The son wanted a sunken level; the parents thought it would be too complicated.
The pitch itself is at a sunken level, creating an embankment where hundreds of spectators can gather, and often do.
Refinements of the basic sunken design included a palisade of sharpened wooden stakes either in the ditch or immediately behind the glacis and a sunken, level path behind the parapet for ammunition carts, artillery reinforcements, and relief troops.
In the meantime, he's traded foot traffic — which he claims is dispensable, considering the average passer-by can't afford his wares — in exchange for a breathtaking, nearly-11,000-square-foot selling floor inside a former newspaper printing press, with a shop-in-shop hawking Mykita sunglasses and an entire sunken level devoted to furniture by the German brand e15.
And the camera spins up, and away, and we wait until next time – the same old cycle again, buy a plot of land, live in a caravan, build a three-floor home with one sunken level and the bedrooms underneath the living room, cry, live, laugh, love, carefully drive a double-length truck down a three-mile country lane – the same dance, again and again and again, until the sun explodes in the sky.
And in the strangely configured Events Center -- a sunken basement level in the middle looks like a dining room at the bottom of a swimming pool -- it's like a village bazaar, with narrow lanes, crowded shops and an air of neighborly camaraderie.
The terrace was ringed with tables so we had to carry the cart with the boxes down the steps into the sunken level in the center of the terrace and up the other side to get to the entrance of the tent.
A good example is in Jamie Dunstan's Go Modern Garden that has incorporated a raised dry area and sunken levels that favour moisture loving plants.
The building that Japanese architect Arata Isozaki designed for the Museum of Contemporary Art on Grand Avenue is known for its quieter qualities: the sunken levels and the demure, red sandstone facade.
A drop-off is a sudden step down, as a curb or a sunken room floor.
Ms. Shriver said she believed that the cat had fallen 16 to 20 feet from the first-story roof of an addition at the back of a building into a sunken area at basement level.
