| 单词 | illegibility |
| 例句 | These are the real things: a sit-down Star Wars game, a Tempest cabinet, a Space Invaders machine so well loved that the text around the joystick and buttons is worn to the point of illegibility. Exhibition Review: ‘Spacewar!’: Video Games at Museum of the Moving Image 2012-12-15T00:21:18Z Ellsworth-Jones evidently enjoys the fact that they want to communicate some palpable point, some pleasure in figurative form, in a subculture that prefers deliberate illegibility. Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall by Will Ellsworth-Jones - review 2012-06-01T07:00:02Z Hebrew letters and Commandment tablets, now faded into illegibility, were painted on the windowpanes. Antiques 2012-03-29T22:27:47Z Now the backgrounds begin as JPGs from news websites — catastrophic pictures, of riots or wildfires or refugee camps — that are blurred to illegibility in Photoshop. Julie Mehretu’s Long Journey Home 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The abstraction of the design renders its daytime illegibility a little less disappointing. Review | The new Eisenhower Memorial is stunning, especially at night. But is this the last of the ‘great man’ memorials? 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z But what about the reams of white paper blanketing the water’s surface, sheets covered in ink dissolved into illegibility, forming a 10-meter-wide circle around them? Far From the Shore, a Happy Couple Takes a Turn for the Worse 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z At that braying burst of illegibility — a sound both comic and upsetting — the other members of Mike Reed’s Flesh & Bone lunged into action. Review: A Jazzfest Marathon With Protest at Its Heart 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z Some of them, I’m sure, don’t even look at the old stones, everywhere lurching this way or that, covered in lichens, inscriptions faded, sometimes to the point of illegibility. In Saint John in Canada, Exploring the Legacy of the Loyalists 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z In 2017, the institution warned that moves to make French more gender neutral would create “a disunited language, with disparate expression, that can create confusion verging on illegibility.” Sparks fly as neutral pronoun included in French dictionary 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z The sculptures Mr. Vo began making in 2015, for example, combine fragments of Roman marble statuary with slices of Medieval figures, especially wood images of the Madonna and Child eroded nearly beyond illegibility. Danh Vo: An Artist at the Crossroads of History and Diary 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Without durable, waterproof oak gall ink — produced when wasps inject chemical irritants into trees — countless medieval and Renaissance manuscripts would have deteriorated into illegibility. Catch a Buzz With Two New Books About Bugs 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Prolonged dread is the mark of this moment, of its seeming inscrutability, its illegibility, where the improbable has become likely. Year of opportunity: Can America escape from political depression in 2023? 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z Exploring niche illegibility and abstraction as a Black artist is radical and unpopular, and it was one thing that people scoffed at for my whole career. Michael R. Jackson and Jacolby Satterwhite on Making Art in a Shifting Culture 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z In the supermarket, I interrogate my mental shopping list and disparage myself for its illegibility: We need, um … noodles? The Power of Talking to Yourself 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z But after about half a million years, even the best-preserved DNA degrades into illegibility, leaving the story of our early evolution shrouded in mystery. Mysterious human ancestor finds its place in our family tree 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z I was known, by then, as an overly conscientious student, and most of the teachers ignored the illegibility of my new handwriting. “Old Hope” 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z “The beautiful, finely wrought scripting is also pouring out of him so quickly that it borders on illegibility. On the one hand, discipline; on the other, free-spiritedness.” Comic strips, goofy snaps and mirror selfies: inside Prince’s private archive 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z In 2017, it issued a “solemn warning” regarding gender-neutral language, saying its use would only invite “disunity”, “confusion”, “illegibility” and ultimately pose a “moral danger” to the language. Canadiens and Canadiennes in uproar as student paper takes stand on gender 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z He alleges dozens of signatures he submitted were inaccurately tossed for reasons including illegibility, wrong party or not writing in cursive. Son of GOP’s Mike DeWine bows out of governor’s race dispute 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z He alleges dozens of signatures he submitted were inaccurately tossed for reasons including illegibility, wrong party or not writing in cursive. Son of GOP’s Mike DeWine bows out of governor’s race dispute 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z People's handwriting deteriorates into illegibility after the first 50 cards. 10 poignant pleas over Christmas cards 2013-12-19T12:10:54Z Rhetorical faults, and even ungrammatical expressions, are constantly overlooked, and illegibility has almost come to be regarded as an essential characteristic. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z A track worn by the caravans of ages exists,—sometimes parallel ruts for a width of half a mile, sometimes not two yards wide, and now and then lapsing into illegibility. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z I have known persons who seemed absolutely to plume themselves on the illegibility of their scrawls; because, unfortunately, so many men of genius have indulged in a most shameful style of chirography. Pencil Sketches or, Outlines of Character and Manners 2011-10-01T02:00:32.597Z But when the sacred Scriptures are bedizened into further illegibility by paint and gilding, and illustrated by birds, beasts, and even fishes, daubed upon fields, azure, argent, and verde, the offence becomes an abomination. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z He was a bright, active young man, but his chirography resembled, in illegibility if not in form, the Egyptian hieroglyphics. Memoirs of Orange Jacobs 2011-05-01T02:00:10.143Z Joseph Henry was born in Albany, N. Y., December 17, 1797, or 1799, probably the latter date, this uncertainty arising from the illegibility of the faded records in the old family Bible. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z While it’s true that certain corridors of the city read like a hall of shame because of their illegibility — avenue blocks, bursting with shops and businesses, are especially notorious — some do get it right. Case of the Missing Building Numbers 2010-03-16T14:16:00Z I think that Loft should be added to the god and the brute, to form a trinity of impeccable illegibility. The Great Miss Driver No more white should be used between the words than just clearly cuts them off from one another; if the whites are bigger than this it both tends to illegibility and makes the page ugly. The Art and Craft of Printing There were traces of inscription on it, but eroded to illegibility. Where the World is Quiet It may be that, in many cases, if a given bit of data remains unscanned long enough it fades into illegibility, never reinforced by the scanning process. Anything You Can Do! I took the book, which was a masterpiece of illegibility, and added it up with my usual grace and felicity. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol 150, February 9, 1916 It is not merely their illegibility, but they have the scrawly curves and uncertain terminations of the penman who is not certain about the spelling of his own name. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History In his manuscripts there were so many erasures, and such frequent interlineations that a special staff of compositors was used for his work, but this was not on account of any illegibility in his handwriting. My Father as I Recall Him After a moment's reflection the manager touched Mrs. Drupe's letter of complaint to the flame, and it was presently reduced to everlasting illegibility. Duffels The engraved legends were scored and worn to illegibility, and the meter was merely a black void in the panel. Millennium It may be that, in many cases, if a given bit of data remains unscanned for a long enough period, it fades into illegibility, never reinforced by the scanning process. Anything You Can Do ... The ink had been originally red, but in places it was faded almost to illegibility. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure Both are customarily rendered inconspicuous through obscure position, and if to this be added the relative illegibility of fine type, the average reader will not complain, for all will escape his notice. The Booklover and His Books Of the first, the most fundamental is, of course, the illegibility or ambiguity of the author's original manuscript. The Facts About Shakespeare Sometimes, owing to the illegibility of the writing, she has to study out sentences. The Arena Volume 4, No. 21, August, 1891 The figures crossed one another, and ran askew; here and there they trailed off into mere illegibility. Poison Island Much of this is unintelligible and there have evidently been many errors in transcription due to the illegibility of the original MS. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. These are few, beauty and artistic form being apparently linked in some way with illegibility by many printers, no matter what the size of the type-face. A Librarian's Open Shelf A letter whose ink was faded to illegibility! Scattergood Baines It is true that inaccuracies may have crept in; but these will be found to be mostly among proper names—due in a great measure to the illegibility of the manuscripts furnished me by correspondents. History of Kershaw's Brigade The date of the original set of Maps, of which this was one, is uncertain, owing to the partial illegibility of the Inscription; but it is subsequent to A.D. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 A kind of illegibility, though a different kind, stole over Mr Boffin's face. Our Mutual Friend Clarendon's tone is almost uniformly brusque and off-hand, and he must have tried the King's patience terribly by the infamous illegibility of his handwriting. Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 "This week's" proved to be an absurd incident founded upon the illegibility of Henry Ward Beecher's handwriting. Betty Wales, Sophomore I don't mind contributing ten signatures to start it, if twelve other writers, of equal eminence and illegibility, will guarantee a like amount. Without Prejudice The untimely disturber proved to be a messenger bearing a note, scrawled almost to the point of illegibility, from an old Norseman by the name of Olaf Jansen. The Smoky God, or, a voyage to the inner world Sometimes the three hours' labour of a morning resulted in half-a-dozen lines, corrected into illegibility. New Grub Street Exaggerations are easy, particularly when we want to get at the source of a misunderstanding because of the illegibility of the style. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The state license number was gone, and the serial number on the engine had been hammered into illegibility. The Heritage of the Sioux But that is like trying to draw the obverse and reverse of a sixpence worn to complete illegibility. The New Machiavelli |
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