It rises from the stylobate without any base ; it is from four to six times as tall as its diameter ; it has twenty broad flutes ; the capital consists simply of a banded necking swelling out into a smooth echinus, which carries a flat square abacus ; the Doric entablature is also the heaviest, being about one-fourth the height column.

The echinus is convex and the abacus is square.

It is distinguished by slender, fluted pillars with a large base and two opposed volutes ( also called scrolls ) in the echinus of the capital.

The Tuscan order is characterized by an unfluted shaft and a capital that only consist of an echinus and an abacus.

The recessed “ necking ” at the top of the shafts and the wide cushionlike echinus are slightly self-conscious archaicizing features, for Delos is Apollo's ancient birthplace.

In the Temple of Apollo, Syracuse ( c. 700 BCE ), the echinus moulding has become a more definite form: this in the Parthenon reaches its culmination, where the convexity is at the top and bottom with a delicate uniting curve.

Often displayed species vicarious within a gender which, in turn, is endemic in both regions: Lotus marocanus / Lotus glaucus ; Bubonium intrincatum / Bubonium sericeum ; Euphorbia echinus y Euphorbia beaumieriana / Euphorbia handiensis ; Kleinia anteuphorbium / Kleinia neriifolia ; Lavandula maroccana / Lavandula multifida ; Sonchus leptocephalus / Warionia saharae.

In classical architecture, it is the space between the annulet of the echinus and the upper bed of the shafts, including, according to C. R. Cockerell, the three grooves or sinkings found in some of the older examples, as in the temple of Neptune at Paestum and the temple of Aphaea at Aegina ; there being only one groove in the Parthenon, the Theseum and later examples.

Professor Challenger, with the help of Mr Edward Malone and Mr Peerless Jones, drills into the earth until he reaches the mantle, convinced that it is a sentient being, akin to an echinus, and that by doing so he will be the first person to alert it to mankind's presence.

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The composite order volutes are larger, however, and the composite order also has echinus molding with egg-and-dart ornamentation between the volutes.

The echinus lies atop the necking.

Other varieties of concave moulding are the scotia and congé and other convex mouldings the echinus, the torus and the astragal.

The Echinades derived their name from the echinus or the sea urchin, in consequence of their sharp and prickly outlines.

But apart from racial problems, the old unreconstructed South -- to use the moderate words favored by Mr. Thomas Griffith -- finds itself unsympathetic to most of what is different about the civilization of the North.

A new order is thrusting itself into being.

I knew that a conversation with the author would not settle such questions, because a man is not the same as his writing: in the last analysis, the questions had to be settled by the work itself.

That is why the form itself becomes a preoccupation, because it exists as a problem separate from the material it accommodates.

For Plato, `` imitation '' is twice removed from reality, being a poor copy of physical appearance, which in itself is a poor copy of ideal essence.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

No consideration of risk urges itself upon him now: for this is what the mind does with the ideas on which it has not properly focussed.

The liberal-conservative division, we might observe in passing, is not of itself directly involved in a private interest conflict nor even in struggle between ruling groups.

Thus in both types attention is focused on the community itself, and its phenomenological life.

Its ontological status is itself most tenuous because apart from individual men, who are its `` matter '', tradition, the `` form '' of society exists only as a shared perception of truth.

The most reaction can achieve is stasis, and a stasis that can be maintained only by the expenditure of an effort which ultimately exhausts itself.

Despite the hopelessness of the response, it is explicable in terms of the crisis of tradition itself.

Thus, circular motion is itself one of the essential characteristics of completely perfect celestial existence.

In any case but the last, such a course is sure to avenge itself upon the individual ; ;

It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.

A tragedy, by his definition, is an imitation of an action that is serious, of a certain magnitude, and complete in itself.

the mere fact that he was selected, though as a substitute, to act as interlocutor or moderator for it, or perhaps we should say with Buck as ' father of the act ', is in itself a difficult phase of his development to grasp.

One such event is the landing in Europe itself, when the mingled familiarity and strangeness of the Occident, after the blank immensities of Asia, shocks the returning traveller into a realization of the infinite possibilities of human life.

Since Laos is of no more purely military value to Moscow itself than it is to Washington, this approach might be expected to head off Mr. Khrushchev for the moment.

It happens in the territory of the Leopoldville government, which is itself a fiction, demonstrably incapable of governing, and commanding only such limited credit abroad as UN support gives it.

In the city itself, wine spurted freely from sculpted archers and artificial pelicans in artificial trees ; the canals were decorated with torches, and the bridges decked with flowers ; the arms of the happy couple were displayed everywhere, accompanied by the mottoes of the pair: Charles ' Je l ' ay emprins (" I have undertaken it ") and Margaret's Bien en aviengne (" May good come of it ").

The park itself is decorated each year, rather extravagantly, with wooden beams and trestles placed from side to side of the stone-walled stream and stretching nearly the entire length of the park.

Some few remains of the original buildings may still be traced in the city walls outside the Gate of St. John, and a large wall decorated with paintings was uncovered in the 18th century within the basilica itself, behind the Lancellotti Chapel.

In the college's chapel, itself decorated with works by Canadian artists, is an altar made of marble from parts of St. Paul's Cathedral, in London, England, that were damaged in the Blitz and donated by Dean of St. Paul's Walter Robert Matthews.

The cup itself is of Indian workmanship, decorated with cobras and an elephant.

Its ciborium is decorated with a beautiful interlace pattern which is even older than the church itself, and of the same type as numerous exotic interlace patterns found in many pre-Romanesque churches along the Adriatic coast.

The Old Golden Gate (, Greek: Χρυσεία Πύλη ), known also as the Xerolophos Gate and the Gate of Saturninus, is mentioned in the Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae, which further states that the city wall itself in the region around it was " ornately decorated ".

Davis Square itself is decorated with many colorful pieces of art, including tiles made by local schoolchildren, sculptures of prominent local figures, the Davis Square statues, and a flying cow.

The Palatine Chapel in Palermo built in 1130 is the perhaps the strongest example of this where the interior of the dome ( itself a Byzantine feature ) is decorated in mosaic depicting Christ Pantocrator accompanied by his angels.

The column itself consists of four solid blocks of sandstone, three of which are decorated by cannon barrels captured from the enemies of the aforementioned three wars.

The Larousse Gastronomique does not mention the Napoléon, although a gateau napolitain is listed, with a note that while the cake itself is not often seen, small biscuits known as fonds napolitains are still made, decorated with butter cream or conserves.

The temple itself, dedicated to the sun gods Amon-Re and Re-Horakhte, consists of three consecutive halls extending 185 feet ( 56 metres ) into the cliff, decorated with more Osiride statues of the king and with painted scenes of his purported victory at the Battle of Kadesh.

The tree itself is decorated by community volunteers and service club members coordinated by The Christmas Tree Committee.

Qing colouring, brighter and almost Scythian in enamel imitation, was rejected by Korean potters, in favour of simpler, less decorated wares in keeping with a new dynasty that built itself on military tradition.

The phangsla is wholly constructed with a bamboo, which is artistically designed and decorated with a splattered bamboo itself.

Kelley envisioned a highly decorated interior, in accord with the elegance and noble purpose of the building itself, and the stature of such a place in the developing state.

The arch area is decorated with sculptures and the arch itself is topped with large jars and an eagle.

Penzance itself during this day is decorated with large amounts of greenery – mirroring the practice in the town during the ancient festival.

Altar rails and windows of those churches were highly decorated with transparent shallow string-like ornament that is called pleter ( meaning to weed ) because the strings were threaded and rethreaded through itself.

The term Chingay itself originated from the Chinese communities of Southeast Asia, which is a phonetic equivalent of both the Chinese words " 真艺 " which means " true art " in the Penang version, and " 妆艺 ", which means " a decorated miniature stage " or float in the Singapore version.

Flyover II, like its predecessor, ends with a shot hovering over the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History itself, where a crowd waves and cheers from the roof near the Noble Planetarium's dome ( in the later film, decorated as a volcano to promote for the Omni's 1992 engagement of Ring of Fire ).

Paul Feast is held on the Sunday nearest 10 October every year when the village is decorated and a civic service takes place on the Sunday of the feast itself led by the Mayor of Penzance.

Subsequently the Yaroslavl churches were strictly symmetrical, with cupolas taller than the building itself, and amply decorated with polychrome tiles ( e. g., the Church of John the Chrysostom on the Volga, 1649 – 54 ).

The restaurant, located at the intersection between 50th Street and Underwood Avenue, bills itself as a neighborhood pub, and has decorated its walls with memorabilia from various British and Irish beer and liquor companies, particularly Guinness.