Sentence examples for period straight from inspiring English sources

No settling in period, straight into it.

Normally natural disasters are off limits to politicking, at least in the period straight after the event.

His point about the Jewish tragedy, as I understand it, is that you can't get the Holocaust straight if you don't get the entire history of the period straight.

Jerry is every bit the urbane professional, dressed in turtleneck sweater (Saint Laurent appropriated this look from the Beat generation in the late Sixties and caused more than a few ripples when he sent it down the catwalk), suede safari jacket (another of the house's signatures from that period), straight pants and desert boots.

Lincoln Center, designed in the same period, is straight out of Weird Tales.

As my partner and I took samples of the culture at intervals to measure optical density and plotted the results on semilogarithmic paper, we saw, after the lag period, a straight line developing...beautiful in precision and remarkable in speed.

The health related quality of life curve consists of horizontal segments for the two week health status recall periods and straight lines joining these horizontal segments (that is, a trapezoid estimation rule).

To estimate whether a change in the proportion of admissions of patients aged ≥ 80 years occurred over the study period, a straight-line regression of the natural logarithm of the proportion of admissions aged ≥ 80 years was fitted with calendar year as the independent variable.

With this definition, periods of straight-line motion correspond to a constant angle; small zig-zags in the direction of motion show up as oscillations in the angle (Fig. 6C); large turns as large increases and decreases in the angle (red box, Fig. 6A); and circling behavior adds or subtracts 2π per circle completed in the counter-clockwise and clockwise direction (Fig. 6B), respectively.

It is too self-conscious to pass as a straight period piece.

It marries straight period reconstruction with conventional flourishes of genre movie-making.