Sentence examples for proportion light from inspiring English sources

It brings order, proportion, light and beauty to space.

Kahn used the basic tools of architecture — space, proportion, light, texture — sparely and with an almost religious reverence.

Thus, monitoring teams can gather eggs and test them to see what proportion light up; since these will not make it to adulthood, the company can measure its success.

Proportions, light and views matter deeply to Mr. Killian, who has written a 10-volume history of American architecture (as yet unpublished), and Ms. Bollack, who specializes in restoration of historic structures.

That's why it's such a surprise to enter the simple brick house on Dikeman Street and find pleasingly proportioned, light-filled rooms, with the original woodwork, pocket doors, tin ceilings, and fireplaces set off by ornate wooden mantels.

Re "True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd" (Basics, Oct. 23): Our color vision depends on the proportion of light absorbed by three different receptors — one most sensitive to red light, another to green and a third to blue.

In particular, positive potentials were detected clearly in proportion to light intensity (arrows in Figure 4C), but other types of light-induced potentials such as the negative potentials observed in acutely isolated retinas (Figure S1) were not detectable.

The gentle shifts in scale, proportion and light heighten your awareness of the surroundings, which, in turn, draws you closer to the artworks.

All three were well behind the 26.4 miles a gallon average for Toyota and the 29.8 for Honda, largely because Japanese automakers sell a far smaller proportion of light trucks.

A glossary at the end of his book explains terms such as albedo ("The proportion of light reflected from a surface") or serac ("A bulging tower of ice on a glacier"), but does not reach to the verbs and adjectives he digs up for the effects of sound or light: yabber, jabbly, sintering, bermed, moshed.

Proportion of light activity at 2 months was a good predictor of circadian rhythm disruption at 7 months.