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The traditional gas mask style with two small circular eye windows originated when the only suitable material for these eye windows was glass or acrylic ; as glass is notoriously brittle, glass eye windows had to be kept small and thick.
The Hollywood style is also a slotted dance, meaning the follower travels in a straight line instead of the more elliptical or circular Savoy-style Lindy Hop.
His style was most notably exemplified in his proposal for a cenotaph for the English scientist Isaac Newton, which would have taken the form of a sphere high embedded in a circular base topped with cypress trees.
Both are " wedding-cake " style double-shelled domes with an oculus in the inner shell allowing those below to view a circular painting on the inner surface of the outer dome.
Its associated musical style, which has the dancers move their hips in a circular motion.
The Zaisan Memorial includes a Soviet tank paid for by the Mongolian people and a circular memorial painting which in the socialist realism style depicts scenes of friendship between the peoples of Soviet Union and Mongolia.
The circular badge was modernised in 1969 ; the lion rampant, team name, club motto and old style football all remained.
* The Art Deco style Lincoln Tunnel Toll Plaza and the Lincoln Tunnel Approach and Helix, an eight-lane circular viaduct leading to it, and nearby Ventilation Towers at Lincoln Harbor
Ideal location for wedding and graduation photographs with its Greek style pavilion having fluted columns and a circular gazebo-like center with a red-tiled roof and a scenic background.
Savoy-style lindy hop is characterized by a high energy, circular, rotating style, in contrast with the smooth, slotted styling of Hollywood ( Smooth ).
Resting domes on circular or polygonal drums pierced with windows eventually became the standard style, with regional characteristics.
Spaces of circular or octagonal plan were sometimes covered with vaults of a " double chevet " style, similar to the chevet apse vaulting in Gothic cathedrals.
This circular style is especially true for casino rueda dancing.
In ancient times a heavy circular disc was thrown from a set standing position on a small pedestal, and it was this style that was revived for the 1896 Olympics.
The car was customized by Les Dunham Coachworks of New Jersey, who modified the headlight covers, goddess hood ornament ( Rolls Royce / Bentley style ), lake pipes and circular porthole windows.
* How to apply a bandage in circular style around a wrist.
On account of this emphasis on simplicity, stability, and a combination of linear and circular movements, proponents claim the style is more practical for self-defense than most other martial arts.
While both Itosu and Higaonna taught a " hard-soft " style of Okinawan " Te ", their methods and emphases were quite distinct: the Itosu syllabus included straight and powerful techniques as exemplified in the Naihanchi and Bassai kata ; the Higaonna syllabus stressed circular motion and shorter fighting methods as seen in the kata Seipai and Kururunfa.
This was achieved by using bold style choices, including large pylons with elevated signs, bold neon letters and circular pavilions.
Drive-ins had advanced car-oriented architectural design, as they were built with an expressive utilitarian style, circular and surrounded by a parking lot, allowing all customers equal access from their cars.
Consequently, its fighting style involves the use of whip-like / circular motions to deflect direct attacks, which it follows up with precise attacks to the opponent's vital spots.
Some have stated that there were no pinnacles in the Romanesque style, but conical caps to circular buttresses, with finial terminations, are not uncommon in France at very early periods.
Its associated musical style, which has the dancers move their hips from right to left in a circular motion.
Shrewsbury had a large medieval church of St Chad which fell down in 1788: it was quickly replaced by a circular church in Classical style by George Steuart, on a different site but with the same dedication.
A barnstar ( or barn star ) is a decorative painted object or image, often in the shape of a five-pointed star but occasionally in a circular " wagon wheel " style, used to adorn a barn.

style and stamped
The Irkutsk Regional museum with stamped last names of famous researches of Siberia on its walls ( 1883 ), the building of the first public community, city theater ( 1897 ), Kazan ' cathedral, made in new Byzantine style ( 1893 ), and the Roman Catholic cathedral ( 1895 ) completed an architectural style of the city.
1760 stamped by Oeben veneered in parquetry and reflecting the " new style " especially in its gilt-bronze mounts ; it is fitted with an elaborate locking mechanism typical of Oeben.
Cases designed to be quiet typically have wire grills or honeycombed fan grills, which perform almost as well as wire grills ; both are far superior to the old style of stamped grill.
Originally built entirely of stamped steel sheet squares, it is supported by a formidable steel structure in a sober and austere style.
Bound in navy blue leather, the cover was stamped with gold to reflect the style of ancient Persian manuscripts.

style and rather
I, for one, rather regret that Schnabel didn't collaborate with the Budapest Quartet, whose rugged, athletic playing was a good deal closer to this pianist's interpretative outlook than the style of the Belgian group.
Other researchers see these motifs as part of a more generalized Puebloan style and / or spiritual significance, rather than evidence of a continuing specific elite socioeconomic system.
One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.
Many anthems have been composed since this time, generally by organists rather than professional composers and often in a conservative style.
Common among the mislabeled works are all of the reasons identified for misattributing Cuyp ’ s works: the lack of biography and chronology of his works made it difficult to discern when paintings were created ( making it difficult to pinpoint an artist ); contentious signatures added to historians ’ confusion as to who actually painted the works ; and the collaborations and influences by different painters makes it hard to justify that a painting is genuinely that of Aelbert Cuyp ; and finally, accurate identification is made extremely difficult by the fact that this same style was copied ( rather accurately ) by his predecessor.
Laurents, ignoring criticism about the show's message being trite and its absurdist style difficult to comprehend, poured his energies into restaging rather than dealing with the crux of the problem.
Alexander Pope implied the architecture is rather dull, lacking either the vigour of the baroque style which was fading from fashion at the time, or the austere grandeur of the Palladian style which was just coming into vogue.
The conclusion of the countdown was altered in 2008 to feature the new presentation style, rather than a data stream moving in towards the camera.
His aim for the film was realism, resulting in a restrained acting style that was revolutionary for the era ; in real life, he later explained, " men and women try to hide their emotions rather than seek to express them ".
While still tightly linked to the court culture and absolutism, with its formality and emphasis on order and hierarchy, the new style was also a cleaner style — one that favored clearer divisions between parts, brighter contrasts and colors, and simplicity rather than complexity, and the typical orchestra size increased.
His leadership style of consensual government, acting as a chairman rather than a president, won him much praise from historians and politicians alike.
" Before this, he had published several works on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and its consequences, but his literary capacity was mediocre, his style stiff and cold, and it was his personal character rather than his reputation as a writer that earned him the confidence of the elector.
He also revived the Pertwillaby Papers in this " RBCC " fanzine a comic book style story rather than a newspaper comic strip from 1976 to 1978.
Critics claim the vocabulary and style of the Pauline letters could not have been written by Paul according to available biographical information and reflect the views of the emerging Church rather than the apostle's.
Formalism is primarily concerned with style and how it communicates ideas, emotions, and themes ( rather than, as critics of formalism point out, concentrating on the themes of a work itself ).
In this sense, a fugue is a style of composition, rather than a fixed structure.
Backus's paper popularized research into functional programming, though it emphasized function-level programming rather than the lambda-calculus style which has come to be associated with functional programming.
This style of cooking looked to create garnishes and sauces whose function is to add to the flavor of the dish, rather than mask flavors like the heavy sauces and ornate garnishes of the past.
These adopt a style of storytelling rather than specific characters from their sources, usually with a knowing or ironic twist.
" Scholars have put forward several theories to explain Papias: perhaps Matthew wrote two gospels, one, now lost, in Hebrew, the other our Greek version ; or perhaps the logia was a collection of sayings rather than the gospel ; or by dialektōi Papias may have meant that Matthew wrote in the Jewish style rather than in the Hebrew language.
On 22 September 1804, Dessalines, preferring Napoleon's style rather than the more liberal yet vulnerable type of political government of the French Republican Radicals ( see liberalism and radicalism in France ), proclaimed himself Emperor Jacques I.
Dutch heraldry is characterised by its simple and rather sober style, and in this sense, is closer to its medieval origins than the elaborate styles which developed in other heraldic traditions.

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