Sentence examples for axis around which from inspiring English sources

It's an aesthetic axis around which musicians still orientate themselves.

Mothers sprawled over children" -- has become "the axis around which his life winds".

President Assad, he said, "is the axis around which everything moves".

Gillian, with her woman's experienced heart, is the axis around which the flightier impulses of Barnes's midlife males can swirl.

Mr. Coleman was the sonic center of the group, the axis around which every vigorous action revolved.

For all the talk of their relationship being the axis around which the convention will turn, she really has precious little leverage.

As the mythical axis mundi, around which the heavens revolve, all life is dependent on the sampo, which the Finnish songs depict as the source of all good.

Between these points the varus/valgus axis was situated, around which the applicator was free to rotate.

It is shown that whereas the misorientations associated with these relationships are conventionally described in terms of minimum angles, in every case an alternative rotation axis is available around which the angle is in the range 90.0 90.12°.

In any case, though the action of the film shifts, early on, away from Mark's deceptive machinations and toward Carly's solidarity with Kate, he remains the axis of the story, the maypole around which the entire comic drama is organized.

Shown also is a rotation table, needed for turning the object around its axis, which has to be aligned perpendicular to the detector axis.