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Usage examples of coherent.

The east window of this aisle is very fine in colouring, and fairly coherent in design.

The national interest is merely a more coherent and ameliorating expression of the popular interest.

The leaves below the archegonial group are frequently modified in size and shape, but the chief protection is afforded by a tubular perianth, which corresponds to a coherent whorl of leaves and grows up independently of fertilization.

Deep in its guts it creates coherent atom beams, from a bunch of Bose-Einstein condensates hovering on the edge of absolute zero: by superimposing interference patterns on them, it generates an atomic hologram, building a perfect replica of some original artifact, right down to the atomic level there are no clunky moving nanotechnology parts to break or overheat or mutate.

If you stare at one spot long enough, the random texture gets interpreted into some coherent image, or the suggestion of one, like an inkblot or those decalcomania and frottage pieces Max Ernst dabbled with.

Men had gone mad, in these first minutes following decarbonization, hopelessly, utterly madunable ever again to reorganize the ten-billion individual images that comprised a lifespan into any kind of coherent, selective order.

He pushed the engines and went into a series of extemporaneous maneuvers as salvos of coherent green light flashed around them.

Roused long enough to be coherent, one of the bunny-secretaries confided to Remo that Farger had come in uncharacteristically early, gotten a phone message and left.

Moreover, so far as esthetic theory was involved, if the psychic emanations of human creatures be grotesque distortions, what coherent representation could express or portray so gibbous and infamous a nebulosity as the specter of a malign, chaotic perversion, itself a morbid blasphemy against nature?

Grief can be disorienting--judgment, thinking, coherent action, concentration can vanish, and grievers can think they are going crazy.

Gramercy Place, they were unable to get a coherent story of why he had done the disgusting act, for he had lapsed into a stentorian tone of Biblical fervor, pontificating about the blood of the Iamb and the curse of Jezebel and the eternal fires of Perdition.

But Nelding rocked by too swiftly, too violently, for her to form a coherent first impression.

The Phobes and the Deems are genetically wired to abandon any given philosophical position the moment it encounters an honest and coherent refutation.

Even though Montrovant held him as easily as before, this transformation from coherent man to slavering beast set du Puy back a pace.

Then he learned to subtract some, overlap others, remap the image into a coherent one in three dimensions.