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Перевод: sinuous

[прилагательное]
извилистый; сложный; волнообразный; волнистый; запутанный; с пазухами

Тезаурус:

1. Ch'i flows along watercourses, the ideal being slow, sinuous and deep, as it is conducive to the accumulation of ch'i.
2. It then adds a remarkable visual display, writhing its body in a sinuous, undulating movement, exactly like a crawling snake.
3. The soft beauty of their symmetrical curves, and the sinuous outlines, accentuated as they were at morning and evening by the glancing rays of the sun, provided an artistry one could not readily forget; and I shall long remember the delicate rosy flush, reflected for a moment from the smooth sand surfaces, as the radiance of the sunset dwindled and died like a funeral pyre."
4. I would put on a tape of Tudor madrigals - a new interest - and lie back in the contoured leather seats, letting myself melt into the crevices of Morley's sinuous six-part harmony and observing the surrounding misery with mounting satisfaction.
5. In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then, as Palace managers came and went, Vince's role was constantly changing, so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next.
6. Painted red, of course, with sinuous front wings that curve above the wheelarches, a recessed bonnet, a short roof tapering into a long, descending C-pillar and a vast engine cover terminating with a flat rear.
7. At Byker, Erskine built some of the most likeable local authority housing of the 1970s behind a massive and sinuous brick wall designed to keep the roar of a proposed urban motorway at bay.
8. The early ammonoids of the Devonian ( Anarcestes and allied genera) have only gently sinuous suture lines.
9. It was a large town of some character, with a slow-moving sinuous river, aptly named the Great Ouse, meandering between bosky banks.
10. The postcrania are also heavily scored with tooth marks, some present as deep sinuous grooves and some as multiple striated flattened grooves (Fig. 1.3 C-F).
11. He could not let in the faintest perfumes of incense-bearing trees in gardens bright with sinuous rills.
12. Water, containing a brilliant green sediment, dripped from a gutter onto the stone, leaving a sinuous stain.
13. A little house, surrounded by the same black trees, at the foot of which, his chops on the whited steps, his sinuous length curved around its corner in a dragon-clasp, the long wolf lay, whose hairs were cut in harmony with the incisive feathering of the trees.