American soldier's lives and foreshorten the conflict. From Wordnik.com. [The "Last Throes" of the Pro-War Right] Reference
One moment now, if I foreshorten the bloss on your bleather. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
Most photos of it are from underneath looking up, which foreshorten the image. From Wordnik.com. [Photo Contest Vote: Minerals - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Hopefully the leader will not cut off the amendments or foreshorten our ability to offer amendments. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2009] Reference
They had become very attached to the childlike supermind, and perhaps they believed that they could foreshorten the eons which his natural evolution would require. From Wordnik.com. [Against The Fall Of Night]
Profound depression and vegetative symptoms result from realizing nothing that individuals do matters and that there is no way to end, foreshorten or even know the duration of their suffering. From Wordnik.com. [OpEdNews - Diary: Letter to Senate on health effects of indefinite detention] Reference
Oh, yes, Speaker Pelosi, it was more important to foreshorten debate so that the "troops" could go home on recess than to more fully consider, and possibly fashion, an improved piece of legislation. From Wordnik.com. [When Partisanship Trumps We, the People] Reference
Sheets of rain, so heavy they were almost solid, were closing in rapidly, cutting light drastically; judging distances accurately was now a major problem mainly because the blurring effect tended to foreshorten the distance. From Wordnik.com. [beneath an opal moon]
The piazza is environed by more than a thousand shops, which impede the view, considerably foreshorten and hide the great dome of St. Peter's, and detract from its imposing grandeur; causing the façade to appear of an immense and disproportionate height. From Wordnik.com. [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference
Create a regular foreshorten journal locate from your tweets?. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
The mountains dwarf mankind and foreshorten the procession of its long generations. From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
"My advice to business leaders is not to foreshorten the horizon at a moment like this.". From Wordnik.com. [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference
"So my advice to business leaders would be not to foreshorten the horizon at a moment like this," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Free Internet Press] Reference
Last year there were rumours that his knees were in such a chronic state that they would foreshorten his career. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
It wasn't until the drawing got finished that it became painfully obvious that we'd failed to foreshorten the face sufficiently. From Wordnik.com. [Core77] Reference
Title for foreshorten posts: If you ordered the pick above to YES, opt YES here if you poverty to attain the denomination for your regular foreshorten posts. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
It is the way of tradition to foreshorten things like that, -- Nothing much has happened in Wales since those ancient battles with the English; so the six or seven centuries of. From Wordnik.com. [The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19] Reference
In order to fit the car's hydraulics and powerful V-8 engine into its schizoid body, Cohen had to foreshorten the interior and forgo such amenities as a back seat and leg room. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
You can draw the rounding line of a table in perspective, but you cannot draw the sweep of a sea bay; you can foreshorten a log of wood by it, but you cannot foreshorten an arm. From Wordnik.com. [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference
Instead the detailing standard is to show the true size of a structural shape but foreshorten its length to fit onto the page and have the features attached be readable / understandable. From Wordnik.com. [All Discussion Groups: Message List - root] Reference
President Mamdou Tandja changed the constitution last year to allow himself to run for a third term in office, and the rumoured coup may be an attempt to foreshorten his extended premiership. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
When positioned at the end of hallway or at the top of a stairway, a colorful painting or a piece of decorative furniture can foreshorten a space, making its proportions more pleasing to the eye. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Borders may be safely used on the wall or on the carpet of any large room with high ceiling, but wall friezes should be avoided where the ceilings are low, for they foreshorten the height effect. From Wordnik.com. [Color Value] Reference
It is curious that while the instinct of perspective was not strong enough to enable any painter at this time to foreshorten a foot, it yet suggested to them the expression of elevation by raising the horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Mornings in Florence] Reference
Good books to feature allow whatever by Larry Williams, Jake director and Ken revivalist patch not limited to nowness trading their cushy to feature and foreshorten and wage you an intent of what trading is every about. From Wordnik.com. [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference
And so they would always have remained in crude experience, if no cumulative reflection, no art, and no science had come to dominate and foreshorten that equable flow of substance, arresting it ideally in behalf of some rational interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
In the ability to foreshorten and give harmonious perspective -- supplying the effect of motion, distance, upright movement, coming toward you or moving away -- all was worked out in this historic chapel in a way that has excited the wondering admiration of artists for three hundred years. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 04 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters] Reference
And, if the cancer isn’t enough, the hidden scythe of invisible pollution in our air will foreshorten our lives, create millions of cases of pollution-related deaths and illness. From Wordnik.com. [Belching, bloviating and biociding our way to extinction] Reference
In the ability to foreshorten and give harmonious perspective ” supplying the effect of motion, distance, upright movement, coming toward you or moving away ” all was worked out in this historic chapel in a way that has excited the wondering admiration of artists for three hundred years. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters]
That'll teach me to foreshorten. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: CLASSICAL LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION PROJECT.] Reference
Drawing my own hand and foot from their reflection in a looking-glass till I can put them in any position, and foreshorten them to my mind. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Houseful of Girls] Reference
If the rates are wrong we will foreshorten the period society has to go through from an old, Victorian, model of industrialisation to a more modern model, "he said. From Wordnik.com. [GREENIE WATCH] Reference
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