Sentence examples for less straight line from inspiring English sources

Schell and Delury are more provocative in arguing that Liang's ideas of "creative destruction" also led, in a more or less straight line, to Mao Zedong.

It is useful when there are one or more distinct demarcations in the one-dimensional view of the subject and it is desired to record their motion along a more or less straight line.

Apart from plenty of authentically informal, scurrilous dialogue, a few novel elements shared with Runemarks and Runelight, and a relaxation of children's library rules on sex, coarse humour and torture scenes, the only "liberty" Harris takes is to arrange her chosen episodes from the Edda in a more or less straight line, to lead us through the fateful career of her narrator, Loki the Trickster.

When the sun was visible, they could walk in a more or less straight line for several hours.

It'll pull you out of the muck, but only in a more or less straight line. .

From there and until the Gate of Rhegion the wall follows a more or less straight line to the north, climbing the city's Seventh Hill.

He marvels, "I have tracked individual adult males as they plodded relentlessly in a more-or-less straight line across the frozen pack ice for 100 kilometers or more, non-stop, in search of a possibly receptive female".

The main thing to remember is that the slower you move the brush across your lid, the less straight the line will be.

From Eaton's Jackson, it's more or less a straight line, right through Harrison, Garfield, Eisenhower, Reagan, and Clinton, all the way to Kaylene Johnson's "Sarah: How a Hockey Mom Turned the Political Establishment Upside Down" (Epicenter/Tyndale; $15.95).

For the next 50 mile, I-80 runs in more or less a straight line.

And one that, at 40 (well, 41), means understanding that desire is often less about straight lines than figure eights — the kind, in this case, that I had no hope of mastering.