rectilinear
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The lack of recognition, Feldman argues, reverberates through Caland’s heavily impastoed portraits of Moses and her enigmatic late abstractions such as the rectilinear paintings in the “Silent Letter Series.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
Lowry’s rectilinear buildings suggest immobility beyond time, and urban orderliness without elegance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
Although rectilinear movement works well on flat ground, a burrowing movement “has to go all the way around the body” simply because the same friction exists on all sides of a creature.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
Inside Notre-Dame it is still a futuristic film décor - a towering mass of rectilinear metal scaffolding set against the curves and arches of the ancient Gothic stone.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2023
It was composed of dazzling blue metal with an almost mirror shine to it, as smooth as water, and nowhere rectilinear or planar, but all flowing contours, as supple as skin.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
Vocabulary lists containing rectilinear
Geometry - Introductory
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