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Example sentences for "plastic"

Lexicographically close words:
plastered; plasterer; plasterers; plastering; plasters; plasticine; plasticity; plastics; plastids; plastral
  1. And he is especially skilled in taking some student of the violin while his mind is still plastic and susceptible and molding it--supplying it with lofty concepts of interpretation and expression.

  2. An artistic staccato should, like the trill, be plastic and under control; for different schools of composition demand different styles of treatment of such details.

  3. The enormous frescoes of Murtuq display imposing arrangements of those figures of Buddhas and Bôdhisatvas which were to remain unchanged in the plastic formulas of China and Japan.

  4. If to these fragments of an immense plastic production is added the analysis furnished by the written records, we can define with some degree of certitude the place occupied by Wu Tao-tzŭ in the history of Chinese painting.

  5. His graceful and harmonious line recalls the happiest moments in the history of plastic art, and he challenges comparison with a facile genius like Raphael.

  6. Let us take, first, the plastic arts, sculpture and painting; and to bring into clear relief the Greek point of view let us contrast with it that of the modern "impressionist.

  7. From this account of the plastic art of the Greeks it follows as a simple corollary, that their aim was not merely to reproduce but to transcend nature.

  8. The profoundest of the poets of Hellas, dealing with the darkest problem of guilt, is true to the plastic genius of his race.

  9. Structural and Plastic Art A higher idea of what the Italians were able to do in these departments is furnished by their works of structural and plastic art, which are closely associated with the mechanical sciences.

  10. Plastic and Delineative Art Like architectural art, and, if possible, still more completely, the plastic and delineative arts were not so much matured by Grecian stimulus as developed from Greek seeds on Italian soil.

  11. I looked about and found a plastic coffee cup in the sink that had clearly been used and judged he had had a cup of coffee and left.

  12. Now--and this is inside the glass or plastic set of doors shown on Exhibit 495, is that correct?

  13. A plastic coffee cup with some remains in it of coffee?

  14. Ronald Jones was doing an additional cut down, venous section on the left arm for the insertion of plastic cannula into veins so one may rapidly and effectively infuse blood and fluids.

  15. This is a plastic tube which is inserted into the trachea, into the windpipe, to allow an adequate airway, adequate breathing.

  16. Placed high, and on the picture it is shown as having, oh, is that a white plastic plate?

  17. The 22d, I am sorry, the 22d you saw a plastic coffee cup or tea cup, and you looked at it and you could see the remains of somebody having prepared instant coffee?

  18. Ruminating, he thought about how each year for his birthday she had fixed her American born, but not raised, angel food cake burnished in icing, and brought him to fairs to shoot the moving plastic ducks.

  19. The fact that he was taking this aimless trip at all was evidence enough of sensing himself as a plastic wrapper that was being blown in miscellaneous winds.

  20. When we get back I'm going to have the best plastic surgeon remove that scar, so it will no longer be a constant reminder.

  21. He "dined" on the edible plastic sheets, then left the safety deposit vault.

  22. Corinne points out that the beauty of Italian women is not of a moral, but of a plastic and picturesque kind; that to appreciate it we must have an eye susceptible to colour and form, not dulled by too much poring over printed books.

  23. In other words, they lack exactly that plastic talent which the Greeks possessed in the highest degree.

  24. When the iron parts with its carbon it loses its fluidity and becomes plastic and coherent, and is formed into balls called blooms.

  25. The dampened and plastic papier mache sheets are beaten into the face of the type form by means of brushes, are then removed, dried, and used as moulds to cast the stereotype plate from.

  26. Jacobi announced his galvano-plastic process for the production of electrotype plates for printing.

  27. He grinned happily down at a section of plastic stair-rail he'd found not too far from where the ship exploded.

  28. He placed the plastic zestfully on the table where he'd been restricted to drawing pictures of his wife and children in order to recover memories of them.

  29. To these accomplishments have been added a great variety of tires to prevent wear and puncturing, among which are self-healing tires, having a lining of viscous or plastic rubber to close up automatically the air holes.

  30. Prior to Cort's time the plastic lump or ball of metal taken from the furnace was generally beaten by hammers, but Cort's grooved rollers pressed out the mass into sheets.

  31. The term "puddling" originated in the covering of the hearth of stones at the bottom of the furnace with clay, which was made plastic by mixing the clay in a puddle of water; and on which hearth the ore when melted is received.

  32. By the high pressures, or stresses given by the hydraulic press it was learned that cold metals have plasticity and can be moulded or stretched like other plastic bodies.

  33. The life of Benvenuto was one of incessant activity, laying hold of the whole domain of the plastic arts: of restless wanderings from place to place; and of rash deeds of violence.

  34. In the plastic arts the Etruscans made great progress, many of their vases showing a delicacy and grace which have never been surpassed, and exhibiting in their decorations traces of both Greek and Egyptian influence.

  35. In the middle of the table there rested, with dark fluid gleaming through clear plastic cases, six fresh cylinders which Auerbach had prepared in his laboratory over in the plant.

  36. He brought a plastic cylinder of it over to me, so I could discuss it with you.

  37. She threw a tantrum, and when it was all over, Auerbach's plastic cylinder of goop was trying to fall upward, through the ceiling.

  38. Convention, here as in all plastic art, is founded on natural truth very closely studied.

  39. It was as if it had erred only through an excess of softness that made the flesh of it plastic to its blood, to the subtle flame that transfused the white of it, flushing and burning to rose-red.

  40. Leonardo's opinions as to the shortcomings of plastic works when compared with paintings are given under No.

  41. Under its plastic sway the Alhambra seems to regain its pristine glories.

  42. The Greek artists, it seems to be well established, never used a model, as our artists almost invariably do, in their plastic and pictorial creations.

  43. But by his unwearied narrations he impressed his image in gigantic features on our plastic continent.

  44. The present moment is one in which the reaction against plastic beauty in poetry has reached such a height that it is almost vain to appeal against it.

  45. He signaled and a spaceman brought Rip the day’s ration in an individual plastic carton with thermo-lining.

  46. The wound in his arm had been neatly repaired, and below the wound, where his arm had frozen, a plastic temperature bag was slowly bringing the cold flesh back to normal.

  47. The nose swung into the Connie again with a jar that sent Rip sliding into the clear plastic of the astrodome.

  48. His nose jammed into the plastic but he didn’t even wince, because he saw the Connie’s steering tubes buckle under the Aquila’s sudden shove.

  49. The spaceman vanished into an inner room and reappeared in a moment lugging a plastic case called a space pack, or "spack" for short.

  50. He was pulling himself along by plastic pull cords when they finally reached the door marked "Commander.

  51. Captain Go greeted Rip and his men, then handed over a plastic stylus plate ordering Rip to deliver six cubic meters of thorium for use on Mercury.

  52. The clear plastic of the domes had to be shielded from chance meteors.

  53. Here and there were little blood stains just below the surface of his skin, and he had no more hair than a plastic ball.

  54. He merely put the clear plastic against the curved sight and looked into it much as he would have looked through a telescope on earth.

  55. Rip took the counter stylus and inscribed his name, serial number, and signature on the blank plastic sheet.

  56. The supply clerk arrived, issued tools to the Planeteers, then opened a plastic case attached to one of the boxes and produced lists.

  57. The Rococo--in the plastic arts--presupposes the Renaissance, and I believe it has even been called the Renaissance gone crazy.

  58. Thus the plastic artist may well say that the Renaissance belongs to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the Baroque to the seventeenth, and the Rococo and the Pigtail to the eighteenth.

  59. This is something more than a mere fancy of this particular master; it is a token of the eye of the whole generation, which was dull as regards the beauty of buds, not only in the flower-piece but in all subjects of the plastic arts.

  60. A far-sighted painter will usually be more inclined to paint a plastic landscape, while a near-sighted one would make a mood-picture out of the same scene.

  61. He finds a direct relation between morality and certain forms of music, and would have musicians constrained to compose only such melodies and rhythms as would turn the plastic mind toward virtue.

  62. In the larger compositions we have a blending and alternation of these two, and the scholastic Netherland polyphony appears clarified, and moulded into more plastic outlines for the attainment of a more refined vehicle of expression.

  63. Such was the gift to the world of German Protestantism, stimulated by those later impulses of the Renaissance movement which went forth in music after their mission had been accomplished in plastic art.

  64. He went out and sat in a white plastic lawn chair for a moment.

  65. The cashier issued him a plastic card with a magnetic strip.

  66. As he slid sideways across the green plastic seat, he again caught the woman's eyes.

  67. He had a plastic filing box where he kept his income tax information returns.

  68. The time that is just before one is plastic to any impress.

  69. Humanity is becoming "plastic to the spirit touch;" sensitive to those vibrations too fine to be registered by the outward ear.

  70. Conditions determine events, but conditions are plastic to thought.

  71. When nothing crystallizes into events, all the elements are plastic to the impress of spiritual energy.

  72. There are no conditions of being that are not plastic to the potency of thought.

  73. One may stamp the image of noblest achievement upon this plastic period.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plastic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.