interpenetration
Example Sentences
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The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
Chopin prefers more esoteric, difficult-to-detect techniques of elision and interpenetration — a world of transference, where beginnings and endings merge.
From New York Times ● Aug. 4, 2017
We could be talking about the interpenetration of jazz and soul music, and George would mention that the bassist Milt Hinton played on “Mr. Lee,” a late-fifties hit by the Bobbettes.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 28, 2014
These shades of feeling, and their interpenetration, are conveyed with extraordinary delicacy and care.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2011
Oriental poetry, especially that of the Arabs and the Persians, is notable for its interpenetration with ecstasy couched in intricate conventional forms.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell
