What is "asymmetrical"

Usage examples of "asymmetrical".

Looking up at immense ancient buildings whose soaring stone facades had been carved by the virulent erosive air and acid rains into a phantasmagoria of accidental Gothic parapets and turrets and pinnacles and asymmetrical spires.

The cerebral hemispheres were asymmetrical, the frontal lobes, corresponding to the psychical performances in the case, being relatively pretty large, while the posterior portion of the third convolution on the left side, the island of Reil, and the operculum were very small, corresponding to the inability to learn to speak.

Her chamber was small but comfortably appointed, the asymmetrical plasterwork of the ceiling, higher than the room was wide, showing that it had been divided from a much more imposing chamber.

She had unnusual, asymmetrical features - a slight squint in her hazel eyes and pouting lips that made you think she was cross.

The long sweep of this music, which obscures the rosetted patterns Bach brings out, helps me find and build the long, asymmetrical components that find rest in fluidity.

While Tintoretto and Veronese moved toward openness and the asymmetrical, the two Gabrielis moved, in their motets and their instrumental music, toward harmony, toward regular scansion and the closed form.

The present example, like the late Bill, was an undergrown creature, and had the same curiously-twisted nose, the same asymmetrical face and similar ears--large, flat ears that stood out from his head like the handles of an amphora, that had strongly marked Darwinian tubercles, unformed helices and undeveloped lobules.

The asymmetrical unfurling of the four physical forces calls into play step by step new structural levels, from the macroscopic side as well as from the microscopic.

Though not made of planks, they were similar to the A-shaped dwellings made by the Sharamudoi, except the ridgepole did not slope and they were asymmetrical.

With malice aforethought Matern, at nine forty-five, walks into the asymmetrical church of St.

He undid the Velcro and shook the swollen, asymmetrical gray biosoft out onto his open palm.

Black metal steps, gray walls, a checkering of pale squares of opalescent light set in a curious, asymmetrical alm-pattern that seemed at once impersonal and queerly sinister.

A more than usual number of asymmetrical beards with their own subtle identifications and codings of status.

It is difficult to see how a human being can have a sense of the whole at any level below the fourth, yet workers ifi the library have surprisingly uniform reactions to various levels Those with a strong sense of direction respond comfortably to symmetrical levels such as 5 and 9, their discomfort increases (though not greatly) in the asymmetrical trefoil levels of 4 and 7 But most unexpected was the reaction to level 6, that level is unique in that it is bilaterally symmetrical along the norm-south axis, but asymmetrical along the east west axis Workers on the level unconsciously align their desks to face either north or south When this was noticed, certain psychological tests were conducted In one, half of the carrels brought into the central room were arranged facing north or south, and half facing east or west Workers invariably chose die north-south desks When all the desks in the room were bolted to the floor facing east or west, subjects would begin their tasks at the .

Still others, mounted on a dozen or more tiny wheels, their exhausts giving off a dense, bitter fume, looked like speeding wreckage, asymmetrical and inelegant farragoes of glass and metalwork.