Sentence examples for an old shape from inspiring English sources

And now there is "The J Curve", an attempt to sum up in one simple graphic arguably the world's most pressing geopolitical challenge: how to turn authoritarian regimes into stable, open democracies.Like the long tail, the J curve is an old shape given new meaning by its author, Ian Bremmer, founder of Eurasia Group, a firm that advises on political risk.

Another is when the love theme that dominates the central portion of the symphonic poem Francesca da Rimini turns back on itself, unfolding in "a new pattern against an old shape".

The Globe reproduced this old shape, with a few innovations mainly in the fresh painting and decoration of the stage area.

Unusual Find: Karthäuserhof Mosel Eitelsbacher Karthäuserhofberg Sang Auslese 1973, $180, a 40-year-old bottle that should be in delicious old shape.

The triangle top of the Citicorp Center looks more like itself than the oddly lopped-off old shape, for example.

The sharp edges of the old shape have been buffed and chamfered into something softer and less assertive.

Rather than resurrecting the old shape, the new designers tried to evoke the "feeling" of the old vehicle, according to VW executive Jens Neumann.

I did not diet or sweat through slimming exercises to get back into my old shape".

The evergreen riddle of Japan, after all, is that all its revolving-door fashions, fascination with the west and hunger for the new never seem to make it any less Japanese at the core; the place is like a froth of shifting surfaces and flashing images projected on an old, strangely shaped piece of wood that never moves.

The same old shapes hauled out of archives and dusted off with expensive embroidery?

Trying to free myself quickly from the curse, I stripped myself in an instant and hugged lovingly an old, out of shape sweater that was lying around.