When he was tired, his lectures were clouded, obscure,
elliptical; but when he was interested they were wonderful.
Now, of those attendant bodies which the sun maintains in their
elliptical orbits by the great law of gravitation, some few in turn possess satellites.
Belfast and Maston-- that it had deviated from its course from some unknown cause, and had not reached its destination; but that it had passed near enough to be retained by the lunar attraction; that its rectilinear movement had been changed to a circular one, and that following an
elliptical orbit round the star of night it had become its satellite.
"And when he does go," he continued (our thoughts ran so much together, that our conversation was often slightly
elliptical), "I suppose he repeats the words 'I believe in the Communion of Saints'?"
When we see an object, say a penny, we seem to be aware of its "real" shape we have the impression of something circular, not of something
elliptical. In learning to draw, it is necessary to acquire the art of representing things according to the sensation, not according to the perception.
The eye was, for a long time, wholly lost in this labyrinth, where there was nothing which did not possess its originality, its reason, its genius, its beauty,--nothing which did not proceed from art; beginning with the smallest house, with its painted and carved front, with external beams,
elliptical door, with projecting stories, to the royal Louvre, which then had a colonnade of towers.
Meanly
elliptical, ludicrously precise, saving half-pence at the expense of sense, yet paying like a man for "Mr." Maturin, that was my distinguished relative from his bald patch to his corns.
MMDA General Manager Jojo Garcia said the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will fix the five lanes in the center of the
Elliptical Road one after another.
Target: Instant Data Centers, (formerly
Elliptical Mobile Solutions)
For the traffic rerouting, all motorists from
Elliptical Road going to Kalayaan Road, UP and Commonwealth Avenue shall turn right on East Avenue, left on Matalino street, left on Kalayaan Avenue and right to
Elliptical Road to their destinations.
Analyses of
elliptical ooids and quartz grains show an overall 14.59 % shortening in the region.
"I once tried to keep up with her on the
elliptical. It was awful.