I said I even thought it probable that their vivid feeling anticipated the day, -- that the interval between, so to speak, was "foreshortened" to them; but that ❋ Henry Rogers (1841)
Klimt's tentative chalk and pencil strokes do little more than outline and emphasize the foreshortened legs, buttocks and genitalia of his subjects, their scrawled lifelessness compromising the images' erotic impact. ❋ Barrymore Laurence Scherer (2011)
It was angry, it was raw, but it looked somehow complete next to her undamaged leg, as if the leg that had been spared was overbuilt and in need of modification, as if it was merely waiting until it, too, could be amended, foreshortened. ❋ Unknown (2009)
An odd point about the Times story is that it does not run as the lead; also, it is peculiarly foreshortened -- a big story on a small-story diet. ❋ David Bromwich (2011)
The British colonies, meanwhile flew the British flag which eventually replaced the fleurs-de-lis when France ceded its colonies to Britain as part of its settlement in the Treaty of Utrecht (any historians may be tearing their hair out over my foreshortened version of Canadian history … sorry … trying to summarise not write a thesis!). ❋ Unknown (2009)
And here comes our Ben Goldacre, explaining why "deeply suspicious" (which, to my ears, is a foreshortened phrase whose entirety is "deeply suspicious that I might sell a crapload of newspapers through a reckless disregard for public safety and the truth") is deeply stupid and deeply dangerous: ❋ Unknown (2009)
The boy sat on a chair with a foreshortened leg, at the far corner. ❋ Alex M. Pruteanu (2011)
Nowlan has adopted the picaresque narrative, usually to be found in sprawling tales spread out in both time and space, to create a more foreshortened, more intensely realized, indeed more "concentrated" work of fiction that would not have the same impact had it been "shaped" in some other way, had it instead come in the form of a conventional "well-made story" employing the contemporary default mode of "psychological realism." ❋ Unknown (2009)
Instead, we're going to briefly heap some scorn on the mainstream media, and then after a foreshortened awards section, we are going to reprint the text of President Obama's moving speech in Tucson this Wednesday, for those of you who haven't had the chance to view it or read it. ❋ Chris Weigant (2011)
The latter point was indeed raised during the foreshortened debate that ensued. ❋ Unknown (2009)
From one point of view, the rise of the new class involves the priority of thinking — not any thinking, however, but a technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative thinking — over the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature. ❋ Unknown (2010)
And this collection again demonstrates the utterly deft and assured way Van Gogh manipulated the open-air space, with strangely tilted, compressed and foreshortened geometries of furrowed fields and garden rows rioting in color. ❋ Dan Neil (2012)
And that running some network of social programs or schemes on the basis of these (“technocratically foreshortened, instrumentalist, and administrative”) theories runs the risk of destroying “the lifeworld of everyday interactions, communities, and traditions, and the orders of human nature.” ❋ Unknown (2010)
Looking out from the beach at dusk, the grey murk that had hung over the coast all day severely foreshortened the view. ❋ Unknown (2011)
