Unbuttoned from time, transient and transcendental, Brodman saw the true shape of his life, how it had torqued always in the direction of duty.
The themes really assume their true shape only at the end of the rotation — what Hepokoski calls the "telos," the epiphanic goal.
The perception of depth in a two-dimensional pattern thus depends greatly on experience the knowledge of the true shape of things when viewed in a certain way.
Optical spectroscopy may disclose its surface mineralogy while radar should reveal its true shape, size and rotation, possibly map its surface and indicate whether its bulk is stony or metallic.
He hoped that more of us would discover "smaller artists who speak more authentically to their audience," and that all of us might, at last, perceive "the true shape of demand in our culture".
In the prologue to his most ambitious biography, "Dickens," published a decade ago, he sets as his project to find "the true shape of the world in which he lived.
The other kind, those who value silence and space, may feel they are asphyxiating, that time and a thorough edit would have revealed the book's true shape, its "beautiful resonance".
"A lot of games will have a cut-off point, but we will make change after change, later and later, because that's where the game takes its true shape.
The Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens, who began studying Saturn with an improved telescope in 1655, eventually deduced the true shape of the rings and the fact that the ring plane was inclined substantially to Saturn's orbit.
This is the great guilty pleasure of good horror fiction: the sickening moment when the monstrosity at the heart of the story's darkness suggests itself to the eager imagination, while still withholding its true shape.
In practice, though, the true shape parameter is not known.
