The areas lying between the streams are broad, little-dissected, smoothly rolling surfaces that provide the land for Oregon's large wheat ranches.
Two ceremonial rooms, spectacular replicas of the temples, had linteled doorways and corbeled ceilings laboriously cut into the limestone, and traces of red ocher clinging to the smoothly sanded surfaces of the pillars.
Mr. White's cherished pop-music videos, with their fast editing and smoothly polished surfaces, stand in obvious contrast to the rough, knotty work of artists like Mr. Kuchar and Mr. Harris.
In music, Mannerism expressed itself through spirited, even exaggerated, responses to the nuances of poetic texts: abrupt contrasts, outré harmonic progressions, and other disruptions of the smoothly churning surface of the high-Renaissance style.
Martin Hutson conveys all of Hans Litten's uncompromising defiance, John Light gradually allows us to see the ideological rigidity that underlies Dr Conrad's smoothly polite surface and there is fine support, among Litten's fellow-captives, from Mike Grady as a truculent newspaper editor and Pip Donaghy as a free-speaking anarchist who constantly refers to Hitler as "the Austrian transvestite".
The love poems of his middle years possess a "measured quietude", in Yeats's phrase, that holds itself intact against the dark forces lurking beneath their smoothly crafted surface: "Be witness that on waking, this mid-winter, / I found her hand in mine laid closely / Who shall watch out the spring with me.
"The first time I came in here," Newson says, "I immediately had visions of 'North by Northwest' -- you know, the fantastic Frank Lloyd Wright-ish thing in the Hitchcock film, with the large spaces and the chalet feeling?" That house became a reference point; not that the Newson aesthetic, with its smoothly lacquered surfaces and cool curves, ever really departs from retro-modern.
The catalyst droplets with smoothly curved surfaces confirm the VLS process, as shown in Figures 2, 4, and 5[33].
That scheme is designed to achieve high-order algebraic convergence and high-accuracy when applied to operators given on smoothly parameterized surfaces.
