Sentence examples for impression of size from inspiring English sources

Actual size is important, but so is the impression of size.

The second act was exquisite in colouring and design, and the last two scenes gave an astonishing impression of size and space.

There's something deliciously sinister about the images and their impression of size and contortion, which Carl sees as "an alternative portrait of a human being whose body becomes a landscape of themselves and plays on the sense of space in which we dwell.

New 20in, 20-spoke wheels diminish the impression of size, and a blacked-out B-pillar, where the front and rear windows meet, imparts a cunningly coupelike profile.

Rather than square houses with supporting wings, these buildings had the length of the façade as their major consideration; long houses often only one room deep were deliberately deceitful in giving a false impression of size.

And as dazzling as Clinton could be in the living flesh, as much as he genuinely fed off people, he still left the impression of sizing up his company and plugging the world into a grid, each new acquaintance ranked by usefulness.

These findings are consistent with the hypothesis that large hyoids may have evolved to enable lower ΔF than expected for body size, thereby increasing the acoustic impression of body size conveyed by howler monkey roars.

This is consistent with studies of other mammal taxa, which have shown that anatomical adaptations of the vocal tract may exaggerate the acoustic impression of body size relative to other species but still convey reliable information about body size relative to conspecifics [ 34, 35].

Finally, we used bioacoustic methods to analyze recordings of male roars and examined the acoustic consequences of variation in male hyoid morphology among species, hypothesizing that a more voluminous hyoid bone reduces formant spacing (ΔF) and increases the acoustic impression of body size conveyed by roars [ 23, 24, 25] (i.e., the "size exaggeration" hypothesis [ 26, 27]).

This shot gave a better impression of the size of the town than the frequently used establishing long shot from the hills.

Every time, the approach toward the stadium, be it from the Van Wyck, the Grand Central or from aboard a 757, inspires the same impression of its size: gigantic.