What is "straightness"

Usage examples of "straightness".

There was a grand assurance in the rigidity of its uprightness, a calm self-assertion in its uncompromising straightness, as if, poised upon circumvagant roots, that, in exploring the quartzy soil, had curled themselves around a layer of primeval granite, it knew that nothing short of an earthquake which should have power to upheave the foundations of the hill itself could compel its stately body to the performance of any undue genuflexions.

He talked of shell augers and spoon augers, and gave the impression that he managed the saw pit, not just standing down below guiding the great saw along the chalk mark, but up above taking full responsibility for the straightness of the cut.

Villas with the titles of royalty and bloody battles claimed five feet of garden, and swelled in bowwindows beside other villas which drew up firmly, commending to the attention a decent straightness and unintrusive decorum in preference.

From the shape of each on the map, its straightness or curve, Eliza tries to see a little of what each letter has revealed to her — its consonantness or vowelness, its sturdiness or unpredictability.

Her nose displayed the same hint of aquilinity and her mouth the same thin-lipped straightness.

Atop the interwoven and intricate coiffure of cream-blonde hair was perched at a perfect straightness a wide-brimmed, white bullfighter hat of straw in a fine weave, with white ball fringe dangling all the way around the rim.

It seemed a part of the forest about it, save for the unusual straightness of its limbs, and within moments they were close enough to see that it was a series of giant girders, covered with rust and framing square portions of the open sky.

All of the gay people I've ever discussed it with have told me that they knew they were gay, or at least different, years before they even began thinking about sex, and all of them agree that gayness cannot be converted into straightness, or vice versa, no matter how hard you might try.

All of the gay people I’ve ever discussed it with have told me that they knew they were gay, or at least different, years before they even began thinking about sex, and all of them agree that gayness cannot be converted into straightness, or vice versa, no matter how hard you might try.

Her foot was a little in the way because her house slipper kept twirling about her big toe, so she pulled it in and sat up with an unnatural straightness to her neck that she felt sure, somehow, lengthened it a full two inches into slim regality.

I alone remained solemn, trying to puncture his punch lines with the straightness of my face.

He made his way forward, with rectilinearity, with giraffe straightness of posture.

And the straight line drawn on the chart did not waver in its straightness, and as far as Fleming would know--for he, as the frequent bursts of machine gun fire testified, was not overly interested in navigation--the launch was still hugging closely the rhumb line to Venusburg.

But it was an arrogance he more than redeemed by the straightness of his back now, surrounded by his enemies' vandalisms of his spirit.