What is "angularity"

Usage examples of "angularity".

The softness of her, and yet the hard angularity of her bones underneath.

In all their angularity they reminded him of how frail the human body is against all that is sharp and hard.

In the distance he saw Solitary Ridge, a long, ramrod-vertical cliff, distinctive by its angularity in this relatively uniform area.

It is an acute comparison, happily indicative of the morose angularity that words offer to whoso handles them, admirably insistent on the chief of the incommodities imposed upon the writer, the necessity, at all times and at all costs, to mean something.

The thin angularity of Angers made a comedian-contrast with the vast, white-clothed bulk of Seixas.

States, where an infant whose angle deviates by half a degree from the correct angularity is summarily destroyed at birth.

The meanest mathematician in Spaceland will readily believe me when I assert that the problems of life, which present themselves to the well-educated--when they are themselves in motion, rotating, advancing or retreating, and at the same time attempting to discriminate by the sense of sight between a number of Polygons of high rank moving in different directions, as for example in a ball-room or conversazione--must be of a nature to task the angularity of the most intellectual, and amply justify the rich endowments of the Learned Professors of Geometry, both Static and Kinetic, in the illustrious University of Wentbridge, where the Science and Art of Sight Recognition are regularly taught to large classes of the ELITE of the States.

In the distance he saw Solitary Ridge, a long, ramrod-vertical cliff, distinctive by its angularity in this relatively uniform area.

And above the gray band the hat's slopes were indented in direct answer to the cheekbones beneath and their famished angularity.

Is Lord Curzon one of the rugged and ragged poor men whose angularities have been rubbed away?

I cannot imagine any phrase more full of the subtle and exquisite vileness which is poisoning and weakening our country than such a phrase as this, about the desirability of rubbing down the angularities of poor men.

He had always sketched, and with his father's leave he fixed himself at Rome, where he remained studying art and rounding the being inherited from his Yankee progenitors, till there was very little left of the ancestral angularities.

It moves through the angularities of logic, the vectors of analysis, the immanence of the unfolding speculation.

Her complexion was pale, but clear, her figure was slender and active, but without angularities, and she was of the middle height.

The mouth had not quite relinquished rotundity of curve for the firm angularities of middle life.