rectilinear

How To Use rectilinear In A Sentence

• A long corridor acts as a horizontal spine connecting many small alcoves and hallways while an exposed concrete volume punctures this rectilinear framework as an enigmatic vertical intervention.
• Such circles and lines, plus arabesques and rectilinear passages, occur in most of the work that follows.
• Bardo, however, thought that the tower's sharp angles and rectilinearity made for the wrong shape with which to surmount his cathedral. THE BROKEN GOD
• The ground floor is arranged freely around the grid of piloti that support the rectilinear carcass of accommodation above.
• It is stripped down chinoiserie, all wood and fretting, strictly rectilinear, lugubrious.
• Straight lines meet curved; rectilinear bases rise to occasional arches and on up to golden domes.
• Through an odd twist of history they have come to embrace painting and other works of rectilinear format as a fully indigenized genre within the context of postcolonialism.
• Movement in a rectilinear manner decreases the resistive forces associated with the locomotor activity and minimizes the distance traveled.
• This luxurious piece of furniture is rectilinear, with sharply defined planes delineated by vertical and horizontal bands of ornamental marquetry.
• This luxurious piece of furniture is rectilinear, with sharply defined planes delineated by vertical and horizontal bands of ornamental marquetry.