Sentence examples for basic contour from inspiring English sources

For the Avis building, he extracted the basic contour of these simple sheds -- the gridded box and the sloped roof -- and clad it in glossy metal and glass to create a glowing billboard for passing traffic.

But within this basic contour there could be some adjustments by Mr. Xi, according to Zhu Feng, a professor of international relations at Peking University, an advocate of a tougher policy by China against North Korea.

Mr. Rozin largely gets his ponds and dams made with the help of volunteers using very basic contour markers like an A-frame, a wooden instrument shaped like the first letter of the alphabet with a stone dangling from its pointy end, which helps map the shape of the land.

Each book has its own melodic mode, which prescribes certain notes and intervals around which melodies gravitate; a melodic motif sung in two different modes retains its basic contour but varies in the specific narrow or wide intervals used and in other details.

In the Berlin specimen, there are "trousers" of well-developed feathers on the legs; some of these feathers seem to have a basic contour feather structure, but are somewhat decomposed (they lack barbicels as in ratites).

And along the way, her basic contours remained the same.

Many of its basic contours have roots in other places.

The Senate bill leaves these basic contours unaltered.

Meanwhile, though, the basic contours of their deception seem unmistakably clear.

Now all the parties accept the basic contours of the Indonesian state.

Early drafts of the agreement show that the basic contours of such a system are in place.