| If I'd known this it would have explained how some of our more intimate conversations were foreshortened, by him. |
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| Although a sphere cannot be foreshortened, objects that are on a sphere are foreshortened as the sphere turns. |
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| She is mostly foreshortened, as though to emphasize the disparity between the experience of a child and the outsized world of grown-ups. |
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| The seated figures are compact in scale, their chairs and lectern angled and their attributes foreshortened. |
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| Her left forearm and hand, which rest weightlessly on her lap, are gracefully foreshortened. |
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| The road leading down to the port has been considerably foreshortened by the map-maker. |
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| It was foreshortened, it was only five days and three days in some of them. |
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| Kennedy's standing in American political history far supersedes the actual achievements of his tragically foreshortened administration. |
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| The foreshortened platform encouraged the actors to move back toward the scenic area of the stage. |
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| Because we are looking down from such a high viewpoint, the figures are foreshortened. |
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| The perspective of horses and men then appears to be foreshortened so that they recede into depth. |
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| It is song-like movements like this which remind us forcibly of Lloyd s foreshortened career in opera writing and render its termination all the more regrettable. |
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| The great man, with his cocked hat, his ventripotent waistcoat and spreading coat-tails, looked absurdly foreshortened and distorted, like a figure in a conjuring-glass. |
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| The body is pointed away from the viewer, so that the soles of the feet are closest to the picture plane and the torso and head are foreshortened. |
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| A frayed, foreshortened square of cloth is produced, a remnant of some great emotion. |
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| This is a vital phase of the design process that is too often neglected or foreshortened. |
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| In children, the sense of a foreshortened future may be evidenced by the belief that life will be too short to include becoming an adult. |
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| Her face, so close and foreshortened, seemed arrived from a great distance. |
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| I merely wanted to point out how absurd these foreshortened sessions are, without a Friday. |
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| Standards in share performance are defined that have no connection with the real economic world and are implemented against a background of foreshortened management horizons. |
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| The foreshortened lifespans of Kathy, Ruth and Tommy are meant to invest their loves, losses, mistakes and redemptions with heightened intensity, and thereby to inspire the rest of us to live our lives more heedfully. |
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| His churchman's cappa and lace surplice foreshortened him still more. |
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| The narrowness of the street that runs in front of his Roman palazzo forced most of the TV teams to record it all with a foreshortened perspective that gave the impression of a forest of banners and placards. |
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| Taken apart and interpreted according to these foreshortened perspectives, for historical and political reasons, it is still difficult to appreciate his work as a whole. |
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| In the canvas from Baltimore, we may even notice a foreshortened legless figure which seems to recall the one seen among the fallen soldiers in the frescoes from Mantua. |
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| It is a good sign that he has apologised for having quit that government after only 49 days, a pathetically foreshortened stint that was shambolic and illiberal while it lasted. |
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| The foreshortened slopes appear as bright features on the image. |
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| By employing Tekla early in the project, the structural design information became the springboard for shop drawings and foreshortened the tendering and shop drawing period considerably. |
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| The cost analysis in the unbundling procedures has shown that Swisscom had assumed too high capital charges, some too foreshortened amortisation periods and inflated construction and operating costs. |
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