elongations

Victoria Legrand's careful elongations lured the audience towards her, a gradual seduction, her head bowed.

Lina Khan: Beach House's Hypnosis Lulls 9:30 Club Lina Khan 2011

Victoria Legrand's careful elongations lured the audience towards her, a gradual seduction, her head bowed.

Lina Khan: Beach House's Hypnosis Lulls 9:30 Club Lina Khan 2011

Back in New York during World War I and inspired in part by her recently developed hatred of Germany, in her late forties she changed her conservative “European” style to a neo-naive “American” style with strong Fauve colors and mannerist elongations, through which she depicted New York life and culture in a lightly satirical manner.

Art in the United States. 2009

It is possible to classify the various ways that reality is distorted in this kind of work: the mixing of forms, changes of scale, elongations, compressions and reversals, a distorted reflection which shows the world in a different light, a different perspective, the world re-imagined in a dream, subjectively influenced by the dreamer...

Paul Rumsey, 21st Century JE 2008

Ironic snorts, sarcastic coughs, grimaces, brow-wrinklings and other inappropriate facial elongations or contractions.

What Do You Mean by That Scarf? 2008

We should have the opposite of abbreviations -- elongations.

Heard by a Bird: November 19 Sparrow 2007

Venus and Mercury so that their elongations never exceed a certain distance; these motions seem to fall properly neither under the greater nor the lesser congregation, but to be of a sort of intermediate and imperfect congregation, and therefore ought to constitute a species by themselves.

The New Organon 2005

The undulations crossed by us this day seemed to extend east and west in their elongations, and were probably parallel to the general course of the main channel of drainage.

Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia 2003

Throughout this time the earth had been making a perceptible approach towards Mercury, and that planet — which is rarely visible to the naked eye, and then only at what are termed the periods of its greatest eastern and western elongations — now appeared in all its splendor.

Off on a Comet 2003

She scrutinized me for the longest time, but, as always, there was a cast to her eyes, as though she were seeing me in El Greco elongations or Dali droops, not at all accurately.

Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime Diane Leslie 1999