Sentence examples for slight diagonal from inspiring English sources

Sometimes there is a hankering, more felt than articulated, for types with snub noses, shortened upper lips, eyes set on a slight diagonal, and petulant expressions that inspire one to offer them a dish of cream.

Several have little mosaic-like blocks of related colors (mostly muted reds, blues or greens, with bits of yellow and lavender), whose slight diagonal orientations create a sense of imminent movement and radiance similar to Dove's.

There were also a few slim black dresses lightly mixed with black duchess satin, and one in black wool twill with a flat knitted bodice set at a slight diagonal.

Along with these elaborate shapes, Mr. Maier included a few slim black dresses lightly mixed with black duchess satin, and one in black twill wool with a flat knitted bodice set at a slight diagonal.

When "Super Natural" begins, percussive instruments are set out over the stage, with the audience placed around it, on a slight diagonal, so that we are looking toward a far corner.

"Diagonal" (1961) is a small, delicate composition in which a long, organic crease partially crosses the center of the paper at a slight diagonal, spreading out on either side through density of line and turning back on itself at both ends in convolutions that suggest the scrolls atop Ionic columns.

The roadway has a slight vertical curve and is supported by thin diagonal members that carry loads to the arch.

Slight buckling in the diagonal bundled bars was observed.

The experimental results showed that increasing the provided vertical web reinforcement ratio has slight effect on the diagonal cracking strength and the ultimate shear strength.

The results yielded a final comparison of 222 contigs from M. roreri and 207 contigs from M. perniciosa and showed highly similar sequences with slight shifts off the diagonal line, which indicate translocations in the contigs.

A slight rotation away from the diagonal line of agreement (and towards a horizontal line) is observed in the question mean imputation (panel C).