The concept of narrowness may be useful even if the limiting case never occurs, just as the concept of flatness is useful even though in this world the limiting case of absolute flatness never occurs.
For a higher degree of flatness, glass had to be cast (generally on a steel table) and rolled.
In another context it would be read as a violation of the Modernist law of flatness in painting.
But Friedman is a writer of energy and confidence: he used "flat," and its variants, nearly six hundred times, or about once per page — "Age of Flatism," "coefficient of flatness," "compassionate flatism," "half-flatness," "flatburger".
Just at the moment when the art critic Clement Greenberg was campaigning for the flatness of the picture plane, this work confronts the viewer with a mute, implacable image of flatness, industrial style.
Reitlinger notes that the causes of flatness and decline were within the market itself.
(The same sorts of things, plausibly, which are responsible for determining what is expressed by attributions of flatness, say).
Countershading uses graded colour to counteract the effect of self-shadowing, creating an illusion of flatness.
Cheesa went with "Already Gone" by Kelly Clarkson and Blake said he "detected a little bit of flatness".
Take advantage of flatness.
