What is "foreshorten"

Usage examples of "foreshorten".

Skotophagotis merely looked at him, calm astride his ass, his shadow thrown before him, foreshortened and deadly on the old royal road, its fireclay bricks crumbling for lack of repair.

Behind all, the heights of Salinas close the prospect, the small river Alberche flowing at their foot from left to right into the Tagus, which advances in foreshortened perspective to the town at the right front corner of the scene as aforesaid.

Prenton had a foreshortened view of his Apsaras going ahead, while Holt stopped to check around the set.

Here, beneath the painted ceiling, with foreshortened Allegory staring down at his intrusion as if it meant to swoop upon him, and he cutting it dead, Mr. Tulkinghorn has at once his house and office.

And-I suppose you have already thought of this, for it is a consequence of the long view-your newer recruits will help compensate for any advancements UET has developed during the years you foreshortened in space.

The third was Freese's Department Store - only it had an oddly bulged-out, foreshortened look.

The word that best connoted why the glass's mouth looked slotty was probably foreshortened.

When they become foreshortened, it is swinging around to bear on Bobby Shaftoe--He cuts it too close.

Even in this foreshortened view, Cordelia instantly recognized the dish-face and moustache of Vidal Vordarian.

When he's a camera the pee oh vee is always on the move, he hates static shots, so he's floating up on a high crane looking down at the foreshortened figures of the actors, or he's swooping down to stand invisibly between them, turning slowly on his heel to achieve a threehundred-and-sixty-degree pan, or maybe he'll try a dolly shot, tracking along beside Baal and Abu Simbel as they walk, or hand--held with the help of a steadicam he'll probe the secrets of the Grandee's bedchamber.

He saw all these foreshortened ships rolling considerably and fighting their guns over a sea of huge low waves and under the cold, explicit light of dawn.

He saw little men on the deck of the Theodore Roosevelt below, men foreshortened in plan into mere heads and feet, running out preparing to shoot at the others.

He could see the dim, foreshortened silhouettes of Arrow Maker and Spinner, above and below him.

The plane was foreshortened, so that she stared across ridged lanes of gas toward the bulging, pregnant center.

Nelson’s big whorly head dips on its bright neck and his foreshortened hand, dots of pink, dabbles toward the spoon, wants to take it from her.