maze

He has appeared to take a very nononsense and straight-forward approach to the inquiry and so it is not too wild an assumption to hope that his conclusions will shed much-needed light on even the darkest corners of this mazelike system occupied by the powers that be.

That task began with simplifying and standardizing layouts that customers often find confusing and mazelike. The test outlets, which the company calls its "learning and building" (L.A.B.) stores, feature a modified racetrack floor plan that provides easy access to the entire store.

-- People have been drawn to and fascinated by the mazelike patterns of labyrinths for more than 3,000 years.

And not only are they clever enough to stalk the humans through a mazelike underwater research laboratory, they can also recognise a security camera and are able to swim backwards.

Changes of axis and informal massing give the spaces a mazelike complexity and intimacy.

The poems of Umhendur are accompanied by drawings that are every bit as puzzling and mazelike as Hallmundsson's words.

The real business of sniffing goes on behind the nose in the nasal cavity--a mazelike sac where incoming air gets funneled past olfactory receptors.

3, 1999, took its turn to the worst on the suspicion that two vagrants might be inside the old, mazelike building.

The energy they exude is extraordinarily exhilarating, but then you can find yourself uncomfortably lost in the painting as in a vortex--maybe something like the vortex-eye that Saul Bass devised for the title sequence of Hitchcock's Vertigo, that paean to the ecstasy and torment of scotophilia, or the mazelike lines of faceless modernist architecture Bass came up with for the title sequence for North by Northwest.

And that same lightning motif creates the mazelike pattern that is central to Helix.