The very essential and fundamental quality of a Roman letter lies in the squareness or circularity of its skeleton form.
Next to this typical squareness of outline, the observer should note that the Roman letter is composed of thick and thin lines.
The serif was adopted in pen letters probably from the same reasons that caused it to be added to the stone-cut letters, namely, that it definitely finished the free lines and enhanced the general squareness and finish of the letter's aspect.
It was large and solid and the chairs had the satisfactory effect of good proportion, while the general squareness of outline added to the feeling of solidity.
After each cut is made the end should be tested for squareness by holding the edge of the chisel over the end of the cylinder.
The surface of the work should be tested for squareness by holding the edge of the chisel or a straight edge across the face.
Of the two extremes, one composed entirely of straight lines would be preferable to one with nosquareness to relieve the richness of the curves.
The thickness of the lower jaw and the size and squareness of the angle where it bends upward to be hinged to the skull, below the ear, are what give the appearance of squareness and determination to the faces of strong, vigorous men or women.
Defn: The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.
Defn: Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.
From the whiteness of their canvas and the squareness of their yards, they were evidently men-of-war.
She is a large ship, by the squareness of her yards; probably either from the West Indies or South America, or maybe China, or from some port in the Pacific, and she has come round the Horn.
I think any poetic mind that has loved solidity, the thickness of trees, the squareness of stones, the firmness of clay, must have sometimes wished that they were things to eat.
She was trembling from head to foot now, recoiling, step by step, as she saw some grim purpose written on the familiar blocked squareness of his flaccid jaw and the old glint of anger in the deep-set, predatory eyes.
Desirable Traits ΒΆ Working capacity, generosity and squareness are qualities making for the success of the Muscular marriage.
His body outlines approximate the oblong--a squareness plus length.
But the shoulders of the pure Muscular are straighter and have a squareness where the Alimentive's have curves.
The Alimentive is built upon the circle, the Thoracic on the kite-shape but the pure Muscular always tends toward a squareness of outline.
Note squareness of entire hand and of finger tips.
Slight squareness of build indicates tendency to interest in out-of-door matters, which, on account of large development of mental qualities, he expresses in an intellectual way.
These are shown largely in the expression, but also in the full, found development of his head just above the temples, in his long back head, and in the general squareness of the head.
It is this squareness that is the severe test and your great trouble just now.
Italian architects retained throughout the Gothic period for squareness and for horizontal lines.
In monastic, secular, and domestic building a generalsquareness and simplicity of plan prevails, and where an internal arcaded quadrangle can be made use of (e.
She was tall for a half- caste, with the correct profile of the father, modified and strengthened by the squareness of the lower part of the face inherited from her maternal ancestors--the Sulu pirates.
Squareness in things is not without relation tosquareness in action and in thinking.
Under the constraint of her material a squaw as she weaves a design into a basket, must give squareness to a contour which would be somewhat rounded were it executed in delicate threads.
Further we may remark the squareness of the midship section, which means carrying capacity at its maximum, together with the long parallel middle body, little resisted by the water, ending aft in buttocks and water-lines quickly turned.
This feeling is due partly to a kind of honesty of which the squareness of a sonnet is symbolic.
Henchard watched him with his mouth firmly set, the squareness of his jaw and the verticality of his profile being unduly marked.
He was vain of that inflexiblesquareness of intellect, which made him the disagreeable creature that he was.
Who has not felt, in the first madness of sorrow, an unreasoning rage against the mute propriety of chairs and tables, the stiff squareness of Turkey carpets, the unbending obstinacy of the outward apparatus of existence?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "squareness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aplomb; banality; commonness
