Sentence examples for less sinuous from inspiring English sources

(Slightly less sinuous in John Fletcher's occasionally stilted translation, which is a little too slow to warm up: the book's only flaw).

The mid-Holocene stream channel was less sinuous and had a higher width depth ratio and a higher meander amplitude in comparison with the present-day channel.

HCM current evaluation of traffic performance excludes horizontal alignment variations, which could produce more or less sinuous alignments and thus affect potentially to both average travel speed and percentage time spent following.

A key observation from the present study is that braiding typically occurs upslope of the original degraded trail, such that trails progressively migrate upslope and may even cause the entire trail corridor to migrate upslope to create a new straighter trail as ORV users appear to seek a shorter, less sinuous line of travel.

The tone is less strident this year in Frieze's sinuous white bivouac, designed once again by the Brooklyn architectural firm SO-IL.

Double identities, disappearing acts and survivor guilt are all motifs of a larger conundrum that Mr Modiano strives to understand about the war, the occupation and his father's role in it.Mr Modiano's pared-down prose seems to have less in common with Proust's sinuous sentences than with the American Noir novels that inspired his early work.

For those who are already devotees, it will suffice to say that Callahan's new album, Apocalypse, bears roughly the same relation to its surprisingly accessible predecessor as 2005's blues-tinged A River Ain't Too Much to Love did to 2004's unexpectedly palatable Supper; while less accessible, it flows with a sinuous unity every bit as captivating.

As with otariids, it can turn its rear flippers forward and move on all fours; however, its swimming technique is more like that of true seals, relying less on flippers and more on sinuous whole body movements.

It feels a little nose-heavy when threaded along sinuous roads;, its suspension is less supple over bumps than a luxurious Jaguar saloon's should be, and its automatic transmission turns ludicrously manic in Sport mode.

The less geometrically formed works like "Scapes" (2002), sinuous garlic scapes replicated in stone, and "Branch" (1995), a Y-shaped arc of stone, speak more specifically to natural occurrences, while "Cloud Mountain" (2003) creates an incredible volume through three-dimensional line.

Not for the first time, either: inside, a dull plaque records an earlier overhaul in 1925.Many of the buildings lining Olinda's sinuous cobbled streets have seen far less care and maintenance.