His furniture is known for fine craftsmanship, a mix of traditional luxurious fabrics like leather combined with modern chrome frames, and a distinct separation of the supporting structure and the supported surfaces, often employing cantilevers to enhance the feeling of lightness created by delicate structural frames.

Like modern jockey s, chariot racers were chosen for their lightness, but also needed to be tall, so they were frequently teenagers.

* François Baucher ( 1796 – 1873 ): introduced the one-tempi flying change, his method, which is still hotly contested, was based on the fact that the horse's jaw is the source of all resistance ; there are two ' manners ' by which Baucher is known, the first a more dominant form of riding comparable to the modern rollkur, the second more associated with ' lightness ' and a lessening of the hands and legs as the horse progresses

When I met him for the first time, I too was very young and was making studies in the Louvre: this was around 1816 or 1817 ... Already in this genre ( watercolor ), which was an English novelty at that time, he had an astonishing ability ... To my mind, one can find in other modern artists qualities of strength and of precision in rendering that are superior to those in Bonington's pictures, but no one in this modern school, and perhaps even before, has possessed that lightness of touch which, especially in watercolours, makes his works a type of diamond which flatters and ravishes the eye, independently of any subject and any imitation.

This class combines the high power output of the modern 2. 0 litre engine with the lightness to allow better handling than the heavier class 10 vehicles.

The National Federation of the Blind in the United States affirms that the lightness and greater length of the straight canes allows greater mobility and safety, though collapsible canes can be stored with more ease, giving them advantage in crowded areas such as classrooms and public events.

One of his most often quoted lines came from a 2004 review: " A city is never more fully human than when expertise – our own or someone else's – allows us access to ebullience, lightness and delight.

Lars Gunnar Victor Gullin ( 4 May 1928, Sanda, Gotland – 17 May 1976, Vissefjärda ) was a Swedish jazz baritone saxophone player, occasional pianist and composer closest in playing style to United States Cool school players, with a full tone, but also a lightness uncommon with baritone saxophonists and an influence from Swedish folk music, which helps make his music unique.

Heflin and Ryan deliver punchy performances that give substance to the menacing terror ... It's grim business, unrelieved by lightness, and the players belt over their assignments under Zinnemann's knowing direction.

UK chippies traditionally use a simple water and flour batter, adding a little sodium bicarbonate ( baking soda ) and a little vinegar to create lightness, as they create bubbles in the batter.

The malleability, lack of tarnishing and use of the metal in jewelry suggest some similarity to the real-world metal platinum, while its strength and lightness suggest titanium.

The only redeeming character about the whole being the frequent use of the sharp gable … which gives lightness, and the crowding of the spiry pinnacles into the sky .” ( Notebooks ).

Its lightness and flexibility recommended it to further automotive use such as clutch and speedometer drive cables.

The private nature of the air letter ensured its popularity among its users and that popularity, with its lightness, brought about its continued use as today's civilian air letter ( aerograms ) and the British military " bluey ".

Combined with this adaptability, the general uniformity of composition and lightness of plastics ensures their use in almost all industrial applications today.

Note that the vertical subpixels could be split in half vertically to double the vertical resolution as well: the current LCD panels already typically use two colour LEDs ( aligned vertically and displaying the same lightness, see the zoomed images below ) to illuminate each vertical subpixel.

Different solar-sail missions could be compared by using the related values of the characteristic acceleration ; equivalently, one could use either the maximum lightness number or the sailcraft sail loading and the thrust efficiency at 1 AU.

Its relative rarity on Earth, like that of helium, is due to its relative lightness, high vapor pressure at very low temperatures, and chemical inertness, all properties which tend to keep it from being trapped in the condensing gas and dust clouds which resulted in the formation of smaller and warmer solid planets like Earth.

Achieving a tonal characteristic that is effective and pleasing to the player's and listener's ear is something of an art, and the makers of string instruments often seek very high quality woods to this end, particularly spruce ( chosen for its lightness, strength and flexibility ) and maple ( a very hard wood ).

While many critics saw the film as a series of uneven vignettes, Roger Ebert thought that " the very lightness of the premise gives the film a kind of freedom.

The general lines of the body are very well known, and it has been designed for lightness, without sacrificing strength and comfort. Two doors are fitted, one on the near side for the driver's seat, and the other on the off-side for the rear seat. The hand-brake lever, which is fitted outside, is easily reached, owing to the line of the body dropping at this point.

At this time Channel Nine and the producers had to work out how to win ratings back, and found that the reason why so many people preferred Ally McBeal over Stingers was because Stingers had a very rough, edgy and realistic feel to it, and that this did not appeal to women of all ages, who preferred the lightness of McBeal.

" Riding on the curb indicated lightness in the mouth, was a demonstration that both horse and rider had been highly trained, and that the rider had very good control of his hands, and was able to ride the horse mainly from the seat.

The review in The Times said it was " an eminently readable account ... written with an incredible lightness of touch that belies the very serious issues.

The AE75 was very light at, thereby contributing to the overall lightness of the aircraft, so that the ARV Super2 weighed 40 % less than its competitor, the Cessna 152.

In the CIE 1976 L * a * b * and L * u * v * color spaces, the unnormalized chroma is the radial component of the cylindrical coordinate CIE L * C * h ( lightness, chroma, hue ) representation of the L * a * b * and L * u * v * color spaces, also denoted as CIE L * C * h ( a * b *) or CIE L * C * h for short, and CIE L * C * h ( u * v *).

Although Cristofori's design incorporates no specific device for repetition, the lightness of the action gives more facility for repetition than the heavier actions of the English type that developed in the first half of the 19th century, until these were provided with additions of one kind or another to facilitate repetition.

The chief Cholistani ceramic articles are their surahies, piyalas, and glasses, remarkable for their lightness and fine finishing.

Since magnesium is less dense than aluminium, these alloys are prized for their relative lightness and strength.

are known for their wood, with that of Ochroma ( balsa ) being known for its lightness, and that of Tilia ( lime, linden, or basswood ) as a popular wood for carving.

Aluminium alloys and magnesium alloys are used for applications where strength and lightness are required.

While Ned Jordan is credited with changing the way advertising was written with his " Somewhere West of Laramie " ads for his Jordan Playboy, Reo's Flying Cloud — a name that provoked evocative images of speed and lightness — changed the way automobiles would be named in the future.

For practical purposes, such as exposure time for sun tanning, six skin types are distinguished following Fitzpatrick ( 1975 ), listed in order of decreasing lightness:

In the field of computer graphics the concept of luminosity is different altogether, a synonym in fact for the concept of lightness, otherwise known as the value or tone component of a color.

Ebner and Fairchild used an exponent of 0. 43 to convert linear intensity into lightness for neutrals ; the reciprocal, approximately 2. 33 ( quite close to the 2. 2 figure cited for a typical display subsystem ), would provide optimal perceptual encoding of grays.

From 1830 to 1877 he was choreographer for the Royal Danish Ballet, for which he created more than 50 ballets admired for their exuberance, lightness, and beauty.

has pierced cabriole legs, for an unusual effect of lightness and grace.

The engine has a reduced parts count for lightness and cheaper production.

Riesling from this area ranges from dry to sweet, and has a crisp lightness that bodes well for easy drinking.

The speed of growth accounts for the lightness of the wood ; balsa wood has a lower density than cork.

This triangular cross-section may be hollow ground for additional lightness.

A matrix using a titanium alloy is extremely expensive to manufacture but the metal is favoured for its lightness, strength and resistance to corrosion, which is a constant problem.

The plates were in boron carbide, which, though exceedingly costly, due to its superior lightness has remained the material of choice for aerospace applications.