Ascetic austerity has taken the place of ideal draperies, and angularity that of the noble flow of line.
Mother Withrow had heard them with a tightening of the muscles of her face and an increasedangularity in her tall figure, but she had proudly refrained from the faintest manifestation of surprise.
The shifting sunlight that fell upon her through the moving leaves of the sycamores lent a grace to the angularity of her attitude.
The stiff angularity that had seemed to pervade her was gone, and she sank upon her knees, holding by the back of the chair, and rested her brow upon her hands, sobbing and drawing her breath painfully.
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.
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.
What is meant by the angularity of a connecting rod?
The effect of this angularity is to cause the piston motion to be accelerated at one part of the stroke and retarded at another, thus causing the point of cut-off to occur at different points of the two strokes.
The angularity of a connecting rod is a term that applies to its path of motion, which is (during all parts of the stroke except on the dead centre) at an angle to the line of engine centres.
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.
This will be the case when a single valve is used with equal lap, because, in this case, the point of cut off will vary on one stroke as compared with the other, which occurs by reason of the angularity of the connecting rod.
What effect does the angularity of the connecting rod have on the piston motion?
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.
If ordinary calipers were set to diameter r and measurements taken in the thread groove, the size would be incorrect owing to the angularity of the groove, which makes it necessary to hold the calipers at an angle when measuring.
The butterflies are somewhat smaller than the Violet-tips and show to a remarkable degree the angularity in the borders of the wings.
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.
But most people say that these visions arose from the thought--you will not understand me--from the brain; from the perturbed angularity of the Seer.
Not that I should be disposed to recommend (at present) the extreme measures adopted in some States, where an infant whose angle deviates by half a degree from the correct angularity is summarily destroyed at birth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Third, the "oak tree form" shows a horizontal habit of branching, and an angularity of limbs usually more noticeable among oaks.
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.
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.
All the oldangularity had slipped away from her lately, and a new graciousness and sweetness had taken its place.
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.
He had escaped the excessive angularity of his elder brothers, and although he was much better looking than Sholto, Jasmine's father, there was between them a family likeness, by which Jasmine was less moved than she felt she ought to be.
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.
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.
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.
Not that I should be disposed to recommend (at present) the extreme measures adopted by some States, where an infant whose angle deviates by half a degree from the correct angularity is summarily destroyed at birth.
One noticed it in the comparative angularity and leggyness of his build.
There was a strange sort of angularity about all their movements, but, withal, a certain grace, bizarre and notable.
The angularity of consciousness, or the distinctness of one's state of awareness, being analogous to similar attitudes in the solar influence are the main determinants of the character of the mental shadow or concept.
Thus the angularityof the sun, the intensity and fullness of the light and the shape and size of the tree operate to determine the character of the shadow.
The marked postorbital constriction, convex supralacrymal face of rostrum, width of tympanic bullae and angularity of the braincase place it nearest M.
This is true as regards size of entire animal, proportions of its parts, and size, general angularity and major proportions of its skull.
The uneven brim of her hat makes an effective complement to theangularity of her chin, which is further softened by the feathery ruff that encircles her throat.
She should aim to modify the unhappy angularity of her profile as well as to repress her gossipy tendencies.
In Italian work, at least, it was usual to get over the angularity of silhouette inherent in canvas stitches by working an outline separately.
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.
Such passages are happily destitute of what the Viennese academicians called "style;" they have more of the old German angularitythan of "the Grecian bend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "angularity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
