Sentences with phrase «oblique angles»

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.

Their creation, called the FiberCell, is constructed from bundles of glass - cored fibers sprayed with an inexpensive proprietary polymer that captures photons even from oblique angles and converts them into electricity.

In bringing them together, «Character Traits» conveys not merely a set of oblique angles on life but an insouciant worldview.

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.

Rather than replicate the novel's muckraking focus, Anderson anatomises America's heritage from a more oblique angle, conjuring an opus infinitely rich and bracingly strange.

But this is no rigid geometry; in each painting, the viewer is placed at a slightly oblique angle relative to the subject, subtly skewing the orthogonals.

Unlike cheap PCs that need to be viewed front - on for a manageable view, the MeMo Pad 7 can be titled through oblique angles and still maintain necessary contrast.

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.

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.

There is nothing to compare with the first - time fascination of discovering all the hocus - pocus of synthetic and artificial perspective: one - and two - point vanishing points, closing one eye, boxes with oblique angles and windows to the Tuscan countryside.

Even from oblique angles.

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.

Confronted by serious questions from Stephen McIntyre, the dogged Ontario retiree whose Climate Audit website exposed the fraud of Dr. Mann's global - warming «hockey stick» graph, «Andy» writes to Dr. Mann to say not to worry, he's going to «cover» the story from a more oblique angle:

Viewing angles on the Tab are reasonable, with colour being maintained as you view from a slightly oblique angle - so it's good enough to lie it flat on its back and keep an eye on what is going on, something the software customisation by Samsung lends itself to.

Ramsey as usual approaches the topic from an oblique angle.

At still other times, the Bible seems to blatantly contradict dogmatic claims, or strike at oblique angles, or even hover with perplexing irrelevance.

In this foldout image from the medieval encyclopedia Liber floridus (Book of Flowers), Earth is depicted surrounded by the orbits of the planets, which cut into an early example of a graph depicting planetary motion through time (the red diagonal, seen at an oblique angle).

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

And you can put any type of lens on — telephoto, zoom, panoramic views, oblique angles and from different altitudes.»

The meteor came in at an oblique angle, which spread its energy over a large area.

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

Four frames from a 3 - D computer simulation, during which a Ceres - sized impactor smashing into Mars at an oblique angle

Four frames from a 3 - D computer simulation, during which a Ceres - sized impactor smashing into Mars at an oblique angle (Credit: Southwest Research Institute)

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

This Mary (Rooney Mara) is an interventionist, outsider witness to Jesus (Joaquin Phoenix), seeing his ministry from fresh, oblique angles.

Relying heavily on selective focus, oblique angles, and moody lighting, the film casts post-9 / 11 New York in this discomforting haze, where anyone you see, even our protagonist and the ordinarily affable Ruffalo, could be a monstrous killer / dismemberer.

«Characters in films don't know whether they're in a comedy or a drama,» Carell said of his oblique angle on du Pont.

A pair of subplots come out of left field to inject some craziness in the proceedings, which is otherwise left to director Neil Burger's editing and camera tricks (a few endless zooms through the streets, oblique angles, and several X-ray vision shots come to mind).

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

The Juke Nismo RS needs to be approached from an oblique angle rather than head - on, because it so roundly defies the normal conventions of genre and category.

While its glossy surface did kick back some reflections, on - screen action was visible from oblique angles.

The IPS panel made everything viewable even from oblique angles, and the Gorilla Glass helps protect the Nexus 7 against accidental falls.

The strangler vine then grew along the oblique angle of the leaning tree, dangling 15 metres to the ground to create the curtain affect.

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.

I decided I wanted to approach it from an oblique angle.

The container - gallery is not entirely oblong; the solid part of the western wall is set at an oblique angle, slanting off from a vestibule with a picture window set on the perpendicular to the elevator bank.

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

Its many lines and oblique angles are perfectly suited to the similarly composed gallery in which it hangs.

And while pieces by some of the most interesting young talents in Brazilian art approach the house from oblique angles — eg, Jonathan de Andrade's hundreds of glass plaques, bearing images of an abandoned, flooded modernist yacht club, snaking around the floor and Paulo Nazareth's rough concrete watermelons and bananas — Rivane Neuenschwander's intervention nails it with all the grace and harmony of simplicity.

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.

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.

Paintings are sometimes hung at an oblique angle to the floor or with the bottom edge of a painting positioned at eye level on the wall.

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.