linearity

Example Sentences

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He rants about Descartes, human destiny, time’s linearity, Neoplatonism, economic theory, the concertos of Alban Berg.

From New York Times

But for all the relentless linearity of “I’m Your Woman,” the unpredictable road that Jean and her companions are traveling will lead them perhaps inescapably backward, so that distant wrongs can be confronted and rectified.

From Los Angeles Times

“Once you see deviation from linearity, like the M.I.T. group sees at some level of significance, then you need to start to think, very, very carefully, ‘What is this effect?’”

From Scientific American

The delicate linearity of her later classic drawings is apparent in a series of nervous twigs and branches erupting from a pale pink earth in an ink-and-watercolor work dated around 1960.

From New York Times

Do these matter in a novel that interrogates the linearity of time, among other things?

From New York Times