10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CURVIFORM»
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curviform in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
curviform and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
... arm-pit, the upper thigh, whose significance stirs in me like a curviform
alphabet that defies decoding, appears to consist of vowels, beginning with O47
The "curviform alphabet" replicates and contains the female body; by "defying
decoding," ...
2
Numerical Notation: A Comparative History
2600—2350 BC), the older curviform numerals began to be replaced with a set
cuneiform numeral-signs, while remaining virtually unchanged structurally (
Powell 1972a: 13). This had the advantage of requiring only one stylus for all
writing, ...
Stephen Chrisomalis, 2010
3
Dark Writing: Geography, Performance, Design
" "In short, Dark Writing asks why we represent the world as static when our experience of it is mobile. It traces this bias in Enlightenment cartography, in inductive logic, and in contemporary place design. This is the negative critique.
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The Sounds of Feminist Theory
In her poem "Artemis," Olga Broumas yearns for a moving, rounding language,
for words that arch and spiral, like a curviform alphabet that defies decoding,
appears to consist of vowels, beginning with O, the O mega, horseshoe, the cave
of ...
5
Roget's Descriptive Word Finder
... cordated cordiform: heart-shaped crescentic: crescent-shaped crump: crooked
curvate: having a curve or curves; arci- form; arcing; bowed; curviform; cur-
vilineal; curvilinear curved: in the shape of a curve curviform: in the shape of a
curve ...
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Canadian Patent Office Record
A sound-transducing device comprising: a support member; an electro-
mechanical transducer mounted on said support member; an acoustic diaphragm
fixed to said support member and comprising a curviform central portion of
substantially ...
Canada. Patent Office, 1964
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The sacred architecture of Islam
Could it also have been envisaged as a means to curbing, by its pre-eminently
rectilinear shapes, the rising and novel arcuate style's curviform potential — its
Baroque Impulse, if we may so call it — and thus to prevent an explosion of
curves ...
8
Islamic Sacred Architecture: A Stylistic History
Could it also have been envisaged as a means to curbing, by its preeminently
rectilinear shapes, the rising and novel arcuate style's curviform potential - its
Baroque Impulse, if we may so call it - and thus to prevent an explosion of curves
in ...
9
Baroque India: The Neo-Roman Religious Architecture of South ...
The measurement most adapted to Man's littleness, it was discovered, was not
the curviform, appropriate to the grandeur of the cosmos, but the rectilinear. 26.
Curved and rectilinear space: the Baroque and Classicism And so arose a
double ...
José Pereira, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, 2000
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The retrospective review
The latter contains an entirely new system of carpentry, in which the chief feature
is a substitution of comparatively thin curviform ribs for the heavy trussed roofs
then in general use. These ribs are formed of planks in thickness rarely more
than ...
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CURVIFORM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
curviform is used in the context of the following news items.
Christian Dior Resort 2016
As it turned out, every one of them chose to set their collections against the same sort of curviform futuristic backdrops: Chanel under the ... «Vogue.com, May 15»
J.W.Anderson Spring 2015 RTW
In between, he showed short A-line linen skirts and coats cinched with leather cummerbunds, jackets with one lapel, various curviform cutouts, ... «Vogue.com, Sep 14»
Roksanda / Resort 2013
... she explained, showing how she'd used a different process, incubating the collection by painting curviform blocks of red, orange, black, pink, ... «Style Magazine, Jun 12»
