foreshortenings

From every angling of they open multiform foreshortenings, cuts vetrati and spatial interpenetration and views.

Coni Rovesci by Duilio Damilano 2008

Top Picks London Photography The Russian artist Alexander Rodchenko (1891-1956) made the "Revolution in Photography," showing at the Hayward, Southbank Centre, by the simplest of means: inventing a new and sometimes shocking vocabulary of camera positions, with severe foreshortenings of perspective and close-ups that were usually surprising.

A New Angle on Photography 2008

In Minkowski space-time the mutual contractions of yardsticks and the mutual slowing of clocks become mere perspective foreshortenings.

RELATIVITY BANESH HOFFMANN 1968

More simple foreshortenings of time are found in many playlets where the effect of an hour-or-more of events is compressed into the average twenty minutes.

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

And as still safer foreshortenings, note the quickness with which Fred Saltus enters after Miss Carey goes to bed leaving

Writing for Vaudeville Brett Page

In the case of foreshortenings, the eye, unaided by this blocking out, is always apt to be led astray.

The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed

These perspectives and foreshortenings are a great barrier between peoples.

Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931

To have nothing new or personal wherewith to fill up form, only develop the technique in soaring fancies, break-neck foreshortenings, powerful effects of light and shade, and cunningly thought-out compositions.

Jenny: A Novel 1921

He could not equal the drawing of Michelangelo, whom he took for his model, but he emphasized its defects by exaggerating the anatomical outlines and foreshortenings.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Its fugitive slanting lines, that lent themselves to all manner of tender tilts and foreshortenings, had the freakish grace of some young head of the Italian comedy.

The Reef; a novel 1912