knottiness

The best result is achieved by combining knottiness, density and characteristic frequency.

Beyer said he works with clients to find the right color and also the right combination of character or knottiness in the wood for cabinetry in their homes.

It turns out, with typical Ibsen knottiness, that the Ekdal and Werle families were intertwined in a way that goes beyond the young men's onetime friendship.

And wood's properties also vary by density, knottiness, and tree species: oak versus lodgepole pine, for example.

Given Creeley's own long-established commitment to immediacy and avoidance of revision, it seems a natural evolution for him to adopt a journal style of composition, which helped to relax the centripetal knottiness of his early lyrics and to achieve a sense of "continuance, from wherever it had started to wherever it might end" (Collected Essays 574).

That Israel has systematically flouted international law (as argued last week in these pages by Richard Falk) suggests the depth and structural knottiness of the absolute rejectionism that Palestinians have had to face.

Kirby engages with the negotiation between textuality and materiality, not in order to resolve it, but to pursue its knottiness. Drawing on the example of hysterical mimicry (on/with the skin) of contagious diseases which were documented at the Salpetriere hospital in Paris in the 1870s, Kirby suggests that this mimicry can be understood as a form of writing not only on or at the skin, but in the very medium of skin.

"Strangler Fig" and "Cockspur Bush" have the gnomic knottiness of an Anglo-Saxon riddle and the narrative unfolding of The Dream of the Rood.

(31) Finally, like New, Smithyman has a love of sentences the convolutions of which reflect the endlessly equivocating knottiness of his thought: '"Must", it seems to me, in context is saying in effect, or is making the sentence persuade us that it means to say, that the poet who is functioning as a poet properly should cannot help conveying a sensibility (which is equated with reality) formidably giving evidence that it was nurtured in and shaped by peculiar circumstances of environment (physical character) and discrete influences (isolation and history)' (32)

In this context, the objective of the present study was to analyze the sensitivity of breakdown optimization, by adjusting log rotation to detected internal knottiness, to errors in the knot geometry description.

Let your words be lighthouse, let them be the roots of this, our democratic oak, converting knottiness into shade.

In Part 12 of Radiance there is a reminder of those rhythmic, left-hand riffs that surged and swelled at Koln, but there are other sections - Part 1 or Part 4, for example - which have a more 20th century abstraction and knottiness to their structure than was apparent in the late romanticism of Lausanne.

The knot of consonants in the word Khovanshchina gives some idea of the moral knottiness of the opera.

Class A/B was of good to medium quality, low in knottiness, no marked reaction wood, and low in spiral grain.

Drew is a versatile pianist, capable of working up a few florid swirls on Song For Manfredo, adding soul to the knottiness of Monk's Epistrophy, or gentle romanticism on Bill Evans' We Will Meet Again.