When we are looking at these spectra, or the curves, dips, slopes and peaks from Mars, we want to be able to identify them as a specific type of mineral or rock.
As the novel weaves from one Lambert to another and from a crisis in the present to a trauma in the past, the curves dip and rise, begin and end.
All of the aesthetic pleasures of the real-life game are captured: the feints and step-overs, the curve and dip of a perfectly arced free kick, the rippling net, the boots with the luminous laces.
The curve and dip on Goodwin's strike was Fifa 15-esque, and even his technique in striking the ball had a certain balletic quality that comes with certain left-footers.
FOLLOWING the curves and dips of Lake Road in the 2009 Subaru Forester it is hard to imagine what it must have been like on this two-lane in the 1920s, trying to outrun the feds in a big Cadillac weighed down by cases of Canadian booze.
The roads in Dominica wind, curve, dip and rise with such severity that even a short drive will rid a visitor of their bearings.
But the work, I think, pays gracious homage to Olmsted's and Vaux's abiding pastoral vision: like immense Magic Marker lines, the gates highlight the ingenious and whimsical curves, dips and loops that Olmsted and Vaux devised as antidotes to the rigid grid plan of the surrounding city streets and, by extension, to the general hardships of urban life.
Just below a side strake behind the front wheel, a striking S-curve dips, then flares gradually upward and over the rear fender.
King's most audacious attempt involved him changing pace, cutting in from the left and unleashing a curving, dipping shot which hit the underside of the bar and the inside of the far post before somehow rebounding, bagatelle style, to safety.
What came to mind first for me was the age curve, its dips and gaps and peaks.
But in the last three years, even as the campus has expanded, the curve has flattened and dipped slightly, showing annual decreases in electrical use of less than 1percentt.
