Sentence examples for on the contours from inspiring English sources

It found expression in the highest echelons of Western thought, and took on the contours of truth.

It was also a demarcation point in a searing battle that took on the contours of a morality play.

The question began to take on the contours of a wager, and the next day a taker emerged willing to give them fifty-to-one odds.

Kankan's adventures rise up and pass away with a sense of calm, as if his life were taking on the contours of the desert itself.

Living-room sofas took on the contours of the therapist's couch as viewers vicariously sought to work through their anxiety about the country's safety and the people scheming, sleuthing and spying to protect it.

But Mr. Mac's arch cartoons soon take on the contours of real, complicated people, thanks both to the richness of the writing and the across-the-board terrific performances.

Precisely because this original urban structure is part of a new system of relations, the "empty" spaces of silence within it could also take on "the contours of a simple detail… to lose some of their traits and adopt surprisingly new ones (including the urgency of being listened to at last)" (Corzani [1994], p. 167), rather than being relegated to narrating marginality.

These images are used to create a patient-specific guide that fits in one single position on the contours of the bone and the prosthesis in situ.

On the contours of absence.

It is also a personal, and deeply moving, meditation on the contours of absence.

Who knows, maybe this Kardashian trend will catch on like the contour?