Sentence examples for classic proportion from inspiring English sources

Mr. Hyatt stirred a classic proportion: two parts Junipero, a very assertive locally made gin, to one part Sutton Cellars vermouth with a dash of orange bitters and twist of lemon.

Normally, a classic proportion of three transgenic plants for one non-transgenic plant (3:1) is expected for C. arabica because it is an allotetraploid crop presenting a regular bivalent pairing of homologous chromosomes [ 28].

The classic proportions endure.

"Its classic proportions register here," he says of Fiestaware, "in your cerebral cortex".

Add this to last year's excellent Lost Dogs collection, and suddenly Pearl Jam start to assume classic proportions.

(Nobu, which ranks highest for Japanese food in Zagat, has a 28 rating but deals in classic proportions).

Venini and Zecchin persuaded the blowers to produce vessels with the clean lines and the classic proportions of Renaissance and ancient Roman glass.

IWC, meanwhile, has revisited its 17-year-old Portofino collection with a re-introduction that emphasizes the model's classic proportions and — wait for it — $5,000 entry price.

A gifted journalist, a biographer and historian of classic proportions, an amateur painter of talent, an orator of rare power, a soldier of courage and distinction, Churchill, by any standards, was a man of rare versatility.

The profile describes him as an "all-around heavyweight gangster of classic proportions". Also included are articles entitled "Tough Guys Open Up," 'Ca$ h -- Confessions of a Drug Kingpin" and "Mother Teresa on Death Row," an inmate's story of the day seven years ago that the Nobel Prize winner visited San Quentin.

Mr. Percoco's lawyer, Barry A. Bohrer, characterized the prosecution as "an overreach of classic proportions," adding that a Supreme Court decision in June that overturned the corruption conviction of former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia established that his client's conduct was lawful.