Sentence examples for slender support from inspiring English sources
Two lines of poetry of indeterminate date are obviously a very slender support upon which to base Pythagoras' reputation as a geometer, but they cannot be simply ignored.
It was in this era that the term daring (which Ruskin had frequently used with reference to the paintings of the English Romantic artist Joseph Mallord William Turner) became popular as a laudatory epithet, thereby indicating an ideal of structural expression that was to be increasingly exploited when steel and reinforced concrete permitted higher buildings with fewer and more slender supports.
However, it does not account for why smaller animals are more crouched; instead, they could enjoy relatively more slender supporting structures or higher safety factors.
Clematis grows by twisting its leaf stems around slender supports like twine, fishing line, thin branches, or screens.
It is shown that supersonic starting loads and high dynamic pressures in a wind tunnel can prohibit the use of the slender 'standard' support sting, so that some reference data are from tests with various non-standardized stings of larger relative diameters.
Their slender legs support their weight on one digit (which evolved from the middle digits).
The interior is stunning, with gracefully slender columns supporting arches that seem to soar in all directions.
Diller Scofidio did replace Johnson's monolithic granite base with a thin granite disk that rests on slender steel supports — a significant improvement — and lower the water level in the fountain's basin to match the level of the pavement.
These slender bones, supporting the tongue musculature and several other muscles, are rarely found in dinosaurs because they are not connected to other bones and therefore get lost easily.
Their slender, zigzagged stems support a mop of white flowers in early fall.
The vast majority of Japanese would reject it polls last year suggested that even coming to the aid of an ally would command only a slender majority of support.
