fashion week sets up a great manliness debate I showed the draft to the brilliant Elizabeth Tallent, and she pointed to that flatness and asked me why I’d done that to the girl. This Week in Fiction: Ottessa Moshfegh on Writing Predators and Their Victims 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z After the rugged terrain of Jamaica, Barbados’s flatness was striking. On a Caribbean Rum Trail 2014-02-21T19:02:44Z “You feel the flatness and abstraction, but also realism and layers, and I guess you could say a soul.” ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z His roiling works convey the hardship and creativity of Black life in the South while also responding sardonically to modernist painting’s fixations with all-overness and flatness. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Played with a malevolent flatness by Jude Law, Lenny may have come into power at only forty-seven, but he has no interest in Vatican novelties, flashy promotional campaigns, or building the papacy’s social-media channels. A Man Without Qualities: HBO’s “The Young Pope” 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z “I love his way of painting, his colors, the flatness of some of his compositions,” he said in the 2013 conversation. Texas Couple Pledges Art Collection to the Musée D’Orsay 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Matisse himself originally titled the picture nothing more than “Red Panel,” as though color and flatness were its true subject. The Secrets Lurking Inside Matisse’s ‘Red Studio’ 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z But in their willful flatness many of the other performers come across as hapless on the one hand, or camp on the other. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z The same flatness enters the otherwise lively “The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo” on occasion, whenever Schumer tries to make a good point in a serious, self-consciously correct tone. Amy Schumer’s New Obligations 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z His paintings of figures and household objects deal with transparency, fragmentation and flatness — partly inspired by Analytic Cubism. 10 Artists on Picasso’s Enduring, Confounding Influence 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Although the productions featured impressive sets and lighting, the efforts did not pay off because of cumbersome mise-en-scènes and emotional flatness. 2010-01-31T03:59:00Z The glare of the wattage that emanated from classic performers, be they Muzio or Del Monaco, helped distract from the opera’s shortcomings: the flatness of the characters, the slackness between the memorable melodies. Music Review: An ‘Andrea Chénier’ Short on Star Power 2014-03-25T09:46:00Z And with this many cooks in the kitchen, the film’s flatness is hardly surprising. ‘Voodoo Macbeth’ Review: A Tiresome Curse 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Yet to my ears there's a certain flatness to "No Cities to Love" that hinders full access to her efforts. Sleater-Kinney continues the conversation in 'No Cities to Love' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z Between Lohan’s flatness and Bowler’s laboring, their coupling is like a gender-reversed equivalent of Anne Hathaway and James Franco co-hosting the Oscars, him overstraining to drag her performance along. TV Weekend: Liz and Dick 2012-11-23T13:00:18Z There’s a real feeling of high school: the flatness, repetition, claustrophobia, the endless waiting for real life to begin. Bringing ‘Normal People’ to Sexy, Soundtracked Life 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The vast flatness of the land would be impossible to appreciate at ground level. Iowa exudes a decency that even politics can’t undo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Instead, listen to the keys and put their flatness or sharpness to use. Dwike Mitchell, Pianist With Missionary Zeal, Dies at 83 2013-04-19T03:00:57Z Later he contends that Gibbon’s highly polished prose in “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” leads to flatness and monotony: “The ages change, but the varnish of the narrative is the same.” Review | In these fractious times, a yearning for Walter Bagehot’s ‘age of discussion’ 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z But “Rite of Spring,” the final piece, compensated for moments of emotional flatness with some vivid playing. Brilliant pianist leads orchestra’s return 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z Later Ms. Quinn joined Ms. Fenley for a mirroring dance of Egyptian flatness and later still the two women moved together while having a conversation that was mannered in its informality: “You should eat more.” Dance Review: Molissa Fenley’s ‘Cross Bridge’ at The Club at La MaMa 2012-12-12T22:52:49Z The flatness in this rendition of Frederick Ashton’s choreography was a problem of pacing. ‘Cinderella,’ with a post-performance touch of happily ever after 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z The uninflected flatness of the green echoes in three very small untitled paintings from 1984. Joan Mitchell: A Painter at Her Peak 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z Fertility is judged by the shape of the cow’s shoulders, its toned legs, and the “topline”, or the flatness of the back. Japan picks 'Wagyu Olympics' winner amid growing demand for luxury beef 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z But soon she realized that the expectation of universal proficiency — and the demands of maintaining it — could breed a sort of flatness, turning dancers into execution robots. A Swiss Army Knife of a Dancer, Making a Virtue of Versatility 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z But even his stirring presence couldn’t energize this “Lucia,” which suffered most from a flatness at its center. Review: In ‘Lucia di Lammermoor’ at the Met, Singing Through Sickness 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z As for Manet's celebrated flatness and concision – the supposed link between illusion and abstraction – I do not think it has been exaggerated at all. Manet: the Inventor of Modernity ? review 2011-04-09T23:05:37Z This extreme flatness could be achieved only because humans had mastered precise manufacturing; and so, his fascination with the subject began. Under Modernity’s Hood: Precision Engineering 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z But because of Louisiana’s flatness, in wide shots, they digitally added hills into the background. How Jesse Eisenberg Makes Cup of Noodles a Weapon in ‘American Ultra’ 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z For the cognoscenti, it is a wry joke about Clement Greenberg’s insistence on the flatness of Modernist painting. Art Review: ?Off the Wall: Part 1,? Performance Art at Whitney 2010-07-29T20:08:00Z For Walker, the main problem was maintaining the flatness and openness of the plaza, which was essential to Arad's design, without making it bare and arid. Memories at Ground Zero 2011-07-30T23:03:01Z And yet, in the end, this cannot compensate for a flatness in the novel, a lack of full dimensionality. Nick Hornby's 'Funny Girl' traces the road to stardom 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z But his surfaces, smudged and gouged with the imprint of his oil sticks — he likes that the medium offers “nowhere to hide” — have none of Pop Art’s factory-smooth flatness. Harold Ancart Brings His Kaleidoscopic Trees to Chelsea 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z And the flatness of the characterizations, combined with the slow, meandering pace of Mr. Stuart’s storytelling, drains some of the intensity from the story. Movie Review | 'Blood Done Sign My Name': A Town Torn Asunder by Racial Killing in ?70 2010-02-19T04:53:00Z The detailing, the flatness of the spandrels, the geometry of the vertical mullions in relation to the horizontal paneling. Classic Skyscrapers Define New York. Take a Virtual Tour. 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z To avoid flatness, Shikunova layers shades of neutrals that complement and contrast with one another to create visual interest. How to make your rooms light and bright, even in wintertime 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z The remarkable thing about these vignettes, complex, anticipatory, elegiac, is that they are rendered with all the deadpan flatness of a DIY manual. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z Perhaps the painting is a pivot point where the flatness of Western abstraction merges with the smooth surface of the hijab. Art that forces us to reconsider what we think we know 2017-02-04T05:00:00Z Jaffe’s work is often rendered with simple outlines, yet also resists flatness: Her brightly hued pictures are mounted away from the wall, and her profiles of faces in steel are free-standing. Review | In the galleries: Photojournalist’s memoir is a tale of two cities 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z The flatness of the jokes and gags in “The Lovebirds” might suggest a made-for-streaming rush job, but this movie was originally going to be released in theaters by Paramount. ‘The Lovebirds’ Review: It’s a Turkey 2020-05-20T04:00:00Z Its appeal lies precisely in this tonal flatness — the anthropological distance the narrator maintains from her subjects. To Sayaka Murata, Nonconformity Is a Slippery Slope 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z Directed by Mr. Mamet, with a comic-strip flatness that does the script no favors, this hot-ticket production at the Garrick Theater is as feeble and facile as most of the reviews would have it. Hot Priests and Wayward Libidos Run Wild on London’s Stages 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Painting and film both had to overcome the limitation of flatness. The Bump and the Hollow of Thomas Hart Benton 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z While it’s never a disagreeable book, it’s hampered by a flatness that comes from our feeling that the author has deliberately wired things so the conflict will never rise above a certain voltage. The Brexit Romance: Finding Love in Irreconcilable Times 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Somehow both flatness and a spatial sense are thus simultaneously conveyed. In 'Half Life,' Cloud Eye Control tries to see the unseen 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z In the novel, he conjures the flatness of Florida and remarks that you know you’ve been in the state too long when “you no longer go to the beach.” Andrew Holleran’s Work Has Traced the Arc of Life. Now, He Takes on Death. 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z Many admirers, of which I am one, write about the flatness of her figures or the ambiguity of their emotions or situations. Fay Jones’ awkwardly magical, mysterious paintings 2013-11-29T15:01:24Z The skill of the actresses and the unassuming good humor of Mr. Martinez’s script help enormously, especially given the flatness of Ms. Riggen’s direction. Movie Review: ?Girl in Progress? With Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez 2012-05-10T21:10:33Z But over its first hour, wanting felt too much like trying; there’s a well-intentioned flatness to the money-changes-everything stories so far. TV Tonight: The Goldbergs, Trophy Wife, and Lucky 7 2013-09-24T09:45:05Z Since their subjects are flat to begin with, the early pieces easily achieve the goal of flatness that drove so much of ’60s painting. Alex Hay, Comeback Painter 2021-05-28T04:00:00Z Just at the moment when the art critic Clement Greenberg was campaigning for the flatness of the picture plane, this work confronts the viewer with a mute, implacable image of flatness, industrial style. Art Review: Tweaking Tradition, Even In Its Temple 2010-10-21T21:30:00Z The film’s misguided flatness is perhaps its fatal flaw, not so much deadpan or existential as just monotonous. ‘Wrong’: Where, oh where did comedy go right? 2013-04-04T22:15:44Z Washington’s mid-20th-century color painters were known for the flatness of their images, made with diluted pigment that seeped into the canvas. Review | In the galleries: Pulsating dramas of light and sound 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z A circle of powerful photographers, editors, and designers get bored of the flatness.” Skin Deep: For Fashion Models, Quirk Is In 2013-09-04T20:49:44Z Opposites jostled: the flatness of the boards with the roundness of the movement; the boards’ apparent heft with their actual lightness, as they collapsed silently to the ground. Review: Brian Brooks Moving Company Keeps Things Off-Center at the Joyce Theater 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Often sets are very flat because lighting designers like the flatness. As Gronk's set designs go on view at CAFAM, the artist talks opera, painting and B-movie crab monsters 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z It also yawns between the thrill of this production when it sings and its perversely melodramatic flatness when it’s behaving like a traditional play. Review: In ‘Girl From the North Country,’ Rolling Stones Gather Regrets 2017-07-26T04:00:00Z Fertility is judged by the shape of the cow’s shoulders, its toned legs, and the “topline”, or the flatness of the back. Japan picks 'Wagyu Olympics' winner amid growing demand for luxury beef 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z Cutouts had become another signature of Katz’s gallery work: an extension of the flatness in his portraits crossed with the theatrical notion of a “flat,” a two-dimensional set piece. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z The problem is that the pared-down ensemble underlines a flatness in the opera’s dramatic arc that was masked in the original by the overflowing colors of a full orchestra. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera Offers ‘Hija de Rappaccini’ Outdoors 2013-06-21T19:28:50Z But there is also an occasional sense of flatness, a pervasive cartoonish pluck that isn’t quite commensurate with the violence it hopes to interrogate. In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z Lynch being Lynch, he often seemed more interested in accentuating the flatness and fuzziness of the image than in tweaking the technology to try and replicate the richness of film. ‘Twin Peaks’ Season 3, Episode 10: Candy-Colored 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z The two other artists are painters who don’t entirely accept the flatness of the medium. In the galleries: The Washington Color School on show But as another unofficial TV competition sketch that runs later in the episode proves, the flatness of “What’s Wrong with This Picture?” can’t be chalked up to a lack of brand recognition. How can "Saturday Night Live" parody a farcical administration? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z In contrast the works’ assorted patterns and paintings are tightly layered, alluding, it would seem, to postwar modernism’s infatuation with flatness. Art in Review: JOHN MCALLISTER: ?Damned Sparkling Pomp? 2011-10-20T18:54:20Z And it has history, too: in the early 1900s its flatness and distance saw it used for motorbike races and land speed record attempts. The best travel discoveries of 2017 – chosen by Guardian writers 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z "Level" suggests truthfulness, trustworthiness, fair play – as well as physical flatness. Poem of the week: Peter Riley 2011-07-11T10:20:00Z It's like no place on Earth; the flatness, the humidity, the weird alien moss hanging in the swamps. Behind the scenes: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof at West Yorkshire Playhouse 2012-10-05T14:45:40Z “But it is an arbitrary ban. The flatness of the picture plane is no more a truth than was the flatness of the world before Columbus.” Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Yet apart from a dance for a pack of cards that is cardlike in its flipping flatness, even these segments are too generic, almost lifted from some other ballet. ‘Alice’s Adventures’ in Ballet, Love Story Added 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z The resulting flatness is nearly concave; the shapes seem carved, or maybe nailed down, like abstract animal skins. Art in Review: MARGRIT LEWCZUK: ?Art Work? 2010-12-02T22:13:00Z Szekely, a self-proclaimed rock collector, pocketed that particular stone for its flatness, which seemed to lend itself to the surface of a table. Salon 94 Shows Martin Szekely’s Stone-Inspired Tables 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z This unrelenting flatness makes him an exact parallel to the creature: Neither seems real, nor does either rise above stereotype. He’s an Artist. His Medium? Wings, Tails, Scales, Beaks and Claws. 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Yet her tailoring of narrative voices to personalities sometimes gums up the works: Louisa’s prairie flatness rings true to an enervating fault. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Writers of state of the nation books face two big perils: the temptation to stray into cliche and the flatness that can come from an eagerness to depict the average life. The way we live now? Follow the money back to Anthony Trollope? 2012-02-12T00:06:17Z Numerous paths and lanes disappear into dark forests or tunnels while reinforcing the flatness of the canvas. John Dunkley, an Outsider Artist Deep in the Heart of Jamaica 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The first was an insistence on the flatness of the picture plane. Philip Pearlstein, Whose Realist Nudes Revived Portraiture, Dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Sometimes he saturates the paper in a monochrome and then folds it, paradoxically emphasizing the flatness of the paper by turning it into a sculptural shape. Wolfgang Tillmans Takes Pictures of Modern Life, Backlit by the Past 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Here we see Klee adapt such Modernist staples as flatness, abstraction, the grid and evident process to his own carefully tended universe and its hypersensitive denizens. Art in Review: Paul Klee: ‘The Bauhaus Years’ 2013-06-06T18:18:58Z Bracing himself against such intrusions, he wills himself “to remember nothing, think nothing, until all that exists is a flatness — a flatness that he now identifies as himself.” Review | In ‘Dear Edward,’ the world’s most famous orphan finds something to live for 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z A result of this visual flatness is that some sequences drag with clichés, as the camera dithers on hackneyed images like Lexi flushing her wedding ring down the motel sink. Review: Los Angeles Through a Stranger’s Eyes in ‘No Light and No Land Anywhere’ 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z In voiceover, which Badgley delivers with a casual, conversation flatness, he evaluates Beck flirtatiously from the moment she enters the store. Dangers of dating in the Tinder age: “If you called someone you’d probably get labeled a psyc... 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z While the dribs are barely visible, they defy the era’s briefly influential gospel of flatness. In the galleries: A painter’s progress revealed 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z For all their riches, City still lose something when without those two, but they usually have enough quality to compensate adequately and there was a strange flatness about this performance. 'Man City win could be Arteta's most significant yet' 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z A design contest held in 2015 — organized by disgraced former City Councilman Jose Huizar — was won by a concept that called for “radical flatness,” which would have leveled out the sloped park. Overhaul of Pershing Square, long a 'concrete jungle' in downtown L.A., finally breaks ground 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z Since settlers first started pouring in from the relative flatness of the East Coast and Midwest, they were captivated by California’s vertiginous landscape. Fires, landslides, rising seas: What drives Californians to stay in disaster-prone areas? 2023-08-11T04:00:00Z Yet Link’s permutations retain palpable atmospheric similarities to their originals, marked by the same flatness of character and affect that characterize traditional fairy tales, as well as similarly bloody plots. Review | Kelly Link wants to push us outside of our comfort zone 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Amid the flatness are gradual slopes down to the valley’s center, where the Sacramento River creates a watery vein in the north and the San Joaquin River does the same in the middle. Editorial: Restore California's floodplains to capture more stormwater, protect human life 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The effect — not helped by the flatness of most of these characters — isn’t nuance or complexity or even Coen-esque quirk. Review | ‘Hello Tomorrow!’ wants to dream but makes you snore 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Over the past two million years huge sheets of ice ground the landscape of central Illinois to a whetstone flatness. Monogamous Prairie Voles Reveal the Neurobiology of Love 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z The effect is accentuated by the way the three heads burst out of the picture’s flatness along a vertical axis. Perspective | Ta-da! Here we are! Three boys in 1967, pushing beyond the frame. And the flatness of affect that defined the protagonists of “Less Than Zero,” inspired in part by Didion’s “Play It As It Lays,” once again guides Ellis’ characterization. Can Bret Easton Ellis bring back the (fictional) glory days? 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The flatness of a turtle shell, he found, could help paleontologists figure out how deeply a fossil site was originally buried before eons of other geological activity. It’s Turtles All the Way Down in the Fossil Record 2022-12-26T05:00:00Z Mr. Pearlstein positioned his work as a statement against the Modernist preoccupation with the flatness of the picture plane and Cubism’s insistence on multiple points of view. Philip Pearlstein, painter who mastered the nude, dies at 98 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s the antithesis of the hair straightener industrial complex that tells Jewish women and people of color, among others, to spend money to achieve a platonic ideal of flatness. The mullet is the haircut that refuses to die 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z If you’re used to seeing someone in the two-dimensional flatness of a Zoom box, it can be magical when you finally meet in person. Cecily Strong revered Lily Tomlin's one-woman show growing up. Why she's reviving it now 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z My Apple Watch says I climbed just 12 flights of stairs in elevation the whole day, so perhaps the flatness of the route worked in my favor. Here’s what it’s like to walk around Lake Washington in a single day 2022-08-27T04:00:00Z Flatness is a part of the inflationary scenario that helps explain the flatness of the microwave background. College Physics for AP Courses 2015-08-12T00:00:00Z Elliptical galaxies show various degrees of flattening, ranging from systems that are approximately spherical to those that approach the flatness of spirals. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z Altitude, amounts of debris on the glaciers, and the flatness of a glacier’s “snout” — its lowest part, which is the most vulnerable to melting — all affect the speeds of retreat. Study: Already shrunk by half, Swiss glaciers melting faster 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z There’s a flatness to her delivery, as if all the emotion has been carefully skimmed away so that all that remains are the devastating facts. Perspective | The winning defiance of Liz Cheney 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z There’s still a gap when the phone is folded closed; Samsung hasn’t achieved optimal foldable flatness yet. The new Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 4 is a little better and still too expensive 2022-08-10T04:00:00Z This really has the kind of cadence of medieval art — the flatness, the stylized vegetation and big blocks of color that characterized French illumination from the 15th century. Hear ye, hear ye: Medieval art that inspired 'Game of Thrones' and more at the Getty 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z This sameness and this sense of stuckness has a straightforward and somehow pleasing flatness, as if Taddeo’s goal is to give us not a fully fleshed-out person but instead a single sharp and lacerating slice. Review: Author Lisa Taddeo's parade of women who want to be wanted 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z “The extraordinary amount of QE has lowered term premiums and worsened the flatness of the curve. As a result, this is a very different cycle.” Factbox-Recession after fleeting yield curve inversion? It is complicated 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z That leaves a flatness at the center of the second season, which is otherwise rather absorbing once the plodding table-setting is taken care of in the overlong premiere. Review | ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2 is less steamy. It’s also more relatable. 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z "The recent 2s10s curve dynamics reflect recession risks, and not just through the curve's extreme flatness at the inception of the Fed tightening cycle", said the BofA strategists. U.S. yield curve points to recession risk as market challenges Fed's 'soft-landing' 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z With the flatness of low expectations, the mild-mannered former state school superintendent said he hopes Republicans “take a look at it.” Democrats eye key governors’ races as backstop against GOP 2022-02-13T05:00:00Z An additional 21 percent had a clinically meaningful response—in other words, a lessening of anxiety, depression, vigilant mental states, and emotional flatness. A Psychedelic May Soon Go to the FDA for Approval to Treat Trauma 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z It’s more like there’s a flatness to it that technology has encouraged. Michael Lewis Revisits ‘Liar’s Poker’ 2022-02-05T05:00:00Z Cain “described it as a sort of flatness; I think that would be an apt description.” You've noticed it, right? There's just something about L.A.’s light 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Prof Hunter says the recent period of flatness in Scotland, especially at a reasonably high level of cases, has not been seen much in the UK and could be a sign of things to come. Covid-19 in Scotland: Why are confirmed cases flatlining? 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “In 2009 we had great gains at the local level, and then had a cataclysm in 2010. Are we facing that, or is there going to be flatness all the way around?” The Places in New York City Where Republicans Still Stand a Chance 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z “It believes in a world of flatness, and it won’t accept the consequences of its actions,” pointing to its mammoth one-level, open-plan corporate office as an embodiment of the philosophy. Whistleblower Haugen says Facebook makes online hate worse 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z That flatness of form was matched by her three US teammates, each of whom are making their Olympic debuts: Suni Lee, Grace McCallum and Jordan Chiles: Tokyo Olympic Games: women’s gymnastics team all-around – live! 2021-07-27T04:00:00Z The exhibition catalog describes her robe’s gold pattern as “applied with a clumsy flatness.” Review: The Getty's must-see 14th century Venetian art and the mystery that lies within it 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Because of their relative flatness, composition shingles are a poor choice. Roofing roundup: The best choices to top off a Seattle home | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z At times, the flatness of his grandfather’s character dampens the narrative. Review | He knew his grandfather was a mob boss. But was that the whole story? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z The show zooms in on the faces of these aspiring members of the economic elite, but their expressions are usually frozen into affectless flatness, eyes wide, staring at nothing, glamorously disconnected. How Nothingness Became Everything We Wanted 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The fingers protrude almost imperceptibly in front of the painting’s carefully articulated picture plane, its flatness emphasized by all those rectangular geometries. Commentary: Wanna buy a Botticelli? The masterpiece coming to auction, and who might nab it 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z In contrast to the imagined otherworldliness of Jesus and Mary enthroned in heaven, the pattern’s flatness emphasizes the material physicality of the painting as an object. Review: The Getty's must-see 14th century Venetian art and the mystery that lies within it 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Together, the techniques injected an appearance of spatial volume into the heavy flatness of starched collars. Review: How does it feel to own a Rembrandt? Or 15 of them? Inside the collectors' quest 2021-01-06T05:00:00Z It emerged, that is, from a period in art history when flatness, colors and shapes took precedence over narrative and illusionism. Perspective | Inside out 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z The flatness of their delivery seems too obvious a choice, at first, but it gives them room to move, so that when they heat up, or “act human,” it registers; and Collin especially is good. Ridley Scott keeps predicting the end of the world. This time, it hits different 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Players have made note of a certain flatness to the atmosphere that is sometimes difficult to overcome. Perspective | What does baseball sound like during a pandemic? Loneliness — and hope. 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z But that also leads to him leaning a bit too far into the character’s Sandler-esque nice-guy-ness, tipping into a saccharine flatness. Review: Netflix's 'The Wrong Missy' is an Adam Sandler comedy without Adam Sandler 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z “By 1930, El Dorado was the wealthiest town in America, a cosmopolitan respite in the vast flatness of middle America,” wrote Sarah Grant for Rolling Stone. Murphy Oil Corp. in El Dorado moves headquarters to Houston 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Other than nine professional victories and a little extra flatness at the top, I really don't see much of a difference. Max Homa checks in with his best swing roast yet (and the guy's swing is must-see) - Golf Digest 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z Roach gives it the ugly flatness of a not-too-expensive television movie — and, worse, seems to have little interest in the three women at the story’s center. ‘Bombshell’ review: Despite enjoyable cast, film about Fox News scandal ultimately falls flat 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z Without Alexander‑Arnold the flatness of the midfield is suddenly an issue. Dries Mertens and Napoli show rivals that Liverpool have their flaws | Barney Ronay 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The concrete floors of B2B sheds were already being built to an exacting degree of flatness, calibrated using lasers, so that forklifts would not teeter while lifting pallets to the highest shelves. How our home delivery habit reshaped the world 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Copenhagen’s status as a global exemplar of bicycle culture owes to the accommodating flatness of the terrain and the lack of a Danish auto industry, which might have hijacked the policy levers. The City That Cycles With the Young, the Old, the Busy and the Dead 2019-11-09T05:00:00Z His answers take on a hulking and impenetrable flatness, with a determined absence of detail. A duel with Van Morrison: 'Is this a psychiatric examination? It sounds like one' 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z On a basic level of style, the writing stuns with its amateurish flatness. Review: 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower' inspired a generation. Its follow-up? No chance 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z If I didn’t look down, I could summon the sensation of flatness where my chest was. A Year Without a Name 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z As he spoke, he occasionally traced his shoe across the freshly retiled platform at the Van Dorn Street station to showcase its flatness. Metro says stations closed for shutdown will reopen on time next month — unless there’s a really bad storm 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z “That’s a result of me understanding that the current integrity level is not where it needs to be,” he said, his tone at once a mixture of firmness, flatness and sadness. ‘I Cry Every Day’: Families of Soldiers Killed in Niger in 2017 Are Still Waiting for Answers 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z Somehow the northern flatness of his vowels added to the impression of bulk. “Medusa” 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z An actual material object dances with an illusion of three dimensions, all while the painting’s flatness asserts itself. Review: Dianna Molzan’s art plays some clever tricks on you 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Another element bringing the K-Grind 2.0 wedge to modern standards is a new face milling pattern to ensure consistent face flatness, precise groove patterns and surface roughness. Miura K-Grind 2.0 wedge adds precision milling and lofts to scalloped sole design - Golf Digest 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z At the Emirates on Sunday, the most striking aspect of the club’s 2-0 defeat was their flatness and fragility. Premier League, Carabao Cup and Continental Cup: 10 talking points 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z So the paintings’ surface flatness is confounded, visually and physically, while the shadow box emphasizes the materiality of otherwise flimsy paper. Review: Gary Hume's first L.A. gallery show in 25 years 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z There’s just one problem for those seeking to celebrate the flatness of the Earth. All aboard the Flat Earth cruise – just don’t tell them about nautical navigation 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z This flatness specification allows for no more than 400 microns of deviation across the length of any side — less than the thickness of four sheets of paper. Apple seeks to end bent iPad Pro controversy with new support page 2019-01-05T05:00:00Z There were books that reminded me of the flatness of arguments on social media and how people and their motives are occasionally more complex than they can convey online. Unplugged: what I learned by logging off and reading 12 books in a week 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, the play fails to ask emotional questions of the characters who surround Hilary, and they tend, in their flatness, to wilt in her shadow. The Incarnation of Ideas in Tom Stoppard’s “The Hard Problem” 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Ms. O’Neil later recalled that the runs were “a beautiful experience,” in which the vast flatness of the Oregon desert seemed to move past her in a series of rolling waves, but also disappointing. Kitty O’Neil, deaf daredevil who became ‘world’s fastest woman,’ dies at 72 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z Jacobs discusses his six-decade career and his observations on flatness versus depth and shares film clips demonstrating his nontraditional, patented 3D, which does not require special glasses. The Moviegoer, Oct. 7-13 - Los Angeles Times 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z It has nothing that breaks the monotony or the flatness of a surface. Architect Lorcan O'Herlihy designs intimate spaces for a denser L.A. 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z The flatness of the surface plane establishes a formidable if obvious obstacle. Review: With 'Double Vision' at LACMA, 3-D art strives to find a new dimension 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Like firms, the famously bureaucratic public sector has also fallen for flatness. No bosses, no managers: the truth behind the ‘flat hierarchy’ facade | André Spicer 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z In the depths of mid-winter following some poor results a flatness would be understandable. Sombre José Mourinho looks a beaten man before the season even starts 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z By then, she had discovered the tone of her voice, too, its lyrical flatness and its wildly leaping humor. Flannery O’Connor’s Revelatory Honesty 2001-01-22T05:00:00Z The filmmakers seem to have other questions about roundness, flatness and perspective in mind, to judge by the chief visual preoccupations of this indiscreetly leering anime. Time-travel romance, but no magic, in the Japanese anime 'Fireworks' 2018-07-02T04:00:00Z In 2017, he called in to the Infinite Plane Society, a live-stream YouTube channel that discusses Earth’s flatness and other matters, to announce his beliefs and ambitions and ask for the community’s endorsement. Looking for Life on a Flat Earth 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z One common side effect of flatness is “interaction fatigue.” There’s a War on Middle Management and Tesla Just Joined It 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Dominy was not entirely sure why the cassowary bones were engineered to be weaker, but he suspects the flatness of the cassowary dagger might have prioritized comfort over strength. New Guineans carved human bones into ‘formidable, fierce-looking and beautiful’ daggers 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z The broad black stripes of the wall mural oscillate too, between pattern and figure, flatness and depth. For Nathan Hayden at CB1 Gallery, the smaller the canvas, the bigger the effect 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Shadows of the curved line traverse the painting, establishing a gentle tension between the flatness of a canvas and the reality of curved space in Einstein’s universe. Does the Broad's new Jasper Johns exhibition hit the bull's-eye? It gets darn close 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z To be clear, Hughes did not expect his flight to demonstrate Earth’s flatness to him; nineteen hundred feet up, or even a mile, is too low of a vantage point. Looking for Life on a Flat Earth 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Soon after my visit to Lower Manhattan, I found myself in Miami, learning about the porous limestone foundation the city is built on and the flatness of the topography. The year is 2037. This is what happens when the hurricane hits Miami 2017-12-17T05:00:00Z Also included in this show are small, painted-wooden-block sculptures in which the paintings’ impeccable flatness expands to three dimensions. Review | Exuberant circles hark back to another era 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z This walk began at the Mandalay Bay resort, which rises from the sun-baked Nevada flatness like a 43-story stack of gilded bricks. Fleece of the Century 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z It lacks the soft edges of the Apple Watch, the flatness of the Fitbit Blaze watch, and the is-it-a-smartwatch-or-is-it-a-normal-watch look of some Android Wear models. Verge Editor’s Choice: Garmin Fenix 5s 2017-08-18T04:00:00Z The vender, a friendly woman who looked to be in her late sixties, offered her thoughts on Earth’s flatness and the enshrouding secrecy; I moved on when she got to “the Jews.” Looking for Life on a Flat Earth 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z A third reason may be that the flatness of the yield curve reflects the market’s assessment of the risk that the U.K. and EU will fail to reach any negotiated exit deal. Brexit Uncertainty Shadows Bank of England’s Every Move 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z Despite slick staging, there was an unavoidable flatness that meant the set never really sparked to life. Coachella 2017 lineup: Friday acts The xx, Father John Misty and more reviewed 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z There’s an unnatural flatness to the end of the bone. When Calif. builders dig, paleontologists are there to bag the fossils — even whales 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z The observed rotation curves therefore did not extend far enough to demonstrate the presence of dark matter convincingly, even though the flatness of their outer parts might convey that impression. Tribute: Vera Rubin and the dark matter problem : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z They have come to love the tree-filled Washington region — so different from the desert flatness of their homeland. Botswana’s interracial love story: On American movie screens and inside its U.S. embassy 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z She was born with a flatness on one side of her forehead, a cleft lip and palate, and a complex craniofacial cleft, leaving her with a gap in the bones forming in her face. The children of Oxford Children's Hospital's craniofacial unit - BBC News 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z At first, naturalism had felt like freedom, allowing him to spring away from his contemporaries’ obsession with flatness, their need to labour the artificiality of a painting. Los Angeles, lovers and light: David Hockney at 80 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z “There is something about the geography, the flatness, the desert element” of the area, says Dallas Morning News film critic Chris Vognar. As the setting for 'Nocturnal Animals' and 'Hell or High Water,' West Texas signals danger and despair 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z In the central role, Miles Teller is impressively bulked up, but there’s a flatness in his performance. ‘Bleed for This’: Hits, misses in boxer’s gritty comeback tale 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z “The flatness really helps … now I can handle this garden,” she says. Design pro Stacie Crooks plants what she preaches in her Edmonds garden 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z It is possible to recognize the relative semantic flatness of these images — they tend not to be as complex as photographs from the ’60s by Charles Moore or Bruce Davidson — and still value them. The Superhero Photographs of the Black Lives Matter Movement 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z But its deliberate flatness, simple color blocks, and sharp contrasts are a breath of fresh air. French animation import Phantom Boy tells a rounded story in a flat world 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z And yet again, one fears a kind of flatness. Merle Haggard's life would make a great country music biopic -- if only one could exist today 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z The original T5p headphones were famed for their accuracy, but my colleague Chris Ziegler was among the people unimpressed by the flatness of their sonic presentation. Beyerdynamic’s new T5p headphones teeter on the precipice of greatness 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Incidentally, the size of a room, as opposed to the flatness of a screen, offers a different kind of challenge. With 'Waitress,' an indie film becomes a Broadway musical, intimately 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z The book’s format was horizontal with liberal use of white space that emphasized the flatness and wideness of the bay. Robert de Gast, photographer who captured Chesapeake’s watermen, dies 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z The current flatness of the curve shows investors expect mediocre growth. 2015: The Year in Interactive Storytelling 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z The same features that now make South Florida so vulnerable—its flatness, its high water table, its heavy rains—are the features that brought the Everglades into being. Miami Underwater 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z There was never a scientific consensus on the earth’s flatness, because that’s a pre-scientific intuition, an intuition that was later falsified by actual science. Ted Cruz’s junk science: GOP candidate denies climate change while citing debunked data and touting his inherited math skills 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Hollywood Reporter said it was "far too long" and suffered from "stasis and dramatic flatness". Critics slate Jolie and Pitt's latest film By The Sea - BBC News 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z There's power in universalized, first-hand experience, but also a kind of emotional flatness, a disincentive to engage with differences in human thought and experience instead of pure factual circumstance. The virtual reality 9/11 experience is bad, but not for the reasons you'd expect 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, the self-consciousness doesn’t make up for the flatness on its own. Welcome to Night Vale: book attempts to can the uncanny and falls flat 2015-10-27T04:00:00Z Houellebecq’s humor wasn’t easy to translate, Stein said, because “it is so deadpan and depends on a flatness of diction,” coming across more effectively in French than in English. Paris Review editor says new Houellebecq book misunderstood 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Houellebecq's humor wasn't easy to translate, Stein said, because "it is so deadpan and depends on a flatness of diction," coming across more effectively in French than in English. AP Interview: Paris Review editor says literary bad boy Houellebecq's new book misunderstood 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z But their flatness probably helps them glide, he says. Flying Spiders Found—and They Can Steer in Mid-Air 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z It is a neat depiction of one of Escher’s enduring fascinations: the contrast between the two-dimensional flatness of a sheet of paper and the illusion of three-dimensional volume that can be created with certain marks. The impossible world of MC Escher 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z And yet, not quite: “All the descriptions of him…are spectacular in their flatness,” she says. The Brothers Who Became the Boston Marathon Bombers 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Samsung has my eternal appreciation for following Google’s lead in moving to a cleaner, more minimalist interface, but Material Design emphasizes flatness and geometric regularity, which the Edge’s warping side screens disturb. Living life on the S6 Edge 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Due to his essential flatness, his basic lack of introspection and total absence of doubt, Cheney is not the kind of figure who, after a fall from grace, is usually described as tragic or Shakespearean. Dick Cheney’s endless lies: Why his Playboy interview may be his most shameless yet 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z In both environments, flatness helps the animals hide in fissures. The Next Frontier: The Great Indoors 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z This may be Ishiguro’s greatest theme, his flatness as a writer a way to represent our collusion with our own lack of freedom. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Folly 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Silvia says the anticipated flatness in next year’s unemployment rate is the result of more workers rejoining the improving labor force. NABE: GDP Growth to Quicken Despite Weakness Abroad 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z As we drove to the stadium, the landscape spread low in the distance, small undulations on top of one another, layers of the same dun-colored flatness. Seahawks fan behind enemy lines in K.C.: We're still louder 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Watching the K.C. series, I sensed an overall team flatness, coaching staff standing around like statues, waiting for someone to make things happen. Letters: The fall of the Dodgers and Angels 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z Its authors said the island's flatness and complex drainage system meant it would always be difficult to protect it from flooding, even when the rain was less heavy than on 20 July. Rainfall to blame for island floods 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z The flatness of the conference is a bit incongruous, given that we are only months from an election that this party is set to win, if the opinion polls don't lie. Does Labour have the cash to expand the NHS? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Luckily, that’s not really a bad thing — the flatness is sort of hypnotic, and the combat is satisfying enough that just mowing down scores of enemies in search of loot still feels somewhat active. Destiny, Day One: First Impressions 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Hodgson had legitimate grievances but that did not really alter the fact there was a flatness to his team’s passing in keeping with the general atmosphere of the evening. Wayne Rooney spares England’s blushes on drab night against Norway 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The Oxford study also found that comedians often display depressive traits such as emotional flatness and detachment from others. The psychology of comedy: where humour and psychosis overlap 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z The filmmakers effectively get across a sense of manicured, disposable homogeneity, a kind of cheap flatness that pervades everything from the blocky houses to the monochromatic bicycles, their spokes replaced with solid white discs. 'The Giver' review: to live is to suffer 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z And the thickness of the paper sheets, while only around a tenth of an inch, limit the flatness of the robot as well. Engineers are using origami to fold the robots of the future ATALISSA, Iowa — The old schoolhouse on the hill had announced the farm town of Atalissa to the Iowa flatness for more than a century. From Schoolhouse, to Symbol of Servitude, to Dust 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Kansas is distinctly Midwestern, the spare flatness of the prairie relieved only occasionally by a small town or lonely farmhouse, the shrinking population mostly white, aging and politically conservative. Side-by-side, Kansas and Colorado governors offer test of strategies 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z His obvious love for his family cannot rescue their portraits — especially those of powerful women like his mother, aunts and grandmother — from a certain allegorical flatness. Book review: “I Heard My Country Calling,” by James Webb Theorists talk about the “flatness” of the universe. BICEP2 experiment’s big-bang controversy highlights challenges for modern science But surely this flatness is deliberate; it is with the banality of our psychopathology that Ballard is concerned: Sex and wheels: Zadie Smith on JG Ballard's Crash 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Together, they are called the Low Countries - the Netherlands and Belgium united by the flatness of their lands. Belgium, Netherlands, like yoyos at World Cup 2014-06-10T04:00:00Z CountryWood’s looping cul-de-sacs sprawl across a desolate flatness of northern Plant City, near an old cattle ranch and far from everything else. Mobile home park investors bet on a poorer US 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Luke Reissig wears a helmet that is supposed to correct for skull flatness. Well: Helmets Do Little to Help Moderate Infant Skull Flattening, Study Finds 2014-05-02T01:45:31Z Mr. Walker’s practical message — delivered in unadorned terms and his nasal, Wisconsin flatness — matched the moment of financial crisis in a state that Barack Obama had carried in 2008 and would again in 2012. Governor With Eye on 2016 Finds His Rise Under Scrutiny 2014-04-26T17:51:58Z In WhatsApp they see a bridge into the 21st century when the world inches toward the flatness that Thomas Friedman wrote about. Facebook Buys WhatsApp: Boneheaded or Brilliant? 2014-02-25T18:40:00Z Downsides apparent The move away from flatness is bringing with it a set of negatives. Curved Screens Are Here, Stop Calling Them Flexible 2013-10-09T12:20:00Z Outside of hurricane season, when the waves are as good as anywhere on the professional tour, the rides are usually too short to train on, and there can be long stretches of glassy flatness. Riding the Waves, Montauk Style 2013-08-22T02:59:04Z I felt there was a flatness to our running. The secret behind athlete David Rudisha's speed 2013-08-02T13:44:08Z To go there to sit in a drafty farmhouse and look out and all you see is snow-covered flatness and these little pathetic dead stumps of corn. Fox Sports 1's Strategy vs. ESPN: 'Jockularity' 2013-07-18T10:00:54Z The central idea of the look — the flatness of the interfaces — is linked to these deep interaction changes that I’m very confident are improvements. Is The New Apple iOS 7 Look An Improvement? 2013-06-17T15:15:00Z It took me some time to get used to the flatness of the keys and their shallow action. stylish ultrabooks are work-friendly too 2013-06-01T01:29:39Z Brentford's response was feeble and there was an inexplicable flatness about them throughout the first half. Brentford 1-2 Yeovil Town 2013-05-19T14:55:15Z Next up, Analog Camera, also from Realmac and inspired by the sculptural flatness of Clear. Analog Camera: Fast, Flat, And Inspired By The Clear App 2013-05-14T14:39:31Z It is the ways that the design moves beyond flatness that will keep it from falling flat. Will Jony Ive Let A Flat Design For iOS 7 Fall Flat? 2013-05-11T14:44:00Z The big, obvious change to the look in iOS 7 is the flatness. Is The New Apple iOS 7 Look An Improvement? 2013-06-17T15:15:00Z Similar scanners are used in quality assurance for micromanufactured products such as microchips, optical components and to assure the flatness of touch screens. Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice 2013-04-29T19:36:45Z The cascade is one of thousands in the Condor cordillera, a rolling buffer between the cliffs of the eastern Andes and the continental flatness of the Amazon basin. “To get the gold, they will have to kill every one of us” 2013-02-10T12:00:00Z He blames the flatness in the S&P on the drop in the value of Apple stock. Fiscal cliff reality check: what's really the worst thing that could happen? 2012-12-26T19:36:07Z Despite false claims of a championship "race", there is a flatness, and lack of quality, about the SPL. Celtic 2-0 St Mirren 2012-12-15T17:35:30Z No inflationary period is needed to explain the flatness of space. Big Bang Files: The Inflationary Model Is Far From Dead 2012-10-19T13:03:48Z "There was a flatness about us going forward," conceded Neil Lennon. Celtic 1-0 Aberdeen 2012-08-04T16:05:20Z Inlaying is a very natural and beautiful means of enriching works of furniture, for it leaves the flatness of the surface undisturbed. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z A large lawn will give the effect of greater flatness. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Some old Dutch houses there are, distinguishable chiefly by a superlative flatness and an extra allowance of windows. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 2012-04-03T02:00:38.807Z Two twenty-feet boats were specially constructed, nearly resembling what were called “troop-boats,” having great flatness of floor, with an even width almost to bows and stern. The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 2012-04-03T02:00:31.900Z It was not till, alone again at his hotel, he pulled out the hollyhock flower with his ball programme that he awoke to a complete sense of the insipid flatness of the new situation. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z It is also well to place the flat face of the washer upon a smooth file and rub it backward and forward under finger pressure, which will tend to correct any defect in its flatness. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z He bore striking resemblance to Clara; the same picturesque flatness in the middle part of the face, the same expression. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Boom.... right in the middle of a most entertaining digression on flats who join touring companies under the impression that they are actors, Kipps much amused at their flatness as exposed by Chitterlow. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z The excitement was over, the flatness remained; the failure, and the grey skies and leaden water and dying bracken. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z To the S.E. three remarkable promontories stand out in bold relief from the Fuegian shore; but beyond them the land sinks into the tame flatness of Patagonia. Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 2012-02-24T03:00:32.793Z The Connecticut is here tame and uninteresting, with near shores of salt-marsh flatness. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Moreover, the wide flatness of the Broads District, the rare buildings rising as from a lake, have a special charm of their own. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z He could not turn around on that treacherous, half-tamed machine, but he knew that behind him, he knew so well, spread the wide, vast flatness of the Marsh shining under the afternoon sky. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z In that direction a ridge broke the flatness of the fields, that were buried under a sheet of ice. The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 2012-02-11T03:03:45.230Z An extraordinary intellectual depression, as I may say, and an indefinable flatness of mind. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Fellow New England Patriots fan Bob Ritchie drove to the Hoosier State from Massachusetts and when he arrived was floored by the flatness. Indy's homespun charm wins over East Coast fans 2012-02-03T21:56:26Z The Highways, then, seem to the traveller merely stretches of ground to be got over as speedily as may be, and he rejoices that their flatness lends itself so well to this end. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z I returned to Tommy and the wall paper after the final performance with a vague sense of flatness, to try to pull together out of Higgleston's unwilling materials the stuff of a satisfying existence. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Generally hair curls in proportion to its flatness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 7 "Gyantse" to "Hallel" 2011-12-26T03:00:11.613Z I’ve always been frustrated with the flatness of a lot of science writing. Probing the Passions of Science: An Interview with Carl Zimmer on the Art of Science Writing 2011-12-20T15:15:05.230Z At a conference I'd be more curious and more apt to talk to a Duke of Dollars than a Vice President of Northern Operations.Creative titles promote flatness. Let Your Employees Pick Their Titles 2011-12-15T15:00:00Z But the general result of the session cannot be lamented, only it is not heroic success, such as Mr. Gladstone's supremacy and the flatness of the Opposition would demand. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z The surface, however, would not easily be reduced to perfect flatness. The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin 2011-11-29T03:00:17.347Z Its flatness and want of style are noteworthy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z She claims to prefer this voice, for all its flatness and occasional glitchiness, to the conventional huffings and puffings of some great Narrator. The Mechanic Muse: The Mind?s Ear 2011-11-25T16:18:50Z One's flatness allows one to wriggle partly under the sand, so as to escape one's enemies; and one's eyes are both on top, where they are most needed. The Sun's Babies 2011-11-21T03:00:12.963Z And, oh, the flatness and mournfulness of those chill wastes of snow outside the city! Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Apart from the charm which flatness has in itself for some persons—it has for me a very great charm on account of early associations—there is much here to attract the lover of nature. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z “Well, I hope you’ll improve,” she stated with a certain flatness. Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales 2011-10-06T02:00:37.063Z It's the flatness of it, and the flocks and herds. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z She turned the letters over, recognizing from their very aspect the flatness of their contents. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z In some places where, from the nature of the rock, from the flatness of the ground, or from other causes, rain works under great difficulties, the rate of waste may be extremely slow. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Belief in the world's flatness commits him who holds it to thinking in certain specific ways of other objects, such as the heavenly bodies, antipodes, the possibility of navigation. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z We found the course rather pleasant, in its inland way, with hedges for the chief hazards and undulating gradients that formed rather a blessed change from the sheer flatness of Cowley Marsh. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z I tied the bridle rain about a tree, And on the ample flatness of a stone Awhile I lay. Vacation Verse 2011-09-11T02:00:09.897Z Equally strong convictions were once held concerning the flatness of the earth's surface, the existence of witches, and a hundred and one other matters. Determinism or Free-Will? 2011-09-10T02:00:27.557Z It is called the case of flatness in the smallest parts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z But it was in danger of monotony and flatness; for a popular audience a longer verse was better, with more swing in it. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z "During the final rush of the attacking party," they say, categorically, "firing should be at will, for then the rapidity of fire and the flatness of trajectory are more to be relied upon than accuracy." Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z On the terminal gallery and on the panels which break up the flatness of this inner fa�ade are a series of allegorical bas-reliefs, representing monkeys, surmounted with the inscription, "Il le Feray." Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z What is known as "Whitfield's Mount," a little clump of enclosed trees, is almost the only relief from the bareness and flatness of this golfing common. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z Riemann’s work contains two fundamental conceptions, that of a manifold and that of the measure of curvature of a continuous manifold possessed of what he calls flatness in the smallest parts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The qualities, too have to be considered—the fulness of one, the flatness of the other, or the coarseness or fineness of the furs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z These were beaten flat at one end, a hole was bored in the top of the staff, and the two pieces of wire driven in side by side, when their flatness prevented them from moving. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z It is the flatness of the flat, its very condensed and restricted cosiness, its very lack of upstairs and downstairs, which prevents it from ever attaining completely the atmosphere of a home. The Comforts of Home 2011-08-11T02:00:13.980Z Paper books and pads were tried, but their surfaces are inferior to cards in flatness, and their use is now abandoned. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z Moreover, when they talk about the flatness of space cosmologists are referring to the large-scale appearance of the universe. What Do You Mean, The Universe Is Flat? (Part I) 2011-07-26T20:45:02.407Z The liquid was forced from the cellar by the air pressure, and when turned off, the air pressure was resumed in the cask, which "preserved the beer from being thrown into a state of flatness." Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z Graphene's ability to deliver on its potential as a game-changer in a variety of products depends on two key factors—flatness and purity. Wrinkles Rankle Graphene 2011-07-07T21:15:11.777Z Pontida - population 3,000 - lies slumped in a cleft where the last Alpine foothills meet the vast flatness of the Po valley. Going their own way 2011-06-20T15:53:39Z “This is something I must do for myself,” the artist declared, with that peculiar flatness of obstinacy which goes with an assertion repeatedly made. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z One of the greatest annoyances to the camoufleur is the lack of dullness or “flatness” of the paints, fabrics, and some of the other media used. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z The air, though apparently pure enough, had that vague flatness which one associates with an unused guest-chamber when opened for an airing. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z The decorative painter prefers a certain flatness of effect, and therefore such methods as fresco, in which the colours are laid on while the plaster ground is wet, and tempera naturally appeal to him. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z Artists now are full of breadth and depth; and, between us and the doorpost, flatness. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume I 2011-05-22T02:00:16.657Z A low, barren, level country, its flatness alone broken by signs of the pits, its uncompromising gloom enlivened only by ascending fires which blazed up at night, and illumined the country for miles round. Trevlyn Hold 2011-05-16T02:00:12.977Z The dirt roads leading from the homestead to the core of the site have been graded to a flatness and smoothness that rivals most highways. Array of Hope: Australia and South Africa Vie for Massive Radio Telescope Project 2011-05-09T17:15:00.260Z All through the night I was rocked in this feeling and I was then and there reconciled to the beach, flatness, glare and all. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z “At this point there appears to be a flatness to the field,” said Mr. Wehner, who has been highly critical of Mr. Trump. G.O.P. is Pursuing Wider 2012 Field 2011-04-30T17:08:27Z The extended flatness of surface—the tall trees loaded with foliage—the large fat cattle wading to the knees in rich pasture—all had the appearance of fairy-land fertility. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z High command was, owing to the flatness of the country, unnecessary and even undesirable, as it did not allow of grazing fire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" 2011-04-22T02:00:08.637Z She ran her hand lightly over his face, brushing the scars, the flatness of his nose. The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z Leave out this flatness, and the moulding is vulgar instantly. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z “The key with bicycles is the flatness of the place,” Ms. Kosciusko-Morizet said. City Room: A French Vote for More Bikes 2011-04-14T15:05:03Z The romantic method of Dumas, for instance, and even of Walter Scott, appealed to her as a mode of escaping to dreamland from the flatness and vulgarity of life under the "miserable reign of Mammon." Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The photo-engraver wants prints with plenty of detail in the shadows, and with a tendency to softness; but with not a vestige of flatness. Making Your Camera Pay 2011-03-31T02:00:21.163Z His self-confidence, his arrogant affinity for authority, his pride, and his ambition keenly barbed the prescience of this abnormal flatness of failure. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z "What happened out there was what we expected if we didn't do what we needed to do," Johnson said, referring to England's flatness in the first half and the mistakes that littered their performance throughout. England hang on to their grand design with sloppy win over Scotland 2011-03-14T00:06:03Z Twenty miles of uninterrupted flatness, and the ship steadily invading that separating solitude, yard by yard, furlong by furlong! Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z We all know how disconcerting it is to pass from the sheer beauty of the great Elizabethans to the broken verse and the mixture of flatness and violence of the lesser poets of the Commonwealth. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z For the first time she realized the whole irremediable flatness and dryness in which her future must drag on--her future with this man who was a stranger to all her deeper thoughts and feelings. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z These works have between them all the vices possible to epic verse, dulness and flatness, faintness and quaintness and incoherence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z Oh, I must tell you that Papa refused to have Joey sleep in his room with a flatness that put a stop to my arguments before they were even begun. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z They strove to achieve a decorative flatness of design which would emphasize rather than destroy the architectonic quality of the wall the tapestry was to cover. Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 2011-02-15T03:00:17.853Z If the explanation for the Peas' flatness was nerves, those nerves never settled, as they plodded through such songs as "Pump It" and "Boom Boom Pow." The Black Eyed Peas underwhelm Super Bowl halftime 2011-02-07T02:59:08Z When the fibres were far apart at the top a similar flatness was obtained in the curve with the quadrants about 1 mm. apart. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z Here and there a lone butte rose pinnacle-like out of the flatness. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Having watched our father sacrifice his entire adult life to the care and feeding of a person whose flatness of affect, medicated or not, precluded a normal adult relationship. Six things we now know about Jared Loughner 2011-01-13T00:03:00Z Although there is a general flatness in the composition, indicative of the earlier school, tapestries are already hung across the backs of the little niches, and handsome ones too, with crowned initials powdered over them. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z They resembled the ridges of a field, except the perfect flatness and great breadth of the surface of each, and their being destitute of stones. Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 2010-12-31T03:00:11.350Z This way, the sign would rise above the fertile flatness. With a Sign, a Small Nebraska Town Reclaims Its Identity 2010-12-07T21:19:00Z There was a flatness about proceedings, particularly in the second-half, as the home crowd were left to lament the energy-sapping demands on their players. Tottenham 1-1 Everton 2010-10-23T14:08:00Z There was a flatness about the game - usually there is a crackle when you play Manchester United but we were nervous and edgy. Nani keeps Man Utd in title race 2010-05-02T16:54:00Z It just makes a load of "flat" elements look like they're floating around on opposing planes of flatness, as demonstrated by the shallow 3D experience offered by Clash of the Titans. No, your eyes aren't deceiving you ? 3D really is a con 2010-04-10T23:06:00Z The extreme flatness of the Lincolnshire coast, with the slow sluggishness of the lower part of the course of the rivers, caused, in remote ages, the inundation of a great tract of land. Cathedral Cities of England Chou Kung, an able mathematician, determined with surprising accuracy the obliquity of the ecliptic; but his attempts to estimate the sun’s distance failed hopelessly as being grounded on belief in the flatness of the earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" The flatness of her breast yielded to rounded curves; her brown throat became fuller; her shoulders lost their angularity and took on graceful sloping lines. The Undying Past Those who have been idle cannot expect to feel this, and they experience such a flatness in the quietly kept Sunday that they regard it as a weekly penance which interrupts their pleasures. Household Organization In consequence of the extreme flatness of the country and its liability to sudden inundations, it became necessary, when erecting buildings of any kind, to raise them on mounds of earth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" How some of those islanders contrive to iron themselves into the stiffness and flatness they do, is to me the profoundest enigma. Beatrice Boville and Other Stories The flatness of the roofs, which the Italians never abandoned, was always found difficult to reconcile with the Gothic tendency to height and steepness. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance We will never achieve intellectual liberty until the wickedness of this book has been discarded with the belief in the flatness of the earth. An Atheist Manifesto He talked over with Mr. Viner the flatness of existence on the evening after the result of the examination was known. Sinister Street, vol. 1 “I can’t cry,” she answered, in the same expressionless flatness of tone. The Key to Yesterday Columbus striving to raise money from a world convinced of the earth's flatness, with which to sail round a sphere, encountered a scepticism no more stolid, and yet in the end Masters had convinced them. The Tempering Over the billiard-table flatness of that land it moves so slowly and silently that it gives the effect of a lake stirred by the wind. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery Victoria remembered without joy: a sign of total flatness, for the mind that does not glow at the thought of the glamorous past is dulled indeed. A Bed of Roses The forehead is usually well developed, the lips thick, and the nostrils full, without any flatness or spreading of the nose. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II By the measure of their flatness they might have gauged the late immensity of their interest; there was revelation in it. The Furnace It is passed through the first pair, and its squareness is instantly elongated and widened into flatness; rapidly through a second pair, and a third, and a fourth, and a fifth. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. But as all such diplomatic flurries do, this one will pass, leaving the flatness of the silly season upon us. The Book of Susan A Novel Lady Tanagra looked at her quickly, noting the flatness of her voice. Patricia Brent, Spinster They are coral stone, and are hewn into a tolerably good shape, both with respect to the straightness of their sides and flatness of their surfaces. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II The emotion, however, was but meagrely expressed in the flatness with which she heard herself presently say: "I'll go to the Registrar now." The Spoils of Poynton Would a cup set on its flatness, Mr. Cheermon, with rich a handle as k to it? K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. The flatness left by her absence was not to be dispelled so easily. Shadows of Flames A Novel The superiority of the anastigmat lens, without attempting to go into the technicalities of the subject, consists of—Perfect definition over the whole negative, absolute flatness of field, and higher speed. Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 "I also," he said, "have been slightly oppressed by the responsibility of your fancied affection, and I, too, am conscious of a certain flatness in facing the truth." Come Out of the Kitchen! A Romance It is an anastigmat of the very first quality, fully corrected for definition and flatness of field, and working at a speed of f.6.3. Premo Cameras 1914 This flatness made the contrary slope, which jutted forward so as to hide the actual breaking of the waves, appear portentously high. Carnival From morning till night they ran through what, to Ewing, was a dead, depressing flatness, a vast and clumsy jest of a checkerboard, with cornfields for squares. Ewing\\'s Lady Then for those who want not only the absolute sharpness and flatness of field, but the maximum of speed as well, we offer the camera fitted with Zeiss Kodak Anastigmat lens, f. Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 The flatness of the hedge can be broken by allowing a few leading shoots, 20 or 30 feet apart, to run up, budding them in August with some of the variegated varieties. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens I didn't believe, somehow—certainly not on such short notice—either in her happiness or in her flatness. The Sacred Fount There was a certain flatness, no doubt; a certain dread in envisaging the years, but experience showed that such moods were not confined to spinsters alone. An Unknown Lover The rolling plains of the day before had been vivacious beside this flatness, and there had been a certain mournful dignity in their solitude. Ewing\\'s Lady As he drank his tea, and listened to the hum of Mrs Mallison’s reiterated reminiscences, Dane was conscious of a feeling of flatness and disappointment. Lady Cassandra Nothing can be less picturesque;—all the flatness of Holland, without the cultivation, and the numerous well-peopled villages, which diminish the monotonous effect. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain Described in a series of letters, with illustrations representing Moorish palaces, cathedrals, and other monuments of art, contained in the cities of Burgos, Valladolid, Toledo, and Seville. For several hundred feet the way was steep, became level for a short distance, then fell away in a long gentle slope to flatness once more. Warrior of the Dawn What volumes it spoke of the flatness of life in a country town! An Unknown Lover Had she felt the need of a death's head at her sun feast, this neutral, denying flatness would have sufficed. Ewing\\'s Lady It is this flatness of the face about the eyes that gives the mildness of expression to all young people of Mongolian type that is so noticeable a trait always in their physiognomy. Japanese Girls and Women Revised and Enlarged Edition You read in the cold grey tints the formal stiffness and unrelieved regularity around the Quaker-like flatness of their existence. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands The beautiful scenery at Quebec was, besides, a feast for eyes tired with the monotonous flatness of America. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things And, as it did so, inch by inch and foot by foot, the grey flatness that was Kiopo moved very slowly towards it, and hardly seemed to breathe. Dusty Star "Hai!" said the innkeeper, with a mournful face; "when thou didst not return, thy camel would not eat, and his hump sank away to flatness, and on the tenth day he died." Barclay of the Guides I really believe this ignoble course was more distasteful to me from its flatness and insipidity than from its mere humility. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas By the above means, especially sustained notes and piano scales, flatness is easily avoided, and the registers blend perfectly. The Boy's Voice A Book of Practical Information on The Training of Boys' Voices For Church Choirs, &c. One gets the usual bird's-eye view, with this difference, that the glance of the eye seems to reach out into an interminable distance, by reason of the general flatness of the country. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine The fox noted with disapproval that this particular flatness breathed! Dusty Star Low hills arose at intervals among the bogs and lakes, but the general effect of the landscape was that of flatness and bleak monotony. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 You cannot feel the hand of the maker anywhere, and the failure, the flatness, the formality of the supposed ornament, is depressing. The Hills and the Vale "Tommy's dead," the lament of a father over his son, is too long, it has frequent flatnesses, repetitions that do not add to the effect, bits of mere gush, trivialities. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) "Why?" he asked, and was surprised at the flatness of his voice. Pursuit Read them in all their flatness, in all their dryness, so dismal, so terribly savage. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages There is a flatness and firmness of treatment in all these which is eminently suited to stained-glass work. Stained Glass Work A text-book for students and workers in glass There was an odd questing flatness in her voice. A World Apart The style is modelled with extreme closeness upon that of Scott, which even Sir Walter, with all his originality and genius, had not been able always to preserve from flatness. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The other things weren’t funny, just poor constructions and general flatness, personals that were too personal, you know, and that sort of thing. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted The reddish, barren fields stretched in their flatness beyond his vision, and the narrow roads of yellow sand ran to nowhere. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 Puvis adhered to one principle: A wall is a wall, and not an easel picture; it is flat, and that flatness must be emphasised, not disguised; decoration is the desideratum. Ivory Apes and Peacocks A single heroic line may very well pass and not disturb the somewhat larger stride of the prose style; but one following another will produce an instant impression of poverty, flatness, and disenchantment. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Even then he stooped a little, so that his shoulders inclined forward, which gave something of flatness to his chest. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. Further emphasis of the essential flatness of surfacein material that is to decorate a flat sheet of paper. Applied Design for Printers A Handbook of the Principles of Arrangement, with Brief Comment on the Periods of Design Which Have Most Strongly Influenced Printing Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #43 I will appeal to all who know the flatness of his style, and the barrenness of his invention, whether he doth not grossly prevaricate? Calamities and Quarrels of Authors Such, however, is the case, and the difference in length is caused by the great length of those bones in the giraffe, and their shortness and flatness in the elephant. Happy Days for Boys and Girls This cloud is to be distinguished by its flatness and great horizontal extension, in proportion to its height; a character which it always retains, under all its various forms. The Rain Cloud or, An Account of the Nature, Properties, Dangers and Uses of Rain in Various Parts of the World Girls are the milk and honey which sweeten a man's life; widows, the caviare and wine which relieve its flatness and give it spice and piquancy. A Guide to Men Being Encore Reflections of a Bachelor Girl Thus, if an alligator or almost any quadruped is embodied in the vessel, the form tends to become elongated; if a crab or a fish is imitated, there is a tendency to flatness &c. Ancient art of the province of Chiriqui, Colombia Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-1885, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 3-188 The flatness spoken of in an article of food is oftentimes the true taste of the article, unaltered by any stimulus. Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery In this it differs entirely from pictorial art, where one of the great objects is to avoid flatness. Needlework As Art It is maybe this very functional setup or maybe the dead flatness of our voices in the damped room, but we do not have so much to talk about any more. The Lost Kafoozalum When he can neither be bitter nor rhetorical, he is apt to drop into mere mechanical flatness. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Her bosom had lost some of its girlish flatness, but the lines of her hips and thighs still resembled those of a boy, and the pose of her head was like that of an athlete. Money Magic A Novel A loss of the respiratory murmur will be noticed on auscultation, and on percussion dullness or flatness on a line as high as the effusion has taken place. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Simplicity and flatness are the greatest merits in such forms, as in shadowless patterns for textiles, and especially for embroideries. Needlework As Art "I am shy, and they are shy," Anna said to herself, apologising as it were for the undoubted flatness that prevailed. The Benefactress Unlike Santiago or Matanzas, neither the city nor its immediate environs is elevated, so that the whole impression is that of flatness, requiring some strength of background to form a complete picture. Due South or Cuba Past and Present I like even the slight flatness they have; but mine are very little flattened; I am good at packing flowers! Tante When he pounded on the tank, the stuff collapsed in upon itself in withering flatness. Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? The flatness and want of all shadows tends to the conventional. Needlework As Art Intricate as it is, all is blended into a cloud-like harmony of shade, which becomes fainter and fainter, as it retires, with the most delicate flatness and unity of tone. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) The rose window of the west end, though of grand proportions, appears to fail utterly as a supreme effort because of the flatness and depression given to its circumferential outline. The Cathedrals of Northern France There a long, gray flatness separated itself from the horizon––the coast of southern Nova Scotia. The Harbor of Doubt The old-time flatness and burr began to soften from attrition, to be modified because they were conspicuous. In a Little Town The flatness of the picture is still preserved by their ignorance of perspective. Needlework As Art |
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