Sentence examples for rugged contours from inspiring English sources

The rugged contours of the objects combined with the dark shades of olive and brown charge the picture with gloom.

As day broke, Elbrus's twin peaks appeared before us, and the Caucasus mountains paraded their rugged contours behind us.

His face fills the frame, its rugged contours emphasised by the glamorous interplay of sunshine and shadow.

Saitowitz, a professor of architecture at the University of California at Berkeley who is known for his site-sensitive brand of Modernism, produced a curving swath of three linked buildings that conform to the land's rugged contours.

Through the clear desert air the eye can follow the rugged contours of the range for great distances to the north and eastward.

By and large, this is a pristine landscape of verdant wilderness, deciduous and coniferous old growth, lush valleys, rough-hewn mountain ridges, and the rugged contours of a majestic coastline.

Furthermore, the stoichiometric complexity of metabolic pathway, along with strong nonlinear behaviour of the regulatory kinetic models, directs a highly rugged contour in the whole optimization problem.

In the 3rd century bce the completion of the Great Wall, about 6,400 kilometres (4,000 miles) in length and following a sinuous path along the contours of rugged terrain, had demonstrated remarkable achievements in masonry technology, logistics, and surveying methods.

Walkers usually prefer to move on flat surfaces and travel parallel to a contour line, as a rugged terrain and change in the elevation of the surface (i.e., slope) and the direction that a slope faces (i.e., aspect) are likely to lead to discomfort as the result of the instability, speed reduction and fatigue caused by the consumption of greater metabolic energy.

They are firmly contoured and monumentally composed in a rugged hand, with an astringent palette of black, yellow, a startling red-orange, and off-kilter pastels.

Its crags, angles and lines constitute a virtual contour map and metaphorical mirror image of the rugged mountain territory he enters, equipped with telescopic rifles and elaborate traps.