Sentence examples for wedge-shaped face from inspiring English sources

In the section devoted to the masquerade, you will find a classic example of a woman's helmet mask from Sierra Leone, its diminutive, wedge-shaped face, couched in rolls of flesh, projecting a kind of earth-grounded delicacy.

Leaf: most cauline, alternate, oblanceolate to spoon-shaped [linear], entire, base +- wedge-shaped, faces gray-tomentose.

One of them is "Protection From Sickness and Jealousy," dominated by three owls with serious wedge-shaped faces that stand as sentinels.

Grahame talks of their "glances of malice and hatred" and "evil little wedge-shaped faces" with contempt, but also the fear that a middle-aged, middle-class banker might feel when confronted with a working class who were no longer prepared to doff their caps subserviently to their "betters".

But the wedge-shaped look of the current models is on the way out.

The coupling and alignment tolerance are optimized based on a theoretical analysis for the coupling between a highly elliptical laser diode and a single-mode fiber with a wedge-shaped end face.

The courtyard includes wedge-shaped lawns, a wedge-shaped patio and walkways of polished Portuguese blue marble.

Fruit: strongly compressed, obovate or wedge-shaped; edges long-ciliate; faces glabrous or short-hairy; pappus of 2 narrow scales or 0. Species In Genus: 11--12 11--12 11--12ern North America, wespeciesouth America.

Concrete arches were faced with wedge-shaped stones or tiles called voussoirs.

Na-FAR-1 presents a wedge-shaped structure with two larger faces each of approximately 40 by 30 Å in area and of ∼17 Å in width at the wide end of the wedge.

Her face was opalescent, wedge-shaped by pain, and my heart turned over.