patterning

• “I discover that there are 11 more rows to knit when the centre patterning is finished.”

  Jean's Knitting

• “The biggest difference in patterning, though, is between the good stuff like Remington Premier and Federal Flitecontrol and the cheap buckshot loads.”

  You Saw It Here First

• “Where that sort of patterning is a matter of voice -- sentence-level style used as a way of subtly reinforcing point-of-view by mimicking a character's manner of articulation in the narrative itself, or by imbuing an absent narrator with their own distinct manner of articulation -- this is going to alter the drama of the narrative profoundly and pervasively.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “With a preliminary patterning from the "Not to" that frames the front of this qualifying clause”

  The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' -

• “Such numerical patterning is only one of many ways in which Moulsworth seeks to impose an order on the story of her life -- or rather, to discern the shapes and orders her life implies.”

  My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem

• “The sculptures show us that robes and draperies of all kinds were almost always more or less patterned; and this patterning, which is generally of an extremely elaborate kind, it is reasonable to conclude was the work of the needle.”

  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

• “To walk around within its soaring pillars and to bask in the gentle light that pours through its exquisite windows is to experience a sense of participation in the very 'patterning' of the soul.”

  The Huffington Post: Prince Charles Reflects On 'Sacred Geometry'

• “But yes, for those of you who know the spoiler, it's that same kind of patterning, though the outcome is completely different from that in the first book.”

  the dragons are going to fly tonight

• “And it certainly seems different in degree rather than type from the kind of patterning and ideation that characterize certain types of mental illness (schizophrenic delusions of reference) because you start telling yourself oh yes of course it all fits together, oh my god, I'm not making this up.”

  through the iron winter, to the fires of june--

• “That region in the plumbing where the small intestine becomes the large intestine is an interesting transitional zone which must be defined by some kind of patterning molecules; furthermore, I'd expect some kind of gene regulatory network has to be at work in that area to specify the different regions of small intestine, cecum, appendix, and large intestine.”

  Evolution of the appendix? - The Panda's Thumb

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