(1) Hugging the other side of the Dora Riparia river in Vanchiglia is Foster + Partners ’ curvaceous new Campus Luigi Einaudi, while to the west in Borgo Dora is performance venue Cortile del Maglio and writing school Scuola Holden .
(2) Among other Hepworths on show is Sculpture With Profiles, a curvaceously hewn piece of white alabaster on which eyes and noses have been etched.
(3) Conceived as a reaction against the pernicious sprawl of American suburbia, Arcosanti was planned as a dense, car-free development, in which curvaceous organic dwellings were linked by a network of winding footpaths.
(4) A curvaceous steel skeleton, draped with a shimmering golden lattice, the Fish was designed using Catia (computer-aided three-dimensional interactive application), which has since become the staple of many architecture practices grappling with complex geometries.
(5) When a curvaceous version of the young Princess Merida from Brave was designed for a Disney toy line, another Change petition railed against it , winning the support of the film's director Brenda Chapman – the company backed down from the designs.
(6) Female bodies marketed to men – in Nuts or Zoo – are more curvaceous than bodies circulated and admired among young heterosexual women.
(7) In the 1950s, Citroën’s DS car came to be known as the Déesse – a goddess of sleek metal and smooth leather, so curvaceously aerodynamic that it seemed, according to Roland Barthes’s description in Mythologies , to have “descended from the sky”, not driven up the highway.
(8) She is, as we would expect from a Bond girl, a fantasy figure – curvaceous, unspoiled and, as her name promises, sexually eager.
(9) That the curvaceous curtain wall has the simultaneous effect of converging the sun's rays into a magnified beam of heat, capable of melting cars, might be seen to be a fluke byproduct of this architectural flourish, an unfortunate consequence you could never predict.
(10) For a young woman struggling with the pressures of perfection – to get good grades, to have a body that manages to be a flawless mix of skinny and curvaceous – it was something of a revelation, and now girls’ schools are getting in on the act.
(11) However, this property of limited penetration of electrons poses the problem of self-shielding in the curvaceous human body.
(12) The early metro's other leading light was Hector Guimard, one of the creators of Art Nouveau, who designed the curvaceous, cast-iron "dragonfly wing" entrances to scores of the new metro stations.
(13) Mad Men's appeal lies not just in its strong acting and witty writing but in its uncanny re-creation of a particular era in American history, a time when men were men, women were curvaceous and the national pastime was proving that you could smoke a cigarette with elan.
(14) The curvaceous figure of Joan Holloway has changed modern visions of female beauty.
Curvy
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Example Sentences:
(1) Nobody would be able to tell, because while I’m certainly not fat, I’m quite curvy with a big bottom and I really don’t look as if I have an eating disorder.
(2) It’s not about a token nod to curvy girls …”, Cosmo ‘s editor, Bronwyn McCahon, explains in her campaign launch letter : “Showcasing body diversity at both ends of the spectrum has become part of Cosmo’s DNA.
(3) You’ll probably get a clothes chain asking you to design a range for “curvy” women … I got some free clothing in Australia – that was amazing.
(4) For example, Klein recently told a clothing store clerk she’d just had a baby even though her son was already more than a year old because nothing in the boutique fit her curvy body.
(5) Barbie finally becomes a real girl – with more realistic figure and skin colours Read more Barbie has released three new Barbie body shapes: tall, curvy and petite.
(6) Have curvy women only appeared in the past five years?
(7) By controlling confounding effects due to redundancy, the possibility that the outcomes might be related to the balance of linear and curvi-linear target features was strengthened.
(8) Once they decide what type of measurement best fits their customer (straight bodied, curvy, etc) they hire a fit model, who is usually a size four or six to fit the sample on.
(9) Photograph: Barbie After a survey on the fashion desk, we have decided that we particularly like the vibe of Everyday Chic Curvy Barbie, who has boldly teamed distressed cropped jeans with lace-up black brogues.
(10) These opposing actions are in competition at different dose levels of thyroxine, and may contribute not only to augmentation or suppression of thyrotrophin, but also to the curvi-linear pattern of fall.
(11) Overall, Lululemon's good profits close out a bad year for curvy women.
(12) It looks like a modernist sculpture, but the curvy abstract forms are functional, housing terraces-cum-lookouts with dramatic views of the coastline.
(13) She said: “I’m pretty lucky that I only get comments like this occasionally but I have many curvy blogger friends who have this happen all the time, either publicly or by email, so I hear about it very frequently.” And she says the sewing blogger community is generally very body positive.
(14) Now girls can finally see themselves reflected in the toys, can imagine their own beautiful brown eyed, blue haired, curvy, stylish selves sitting in the Ferrari and pulling up next to their dream home in a climate where many women are being more mindful of what imagery they pass on to their daughters, and rejecting the kind of beauty that Barbie has come to represent and “reflect”.
(15) Ring or curvi-linear calcification in not a reliable sign of a cyst.
(16) Calcified cyst walls appear as fine, even, curvi-linear lines, Dense, irregular and extensive calcification indicates a solid tumour.
(17) Brown skin, brown eyes, full lips, curvy waist and that different shaped nose.
(18) Both cholesterol and phospholipid outputs were coupled to biliary bile salt output in a curvi-linear relationship which could be fitted by rectangular hyperbolae, in the animals fed with different plant steroids.
(19) Hers is not a label specifically aimed at curvy or plus-sized women, but at all women.
(20) What about – dare I say it – women who are both short and curvy?