rectilinear
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Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025
The pattern’s strict rectilinear geometry creates a stark contrast with organic facial features, vivifying the otherworldly human form.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2025
In this crawl, called rectilinear locomotion, “the skeleton is basically sliding inside of the skin,” says Jayne.
From Slate • Mar. 8, 2024
Inside Notre-Dame it is still a futuristic film décor - a towering mass of rectilinear metal scaffolding set against the curves and arches of the ancient Gothic stone.
From BBC • Apr. 14, 2023
We may translate this to mean that he started the process of carving a statue by trying to visualize a figure in the rough, rectilinear block as it came to him from the quarry.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
