(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.
Shapely
Definition:
(superl.) Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical.
(superl.) Fit; suitable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(2) The significance of the differences in these two patterns of actin is discussed in terms of differences in the accommodative ability and static lens shape in these two animals.
(3) A J-shaped relationship with a dip at the middle SBP (140-149 mmHg) was recognized between treated SBP and CVD.
(4) After four years of existence, many evaluations were able to show the qualities of this system regarding root canal penetration, cleaning and shaping.
(5) In this paper we present a robust algorithm to determine automatically contours with elliptical shapes.
(6) Sickle and normal discocytes both showed membrane elasticity with reversion to original cell shape following release of the cell from its aspirated position at the pipette tip.
(7) These observations suggest that the liver secretes disk-shaped lipid bilayer particles which represent both the nascent form of high density lipoproteins and preferred substrate for lecithin-cholesterol acyltransferase.
(8) The heterogeneity of obesity may be demonstrated by the shape of fat distribution and the prolactin response to insulin hypoglycaemia.
(9) We present numerical methods for studying the relationship between the shape of the vocal tract and its acoustic output.
(10) The shape of the nucleus changes from ovoid to a distinctive, radially splayed lobulated structure.
(11) Urinalysis revealed a low pH, increased ketones and bilirubin excretion, dark yellowish change in color, the appearance of "leaflet-shaped" crystals and increased red blood cells and epithelial cells in the urinary sediment, increased water intake, decreased specific gravity and decreased sodium, potassium and chloride in the urine.
(12) The drop in endosome pH increased and the shape of the distribution changed when the time between FITC-dextran infusion and kidney removal was increased from 5 to 20 min.
(13) Taking into account the calculated volume and considering the triangular image as one face of the particle, it is suggested that eIF-3 has the shape of a flat triangular prism with a height of about 7 nm and the above-mentioned side-lengths.
(14) The complex problems have been successfully managed with novel guiding catheter shapes and ultralow profile balloons.
(15) Thus obtained body shape variables were used in discriminant analysis in order to obtain unbiased classification probabilities of individuals having the MBS or being normal.
(16) These early hyperplastic lesions revealed stellate-shaped dilated bile canaliculi lined by blebs and abnormally thick elongated microvilli, a decreased number of microvilli on the sinusoidal surface, a marked increase in smooth endoplasmic reticulum, large nucleoli, and bundles of pericanalicular microfilaments.
(17) Models of the VMT nuclei were constructed to compare their size, shape and disposition across species.
(18) The mutant spores are pleomorphic and differ both in shape and size from the wild-type spores.
(19) This lack of symmetry in shape and magnitude may be due to non-sphericity of the skull over the temporal region or to variations in conductivities of intervening tissues.
(20) Jane's life clearly still has a massive Spike-shaped hole in it.