Sentence examples for slight roughness from inspiring English sources

While they may lack the virtuosity of Chris Van Allsburg's work or David Wiesner's, their slight roughness gives them urgency.

The surface may be striated, left smooth by sawing, or feature the slight roughness of hand splitting.

At 44, Owen still has a noticeable Midlands burr and a slight roughness around the edges, but everything else about him shrieks movie star.

When he reaches the words "freudenlose Welt" ("joyless world"), a slight roughness intrudes, as if he had lost faith in the illusion of song.

You can also roll cavatelli on a plain surface; wood is best, as its slight roughness allows the dough to "grip" the surface and roll properly.

The music is well served by their ardor, even a slight roughness, neither of which obscures the underlying current of lyricism: Mr. Pletnev's crystalline playing, Mr. Repin's singing violin.

Blood was still flowing, all sticky, seeping from the soaking wet towel, rapidly forming drips on the silk lapels, then disappearing into the folds of the jacket, like trails of slightly glinting snot side-tracked by the slightest roughness in the fabric, sometimes accumulating into drops that fell to the floor and exploded into star-shaped stains.

We found that 400 eV is the optimal energy for neon ion etching ensuring slight surface roughness smoothing in the range of incidence angles of ± 40°.

Optical devices operating in extremely short wavelength ranges require unprecedented accuracy because a small figure error and/or slight surface roughness distorts the wavefront of the reflected light.

This seems rather consistent with its physical properties: despite a slight surface roughness and some inner unhomogeneities represented by the wood fibers that might be perceived at mm-frequencies due to the small wavelength, the wooden panel seems in fact the smoother and the more homogeneous among the considered OUT.

The model indicates that the zinc crystals on the surface of the coated sheet steel will initially deform by twinning, which causes a slight increase in surface roughness.