In the Indian kathakali, facial makeup is central to the portrayal of character.
The clerk, an older woman with garish makeup, looked straight out of central casting for a scary nurse in a comedy or horror.
Another is that, as the author puts it, "you would never know" what had happened to him from the postwar life he constructed — the war may be the central fact of his psychological makeup, but he tried, with some success, to bury it "under tons of mental concrete".
Not only is the Earth not physically the center of the universe, but our physical makeup is not central to most of its matter.
While the Fed has basically held its total Treasury holdings steady since the summer of 2011, their makeup has changed as the central bank bought more longer-term securities.
The same problem exists for gene expression studies: due to several factors, among which the highly variable makeup of tumors may be central, it has proven to be extremely difficult to find predictive profiles [ 24].
Spectral rotation is a transformation that rotates the spectral makeup of a complex signal around a central frequency, such that the information in the high-frequency ranges trades places with the information in the low-frequency ranges.
The central drama in the picture turns out to be Brad Pitt's makeup.
Activation differences between muscles may be caused by differences in central and peripheral stretch reflex modulation and/or by the different morphological makeup of muscles.
Apply it in dots over the central part of your face, then blend it out with a makeup sponge or your fingertips until it covers your entire face.
He said his mental makeup, not the topspin forehand, not the poetic movement, was most central to his clay success.
