Sentence examples for vertical expanse from inspiring English sources

Over the next month the resulting growth will be a lush, vertical expanse of seedling grass, brilliant green and tender.

But volunteers have found 20 to 120 dead birds a year near the museum's vertical expanse of glass facing west into Central Park.

The style, concerned with creating rich visual effects through decoration, was characterized by a predominance of vertical lines in stone window tracery, enlargement of windows to great proportions, and conversion of the interior stories into a single unified vertical expanse.

In England the parallel Perpendicular Gothic style was characterized by a predominance of vertical lines in the stone tracery of windows, an enlargement of windows to great proportions, and the conversion of the interior stories into a single unified vertical expanse.

As Whitehead and Rendell show, cetacean culture and its transmission are shaped by a blend of adaptations, innate sociality, and the unique environment in which whales and dolphins live: a watery world in which a hundred-and-fifty-ton blue whale can move with utter grace, and where the vertical expanse is as vital, and almost as vast, as the horizontal.

Proceeding around the semicircle from left to right, these include a sloping lawn, an amphitheater for outdoor performances, a fountain of towering, vertical plumes, and expanse of grass steps, in effect a park in the shape of a ziggurat.

The geometry of the house, with its stark horizontals and verticals and large expanses of glass, intrigued him.

The diagram can thus be applied to relationships between all levels of the Linnaean hierarchy with the vertical coordinates representing potentially vast expanses of time, and the horizontal coordinates the degree of taxonomic divergence over time.

In the Flamboyant style wall space was reduced to the minimum of supporting vertical shafts to allow an almost continuous expanse of glass and tracery.

1965), whose cream-colored ground is divided down the middle by a vertical stripe, itself divided vertically in half, one-half black, the other dead white, plays with the eye's perception of symmetry while at the same time offering it a restful expanse of space.

They squared off over Newman's smooth expanses of color inflected with vertical bands or lines — spiritual hierophancy to Rosenberg, aesthetic engineering to Greenberg.