Sentence examples for broken shapes from inspiring English sources

Long, broken shapes of all different sorts sometimes informally frame the works.

Whole areas that were once inhabited have been reduced to a landscape of earth and dust and broken shapes.

Kit Wright, introducing the work, encounters one such "the unmistakable bullseye, the authentic maximum in a run of lines when you know, by whatever means, that this is the real thing" in a passage from "Angel Visits" by Garry Ely: "Incurious, condemned, / you go on staring at the broken shapes / your clothes make in the shadows, /preparing to give themselves away".

In the late 1950's, she began experimenting with sculptural forms featuring broken shapes and brushed glazes that evoke Abstract Expressionist paintings.

As in Picasso's cubist days, there are symbols and broken shapes aplenty, but with Guernica there is no need to decipher.

As the dancers seemed to react to the doom and terror of Britten's sound world – fraught, despairing, broken shapes – so the magnificent set metamorphosed into a shattered and looming presence that spoke of mass destruction and apocalyptic force.

Apart from a performance comparison of the broken shape descriptors (Section 4.5), we have also investigated the effect of different normalisation schemes (Section 4.3) and the number of descriptors needed for similarity-based retrieval (Section 4.4).

On the MPEG-7 data set, the broken shape Fourier descriptors did not perform as well as the best single shape Fourier descriptor (complex position), but the precision/recall curve of our broken C descriptor is almost identical to the centroid distance Fourier descriptor, with broken A and broken B performing only slightly poorer.

On the NEUMES data set, in contrast, this is of importance because detailed shape information is required for class discrimination; see e.g. the two bottom rows in Figure6. Figure 13 Precision/recall curves for the broken shape Fourier descriptors on the NEUMES data set.

Short rounds of tepid light, Impervious to pain, I desecrate our lasting vow; Spotted fleas break shape at embankment and the rush of fate splits my hair.

"It was out of nothing: it wasn't like they'd broken our shape and scored an outstanding goal.