What is "shapings"

Usage examples of "shapings".

He and Cabell and the Zor-clone, Rem, harvesting the Flower of Life from Optera's regrown fields, coaxing the secret of the Shapings from its trifoliate core, creating a matrix of their own design.

Now he saw the cruelty of it, that he was so more a luminary of the Shapings than one of the children or Sentinel fighters, perhaps no more than that overmuscled tank sergeant, Dante.

And to hear Dana Sterling tell it, it was all in line with the fear of the Shapings that was almost a religious fervor within Lang sow.

But none of them could occupy the place in the Shapings that Lang could.

By some fluke of technology or caprice of the Shapings, the Karbarrans' commo began functioning again just at the end, and the survivors heard their roars as the Tracialle's crew went to sink their fangs into their enemy's heart.

Their research told them that, indeed, the Shapings were reaching some climactic point, a cusp or crux in events even mote important than the conversion of the original matrix years ago in the mound where the SDF-1 lay buried.

Louie Nichols found himself guided by a simple intuition-nothing to do with Shapings or psi but only a feeling that the man had spoken the truth.

The single particle that had been Lang floated away to become part of the Shapings, the man himself lost and gone forever.

The Shapings had fallen away, and perhaps that meant that ReShapings could bring things to a better resolution.

Curses had a kind of implied emotionalism, a qualitative component absent in the Shapings, which operated an levels far removed from rage, vengeance, or retribution.

When Lang was overheard to say, The Shapings will have their way, people took this to mean: it is the working of fate.

He listened for the voice of the Shapings, hoping to discern some answer.

Later, the Shapings would hint to me of some grand purpose in Edwards's refusal.

If he strained them a bit, he could feel small snatches of shapings being worked.

Yet, time and history and the Shapings of the Protoculture have their own rhythm, Admiral.