Sentence examples for slender point from inspiring English sources
The scheme replaces a project known as the Pinnacle, a tower designed by American firm KPF in the form of a rolled-up napkin, which would have spiralled up to a slender point in the City's planned "cluster".
Above each sinuous planter rises a thicket of trees – which will grow to a maximum height of 15 metres – thinning out towards the middle of the bridge, where the two mushrooms meet at a slender point, to retain strategic views along the river to St Paul's.
The bill is slender, pointed, and slightly to strongly downcurved.
"Broadway audiences want to know when to applaud," Ms. McDonald said, a note of puzzlement creeping into her slender, pointed speaking voice.
Supplanting the small, slender, pointed lancet windows of the early English Gothic style were windows of great width and height, divided by mullions into two to eight brightly coloured main subdivisions, each of which was further divided by tracery.
They had thicker, heavier walls that were not much changed from Romanesque proportions; accentuated, repeated moldings on the edges of interior arches; a sparing use of tall, slender, pointed lancet windows; and nave piers consisting of a central column of light-coloured stone surrounded by a number of slimmer attached columns made of black Purbeck marble.
When I was at the V&A in the 80s, the great Giambologna sculpture, Samson and a Philistine (an audacious design since its vast substance is anchored at only five slender points) was in the gloom and once carelessly thwacked by a contractor's scaffolding pole.
3. Slender, pointed coronoid process often facing upwards and posteriorly.
The S&P 500 eked out a slender one point gain on Friday to finish at 1,350, up 0.1% for the day and matching the Dow's 1.4% rise for the week.
The slender most point of the glass structure is the key to its accuracy and its shape is visually appealing to man as well as it has long been used to describe the figures of women men desire.
Christie tops Clinton by a slender three points among men, 49 percent to 46percentt; Romney won men by seven percentage points.
