foreshorten

How To Use foreshorten In A Sentence

• 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. Modernism's Austrian Rebels
• The value will paint this part in the front of a perspective view, in the back and will foreshorten it.
• Oh, yes, Speaker Pelosi, it was more important to foreshorten debate so that the "troops" could go home on recess than to more fully consider, and possibly fashion, an improved piece of legislation. When Partisanship Trumps We, the People
• Profound depression and vegetative symptoms result from realizing nothing that individuals do matters and that there is no way to end, foreshorten or even know the duration of their suffering. OpEdNews - Diary: Letter to Senate on health effects of indefinite detention
• The road leading down to the port has been considerably foreshortened by the map-maker.
• The bold foreshortening and the swirling draperies create an intensely dramatic composition.
• In Rhino 4 we have added the ability to foreshorten any view, along with the ability to add your own display styles.
• The seated figures are compact in scale, their chairs and lectern angled and their attributes foreshortened.
• Hopefully the leader will not cut off the amendments or foreshorten our ability to offer amendments. CNN Transcript Nov 21, 2009
• Speaking quite personally, I'm constantly haunted by our incapacity to achieve ultimate meaning and I hate systems that, as it were, foreshorten the debate by saying ‘Either we have absolute truth or there is no truth to have’.