The potters, in particular, had virtually eschewed freehand drawing, elaborate motifs, and the curving lines of nature, while yet expressing a belief that there was order in the universe.

The Mouser also fights with a pair of weapons: a " slim, curving " sword called Scalpel and a dagger called Cat's Claw, the latter usually hidden in the small of the Mouser's back, and the original of which had a very subtle curve.

As part of this refurbishment, the curving interior, which had originally been constructed in fibrous plaster, was replaced with concrete.

These blades had deep fullers running their length, yet still had single-handed hilts which sported a unique shaped pommel, flat at the grip side and roughly triangular early on, with the flat curving to fit the hand later.

With radical curving shots, deflected Frisbees bobbled frantically among teammates, and spectacular diving catches, guts had become an extreme sport demanding fast reflexes, physical endurance, and concentration.

All the instruments had 17 pipes with a long curving mouthpiece and are very similar to the traditional sheng in use today.

In life, it probably resembled modern elephants, except that its trunk was shorter, and it had downward curving tusks attached to the lower jaw.

In the early years trains from St Austell had to push wagons over the tall, curving viaduct to shunt this siding.

The production Dino 206 GT had the soft edges and curving lines typical of earlier Italian cars, unlike its successor, the Bertone designed 308 GT4, which has the straighter lines and crisp edges seen most boldly in Bertone's later Fiat X1 / 9.

The connection follows a curving path, to reduce the amount of land that had to be confiscated.

The building had a unique architecture and interior design, with curving hallways, lampshades, " bubblepaper " wallpaper and many other curious traits.

The start had been moved from in front of the pits on Ocean Boulevard to the curving " straight " on Shoreline Drive in order to avoid another first corner tangle.

On Saturday morning, Jean-Pierre Jabouille had a driveshaft on his Renault break on the curving back " straight ," flinging him into the wall at 180 mph.

On the other end of the course, the short straight at the bottom of the hill from Linden Avenue had been lengthened and a chicane had been inserted near the beginning of the curving Shoreline Drive " straight ," in anticipation of the pits being moved there from Ocean Boulevard.

Unlike most giant theropods, Suchomimus had a very long, low snout and narrow jaws studded with some 100 teeth, not very sharp and curving slightly backward.

Like other theropods in the Dromaeosauridae, Saurornitholestes had a long, curving, blade-like claw on the second toe.

When he established his new capital at Dadu, Kublai Khan he enlarged the artificial lakes that had been created a century earlier by the Jin Dynasty, and built up the island of Oinghua, creating a striking contrast between curving banks of the lake and garden and the strict geometry of what later became the Forbidden City of Beijing.

Under Louis XV it had been an arboretum and the new arrangements eliminated this famous botanical garden, replacing it with a more informal " natural " garden of winding paths, curving canals and lakes under the direction of Antoine Richard, gardener to the Queen.

The only part to be modified was the chamber and a curving firing pin was added where the nipple for the cap had been.

Three door hatchback models had a curving windowline along the side towards the rear of the car.

The only part to be modified was the chamber and a curving firing pin was added where the nipple for the cap had been.

In the second the influence of Miró and the drawing style of Picasso is visible with the use of fluid curving and intersecting lines and colour, whereas the first takes a directness that would later be influential in movements such as Pop art.

He wrote that two teams were first seen carrying their curving bats to the venue, choosing a pitch and arguing over the rules to be played.

Other special features can be built into pinhole cameras such as the ability to take double images, by using multiple pinholes, or the ability to take pictures in cylindrical or spherical perspective by curving the film plane.

A climb down a small waterfall and a curving squeeze can be difficult for some to negotiate.

The curving ceiling allowed a preacher to be heard throughout the vast space in the days prior to amplification.

Two later pitchers, Jesse Haines and Freddie Fitzsimmons, were sometimes characterized as knuckleball pitchers even by their contemporaries, but in their cases this again refers to a harder-thrown, curving pitch that would probably not be called a knuckleball today.

Ideally, the Hop-Up should be adjusted so that the pellets fly as far as possible in a straight line without curving upward too far, or dropping to the ground too quickly.

The entrypoint became a sunken gatehouse in the inner face of the ditch, reached by a curving ramp that gave access to the gate via a rolling bridge that could be withdrawn into the gatehouse.

It can be distinguished from other large requiem sharks by its relatively small first dorsal fin with a curving rear margin, its tiny second dorsal fin with a long free rear tip, and its long, sickle-shaped pectoral fins.

It is not necessary to be in a circle, a curving line of people is also acceptable.

Rails, especially rainbow, will also be seen curving over obstacles or vehicles.

Soda glass remains “ plastic ” for longer when heated, and can therefore be shaped into elegant curving leaves and flowers.

The first was the proposed Inner Loop Expressway, a curving freeway expected to be built just in front of the Watergate within the next decade.

Only the underpowered four-cylinder engine was available, though a few prototypes could be seen driving around the Greater Detroit area with a unique periscope-style inlet sprouting from the engine compartment and curving up and over the roof.

A standard gauge railway tunnel, codenamed Ida, was to be built on a curving path that would connect it with both the east-and west-bound main line railway, allowing trains to run straight through the complex without needing to reverse or be turned around.

The soda fountain spigot itself typically was a sturdy, shiny fixture on the end of a metal pipe or other similar structure sticking out of the counter by several feet and curving towards where the glasses would be filled.

In the sanctuary, rows of names of the countless grateful ancient visitors may still be seen, votive and memorial inscriptions on columns, on steps and walls and even on a curving marble bench: in their entirety the inscription of Clarus form the largest assembly of surviving Greek inscriptions.

The interior also features a grand double-height foyer with coffered ceilings, a 30 metre wide mural by the famous Toronto-born artist R. York Wilson, cantilevering staircases that appear to be floating, bright bronze auditorium doors, and a fan-shaped auditorium with a huge curving balcony.

The principle is that two geodesic arcs can be drawn to intersect on a curving surface ( the fuselage ) in a manner that the torsional load on each cancels out that on the other.

South of the station the tunnel can be seen curving to the east

An example of an ambiguous image would be two curving lines intersecting at a point.