Word: billowing
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...left room in between to permit shadow to play upon the relief. No contemporary had his gift with drapery; each figure's clothes mold the body while the spiraling folds and pleats seem in places to hang as if the stone were gossamer, in other places to billow before the wind. According to Expert Zarnecki, the Gislebertus touch was copied by anonymous artists in other churches of the 12th century. But whatever his influence, his work at Autun is the greatest achievement in Romanesque art by a single...
...became the sly ambition of the more skilled and spirited artists. One such was Hyacinthe Rigaud, portraitist of the Marquis de Dangeau. Rigaud's primary purpose was obviously to flatter, but in so doing he threw all of Le Brun's strictures out the window. Voluptuous draperies billow in the background in the manner of Rubens. The gold and glitter become a feast not for the mind but the eye; color dominates form, and classicism surrenders to baroque self-indulgence. In few works of art was Louis' age of splendor shown up more clearly as the time...
...years of college a socioeconomic necessity. As if this pressure were not enough, war babies are now beating at the college gates. This June the nation's high schools will graduate 1,803,000 students. In 1964, according to the U.S. Office of Education, the crop will billow to 2,309,000. The prediction: by 1970, college enrollment will nearly double to roughly 6,400,000, and it may go as high...
...peaches, sheep and sugar beets. This unlikely region, in Box Elder County north of Great Salt Lake, is boiling with frantic activity. Strange lights glare in the night, making the mountains shine, and a grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these strange goings-on mark the development of the Minuteman, the solid-fuel missile that its proponents confidently expect will ultimately replace the liquid-fuel Atlas...
When it came to Debussy's La Mer, with its enormous orchestral apparatus, the Philharmonia showed the negative side of being a child prodigy. It played all the notes and played them beautifully, and listeners heard unfamiliar details, but somehow the music failed to billow and surge. It was as if a dry land breeze were blowing over Debussy's sea that day. Berlioz' Fantastic Symphony suffered similarly: the fragrant resonances, the languid rubatos and the snarling brasses were there, but the fantasy was hard to find...