Its climactic drama glances off a theme from "Moonlight," the torment of repressed homosexual desire and of the need to prove straightness to straight males by means of violence.
That is, it takes the straightness of the straight line and the flatness of the plane as fundamental, and appeals to the incidence properties just described.
It is a genuine question to ask about a baton partially submerged in water whether it is straight or curved, but whether the baton, straightness, curvature etc., are real things, is not.
However, Galilean spacetime has an 'affine connection' which effectively specifies for every point of every continuous curve, the rate at which the curve is changing from straightness at that point; for instance, the straight lines are picked out as those curves whose rate of change from straightness is zero at every point.
According to a popular theory in perceptual psychology, seeing that the wall is red or straight typically involves perception of a constant property, the redness or straightness of the wall, and perception of it as constant ("property constancy", "colour constancy", "shape constancy").
But soon, it will start to fill up with blue tubes whose deviation from straightness is imperceptible to the naked eye.
The straightness of his back came from something else: that on his third attempt at escape from prison camp he was beaten senseless, and his skull and neck broken, by two Breton peasants with pitchforks, and was invalided out in exchange for a U-boat commander.Mr Gladstone's letterThe war marked him, as he admitted.
Competitors furrowed plots of about two square kilometres and were judged on the depth, straightness and overall look of their ploughing.
From the unerring straightness of the lines, Lowell argued they could not be natural in origin.
Plates are usually made in small quantities and to a customer's specification, with different dimensions and tolerances for flatness, profile, straightness, and other properties.
The useful amount of wood a cord actually contains varies greatly, depending upon such factors as the type of wood, the size and straightness of the pieces, and the amount of bark present.
