| 单词 | gigantism |
| 例句 | I walk to Mom and Dad’s bedroom with the evidence of my gigantism still on my back. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Like the buildup of super-tall skyscrapers along the Asian rim in our own time, architectural gigantism followed the accumulation of sufficient money and political confidence to make such gestures. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z In an era of TV gigantism, when ambitious shows distend their episodes like a Yes double album, this small thing is no small thing. Review: In ‘Vida,’ Home Is Where the Gentrification Is 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z He was “our country’s greatest unacknowledged design visionary,” the critic and graphic designer Michael Bierut wrote in Design Observer in 2005, “the visual poet of American gigantism.” Bruce McCall, Satirical Artist Who Conjured a ‘Retrofuture,’ Dies at 87 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z There’s nothing earthbound about this performance, because the music’s gigantism is consistently held aloft. Boisterous, novel effects on Prokofiev by Baltimore Symphony programmer 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Other than provide a link to current sufferers of an inherited form of pituitary tumour, I cannot see how this advances our understanding of gigantism. Letters: Irish giant should be buried, not gaped at 2011-01-22T00:07:11Z Our critic Jennifer Senior writes that McKibben is a proposing a thought experiment, “daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z What he’s proposing is merely a thought experiment, daring the reader to ponder the virtues of smallness in an age of military and corporate gigantism. A Polite Drive for Secession in ‘Radio Free Vermont’ 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z A tiger, a miniature Italian man, a girl with gigantism, a fish with legs, a pink hairball and a redheaded half-reptile walk into Manhattan. ‘Arlo the Alligator Boy’ Review: Of Songs and Scales 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z The gigantism of the project far outpaces its slender rewards, which shrink further by comparison. Adrián Villar Rojas at the Geffen Contemporary: The art museum, frozen in time 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Much will depend on Thomas Woltz, from the landscape architecture firm Nelson Byrd Woltz, whose task is to counteract all the glass, steel, shade, concrete, gigantism and randomness. Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z And yet with each effort to outdo the last attempt at gigantism, the whole game begins to feel a little silly, and sad. Perspective | Mount Rushmore is colossal kitsch, perfect for a populist spectacle 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z But in D.C., you feel the counterpoint between the coldly marbled gigantism of the National Gallery and the Phillips, on a leafy street just off Dupont Circle, with special intensity. At 100, the Phillips Collection doesn’t seem to have aged 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Or You Could Kiss Me Cottesloe, Until 18 November The question, says Jones, is typical of a "pressure towards gigantism in puppetry" that he and his partner are resisting. The gay puppet stars of Or You Could Kiss Me 2010-10-03T20:59:00Z The move, he said, frees City Opera from the “the cultural gigantism that created Lincoln Center” and the pressure to do big works to fill the house. How People?s Opera Orchestrated Its Peril 2011-06-15T13:37:18Z “André the Giant rode the wave of the rise of wrestling in America, while suffering from the painful health condition of gigantism,” Steindorff said in the announcement. André the Giant to Get the Biopic Treatment 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Are we witnessing a sartorial form of island gigantism, the phenomenon that brought about hulking megafauna like the Komodo dragon and the dodo? The Next Big Thing in Fashion? Big Things 2014-04-23T22:56:50Z “The Nix” presents that strain of gigantism unique to debut novelists who fear this will be their only shot. With ‘The Nix,’ Nathan Hill announces himself as a major new comic novelist 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Musical greatness requires some form of dominance or gigantism, typically measured in lasting direct influence on other artists and a magnitude of personality and celebrity that makes bystanders pay attention along with true fans. Kinks' Ray Davies is turning 70. Why it matters. 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z A substance called “goo,” produced with a boy’s chemistry set, causes gigantism in a gang of rocking teenagers, who become 30-foot delinquents running amok in a California town. Bert I. Gordon, Auteur of Mutant Monster Movies, Dies at 100 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z Studios were punished for going the conservative route for comedies, at least in assuming their blockbuster gigantism could be a one-size-fits-all model for success in every genre. Too many sequels, too much money: why did so many comedies flop in 2016? 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z “Television has come down with a case of gigantism.” Poniewozik diagnosis a condition, but doesn’t entirely convince about its insidiousness. “Lonely and Horny” and Little Comedy 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z The ability to continue growing throughout the year may have been a key innovation, sustained by great migrations, that facilitated the emergence of gigantism in early sauropods. How Sauropod Dinosaurs Became the Biggest Land Animals Again and Again 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z Even the plane’s main appeal, its gigantism, has drawn criticism as a holdover of Soviet mentality that Ukraine has no need for today. Restoring a Giant Plane: Ukrainian Resilience or Folly? 2023-03-27T04:00:00Z Typical targets were deceased prisoners and the poor — and, in the United States, African American cemeteries — but scientists like Hunter were also interested in bodies with unusual conditions, like pregnancy, dwarfism and gigantism. Bones of ‘Irish Giant,’ who begged not to be a specimen, removed from display 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z Since then, scientists who have studied his skeleton have determined that he had a tumor that caused acromegaly and gigantism, conditions in which the body produces too much growth hormone. London Museum Removes ‘Irish Giant’ Skeleton From Display 2023-01-21T05:00:00Z To examine how changes to whale DNA over time may have caused their gigantism, Mariana Nery, a biologist at the State University of Campinas in Brazil and colleagues used a targeted approach. Unlocking the Genes That Made Whales Into Giants 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z It shows that gigantism in marine turtles developed independently in separate Cretaceous lineages in North America and Europe. Fossils of car-sized dinosaur-era sea turtle unearthed in Spain 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z Oversecretion of growth hormone can lead to gigantism in children, causing excessive growth. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z Knowing that people with gigantism often died young, Hunter offered to buy his corpse. Bones of ‘Irish Giant,’ who begged not to be a specimen, removed from display 2023-01-24T05:00:00Z For example, gigantism is a disorder in children that is caused by the secretion of abnormally large amounts of GH, resulting in excessive growth. Anatomy and Physiology 2013-06-19T00:00:00Z Whether studying the genetics of a whale’s magnitude ever helps to fight disease, the mystery of their gigantism is certainly a topic of public interest. Unlocking the Genes That Made Whales Into Giants 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z The strange pairing of ferocity and joy, like everything else Donald did with so much intensity in the Super Bowl, cut through all the overhyped gigantism of the occasion with memorable physical detail. Perspective | Aaron Donald, the Super Bowl’s true MVP, finally gets his ring 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Many of their children had special needs, including behavioral disorders and developmental delays; one had autism, and another had gigantism, a rare hormonal condition. How ‘Shadow’ Foster Care Is Tearing Families Apart 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z "His parents were normal size but George was a freak of nature and had gigantism," added Bob, who has researched his family and great uncle George's "surreal" story. The Greatest Showman's tallest story 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z The effect, surely intended, of all this gigantism is the diminution of the individual. Opinion | Spain faces an ongoing grapple with the politics of memory 2020-01-16T05:00:00Z Taken together, they showed that whale gigantism is driven by the animals’ ability to increase their net energy gain using specialized foraging mechanisms. Why are whales big, but not bigger? 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z Although this often occurs on islands, it is different from a similar phenomenon, island gigantism, in which small, existing creatures become slightly bigger after they leave the mainland. These Giant Parrots Once Roamed New Zealand 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z The Holland Festival production, which was titled “Aus licht,” reflects a tendency toward gigantism in the modern performing arts—multimedia spectacles that often impress more through sheer scale than through artistic coherence. Karlheinz Stockhausen Composes the Cosmos 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Programming at the Armory has also shown a tendency toward gigantism: the floor gets covered by water; a flock of sheep wanders around the arena; everyone says, “Wow, cool,” and takes pictures for Instagram. The Shed Attempts to Inject Culture Into Hudson Yards 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z It’s like a regular true-wireless headphones case with a serious case of gigantism. Powerbeats Pro review: the best Beats 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z The London-born son of a policeman was diagnosed with gigantism, a condition that causes excessive growth, aged eight. How Peter Mayhew became Chewbacca 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z This trait, known as polar gigantism, is thought to be essential to why they and many other cold-dwelling invertebrates of unusual size managed to survive. How Giant Sea Spiders May Survive in Warming Oceans 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z But it is questionable whether or not the ills outlined above by Wu and Leonhardt are a product of economic gigantism per se. In antitrust, size isn’t everything 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z Dr. Caccone plans to dive deep into the genomes to piece together how giant tortoises evolved traits like gigantism and carapace shape. Seeking Clues to Longevity in Lonesome George’s Genes 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Asked about Knickers, Richard Wassersug, an honorary professor and herpetologist at the University of British Columbia who studies gigantism in tadpoles, said he wouldn’t want to speculate outside of his realm of expertise. Meet Knickers, the giant cow that is neither a cow nor a giant 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z Does Big Bird suffer from untreated gigantism, perhaps caused by a hormonal imbalance? Opinion | Bert and Ernie, Political Puppets 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z If the disease starts before individuals reach puberty, while they are still growing, the result is what is known as pituitary gigantism. The Patient Had Pain When He Walked, but There Was a More Telling Change 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z They drew my blood and gave me an echocardiogram to see if I had gigantism, Marfan syndrome or some other disorder that would explain why I had not stopped growing. What’s it like to be 6ft 8in tall? 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z “This means that the evolution of extreme gigantism within titanosaurs happened but only once, and not in multiple separate events,” Diego Pol, one of the authors of the study, said in a statement. Which dinosaur is the biggest? There’s a new contender — and it’s alarmingly large. 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z The results reveal gigantism emerged independently in several branches of the family tree, including the bowhead and the right whales. How did whales become so large? Scientists dive into marine mystery 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Before this self-conscious gigantism bedazzled critics, it bedazzled Noel and Morris. ‘Flattened by the cocaine panzers’ – the toxic legacy of Oasis’s Be Here Now 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Like many islands, Cuba is known for gigantism and miniaturism: species that grow very large or very small. A Manhattan Museum Looks at Cuba’s Exotic Fauna and Flora 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z If the Olympics have not, and cannot, achieve their lofty aims, then exactly what special purpose does this quadrennial exercise in corporate and governmental gigantism serve — other than to enrich well-connected businesses and aggrandize states? Stop the Olympics 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Pressured to deliver the latter, a desperate Verdean fakes it by plundering the grave of Johnny Jerusalem, a famous wrestler with cerebral gigantism and passes the noggin off as the Real McCoy. 'Don Verdean' buries the punchlines in an Old Testament archaeology comedy 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The lengths, as well as the position of each species on the baleen whale family tree, were then fed into a series of computer models to examine how and when gigantism cropped up. How did whales become so large? Scientists dive into marine mystery 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Deformed animals helped explain giant bones found in the ground, such as fossil bones that were the remains of animals affected by gigantism, a rare condition that causes abnormal growth and disproportionately large limbs. How Animal Freakshows Helped The Science Of Biology Develop 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z The mall trumpeted its superlative size, recalling the blunt gigantism of Soviet industrial planning, which once brought the world its largest steel mills or hydroelectric power plants. Russian Consumers Reflect the Pinch of Economic Sanctions 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Gheorghe’s height is the result of a pituitary gland condition called gigantism. Big man on campus: George Muresan shines at St. Andrew’s with father’s support 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Vuguin believes the new findings hold real promise in curbing gigantism. Scientists May Have Spotted Genetic Cause of 'Gigantism' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z That, says Slater, drove the evolution of gigantism in baleen whales. How did whales become so large? Scientists dive into marine mystery 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z Lesson one then is to avoid the gigantism and hubris that accompany a supply chain built exclusively for scale without due concern for flexibility. Firestone's Liberian Adventure 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z In the meantime, expect the gigantism to spread further. Why AT&T Wants to Acquire DirecTV 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z It was not just the gigantism - the number of people, the epic infrastructure projects, the impenetrable air pollution. What Jews and the Chinese have in common 2014-02-08T20:13:30Z National Institutes of Health for treatment for gigantism in the mid-1990s. Scientists May Have Spotted Genetic Cause of 'Gigantism' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z I’m no fan of gigantism or complexity, both of which afflict JPMorgan. Sloan: Taking stock of a year’s worth of work 2013-12-27T02:36:00Z The study is published in an issue of PLoS One on "sauropod gigantism". Secrets of the dino-titans revealed 2013-10-31T01:18:18Z The collection of papers on "Sauropod gigantism" is published in the journal PLoS One. VIDEO: How sauropods swept with their necks 2013-10-30T16:09:29Z People pretty much everywhere naturally resist increasing densification and gigantism--and favor what the Taksim Square protestors call a drive for “healthy urbanization and livable city.” The Big City Squeeze 2013-09-16T09:45:00Z Further investigation also revealed that the same four genes were duplicated in all of the gigantism patients. Scientists May Have Spotted Genetic Cause of 'Gigantism' 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z Asbest is a legacy of the philosophy known as gigantism in Soviet industrial planning. City in Russia Unable to Kick Asbestos Habit 2013-07-13T16:34:16Z “This may be a model to explain gigantism in this group,” he says. Oldest Dinosaur Embryo Fossils Discovered in China 2013-04-11T13:45:00.380Z She was a victim of a rare disorder called acromegaly - or gigantism - that wouldn't let her stop growing. Vegas woman who couldn't stop growing dies at 34 2013-01-15T23:16:05Z In children the condition is known as gigantism. Vegas woman who couldn't stop growing dies at 34 2013-01-16T00:31:05Z Everyone, because there are so many things about gigantism that we just don't know. City Room: Ada Louise Huxtable's New York 2013-01-08T23:22:59Z Downes says the only theory that makes sense to him is that a "gene of gigantism" might have created an eel that was bigger than normal. The murky allure of the Loch Ness monster 2012-10-11T09:20:11Z Biology of the sauropod dinosaurs: the evolution of gigantism. Dyke & Kaiser s Living Dinosaurs: the Evolutionary History of Modern Birds 2012-08-27T00:45:02.620Z Which means she spends her days finding clothes for people who might as well have gigantism. An NBA Stylist Tells Why LeBron Sports Eyeglasses 2012-06-19T20:21:02Z The other imponderable is one of those questions we don’t ask often enough: how big can an island be and still have an island dwarfism/gigantism effect? A drowned nesting colony of Late Cretaceous birds 2012-05-16T18:16:34.020Z One might expect large flowers to be associated with large pollinators, but gigantism appears to be most common to plants pollinated by small beetles or carrion-flies. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z "If we want to understand the factors that led to gigantism in baleen whales, we'll need to look at fossils yet to be discovered or described." How Baleen Whales Got Their Big Gulp 2011-08-17T00:03:00Z And their consequent gigantism was perhaps their best defense against predators, intimidating even the neighborhood T. rex. Giants Who Scarfed Down Fast-Food Feasts 2011-04-11T19:38:35Z In fact, there is already a drug that blocks growth hormone-binding that is used to treat gigantism, or acromegaly. Dwarfism Could Hold Key to Fighting Cancer 2011-02-17T18:31:54Z Personally, I’m choking on Hatzegopteryx being an example of island gigantism–we’d have to include all albatrosses as island giants if this were true. A drowned nesting colony of Late Cretaceous birds 2012-05-16T18:16:34.020Z When gigantism does evolve, it seems to do so quickly. Visiting the corpse plant 2012-03-21T19:15:00.247Z Gachassin said the decision to remain in Paris was “a countercurrent to the gigantism that is fashionable” elsewhere. French Vote to Expand Roland Garros Site 2011-02-14T02:57:04Z He noted that among many scientists a direct link between the sauropod respiratory system and gigantism “is not yet compelling.” Giants Who Scarfed Down Fast-Food Feasts 2011-04-11T19:38:35Z From there £547m of partly public money was doused in fuel and set on fire to comply with the gigantism of the modern Olympics. Tottenham's Olympic stadium plans make sense ? for athletics 2011-01-16T00:08:02Z That would encourage financial gigantism, which is not good. 6 simple steps to fix Wall Street 2010-05-09T04:00:00Z Bureaucratic gigantism swamps risk management at the frontline, sweeping up the innocent and leaving terrorists running free. Danger lurks everywhere. Let the pilots handle ash 2010-04-22T20:00:00Z The causes of gigantism and of dwarfs are now well known. The Problems of Psychical Research Experiments and Theories in the Realm of the Supernormal Then the investigators found no evidence that availability of food and the physical and chemical conditions in the Mesozoic era were sufficiently different to have accounted for sauropod gigantism. Giants Who Scarfed Down Fast-Food Feasts 2011-04-11T19:38:35Z The authors agree with Dana and others that there is an intimate relation between acromegaly and gigantism, but they go further and compare both to the growth of the body. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine The many theories of the cause of gigantism will not be discussed here, the reader being referred to volumes exclusively devoted to this subject. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Recently, the association of acromegaly with gigantism has been noticed, and in these instances there seems to be an acquired uniform enlargement of all the bones of the body. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine It may be mentioned here that Brissaud and Meige noticed the same loss in height, only more pronounced, in a case of gigantism, the loss being more than 15 inches. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine In gigantism the so-called "giant growth of bones" is often congenital in character, and is unaccompanied by inflammatory symptoms. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine |
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