The backward mask was constructed of a jumble of vertical lines 1.6 mm wide that overwrote the vertical lines in the stimulus.
"An eccentric, ham-handed fairytale with a jumble of story lines," was her typically forthright verdict.
The first season, prizing cleverness above clarity, presented an artful jumble of time lines.
Toward the end, as she composes the poems that would, when published as "Ariel," secure her posthumous reputation, the words rush onto the soundtrack in a jumble of discontinuous lines, and we hear almost nothing of her earlier work (and nothing at all of Hughes's, though Mr. Craig does a fine recitation of Yeats's "Sorrows of Love").
The old foundations form a jumble of convoluted lines, like a sewing pattern.
The good continuation principle also explains why we see two large overlapping triangles in this classic illusion, rather than a jumble of shapes and lines.
It is also a drastic departure from the entrenched notion of bookies operating out of basements or back offices, with jumbles of phone-line wires, drop safes and handwritten ledgers.
With little interest in the natural world, Crawford zeroes in on details of the built and trashed landscape: a jumble of urban signage, rubble lining a dead-end street, torn posters, junked cars, a broken window.
That's ludicrous, as anyone will tell you who remembers the 1970s, when the failures of Nassau's jumble of badly run private bus lines prompted the state to rescue the system.
