Sentence examples for assume shapes from inspiring English sources

"Yangexing" served to introduce the dance style, performed here by women whose curved bodies tilted slowly to the sides or quarter-pivoted flirtatiously, hands fluting back to assume shapes that suggested the mudras of Indian dance.

As the familiar story proceeds — with Amanda needling Tom into bringing a gentleman caller home for dinner to meet the agoraphobic Laura — the actions and images assume shapes, both heightened and pared-down, that suggest how we edit and exaggerate when we remember.

First, regional over-distension caused by application of local stress or pressure forces cells and tissues to assume shapes and dimensions that they would not during unassisted breathing.

Once I began to describe the mother's character and predicament through the daughter's eyes, the story began to assume shape and meaning.

Soundscapes filled with lots of snap, crackle and pop never quite assumed shape, that tension seizing the attention of an audience for whom Sigur Rós have probably always been just too damned pop.

In specifying input parameters, the assumed shape of the cohesive traction law is also considered.

Fig. 5. Schematic diagram for the assumed shape of a lava dome.

However, upon close inspection none of the available formulations is able to reproduce the assumed shape.

An iterative, interactive computer program to compute the body shape starting from an assumed shape is developed.

In the combustion model, turbulence is taken into account by weighting with an assumed shape probability density function.

The Galerkin method and assumed shape functions are used to illustrate the formulation of the resulting eigenvalue problem.