| 单词 | angularity |
| 例句 | Blore studied with naive surprise a statuette in brass—wondering perhaps if its bizarre angularities were really supposed to be the female figure. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The angularity of desert landforms imparts a monumental architecture to the clouds as well as to the land.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z My clothes weren’t right, my face wasn’t right, but my angularity was. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Everything else was sharp and hard, but this Grecian sun evoked joy from every angularity and blurred with brightness the stiff face of the countryside. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Bennett does not so much imitate birds here as expand fancifully and often broadly — with a modernist’s angularity — on what they do, and Ms. Spencer’s readings were virtuosic and shapely. Music Review: Da Capo Chamber Players at Merkin Concert Hall - Review 2011-10-12T21:03:33Z With Andrew Kennedy's unusually lyrical Evangelist at its heart, this was Bach as intimate chamber music rather than hectoring religious experience, favouring the beauty of the writing over its angularity. St Matthew Passion | Classical review 2010-03-23T22:20:00Z These songs are spare and full of free-flow musings, recalling the more melancholy side of the Sarah Records catalog, and the awkward angularity of Beat Happening and its K Records compatriots. Music Review: Frankie Cosmos, at Glasslands Gallery in Brooklyn 2014-04-29T20:04:42Z Quite a few were, though one conspicuous absence was 12-tone or even sharp angularity. Music Review: In ?Five Borough Songbook,? 20 Composers Show N.Y. - Review 2012-01-15T20:56:39Z Not a radical reinvention so much as a dash through a side door, it finds her working with some of the same melodic angularities and obliquely personal lyrics. A Solo Turn From Sadie Dupuis of Speedy Ortiz 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z And because he can look austere – especially when a camera is pointed at him – I had assumed a corresponding angularity of mind. 10 years of Tate Modern 2010-04-24T23:07:00Z Then “Movements” introduces a new kind of formality, adding images of angularity, suggestions of knots and nonacademic positions. Dance Review: City Ballet?s Fresh Adventures and Jazzy Footwork 2010-06-03T22:29:00Z Ms. Stone’s version has the avid eyes and angularity of early vintage Crawford and a dance-till-you-drop energy that’s all drive and no gears. Emma Stone Takes Over in ‘Cabaret’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The songs offered “an angularity not easily digestible,” “a junkyard come to life.” Review: Carrie Brownstein’s ‘Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl’ 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z The element of angularity, and surprise, and constant delight in the unexpected was very much a part of Haydn, and he confessed that he owed a great debt to C.P.E. Listen to Keyboard Music by Bach (No, Not That One) 2022-01-18T05:00:00Z Ms. Gerring’s contribution, which played with the piercing angularity of the original “Lamentation,” was less thoroughly developed. Review: Martha Graham Dance Revisits a Classic in Gala 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z But the evening belonged to Ms. Buck, who sang beautifully in the plush melodies at the start and adapted expertly to increasing angularity and high-flying acrobatics as Proserpina’s plight grew dire. Music: Emmanuel Villaume to Leave Spoleto Festival USA 2010-06-01T23:00:00Z Ms. Tower avoids the unprepared leaps, extreme angularity, multiphonics and other Modernist touches that can make contemporary flute works sound strident. Music Review | St. Luke?s Chamber Ensemble: A ?Magical History Tour? on 2 Routes 2010-03-04T22:57:00Z There’s a lot of angularity to that apartment. The Set Design of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2013-12-20T05:00:00Z In the slow, mournful aria and eerily focused passacaglia he played with a rich, velvety tone and an irresistible sense of line while sacrificing nothing of Ligeti’s angularity. Music Review: Having Fun Across Generations 2010-12-20T22:45:45Z Radiant in Karen Erickson’s gold top and silk shorts, Ms. Whelan is a marvel in how smoothly she blends Mr. Petronio’s signature pliability with her own nervous, hard angularity to create a sense of urgency. Dance Review: Stephen Petronio, Joined by Wendy Whelan, at the Joyce 2012-03-08T00:28:50Z In doing so, each challenged the flakiest fans to commit to the creators' muses despite the angularities. Foxygen knocks out a brave, raucous rock 'n' roll set at the Roxy 2015-01-04T05:00:00Z These players, whose native musical tongue is tonal beauty, do not always find their way to the grit and angularity needed for much Russian repertory, especially that of the 20th century. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic and Hagen Quartet in Salzburg 2012-07-31T21:36:27Z He sometimes pointed vaguely with his left hand, only occasionally breaking the herky-jerky angularity with a sweeping circular arm gesture. Critic's Notebook: Mayor Bloomberg Leads City Center Re-Opening Gala 2011-10-26T13:54:06Z Molten and bluesy, Mr. Barron is equally indebted to the tweaked angularity of Thelonious Monk and the graceful parlance of Hank Jones; he’s one of jazz’s unassailable piano gurus. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z Once balance problems had been sorted, Jurowski and the London Philharmonic settled into a well-drilled performance, musical angularities crisp and springy. The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Its music shows both songwriters’ clear fingerprints: the pithy, hard-nosed clarity of Mr. Pop’s lyrics and the unflinching tone of his voice; and the crispness, angularity and deft convolutions of Mr. Homme’s chords and melodies. Iggy Pop and Josh Homme Team Up for Secret Album 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z They express moods or concepts, with an epic angularity that suggests El Greco. In the Galleries: Putting the ‘gold’ in ‘Gold Rush’ Fluidity is a quality in much of Ms. Thomas’s work, even as it retains the uncompromising angularity of modernism. Review: Augusta Read Thomas’s Spiritual ‘Resounding Earth’ 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z The closer was “One Finger Snap,” by Herbie Hancock, and if Mr. Lightsey didn’t quite nail the tricky angularities of its melody, he didn’t let that slow him down. Kirk Lightsey Returns to the Village Vanguard After 25 Years 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z It's dramatic, fierce, spooky, fascinating and sometimes very melodic, though it's not for those unmoved or unnerved by the angularities, discontinuities and dissonances of some contemporary-classical music and improv. Glasgow Improvisers' Orchestra/Barry Guy: Schweben – Ay, But Can Ye? – review 2012-11-29T21:50:01Z What it lacks in cohesiveness it makes up in its frankness, its quick-pivoting angularities. Books of The Times: A Lifetime of Anxiety and Lust 2011-05-25T22:16:59Z On Thursday, they were mainly illustrative of the renovated Geffen Hall’s acoustics, which in their bright dryness rewarded the lithe angularity of “Sunday Morning” but punished the violent muddle of “Storm.” Review: The Philharmonic Journeys From Ocean to Desert 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z There is also talk of a geometric concept, presumably coupled with a certain angularity of gesture, unless Mr. Wilson has lost his spots. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z But this performance made a strong case for its glimmers of forward-thinking angularity as well as its late-Verdian propulsion: it is an assemblage of set pieces — arias, ensembles, choruses — that presses forward with vigor. Opera Review: A Modern Media Spin on Ivan the Terrible 2014-03-06T11:43:55Z On one level she’s the picture of angularity, lurching fast across the stage, her strumming hand visible only as a blur: a dust devil in a platinum bob. Music Review: The Joy Formidable at Terminal 5 2012-04-01T18:50:59Z Their feathery leaves are attached to twigs of a calligraphic angularity that brings to mind wrought iron. Landscapes and Still Lifes of New Territories 2010-12-30T23:01:02Z Inspired by both the complexities of prog-rock and the angularity of post-punk, Geese makes dense and frantic music, centered on the bracing interaction between the two guitars. New York Has a New Band of Buzzy Post-Punk Teens: Geese 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z Fosse, who died in 1987, transformed musical theater with his brand of jazz choreography that celebrated a kind of sleek and sensual angularity in shows like “Sweet Charity” and “Chicago.” One Night. One Chance. One Liza (With a ‘Z’). 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z The etched angularity of her raised arm, when she encountered Siegfried for the first time, expressed both suspicion and curiosity. ‘Swan Lake’ at American Ballet Theater 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z With piano rather than horns up front, Ms. Allen brought out both the angularity and the warmth of Mr. Shorter’s harmonies. Music Review: Wayne Shorter’s 80th Birthday and Legacy of Perpetual Flux 2013-06-30T21:30:21Z "The geography is really another brooding character," says , praising its "angularities, shadows and dark moods". Is New Zealand's greatest actor New Zealand itself? 2013-08-16T23:01:49Z There are moments when the music's angularity recalls Elliott Carter, while the nagging opening of the string quartet could have come from Morton Feldman, even though what follows it is very different. Wuorinen: String Quartet No 1; Piano Quintet No 2 etc - review 2011-03-31T21:45:01Z Hilde Koch's "Torque" uses the full stage as its eight dancers shift between speedy angularity and slower stately movements. Review: Seattle Dance Project's 'Project Four' puts more than 4 on the floor 2011-02-03T20:38:03Z The planes of her face change and you are given a glimpse, suddenly, of how the angularity of her features can work on screen. Kirsten Dunst: ‘The movie industry is in a weird place – creatives blossom on TV’ 2015-10-04T04:00:00Z It is a revelation, from the incandescence of her Toccata from Widor’s Fifth Symphony to the jazzy angularity of Jean Berveiller’s “Mouvement”; the reverence of her Bach chorale preludes to the fury of her Liszt. She Was an Organist for the Ages 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z Phil debut at the Bowl conducting Stravinsky’s “Firebird,” with what The Times at the time felt had the angularity Stravinsky intended but not the rich tonal beauty or exact pitch. It's an old-school night at the Hollywood Bowl with Stravinsky and Joshua Bell 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Yet Abercrombie puts a little quaver in the voice and a little angularity in the gestures which persuasively and movingly suggest the subtlest and deepest deteriorations of age. The Sanitized Christianity of “War Room” 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Serkin conveyed well his part’s manic energy and angularity. Music Review: The Boston Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-03-12T22:16:17Z In songs that flaunt the complexity and dissonance of prog-rock and the bitter angularity of post-punk — while stirring in ideas from jazz, classical music, funk, salsa and flamenco — loathsome characters do odious things. Best Albums of 2022 2022-11-30T05:00:00Z The piece, with its melodic angularity and unusual structure, proved tricky enough that even after numerous takes, the musicians — heavyweights like Mr. Rollins and the drummer Max Roach — hadn’t managed a complete version. Orrin Keepnews, Jazz Producer and Record Executive, Is Dead at 91 2015-03-01T05:00:00Z Regarded as a model of progressive imagination and transgressive design when it debuted, its radical angularity remains forever modern. A Tokyo Itinerary, Over-the-Top Hats and More 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Now, here was a band that felt like a product of the new wave – short, punchy tracks, distorted guitars, a hint of arty angularity, a mannered vocalist – but that wrote incredibly polished pop songs. Ric Ocasek: Cars frontman who drove new wave into the mainstream 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z But today, its distinctive angularity looks almost intentional, intensifying the story’s stark loneliness. Paratopic is a short, grimy horror game with a style straight out of 1998 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z The tree’s dark grayish brown twigs bear unusual, corky ridges that lend the tree a peculiar angularity. The Mean Seed of the Sweet Gum 2018-02-07T05:00:00Z They satisfy my inner-O.C.D. artistic needs for geometry, simplicity and angularity. Waging the Cancer War, Surrounded by Signs of Life 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z But where the Air and most other laptops try to soften their lines with gentle curves, the Surface Laptop goes for angularity. Microsoft Surface Laptop review: worth the wait 2017-06-13T04:00:00Z With effort, he covered the roller with paint and stepped up to a canvas whose bottom-heavy angularity resembled an origami swan, banded with green tape. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z While the soundscape proved less dense than much of Mr. Pavone’s work, the melodies throughout retained the angularity for which he is known, even as Mr. Ballou’s harmonies occasionally softened their edges. Postwar Melodies Through an Abstract Lens 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z "We recreated it through our own prism. I loved the angularity of that stuff." Hall & Oates: 'I hated being a Daryl doll' 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z I am put off by its angularity and by the fact that it is very challenging to drive in everyday situations. 2015 McLaren 650S Test Drive And Review: Practical Supercar 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z The modern house, with its stiff angularities, narrow halls, and smart reception-rooms, expresses no idea of hospitality. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Eneas was tall and thin; but neither his tallness nor his thinness ever reached the impressive ungainliness of angularity that was Sir Hector's outstanding characteristic. Rich Relatives 2012-04-05T02:00:45.670Z When the valve-travel is more than this amount both ports may open fully, but the error due to the unequal valve-travel from the angularity of the eccentric rod is increased. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z When years before she had rushed into the library at Wendover, almost breathless in her excitement, she had something of the angularity, almost awkwardness, of half-development. The Everlasting Arms 2012-03-22T02:00:37.327Z It may be a national weakness, but it occurs to us that Sydney Smith, who was southern born as well as bred, is still more free from narrownesses and angularities than any of them. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 2012-03-21T02:00:31.390Z All specimens of convexus are paler, the skulls are more convex dorsally and narrower, with less ridging and angularity. The Pocket Gophers (Genus Thomomys) of Utah, Vol. 1 No. 1 Kansas University Publications. 2012-03-19T02:00:23.340Z Their angularities are softened and become less uniformly unpleasing. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z If only out of compliment to your architect and to the formal angularities of his building, let the ground immediately about the house be of an ornamental dressed character. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z It may be used for sitting or kneeling upon, or to soften the hardness or angularity of a chair or couch. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z There was no vividness of color, and the human forms worked upon it had an angularity and a thickness of joint which pleased him not at all. The Turnstile 2012-01-29T03:00:09.260Z The Curves are well rounded, checking the tendency to too great angularity. Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z One should not lay stress on these oddities and angularities of great men. Tennyson and His Friends 2011-12-28T03:00:32.373Z Auntie was not only fearfully and wonderfully made as regards angularity, but she was wonderfully clever as well. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z Unless done with great sympathy, however, this leads to a certain harshness and angularity that should be foreign to clay. Pottery, for Artists Craftsmen & Teachers 2011-12-10T03:00:15.097Z The cams are then checked to see that they are separated by the proper degree of angularity. Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair 2011-12-04T03:00:04.777Z In many illustrated books which have come down to us what must have been beautiful designs have been completely spoilt, rendered even grotesque, by the fine curves of the drawing being translated into scratchy angularities. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z She felt the true ring of friendly sympathy in every word that was spoken; the touches of slang pleased her; they were like the angularities of the lady's physical shape, severe and yet not ungraceful. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Her tall slender figure, supple, shapely, and all softly rounded curves without a discoverable abruptness or angularity anywhere about it, lent itself with singular charm to her present occupation. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z I am at your service for any duty you can ask me in return;' and the rigid body was bent with soldierly angularity in what was intended to be a very ceremonious bow. Mated from the Morgue A tale of the Second Empire 2011-11-15T03:00:23.507Z The lateral margins of the skull in S. cyanosticta are gently curved, and have an angularity anterior to the palatine-maxillary suture; the anterior margins are less angular in S. phaeota, which has a broader snout. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca 2011-10-24T02:00:14.853Z The bare framework of one of these giant oaks shows a wonderful maze of gnarled branches, whose grotesque angularities are multiplied with added years and complicated by damage and repair. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z She had succeeded only in emphasising its uncompromising atmosphere of coldness and angularity. Mrs. Bindle Some Incidents from the Domestic Life of the Bindles 2011-09-08T02:00:22.323Z He was scrupulously attired in an old “dress suit,” the conventional lines of which, with the stiff expanse of shirt-front, seemed to make his yellow angularity of feature still more pronounced. The Wayfarers 2011-08-28T02:00:32.867Z The individualism showed its most impracticable angularity when you tried to force it into a cooperative, well-disciplined scheme like our escape from England. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z The skull is broad; the lateral margins are gently curved, and have a pronounced angularity just anterior to the palatines which results in a broad, truncate snout. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca 2011-10-24T02:00:14.853Z Despite its angularity this is the trimmest and one of the handsomest of our native magnolias, and it has the merit of hardiness even in New England, where it attains large size. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The butterflies are somewhat smaller than the Violet-tips and show to a remarkable degree the angularity in the borders of the wings. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z He bore with saintly patience all the angularities and oddities of these strange characters--and they honored him as a saint for it. On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau 2011-07-17T02:00:33.887Z Her body seemed never to have outgrown its adolescence, yet its slightness was quite without any angularity or awkwardness, it achieved roundness without plumpness, a stroke of physical genius. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z The nasals are moderate in size; because of the anterior angularity of the lateral margins, the long axes of the nasals lie parallel to the maxillary. Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca 2011-10-24T02:00:14.853Z Third, the "oak tree form" shows a horizontal habit of branching, and an angularity of limbs usually more noticeable among oaks. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The striking angularity of the wing's border doubtless helps to conceal it, and the habit of dropping motionless to the ground when disturbed must also have protective value. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z Both the Misses James were alike tall, but what was angularity in the uncompromisingly erect figure of Miss Nancy, who had never known a sick day, was slenderness and delicacy in her elder sister. The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields 2011-06-01T02:00:27.327Z But education and social convention tend to smooth away angularities and prominences, and hence among the classes influenced by them he rarely found the material he needed. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z He was attired in a close-fitting dress of blue cloth that served to increase his angularities, and from his belt hung an ink-horn counterbalanced by a short knife. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Here, however, as yet, you have the angular and uneven formation of the cranium, with its attendant angularity of temperament and disposition. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Her mind went back ten years, and she thought of Lady Isabel, and how much she had lamented her daughter's youthful angularity. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z The real truth was that she had only a soft roundness of outline, which put attractive dimples, and curves in the places where you might have expected angularities. The Ranch Girls in Europe 2011-01-13T03:01:01.483Z He was devoid of the raw-bone angularity which characterizes most of them, and spoke very good English, through his mouth, instead of his nose. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z These opposite charges align with one another in a rigid and, because of the molecule's angularity, less compact way than when water is liquid; as a result, it takes up much more space. Not a hole lot you can do to keep roadways smooth 2010-03-30T04:00:00Z 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 This error in the thread is due to the angularity between the driving dog and the faceplate, which causes the work to be rotated at a varying velocity. Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. He laid two pounds on the table, and Mrs. Cleghorne immediately cheered up, if so positive an expression could be applied to a woman whose angularities seemed to forbid any display of good-will. Sinister Street, vol. 2 You are still somewhat proud of their Gothic angularity. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Her lithe curves would flatten to angularity and the lustre fade out of her hair's burnished masses with a few seasons of drudgery and child-bearing. The Tempering Tall, almost as tall as El Sarria, he was yet distinguished from his fellows by a notable gauntness and angularity of figure. The Firebrand All the old angularity had slipped away from her lately, and a new graciousness and sweetness had taken its place. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days First, she is tall, very tall, I think, and there is in her a strange mingling of angularity and the divinest grace. The Day of His Youth Every line of her is long, but definitely feminine; breasts and hips and throat and legs all delicately curved, without a hint of angularity. Pledged to the Dead Unfortunately the somewhat angular man shared his work with a chief who had intellectual angularities of his own, not very smoothly concealed. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) When I told him how repellent the angularity and coldness of the Prussians had appeared to me, he said that this was just what he wanted to talk to me about. Waldfried A Novel During the past six months Dorothy had shot up like Jack's beanstalk, and she was still growing fast—an awkward process, which involved a certain angularity of both body and mind. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days The angularity of the North German woman is notorious; an uncharming person. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 The full pleated skirt with the upper portion drawn up at the hips, and the cape about the shoulders, obviated the difference between Odalie's delicately rounded slenderness and Hamish's lank angularity. The Story of Old Fort Loudon The shifting sunlight that fell upon her through the moving leaves of the sycamores lent a grace to the angularity of her attitude. Stories of the Foot-hills I am well assured that the majority of spectators see no curves in them at all, but an intensely upright, stern, spiry ruggedness and angularity. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) The spinster was not more than forty, and rather good-looking, in spite of her angularity. Dainty's Cruel Rivals The Fatal Birthday There was a strange sort of angularity about all their movements, but, withal, a certain grace, bizarre and notable. Finn The Wolfhound Her thin brown hair, partially streaked with grey, was brushed closely over her scalp, and this gave her profile an angularity that became positively grotesque in the shape behind her. The Romance of a Plain Man Mother Withrow had heard them with a tightening of the muscles of her face and an increased angularity in her tall figure, but she had proudly refrained from the faintest manifestation of surprise. Stories of the Foot-hills As Cima masters the new medium he becomes larger and simpler, and his forms lose much of their early angularity. The Venetian School of Painting Upon the whole, those who shaved and were smooth looked worse than those who did not, for they thus exposed the angularities of their chins and jaws. Amaryllis at the Fair One noticed it in the comparative angularity and leggyness of his build. Finn The Wolfhound How different it all was from the harsh red angularities of Mars! Slaves of Mercury "I love the shading of your hair and eyes, the smooth angularity of your tallness, the red ecstasy of your mind." Life Sentence They have not the attrition which wears away the angularities. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Last, but not least, all the lovely curves of the throat are shown in this way, and any suspicion of angularity of the collar bone is hidden. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society But the desks before her had an abstract angularity that bruised her sentiment and made her shrink. The Rainbow She's really a good little thing at bottom; this angularity and stiffness that you object to is chiefly manner. In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series This second visitation looked like mere curiosity and gossip and offset the opinion he had begun to form of the spinster—that she was sound underneath her angularities and mannerisms. Rimrock Trail In Italian work, at least, it was usual to get over the angularity of silhouette inherent in canvas stitches by working an outline separately. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery In compressed form, in color of nut, also in the angularity and thickness of shell, it is quite similar to shellbark hickory. The Pecan and its Culture But with all her angularity and mannish ways, she was a fine mother wasted: and in her heart she knew it. Captain Desmond, V.C. Our pupils acquire agility without angularity or unsightly protuberances anywhere. The Art of Stage Dancing The Story of a Beautiful and Profitable Profession However, be this as it may, no one at least realized more fully than I how lovable was his nature, with all his angularities—how simple and courageous, how manly and noble. Old Familiar Faces The piquancy about natural or other forms thus reduced to angularity argues, of course, no affectation of quaintness on the part of the worker, but was the unavoidable outcome of her way of work. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery His excessive angularity was accentuated by his extraordinary clumsiness. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy Pale blue and faded yellow silk cushions softened the formal angularity of the wide cane-seated couch and low, square chairs. Studies in love and in terror The angularity of the branching, the frequent forking, the big healing or hollow knots with rounding callus-lips, give the tree character. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 We all have our angularities; we all have unpleasant facets of character when occasion offers for showing them. Old Familiar Faces Yet there was a coldness, an angularity, that told me these Zervs, as Nokomee had called her race, lacked true sympathy for life forms, lacked emotion as we know it in art. Valley of the Croen In these a good deal of the stiffness and angularity of the regulation frock coat is got rid of, and they admit of adaptation to different statures and sizes. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Such passages are happily destitute of what the Viennese academicians called "style;" they have more of the old German angularity than of "the Grecian bend." Overbeck I recall him, two months later, a little less uncouth, a little better dressed, but in singularity and in angularity much the same. America First Patriotic Readings But there are some unfortunate people whose angularities are for ever chafing and irritating their friends. Old Familiar Faces The very imperfection of his flesh-painting repeats in color what the greatest Lombard sculptors sought in stone—a sharpness of relief that passes over into angularity. New Italian sketches Advancing years had not produced any unseemly embonpoint, nor had her figure fallen into the opposite extreme, and sharpened into meagre angularity; its outline retained sufficient roundness not to lose the curves or grace. Fairy Fingers A Novel As Laura stood there hesitating, that odd mixture of maturity and a sort of girlish angularity in her appearance became unusually marked. The Privet Hedge The answer to this objection is that Jock is not asked to sacrifice his personality; he is asked to sacrifice his angularity. Mushrooms on the Moor Seventeen has come; its dignity and seriousness have followed upon the frolics of untutored youth; and the sweet charm of maidenhood has smoothed down such angularities as were formerly permissible. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols The rosy light falling upon her failed to disguise the paleness of her face or its slight angularity of line. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance There was a grim angularity to the deep porch below, a military cut to the bare front door which added to the forbidding character of the place. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story She was young—certainly under thirty; but rather stiff and prim, very upright, and not free from angularity. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada The present Cathedral stands on the heights of the city; and from one side or another its clean, straight walls can be seen in all their large angularity and absence of architectural significance. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 HE fact of my being only an artist's lay-figure will account for any stiffness or angularity in my literary style. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 It aims at truth, but only attains caricature, by exaggerating Lincoln’s awkwardness and angularity, the size of his hands and feet, and the anxiety in his face. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Already a great deal of her awkwardness and angularity had disappeared with the self-confidence, or rather more the self-forgetfulness which her work had given her. The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army Lady Enville—for she was the taker of the siesta—was as free from any appearance of angularity or primness as possible. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada The essential difference between these two forms lies in the angularity of the latter. The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators Ellice, on the contrary, possessed a low, plump figure, all curve and dimple, with no appearance of angularity or stiffness. Hubert's Wife A Story for You Abraham Lincoln personified it in all its angularity and simplicity. How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony Wren's taste, later aided by the lapse of time, softened down the hard angularity of the building, but it can in no sense be considered admirable. The Kensington District The Fascination of London There were some distressing months of angularity, both in physique and in manners, at seventeen; then a quick and miraculous escape into trimness and grace. On the Stairs “Marcella begs you will allow her excuses, Madam, for she is indisposed this morning,” said Mrs Jane, in a quick, sharp voice, which made Phoebe doubt if all her angularity were outside. The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) His mental and moral, like his physical organization, was full of angularities, discrepancies, and unharmonious combinations. Hubert's Wife A Story for You Yes, each one is allowed to have his angularities save Borrow. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" Therefore the sudden angularity is abrupt to an appreciative eye. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets Here was the stiff angularity of cactus, the twisted vegetation of an arid land. Rebel Spurs In spite of her ignorance and angularities there was a certain charm about the new-comer. For the Sake of the School Olive Treadwell was handsomer than ever, for her gray hair softened her features and the years had added just enough flesh to her bones to insure grace, not angularity. A Son of the Hills The result of it is that we believe ourselves to be a frank, outspoken, good-natured race; but we produce an unpleasant effect of stiffness, angularity, discourtesy, and self-centredness upon more genial nations. Joyous Gard Her wrists had a certain flat angularity that bespoke a peasant ancestry, but she had a singular freshness and youthful bloom. Gigolo "Little May" was like Annie, and promised to be as pretty; but she was a rose in the bud still, with the unfilled out outlines and crude angularities of a girl not done growing. A Houseful of Girls They existed, to be sure, but with an angularity that made them seem solutions of problems, rather than expressions of emotion; they were merely mechanical, for she had lost all interest in them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 She squared her stout shoulders and looked derisively at the loose angularity of Chōbei, his rickety physique. The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2) She was tall, and there was a sort of dainty angularity about her narrow shoulders. Young Lucretia and Other Stories In personal appearance, aside from some angularities, considerable gauntness, and much sunburn, Seth told himself that he was not different from other men. The Way of the Wind This is a first proof that when truths, keenly felt and seemingly rival, are discussed in Conference spirit, the angularities that offend disappear; and wider, bigger truth comes into the possession of all. The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 There was some angularity in his figures and draperies, and a tendency to get nearer nature and further away from the ecclesiastical and ascetic conception in all that he did. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Below, and floating along a slope of considerable angularity, the stream of eruptive matter spread away to a depth which did not give the volcano a height of three hundred fathoms. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Nanteuil shrugged her pretty shoulders, which still retained something of the angularity of youth. A Mummer's Tale There is also much angularity about the E. side, which is evident at an early stage of sunrise. The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features She stood on the extreme edge of the cliff, her slim straight figure outlined to angularity against the sky. The Betrayal The compositions were huddled, the landscapes pure but finical, the figures inclined to slimness, awkwardness, and angularity in the lines of form or drapery, and uncertain in action. A Text-Book of the History of Painting A certain angularity of figure had vanished—the fashionable clothes which Mr. Bullsom had insisted upon ordering for her did ample justice to her graceful curves and lithe buoyant figure. A Prince of Sinners His wife was quite the opposite in nearly every particular, except height and angularity. The Husbands of Edith It should not be sharp or pointed, either in the point or barb, but smooth, and quite free from any angularity that can catch the silk. The Ladies' Work-Book Containing Instructions In Knitting, Crochet, Point-Lace, etc. The approaching Hebrews were studies of sharp angularity in monochrome, and the soul which showed in the eyes was no longer a spiritual but a ravenous thing. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt He was always Flemish in type, subject, and method, a trifle repulsive at first through angularity and emotional exaggeration, but a man to be studied. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Crudity, angularity, harshness, seemed to vanish, to dissolve. Foes No one appreciated more the "pillow of a woman's mind"; but really now the pillow might have been stuffed with stones, so many corners and angularities had developed themselves in his feminalities. Bluebell A Novel In spite of smallness, bareness, and angularity, it is fit for a May morning to enter, and expand to full-grown day. Idolatry A Romance The incongruous surroundings emphasized his every roughness, his every angularity. A Man's Woman There is in Dürer a naive awkwardness of figure, some angularity of line, strain of pose, and in composition oftentimes huddling and overloading of the scene with details. A Text-Book of the History of Painting At present she was too big and undeveloped for grace; her awkward manners and angularities made people think her rough and uncouth. Uncle Max The curves are well rounded, checking the tendency to too great angularity. Five Months at Anzac A Narrative of Personal Experiences of the Officer Commanding the 4th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force He was tall and rawboned, his face burned well by the sun, but he had an angularity and he bore himself with a certain stiffness that did not belong to the "Texans" of Southern birth. The Texan Star The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty But his satisfaction cooled at sight of Talbot Hayes by the mantelpiece, inclining his polished angularity to catch some confidential tit-bit from little Mrs Hunter-Ranyard. Far to Seek A Romance of England and India It was at Augsburg that the Renaissance art in Germany showed in more restful composition, less angularity, better modelling and painting, and more sense of the ensemble of a picture. A Text-Book of the History of Painting What would this strange creature now rising to six feet four inches of awkward angularity say in reply to this wonderful oration? Children of the Market Place It is but the extreme expression of a temper which has reduced the angularity of those who are very far from surrendering or belittling definite beliefs and doctrines. The Unity of Civilization The angularity and crumpled draperies of the Milanese manner, when so exaggerated, produce an impression of caricature. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series To refuse to accommodate oneself to the angularities of life or to make provision beforehand for its catastrophes is, indeed, folly; but it may be a divine folly. Aspects of Literature The dough of the poetic language is here seen heavily pounded by a powerful hand, bent on reducing its angularities and on improving its plasticity. Tragic Sense Of Life The wedge, for instance, appeals to him not only by its angularity and its rending thrust, but as a weapon contrived by man's wit and driven home by his muscle. Robert Browning The somewhat harsh angularity of movement and faulty pronunciation have been replaced by exquisite grace of gesture and clear precision of word, where such precision is necessary. Reviews The very imperfection of his flesh-painting repeats in colour what the greatest Lombard sculptors sought in stone—a sharpness of relief that passes over into angularity. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series There was a pronounced angularity of feature about the young Scotchman which now took on a chiseled sternness. The Fortieth Door But in this case there was still the diffidence, the angularity of inexperienced youth, an awkward feeling; and there was a sense of consternation as though some one had suddenly knocked at the door. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories Whereas Browning's restlessly aspiring temperament worked under the control of an eye and ear that fastened with peculiar emphasis and eagerness upon all the limits, the dissonances, the angularities that Shelley's harmonising fancy dissolved away. Robert Browning Not even the nurse's flowing garb could conceal the angularity of her figure. Where the Sabots Clatter Again Her complexion was pale, but clear, her figure was slender and active, but without angularities, and she was of the middle height. Running Water If Hannah could escape her mother's inclination to angularity she would be a pretty woman. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People She had grown taller, but she retained the pleasant angularity of extreme youth. The Purple Heights In the contours of event and circumstance, as in those of material objects, he loves jagged angularity, not harmonious curve. Robert Browning After all she has written but three novels and it is not to be wondered at that they all have about them certain of the graceful angularities of an art not yet complete. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Of a different order is 'The Days of Bruce,' a historic romance of the late thirteenth century, which is less historic than romantic, and in whose mirror the rugged chieftain would hardly recognize his angularities. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 There were the cap and mantle, the rapier, the long thin limbs and sinister angularity. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2 Pomfret spoke with a strong Yorkshire accent, and had all the angularity of demeanour which marks the typical Yorkshireman. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories His "clefts" and "wedges" owe their attraction not only to their intricate angularity but to the violent cleavings and thrustings apart which they result from or produce. Robert Browning Even religion does not all at once straighten out all the twists in human nature, nor rub down all its hard angularities. The Teaching of Jesus Is Lord Curzon one of the rugged and ragged poor men whose angularities have been rubbed away? All Things Considered Donatello and other Florentines worked under different sympathies for form, affecting angularity in their treatment of the nude, adhering to literal transcripts from the model or to conventional stylistic schemes. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti A. The angularity of the rod prevents it reaching the quarter. Rough and Tumble Engineering But he is equally allured by the opposite, or salient, kind of angularity. Robert Browning He was clothed in an elastic dress painted of a leaden and cadaverous colour, which fitted closely to his fleshless figure, and defined all his angularities. Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire She should aim to modify the unhappy angularity of her profile as well as to repress her gossipy tendencies. What Dress Makes of Us Without the slightest symptoms of angularity he nevertheless varied every instant with graduations of size and brightness scarcely possible for any Figure within the scope of my experience. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions Miss Tox's dress, though perfectly genteel and good, had a certain character of angularity and scantiness. Dombey and Son Its angularity was relieved by a porch with a flat roof that had a railing about it and served as a balcony for the second-story lodgers. The Cost Without the slightest symptoms of angularity he nevertheless varied every instant with gradations of size and brightness scarcely possible for any Figure within the scope of my experience. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated) "I am not sure that I understood," said Mr. Wentworth, who had angularity in his voice as well as in his gestures. The Europeans Her gait, too, had a flexuousness about it, which seemed to avoid angularity. The Mayor of Casterbridge It was a brave, good speech, a speech from that stanch and strong spirit which lay behind all the acidities and angularities of the old zoologist. The Poison Belt The sudden and violent changes of weather that take place among these watersheds would almost seem to be cause enough to explain the wearing down of the angularities of the heights. Yorkshire Erratic, metaphorical, elliptical to excess, and therefore a dangerous model, "the mature oaken Carlylese style," with its freaks, "nodosities and angularities," is as set and engrained in his nature as the Birthmark in Hawthorne's romance. Thomas Carlyle Regard the swollen lips, the skin tightened over the nose, the distortion of his shape, the angularity of his whole appearance. A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare There is such a harshness, an angularity and bitterness about it, that he wholly fails of the effect produced by the easy dignity of the earlier poet. Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Perhaps a year before this moral angularity would not have affected him; it would not have appealed to him as being either clever or objectionable; he would simply not have noticed it at all. Thoroughbreds His face, despite its angularity of outline and its wanness, had that expression of complacency which often relieves from pathos the countenances of harmlessly demented people. Tales from Bohemia She is withered; she is faded; the drapery that enfolds her has in its dignity an angularity, too, that tells of age, of sorrow, of a stern resignation to the must. Woman in the Ninteenth Century and Kindred Papers Relating to the Sphere, Condition and Duties, of Woman. Doubtless some of the individual angularities had been rubbed off, by this time, by the pleasant but close contact of the Community life—and some of hers as well. Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs Built before artistic ambitions and cosmopolitan architects had undertaken to soften American angularities, it was merely a commodious building, ample enough for a dozen Hitchcocks to loll about in. The Web of Life It is then that the sylph-like form assumes an unpleasant angularity, suggestive of weariness and care. The Englishwoman in America The still wiser nations of the west have adopted a swifter mode of destroying health, and creating angularity, by crushing the upper part of the female body. Friends in Council — First Series It was a pleasant vagueness in which all angularities of feeling were lost, and you were disposed to a tolerance of the things that had hurt or offended you before. Roman Holidays, and Others The grossness, the roughness, the too great angularity of the actual, is removed from me. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance It was his very angularities that seemed to make Forster's friends cling to him so closely. Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 It is remarkable, however, that ladies of recent English extraction, under exactly the same circumstances, retain their good looks into middle life, and advancing years produce embonpoint, instead of angularity. The Englishwoman in America The angularities, the lack of colour, the thin chest, the stooping back were effaced. Bunch Grass A Chronicle of Life on a Cattle Ranch Sarah Bernhardt will not come to Brighton if she can help it, lest she should lose that high art angularity and slipperiness of shape which suits her rôle. The Open Air There were a good many angularities about Christian character in those days, and they frequently stood out very sharply. Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian To his agreeable surprise he found that time had mellowed her spirit and softened her angularities. His Sombre Rivals The first thing that impressed her was his unusual height, and the next a certain awkwardness and angularity. From Jest to Earnest The thinness, and, indeed, the angularity of her figure was almost powerfully indicated with broad lines of paint and charcoal. Spring Days They had a living-room and two very small bedrooms in a brick tenement wedged in among others of like unredeemed angularity, and belonging to the semi-respectable, commonplace order. Without a Home But her shoulders were high and square, and there was a sort of angularity and harshness about all the lines of her person. A Siren Any person walking behind her on the pavement would have thought her a girl of fifteen, from the lightness of her step and the angularity of her shoulders and waist. The Fortune of the Rougons The incessant assaults of the sea have cut deep but narrow clefts in the granite, worn out sounding hollows, and smoothed away angularities. Confessions of a Beachcomber The right hand must play its thirds, especially the diatonic and chromatic scales, with such equality that no angularity of motion shall be noticeable where the fingers pass under or over each other. Chopin : the Man and His Music I boldly assert everywhere, that men and women should not live together in daily inharmony, and give birth to children to inherit and perpetuate their angularities and discordances. Dawn His face and whole build, in spite of the angularity of youth, indicated great strength, both physical and moral. The Cossacks Mr. Converse rose, unfolding himself with dignified angularity. The Landloper Yet there was no trace, no suggestion of angularity. The Pit Her widowhood had, in a subtle way, softened these little angularities of her spiritual contour. The Red Planet How continually had public claims, the claims of other persons, with their rough angularities of character, broken in upon him, the shepherd of the flock. Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 It intensified the gleam in his earnest blue eyes, while it softened his angularities and bush roughness, and as she looked up at him, she could not help feeling what a splendid fellow he was! Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Over her travelling costume, already sufficiently repulsive, she wears a tennis jersey, which accentuates the angularity of her figure, and in her person she seems the very incarnation of the respectability of the British Isles. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) She was very tall and there was something masculine in the long angularity of her limbs. The Captives Yes, each one is allowed to have his angularities save Borrow. The Life of George Borrow It became still more interesting when, after the angularities of a combination of straight lines, I learnt to portray the graces of a curve. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Dutch tiling and angularities and conceits of all kinds abound. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Below the average height, yet not insignificant, erect, without exaggeration, precise in movement without angularity, swift in action without haste, he was indeed a joy to behold. The Sky Pilot in No Man's Land She had added this to her unique self-confidence, and it had toned down the angularities of her character. Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day Toward noon Mr. Jefferson stepped out of the house and walked over to the Capitol—a tall, rather loose-jointed figure, with swinging stride, symbolizing, one is tempted to think, the angularity of the American character. Jefferson and His Colleagues; a chronicle of the Virginia dynasty I fear even the deft graciousness of the highest art could not have softened the rigid angularities of that youthful figure, its self-complacent vulgarity, its cheap finery, its expressionless ill-favor. Tales of the Argonauts The farm buildings were half submerged in this glowing tide of color and lost their uncouth angularity with their hidden rude foundations. A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Her voice had a sharp, dry tone in it, and her motions a jerking angularity about them. Half a Life-Time Ago A new suit of fashionably-cut clothes had changed him, without, however, entirely concealing his rustic angularity of figure and outline. Drift from Two Shores Despite a certain angularity of figure and her hollow cheeks she was certainly one of the most distinguished-looking women in the room. The Yellow Crayon Possibly the two former had had as much to do as the latter with her angularity and severe strength. Mae Madden Her stillness, the angularity of her lines, and the stick-like straightness of her legs make her look like a halfpenny gingerbread horse. The Schoolmistress, and other stories His whole costume was worn, but strong and very becoming to him, making him look broader, covering up his angularity, and giving him a military air. Creatures That Once Were Men Mr. Hoopdriver put his hands on his knees and stuck out his elbows with extreme angularity. The Wheels of Chance: a Bicycling Idyll The angularity of her elbows was disagreeable to him. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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