sinuosity
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The industrious Saab couture atelier had got to work to weave the signature crystals, sequins and pearls together to - as the program notes put it - depict “the sinuosity of organic forms.”
From Washington Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
The industrious Saab couture atelier had got to work to weave the signature crystals, sequins and pearls together to — as the program notes put it — depict “the sinuosity of organic forms.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 4, 2018
Note the sinuosity in the river, which is meandering.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
On the field, "he glides with the easy sinuosity of an antelope at full speed", wrote leading sportswriter EHD Sewell.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 24, 2010
The school of Praxiteles, as distinguished from that of Pheidias, is especially the school of grace, relaxing a little the severe ethical tension of the latter, in favour of a slightly Asiatic sinuosity and tenderness.
From Greek Studies: a Series of Essays by Walter Pater
Even those who fail to follow all the sinuosities of his reasoning must sense that, whatever else he has done or left undone, Niebuhr has restored to Protestantism a Christian virility.
From Time Magazine Archive
To plain readers, who find Poet Robinson's verbal sinuosities occasionally obscure, they may appear largely unintelligible.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sentences in longhand seemed to take on some of the sinuosities of script.
From Time Magazine Archive
One day, as we were following the sinuosities of a valley, our hearts oppressed with sad thoughts, all of a sudden we perceived two horsemen make their appearance on the ridge of an adjacent hill.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6 Volume 2 by Évariste Régis Huc
M. de la, on terrestrial magnetism, 543.River-ice, carrying power of, 219.Rivers, difference in the sediment of, 189, 258.——, sinuosities of, 205.——, submarine, in Thessaly, &c.,
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
