Sentence examples for solidity by from inspiring English sources

Each arrangement is lent solidity by a concrete base that conforms to its seemingly random outlines.

Now, confronted by the inescapable presence and likely longevity of these blast walls, the city has hired two dozen Iraqi artists to soften their harsh gray solidity by using the city's past to hide its present.

But in today's topsy-turvy market, the bank's decision to take a much more conservative view of the value of its assets was welcomed as a sign that further big mark-downs are less likely.What is more, UBS strengthened its tier-one capital, an important measure of bank solidity, by SFr19.4 billion ($17.1 billion).

Rhinos have conceded the fewest points in Super League this year, but they continued to belie their usual defensive solidity by twice letting Cas get back on level terms.

Thayer observed that whereas a painter takes a flat canvas and uses coloured paint to create the illusion of solidity by painting in shadows, animals such as deer are often darkest on their backs, becoming lighter towards the belly, creating (as zoologist Hugh Cott observed) the illusion of flatness, and against a matching background, of invisibility.

In Proposition 1 Kant argues that repulsive force is required for matter to fill space, since solidity, understood by "Lambert and others" as the property matter would have by means of "its mere existence" (4:497), cannot truly explain how one matter resists another matter's attempt to penetrate it.

This juxtaposition of warm softness and cold solidity, created by the Dutch pairing of Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta, was an early hit.

The cocktail of gin and heightened emotions proved exhausting, and at 22 Ms Fuller succumbed gratefully to the solidity offered by Charlie, with his broad shoulders, American heritage and sensible approach to alcohol.

The strength of this side is rooted on the solidity provided by Denisov and the central defensive duo of Sergei Ignashevich and Vasili Berezutski, who had so often in the past seemed a weakness.

Shrewsbury are a good, functional side, with a little sprinkling of talent and flair (Morgan and Wilding) combined with the solidity provided by the experience and wisdom of Ian Sharps at the back.

So that, without the plinth, ideally extending its sides, the set would be a cube: perfect stability, quietness and solidity, denied by the fist's gesture: frozen dynamism.