The torch threw out theirprofiles and attitudes into relief.
In detail are seen the profiles of two woolly rhinoceroses superposed on the rump of a mammoth with tail upturned.
The parietal art on the walls of the caverns, mostly deep engravings, consists of stiff profiles in single lines and in red or black coloring.
As pronounced Cro-Magnon features, both of the Obercassel skulls show an unusually wide face; in both the profiles are straight and the root of the nose depressed, the nose is narrow, and the orbits are rectangular.
Profiles and outlines are made up of any number of straight and curved lines connected at any and every variety of angle.
The profiles in the view are all pleasing, because the laws are observed.
The essence of these two laws is of such importance in all artistic and decorative composition that beginners might well be put to drawing profiles until the principles involved have been absorbed and made a part of artistic apprehension.
In these particular profiles the straight lines which unite the curves are so small and so insignificant that they appear as mere connections.
Try your hand at drawing profiles in which the laws are not observed, and you will quickly perceive the difference.
In the profiles in the view the various curves have been continued in dotted lines beyond the profiles, so as to bring out and make clear these two laws.
But that was not all: behind this head were other profiles of the same face, and seeming to come out of clouds.
Thus the Unaka chain presents two peculiar facts for our consideration; it is cut through by streams rising in a lower range, and its profiles of erosion are convex upward not downward.
In old age the gently rolling surface is traversed by many quiet flowing streams; the heights are gone, the profiles are rounded, the contours subdued.
Guppy 99 Profiles of Ngaingai and Wawa Levu from Nambuna to the south-west.
Alternating epochs of upheaval and stable equilibrium ensued, during the last of which the reefs grew outwards and formed the terraces now so characteristic of the profiles of the islands.
Illustration: Profilesof Ngaingai and Wawa Levu from Nambuna to the south-west.
In the basilican style mouldings occur but seldom: where met with, they are all of the profiles common in Roman architecture, but often rudely and clumsily worked.
The profiles of these mouldings were very rarely segments of circles, but lines of varying curvature, capable of producing the most delicate changes of light and shade, and contours of the most subtle grace.
Troy had picked up the latest revised ten-, thirty and sixty-day meteorology predictions and was beginning to lay them up against the strip segments of the snow profiles from north to south along the length of Region Six.
The three engineers studied the new profiles as they came in from the techs.
Behind us stood the high profiles of the lower city, sharpened against the splendidly clear blue sky which is New York's special blessing.
Against the bright horizon stand the profiles of Garden City: the thin cathedral spire, the bulk of St. Paul's school, the white cupola of the hotel.
In one moment of revelation (so it appeared to us as we watched) Dove looked upon all the profiles and aspects of life, and found them of noble outline.
A marked reduction in the high symmetry of such profiles is noted wherever a breaching by lava outflow has occurred (Fig.
In contrast with the profiles in the landscapes of humid regions (see Fig.
To discuss the characteristic shapes of such mountains would be largely to review the contents of this book, and especially those portions which discuss the character profiles resulting from the action of each sculpturing or molding agent.
These profiles are generally convexly scalloped with a noteworthy regularity, and not in one unit only, but in at least two with one a multiple of the other (Fig.
Character profiles in the landscapes of arid lands.
Character profiles in coast landscapes where there has been either elevation or depression.
Into the "square room" below, where the originals of the black profiles sit and smoke their pipes, Swan does not care to venture.
In these grand profiles the dip of the strata appears to be distinguishable.
Numberless springs gush from the sides of the rocks which encircle the basin of Caripe, and of which the abrupt slopes present, towards the south, profiles of a thousand feet in height.
The profiles of the capitals in this gallery led Sir H.
The Assyrians had too little experience in stone-cutting to enable them to choose the most satisfactory proportions andprofiles for mouldings.
Streets, on the line of the borings, constructed from the elevations obtained by them; the solid lines show the profiles of the actual surface of the rock as found when uncovered.
Now and then the relative straightness of the hair and their facial profiles suggest that the peculiarity of this people is due to an admixture of Semitic (probably Arabian) blood.
The accompanying map, prepared from the United States Coast and Geodetic charts and the maps and profiles of the company, gives a general idea of the location and main features.
The eye cannot grasp the shape on the opposite side to that which it beholds, but it deduces it from this side: walk round, and the study of the profiles will afford you an irrefragable proof by rule of three.
The real value of a living figure is given by profiles studied successively in a full light.
He also took profiles of natural objects by throwing their shadows on the prepared paper: the parts of the paper covered by the shadows being white, while the parts outside the shadows became dark.
But leaving aside these exceptional profiles, which serve by their very exaggeration to fix our conception of prognathism, let us examine the series of profiles in Fig.
The entire company were to go in the afternoon to see the waxworks, and some of the ladies wore especial toilets, with a view to having their profiles taken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "profiles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
