Cornices

While landmarks commission members went over the existing building's architectural features such as cornices and colonnades, some in the audience of about 60 at Pace University in lower Manhattan held signs telegraphing their opposition. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Fragments such as cornices, frames, pilaster bases, and Corinthian pilaster capitals bore reliefs. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He understood how to contrast wide unbroken surfaces with certain important parts of his _ensemble_, such as cornices, plinths, and especially doorways. ❋ Georges Perrot (1873)

The French Quarter, with its picturesquely spalling walls and tendrilly weeds spilling from cornices, often feels like a movie set, especially in the light of summer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Helicopters with Red Bull logos dropped explosive bundles every morning to clear avalanche-prone ledges and cornices that might endanger the pipe and White's entourage of friends, photographers and public relations reps stoking the star-maker machinery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The combination of the original architectural elements (cornices and high skirting boards), with the more contemporary finishes of the furniture represents a logical evolution of the statement the clients wished to make. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The earth wrinkled its back for twenty-eight seconds, and the lying cornices crashed down as all lies are doomed to crash down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The condo portion, however, is quieter and more dignified, from its stone cornices to the masonry frames around its windows and its darker, more conservative shade of red brick, which faces onto quaint, leafy Brooklyn side streets. ❋ Robbie Whelan (2011)

Upon the tops of the simple, severe walls of their buildings they plastered huge projecting cornices. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Big kitchen design firms tend to impose their schemes onto a space—it's as if they are actively trying to eradicate any signs of architectural detailing beneath those hanging cupboards, false cornices and $10,000 refrigerators. ❋ Rita Konig (2011)

Myriad phalanxes of wasps had taken possession of the upper cornices. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sticking out the wall, a hideous copper excrescence, was the new gas pipe, vertical from waist height but then, up above my head, twisting out to disappear through the ceiling at the point where the cornices met. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"A lot of the richness of solid-shell, pre-war architectures is in its projections," Mr. Pelli says, referring to the elements of buildings like the ones on Fifth Avenue like cornices, window framing and ledges that project out over the plane of the building face. ❋ Robbie Whelan (2011)

The Ionic order is more elegant and matronly – think Boticelli's Venus – with often unfluted columns, scrolled capitals, friezes that are sometimes adorned with elaborately sculpted bas-relief and dentils – a row of small blocks – below the cornices. ❋ Unknown (2011)

I mean, those enormous ornate cornices you all chose in your bedroom I can overlook. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Skirting boards are aesthetically pleasing and give a room a visual solidity – we used to have regard for finishing things off properly with cornices, coving, parapets and so on. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Penny Miller, London N16Skirting boards and cornices at the wall-ceiling joint are also a way of softening the cognitive dissonance that occurs when the retina provides curves that the optic lobe knows are straight lines or flat planes. ❋ Unknown (2011)

It revelled in being artificial and theatrical, with columns or arches supporting nothing, pumped-up cornices and weighty-looking rustication that sounded hollow when you tapped it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

She [wore] a white [dress] on her [wedding day], but that didn't mean she hadn't cornicated. ❋ Johndogrev (2008)

I will [shove] my [prick] in your cornice- [Aristophanes] ❋ Greek Woman In Pursuit Of Lads (2011)

did you see that chick [Cornicate] her self... [i have never] seen someone so [satisfied] from Cornication ❋ Rockandrolljunkiie (2009)

"Oh my God, did you see [Paris Hilton] at that party, she's such a [fucking slut] she was [cornicating]!" ❋ YOU WILL NEVER KNOW! HAAHAAA! (2009)

We can't take [Arnold] to the farm... if you [take one] step away from him, he'll be [cornicating] himself in the butthole. ❋ Kohan Rhera (2018)

So i [really] like **** ******.. [Dragon] [Dictation]: so i really like Dreaded Cornice... ❋ Dreadthecornice (2011)