Mr. Bridge, like the stereotypical Port drinker of my imagining, has the ramrod-straight bearing of a former officer in the First Queen's Dragoons Guards, a British cavalry regiment.
Mia Wasikowska stars as India Stoker, a pensive emo teenager and occasional huntress, while Nicole Kidman plays India's mum with a ramrod-straight bearing and a pained crimp to her solicitous smile.
The man who strode to the podium carrying a small swagger stick, had a ramrod-straight bearing and was every inch the British military officer that had marked the early years of his career.
Mercator's projection was advantageous for nautical purposes as it represented lines of constant true bearing or true course, known as loxodromes or rhumb lines, as straight lines.
This projection is widely used for navigation charts, because any straight line on a Mercator-projection map is a line of constant true bearing that enables a navigator to plot a straight-line course.
The challenge of the ballot today will be to keep two separate lists straight: one bearing the names of the candidates, the other the names of possible delegates to the Democratic National Convention.
Permanent transects were not cut but rather a straight line bearing was followed through the forest with minimal impact using only secateurs where possible to open the transect sufficiently to enable passage.
If you happen to miss those opening introductions: Pence's hair is almost white and he has the straight-backed bearing of a mid-ranking military man.
Bock is 43, big-jawed, handsome, once an extra on Baywatch and still with the straight-backed bearing of a screen lifeguard.
The tower's antenna will be able to draw a directional bead on even the faintest radio distress signals from vessels as far as 20 nautical miles away in either the Atlantic Ocean or the Sound, the Coast Guard says, giving rescuers a straight-line bearing to follow.
