Lineaments

Word LINEAMENTS
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Lineaments"

What do we mean by lineaments?

Any distinctive shape or line, etc.

A distinctive feature that characterizes something, especially the parts of the face of an individual.

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The word "lineaments" in example sentences

My own anecdotal evidence suggests that right across the secondary school system our children are being short-changed of the patrimony of their story, which is to say the lineaments of the whole story, for there can be no true history that refuses to span the arc, no coherence without chronology. ❋ Simon Schama (2010)

And the girl, looking up into the peaceful old "lineaments," smiled faintly, and knew there was healing in them. ❋ Annie Hamilton Donnell (N/A)

Recognising in those fear-filled, treacherous glances the lineaments of Judas, Leonardo enticed him to the cenaculo with a gift of silver. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here were non-Anglo people, people with familiar lineaments, with long fingers and slender bones, with dark eyes and hair and certain ways of moving and gesturing. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

Built some 4,500 years ago as way-stations to the afterlife, they are the lineaments of gratified desire. ❋ Richard Bangs (2011)

He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His future society is clothed in the simplified feudal lineaments of a medieval fantasy – computers are banished by religious edict, society is strictly hierarchical – which enables him to sketch large questions of human social and political interaction. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The story of Frank Sinatra's rise and self-invention and the story of his fall and remarkable comeback had the lineaments of the most essential American myths, and their telling, Pete Hamill once argued, required a novelist, "some combination of Balzac and Raymond Chandler," who might "come closer to the elusive truth than an autobiographer as courtly as Sinatra will ever allow himself to do." ❋ Sammy Perlmutter (2010)

They come at an affordable price rate and I really loved all its quality and lineaments. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think his countenance was more massive than it looks in any of the portraits … there was a strong expression of shrewdness in all his lineaments; the eye alone, I think, indicated the poetical character and temperament. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Alberti considered the intellectual lineaments of a building something mediated by the structure and ornament of its exterior; and while Pugin -- another gloomy Gus, if perhaps a necessary one -- frequently railed against what he saw as dishonesty in buildings, he never hesitated to plaster his own designs with exuberant tilework and gilt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Grand genealogies and family lineaments fall like granite upon the final iamb, ❋ Unknown (2009)

Last year I looked death in the face and found its lineaments not unkind. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

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