rectilinear

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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

The brightly lighted curve visually erased the sharp, angled edge that made any rectilinear painting into a figure standing against the wall’s ground.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2023

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

We may translate this to mean that he started the process of carving a statue by trying to visualize a figure in the rough, rectilinear block as it came to him from the quarry.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson