Free The Describer's Dictionary: A Treasury of Terms & Literary Quotations by David Grambs Page B

the thickness of the wall; and the loop-hole which enlightened it being to the west, and widening considerably as it sloped inward, a beam of the setting sun found its way into its dark recess....
    SIR WALTER SCOTT, Ivanhoe
     
    long
lengthy, extensive, elongated
    very long
endless
    short
undersized, squat
    very deep
profound, abyssal, bottomless, depthless, unplumbed,
yawning
     
    related
connected, interconnected, associated, affiliated, interrelated,
correlated, correlative, correlational, interlinked
    in direct relation to
corresponding, correlative, mutual, reciprocal, vis-à-vis
     
    in order
ordered, systematic, grouped, arranged, arrayed, aligned,
organized
    not in order, out of order
disarranged, unordered, disarrayed, unaligned, jumbled
     
    in a line or something like a line
lined up, aligned, ranged, arrayed
     
    in proportion
proportionate, proportional
    not in proportion
disproportionate, disproportional, in misproportion,
ill-proportioned
     
    in balance
balanced, equipoised, equiponderant, counterbalanced,
counterweighted, counterpoised
    not in balance
unbalanced, disequilibriate
     
     
Away to his right was a dark, formless blur lying on the water, a blur that might have been Cape Demirci: straight ahead, across the darkly velvet sheen of the Maidos Straits, he could see the twinkle of far-away lights—it was a measure of the enemy’s confidence that they permitted these lights at all, or, more likely, these fisher cottages were useful as a bearing marker for the guns at night: and to the left, surprisingly near, barely thirty feet away in a horizontal plane, but far below the level where he was standing, he could see the jutting end of the outside wall of the fortress where it abutted on the cliff, the roofs of the houses on the west side of the square beyond that, and, beyond that again, the town itself curving sharply downwards and outwards, to the south first, then to the west, close-girdling and matching the curve of the crescent harbour. Above—but there was nothing to be seen above, that fantastic overhang above blotted out more than half the sky; and below, the darkness was equally impenetrable, the surface of the harbour inky and black as night.
    ALISTAIR MA CLEAN, The Guns of Navarone
     
     
An interesting point is that in this particular “ideal” theme, the fundamental diagram of the face is the same as the one of the whole body; the link between the two is that the height of the face is equal to the vertical distance between the middle of the body (intersection of the legs in “ideal” specimens) and the navel (the minor of the two segments in the Φ proportion determined by the navel) is equal to the distance between the tip of the medium finger (the arm hanging vertically) and the floor or horizontal level supporting the whole.
    MATILA GHYKA, The Geometry of Art and Life
     
    in balance with respect to relationship between elements or features
proportional
    larger on or leaning to one side
lop-sided
    heavier or larger on top
top-heavy
     
    having a perfectly divisible order left and right (bilateral) or top and
bottom
symmetrical
    not symmetrical
asymmetrical
    having radial symmetry
actinoid, actinomorphic, actinomorphous
     
    north
northern, northerly, boreal, hyperborean
    south
southern, southerly, austral, meridional
    east
eastern, easterly, oriental
    west
western, westerly, occidental
     
    opposite
contraposed, antipodal, counterposed, contrary
    pertaining to opposite sides
heterolateral
     
    at the top
apical, topmost
    at the bottom
basal, bottommost
     
    on or to the right
dextral
     
     
The movement made to swing the left arm holding the muleta, which is crossed in front of the body, out and past the right side to get rid of the bull is called crossing. Any time the man does not make this cross he will have the bull under him. Unless he swings him far enough out the horn is certain to catch him.
    ERNEST HEMINGWAY, Death in the