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My pinhole films have the roughness, the crudity of early photographs and films.
In this study the signal roughness is of secondary interest whereas signal oscillations and their frequencies are of primary interest.
Instead, a fractured edge tends to show the same degree of roughness at different magnifications.
It can be distinguished from other stitchworts by the roughness of the edges of the leaves and stems.
The exception would be the use of a hacksaw with a fine toothed blade to cut it to length and a metal file to smooth out the roughness.
The sound is backscattered from the sea bed according to the topography, sediment type, and small-scale bottom roughness.
Almost like pavers covered with notches and dents, they bear the roughness of a worked and worn surface.
Most laser profilers produce an independent roughness statistic for each wheel path.
At a minimum, sand down the area to remove any roughness or burrs, and touch it up with paint.
This means that, on the one hand, it depends on the polymer viscosity and, on other hand, it relates to the roughness of the metallic surface.
The strength and roughness of his hands contrasted sharply with the softness of his caress.
I feel the dryness of paper and the mushiness of banana peels and the roughness of dried bread as I rummage through the trash.
I envy her recklessness, the roughness of her unpracticed pirouettes, the occasional clumsy misstep that inspires no apologies.
They need to know the surface roughness to control how the pill feels on the tongue.
Each of these parameters represents an attempt to characterize surface roughness with a single number.
Flat-bottomed crossings are often installed to ensure that factors like the natural stream gradient and bed roughness allow fish passage.
Adding a coulter increased draft force and caused greater soil surface roughness compared with the sweep alone.
With surface as the primary carrier of pictorial information, the intentional roughness of the paint exacerbates the tension in the work.
Today's laser profilers measure not only roughness but also rutting and texture.
When he crashes against it and abrades his cheek upon its cold roughness, he realizes it is a tombstone.
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Awkwardly and with the bearlike roughness of excessive timidity I put my arms about her, drew her to me tentatively.
No roughness disfigures, no sensualism blights, no straining for effect chills, no meretricious ornament destroys them.
All his roughness of the morning had disappeared, and he greeted Dan beamingly.
It is a great pity you should ever be called to bear any of the roughness of life.
I tried to speak to him about the roughness of the investigators, but he is a closed book as to that.
The place already had its historic associations, though, as yet, their roughness was unmellowed by the lapse of time.
It brought him nearer to the land, which, with all its roughness, he felt to be the true life for him.
But, in reacting everywhere against vulgar roughness, the very excess of his effort landed him at last in preciosity.
But as is invariably the case in Turkey, close inspection revealed the primitiveness and roughness.
This was Princess Myakaya, noted for her simplicity and the roughness of her manners, and nicknamed enfant terrible.
Vose explained that the leakage was due to the roughness of the trail.
There came a new swaying that was not the roughness of the terrain.
He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants.
The roughness and unevenness of the ground suggested something of a great mass of debris hidden by the accumulation of centuries of undergrowth.
I thought this roughness would have sent her off in dudgeon, as indeed it closed her mouth for the time.
The making of a fortune cannot be achieved without some roughness.
Its taste is saltish, with a degree of roughness and astringency.
It was clear that the roughness of the ground had very much lessened Lizzie's speed, and there seemed a chance that we might overtake her.
There was no opportunity for conversation, on account of the roughness of the way and the noise of the wheels.
It was roughness without hurt, assertion without threat, surety without seduction.
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