The history of the study of lunar sinuous rilles is outlined as an illustration of the influence of image resolution and the formulation of genetic hypotheses on the subsequent advancement of understanding of the problem.
Petty's songwriting talent is still very much intact, whether on the puckish, Dylanesque opener "Jefferson Jericho Blues," a history lesson about our third President, the sinuous, similarly Dylanesque "Candy," or the massive closer, "Good Enough," which nicks from the Beatles' "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." By Larissa MacFarquhar By Rivka Galchen By David Remnick By Malcolm Gladwell.
These Dromios know every trick in the long stage history of rascally servants, and they are startlingly sinuous; sometimes other characters encountering them look like people trying to discipline octopuses.
All that history, all that beauty, all that grace under pressure, all that sinuous, subtle triumph over empires and invaders and the infidels who would diss modernism - we felt, well European and sophisticated.
There are cities you love for what they offer in terms of superficial diversion — the joy of hunting down a perfect piece of passementerie in Paris or of locating a wonderfully sinuous leather journal in Milan — and there are cities you love for their significant history and scope, despite their lack of good shopping.
Its single, history-slapped village is a whole world, whose heft and weight and strange sinuous tangle of syntax stands for nothing but itself.
Where they employ dull, tautological abstractions - "the textuality of history and the history of textuality" for example - Greenblatt's own prose style is sinuous and lively.
A long way of saying that "Electra, My Love" is as this clip shows a very different kind of film, though it shares a few crucial elements, notably, the sinuous long takes (which in the later film are, by and large, less elaborate) and the ubiquity of history in the present tense.
The formal relationships of thick with thin lines, of broken with continuous, and of sinuous with jagged are forces of contrast and repetition in the design of many paintings in all periods of history.
"I needed something sinuous".
