Sentences with phrase «at oblique»

Its colors are bright and vivid without being overblown, and there's no discoloration or wash - out when viewing at oblique angles.

For example, some screens have exhibited «grit» when scrolling and pretty much all of them have a blue shift when you look at the display at an oblique angle.

Of course when the sun hits at an oblique angle the number of watts per square metre of surface is lower (proportional in fact to 1 / sin (A) where A is the elevation above the horizon.).

Smithson made literal this biological form with a steel structure that holds mirrors at an oblique angle.

To further complicate the simulacrum, Klamen plays with the viewer's perception by drastically altering the perspective of the painting, tilting the work at an oblique angle within his own canvas.

This was an immersive environment formed out of multiple video projections of glacial caverns pointed at oblique angles onto gossamer fabric that created a kind of undulating dream - world environment where nature is revealed as streams of colliding energy.

Moving between first and third person, the text meets Richards» exhibition at an oblique angle, like his images that oscillate between unfettered documentary and a more neurotic interior territory.

Adding some punch to the proceedings is Robert Grosvenor's Untitled (yellow), from 1966/2016, a lengthy aluminum diagonal stretching at an oblique angle from the ceiling almost to the floor that was initially shown at Dwan and then featured in LACMA's legendary «Sculpture of the Sixties» survey in 1967.

An exhibit at Washington University's Kemper Museum — In the Aftermath of Trauma: Contemporary Video Installations — introduces painful political conflicts to St. Louis museum goers at oblique angles.

The earliest known photograph of Collection shows it at an oblique angle, hanging in a gallery context (fig. 3).

The shapes are drawn in bent glass tubing and draped wire and they often protrude, sometimes at oblique angles, into the room...

On a conceptual and technical level the tableaus she produces consist of fragments that are reassembled at oblique angles to their original context.

Everything looks much less sharp, and textures at oblique angles look incredibly blurry, which is very visible on the XL screens, though not too difficult to ignore.

The faster you're going, the more vigorous the rebound... and, frequently, those collisions will happen at an oblique angle that results in your car being spun completely around to face a wall or even drive backward.

Key skills that students will use are photo analysis (including analysing photos at oblique angles), grid reference, compass skills and written description skills.

Again the core assets are the same, but our comparison gallery below shows that art presented at oblique angles goes from a blurry smudge on Xbox 360 to crisp and sharp on Xbox One X.

This beautiful galaxy is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a «birds - eye view» of the spiral structure.

Neumann, an instrument specialist for the MESSENGER mission, helped to calibrate the altimeter's reflectance signal, which can vary depending upon whether the measurement is taken from directly overhead or at an oblique angle (known as «off - nadir»).

By depositing these rods at an oblique angle, the scientists created an uneven film with various gaps in it.

That suggests that the impactor traveled from the northwest, impacting at an oblique angle rather than straight on.

Ever since, she has been writing of a world of sport that is somehow always at oblique angles from the more familiar contests and conflicts.

The rain this spring, here as in much of the country, has been heavy and regular, and so the ditches are full to overflowing, and gleam like silver when viewed at an oblique slant.

For the premiere of Men, Women & Children, picks a body - con Stella McCartney design with mesh sleeves and insets at the obliques.

Not exact matches

In an oblique reference to Trump and his social - media habits, Guajardo says policy - makers sometimes find themselves scrambling to respond to the thoughts of a superior shared publicly at 6 a.m.

In erotic descriptions at once humorously profane and tactfully oblique, Lance evokes the sheer ecstasy, the virtual eternity, that he and Margot enjoyed in bodily life together.

Introspectively, my position is verified by the shifting nature of conscious attention, with its structure of a central focal awareness surrounded by an horizon of indeterminate yet always accessible oblique experience, upon which the searchlight of attention may at any moment be turned.

I think the reason for this objection is that Cobb has not kept in mind the distinction I have made between inheritance from a dominant past occasion and oblique inheritance from occasions in the past which are contiguous but «at a slant,» so to speak (PPCT 328).

In a simple, unstructured environment oblique occasions will offer no significant alternatives to the aim presented by the dominant past entity and concrescence will be essentially reiteration of prior forms of definiteness experience will be at the level of what Whitehead calls, technically, physical purposes.

There may be oblique reference to the problem in the charter's words on seminaries and priestly formation, but the bishops knew that the H - word is a media H - bomb, and they cringed at the thought of the almost certain headline if they had used it: «Bishops Mandate Witch - hunt Against Gays.»

For this, at least, we can render oblique thanks to the Sacred Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

Mickelson, who was due in Houston on Wednesday after two days of «light practice» at Augusta, quit the Valero Texas Open midway through the third round with a strained right oblique muscle.

#MLB #Twins — Joe Mauer, Oblique — is upgraded to probable Monday (8/11) at Houston — SportsInsights.com (@SportsInsights) August 10, 2014

An oblique lie is when the baby's head is at mom's hip.

However, a transverse or oblique Baby A makes vaginal delivery nearly impossible, unless babies twist around at the last minute!

He took a more oblique, though unmistakable, swipe at Cuomo.

The document released by the governor started by making note of an unfolding scandal at the City University of New York and calls for greater financial disclosure from local government leaders — an oblique reference to recent arrests in Nassau County.

Leica has also licensed another sheet - sweeping technology, the oblique plane microscopy (OPM) developed by Chris Dunsby, a biomedical optics researcher at Imperial College London.

The connection to careers in the sciences may seem oblique, but here it is: The findings suggest that poverty is a direct impediment to performance at school, and thus to entering cognitively demanding careers.

Here's how it could have happened: The cross-modal area of the brain might have evolved to link an oblique image hitting the retina (caused by viewing a tilted branch) with an «oblique» sequence of muscle twitches (leading the animal to grab the branch at an angle).

One possibility is that oblique watch - hand orientations are best at keeping company logos uncovered — but, if so, horizontal positions such as 9:15 or 2:45 would be even better.

Different as they appear at first glance, they share basic structural features, according to a new study: characters with vertical symmetry (like the Roman letters A and T) and a preference for vertical and horizontal lines over oblique lines (like those in the letters X and W).

Johnson predicts that oblique impacts, or collisions occurring at an angle, may be even more efficient at producing molten plumes of chondrules.

The mechanical properties of flexible MCA based OSCs and PSCs was highly flexible with 98 % retention from initial PCE at both 0 o and oblique incident angle 60 o after 2000 bending cycles at radius of 2 mm.

Laboratory results have shown the measurement of tip, tilt, focus, oblique and right astigmatism at 1.55 um for the vector vortex coronagraph.

And since you do that at a certain angle, you target the obliques and rectus abdominis too.

Ready to try your trunk at Theodore's favorite oblique workout?

They base their results on testing the muscle activity of rectus abdominis, external obliques, internal obliques and spinal erectors while the subjects performed crunches at 4 different speeds — 4 seconds, 2 seconds, 1.5 seconds and 1 second.

And you know what they say (well, what I say at least), tight obliques will cinch in that waist — like a belt.

The sternal - costal head of the pectoralis muscle originates at the lateral manubrium, the six sternum costal cartilages and the eternal oblique aponeurosis and it inserts at the humerus.

But when it comes to training the external obliques, or the muscles at the sides of your waist, researchers agree that regular crunches are not the best choice there is, and that's where bicycle crunches come into play.