I prune very cautiously, and mostly on the north side, using a saw and knife, to give symmetry and keep limbs from crowding; I think it beneficial.
Its work is most destructive in the nursery, destroying terminal shoots, which sadly interferes with the growth and symmetry of the young tree.
A man in the prime of life--a perfect embodiment of symmetry and strength--he wore no attempt at gew-gaws or meretricious adornment.
That Pride destroys all Symmetry and Grace, and Affectation is a more terrible Enemy to fine Faces than the Small-Pox.
For whatever purpose this instrument may have been designed, its symmetry is remarkable.
The perforation for the haft is formed with singular symmetry and perfection; the lozengy grooved decoration covering the entire surface is remarkably symmetrical and skilfully finished.
They are unsurpassed for symmetry and for the skill exhibited in removing flakes from them.
She belonged to the Soosoo tribe, but was descended from Mandingo ancestors, and I was particularly struck by the uncommon symmetry of her tapering limbs.
The palace is severe in itssymmetry and completeness.
There is even a significant lack of symmetry in the words employed (at all events in English, French and German) to distinguish what we like from what we dislike in the way of weather.
The conceptions of Berlioz were so grandiose that he sometimes disdained detail, and the result was that more than one of his compositions have rugged grandeur at the expense of symmetry and balance of form.
On the other hand, a rigid geometrical symmetry is also characteristic of early composition, and these two facts seem to contradict each other.
The primitive art of all nations shows that it has taken the direction of symmetry about a vertical line.
Thus, in a "Madonna Enthroned" of Giotto, where absolute symmetry in detail is kept, the Child sits far out on the right knee of the Madonna.
Madonna and Child in the picture, heightens the effect of any given outline, and so makes the variations from symmetry greater.
Only in the course of artistic development do we find the rigid, yet often unbalanced, symmetry relaxing into a free substitutional symmetry, and the formless narrative crystallizing into a really unified and balanced space-form.
It would seem that thesymmetry of these early pictures was not dictated by a conscious demand for symmetrical arrangement, or rather for real balance, else such failures would hardly occur.
That, indeed, the two parts proceeded from the same hand is seen in the symmetry of the framework.
The sculptor knows that the form which he creates has its own natural proportions, its own inherent symmetry according to natural rules, which he must obey.
Symmetry of face or of form, quality of voice, or strength of mind or muscle at birth are the responsibility of the Creator and of progenitors.
A slight effort would have crushed the fingers out of all semblance of symmetry and beauty.
On account of the symmetry of their forms, the pyramidal trees are made ugly by the loss of a limb, as the porch of a temple would be ruined by the removal of one of its pillars.
It has thesymmetry of the Fir, joined with a certain flowing grace that assimilates it to the deciduous trees.
Our efficiency depends so much on our concentration, that Nature usually, in the instances where a marked man is sent into the world, overloads him with bias, sacrificing his symmetryto his working power.
In him we have at once the horse of the new and of the old world—the size and strength of the Camerton type, the symmetry of the Arab, and such legs and feet as might have served Abdjar, the steed of Antar.
Not so large as his celebrated antagonist, he had the condensed symmetry of the racehorse.
His tall and powerful frame, developed by toil and exercise into the highest degree of muscular strength, was perfect in its symmetry as that of a gladiator.
Potentiality without Actuality) presents a neat symmetry which stands in the place of philosophical exactness.
In symmetryof outline, diversity of shape, and cleverness of modeling this ware takes a high rank, but there is no painted ornament.
Its symmetry suggests the use of the wheel, but the closest examination fails to detect a trace of mechanical appliance, save that left by the polishing stone.
So great is the symmetryand so graceful are the shapes that one is led to suspect the employment of mechanical devices of a high order.
The degree of symmetry is the same as in the mineral phenacite, there being only an axis of triadsymmetry and a centre of symmetry.
They should have spoiled her beauty, just as any other thing that destroyed symmetryof balance in form or color would have marred the effect.
Across from the president's gallery is another balcony like it, for in all but its processes of business this is a temple of justly balanced symmetry and proportion.
As acceptance is, of course, the parent of Augustanism or gentility, the most genteel character in the world is a Chinese mandarin, to whom everything is vulgar that contradicts the symmetry of the pyramid of Cathay.
Or they may have entered because of the love of man for logical form and symmetry and system, and because of the emotional satisfaction which harmony awakens in a sensitive soul.
