right-angles

I undressed in the water and struck out with a strong, single - overhand stroke, crossing the current at right-angles.

Chapter 12 2010

J.B. tumbled forward, and as the officer hacked at his head I saw that the blade was bent at right-angles; he hammered away at the old fellow's skull, and all around was screaming, struggling confusion as the Leathernecks came surging in, bayonetting everything in sight.

THE NUMBERS 2010

There are remnants of right-angles that could be corners in buildings and a few quite recognizable bodies, as in a painting called "Quiet Lovers" that suggests a woman's breasts and a man's torso.

Art review of 'Pousette-Dart: Predominantly White Paintings' and 'Robert Ryman: Variations and Improvisations' at the Phillips Collection 2010

He doesn't do 'quiet', although Anonymous appears to be a brave attempt to tell a character-driven movie, although I'm not ruling out Emmerich somehow causing Elizabethan Richmond to explode in slow-motion with a dog successfully outrunning the blast by turning down a corridor at right-angles to the blast and thus surviving due to the director's ignorance of ballistic reality.

FOUNDATION to become a movie Adam Whitehead 2009

Mine shafts spiral down at right-angles towards the core, crisscrossed by lava tubes and spun out into the fractal temples dream-dug by renegade swarms of nanobots.

365 tomorrows » 2007 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007

The expansive and expanding heaps of technomass -- of asphalt and glass and plastic and paint and shiny right-angles -- are scraped out of hillsides and coastlines, with the corpses of biomes and simpler cultures left behind as the mizzens of this wretched thing called civilization.

Stan Goff: Civilization & War Rant 2008

Learn that the smallest shall be the greatest; that two colors, three notes, two right-angles and a circle sufficed for the man who found delight as a humble servant of art!

Carl Nielsen's Criticism Patrick J. Smith 2007

Learn that the smallest shall be the greatest; that two colors, three notes, two right-angles and a circle sufficed for the man who found delight as a humble servant of art!

Archive 2007-06-01 Patrick J. Smith 2007

No sweat, the Saudis have discovered how to drill down thousands of feet and then at right-angles to suck the remaining oil out of Ghawar horizontally.

The US is not leaving Iraq 2007

Ann and Paul: At night, I'm not worried so much about The Guy's genitalia as I am his Elbows or Knees - both of which form some nasty right-angles. ouch

It's sexual health day again. Ann Althouse 2005