So that he could appreciate the massiveness of the volcano, she took his hand and traced with him its profile on the horizon. |
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But the very massiveness of these tumors, sometimes rivaling the size of their host, makes their seeming purposelessness all the more obvious. |
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If it hadn't been the right choice for my family there's no way I'd have been able to take on the massiveness of this job. |
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Despite its massiveness, this mighty, white-lacquered aluminum cast seems also to evoke the fragility of a bony fossil. |
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Coursers had none of the ponderous, muscle-bound massiveness that characterized the chargers of heavy foreign knights and made them look so clumsy and unwieldy. |
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Agility and elegance are the most important characteristics of the breed, which must be free of any massiveness. |
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The emphasis is on agility, elegance and soundness with no tendency towards massiveness. |
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Meanwhile, the massiveness of the throne warranted some model-making ahead of time, with an interesting twist. |
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The sides cut at an angle embellish and lighten the massiveness of the piece. |
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The visitor may admire the massiveness of the castles walls and the beauty of its architecture. |
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This is a Leskov story, a monument to its own misshapen massiveness. |
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It really takes us back to Pynchon and all those — John Barth as well — who would write the massive novel, because the massiveness is some kind of a statement about completeness: to get it all in somewhere. |
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That covering needs to be massive to provide maximal protection, but that very massiveness would impede sensation, and so a preferential choice must be made between the conflicting demands. |
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In terms of the immediacy and sheer massiveness of impact on human thought and values, it would be difficult to find revolutions of comparable magnitude in human history. |
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Cut surfaces ease the massiveness of this monolithic construction and integrate the variously angled roof surfaces of the existing building in its shape. |
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Log houses are made by hand, from carefully selected resinous trees and they are especially spectacular, due to their rustic appearance and to the massiveness of their structure. |
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This stump is an example of the massiveness of pure kauri wood. |
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It is widely understood that there is need for an enhanced financial mechanism to deal with the massiveness of the scale of the transfers required for mitigation and adaptation in developing countries. |
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A Norman capital can be heavy because the Norman column is thick, and the whole thing expresses an elephantine massiveness and repose. |
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Her height and massiveness in the low room gave her the look of a huge sibyl, while the strange fragrance of the mysterious herb blew in from the little garden. |
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