Vegetarianism can easily reach religious proportions. Refraining from meat on moral grounds serves to dignify feelings of guilt toward sad-eyed, furry creatures and substitutes righteousness for squeamishness.
Either these - unsaved people are to be evangelized, or the leaven of communism and infidelity will assume such enormous proportions that it will break you in a reign of terror such as this country has never known.
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.
You will have to scrutinize the model sharply to find the proportions - how the weight is supported, how each joint is functioning. . . Look for the color and tone and texture. . . how the light falls on the figure, especially the face.
Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon, there would have been no growth. It had to come to the centre where it had both the things in proper proportions to grow. In the same way a human being has to work out that you keep a moderation and a balance and understand not to go to extremes of anything. That balance you learn when you love someone.
When abused children under court protection were studied in California and Massachusetts, it turned out that a disproportionate number of them were unattractive. . . abused kids had head and face proportions that made them look less infantile and cute.
I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.
24. 9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8. 6, 7. 4 and 10. 5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.
In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures, life may perfect be.
Every man has a mob self and an individual self, in varying proportions.
It is well known that a loose and easy dress contributes much to give to both sexes those fine proportions of body that are observable in the Grecian statues, and which serve as models to our present artists.
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them.
The Greeks understood that mind and body must develop in harmounious proportions to produce a creative intelligence.
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect, and not overborne by an undue or hardened pre-eminence of the mere reasoning faculties, there the grotesque will exist in full energy.
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.
What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.
There are some effects of the biome. Compact bodies tend to conserve heat relative to linear ones. This can affect average height as well as body proportions. The study participants Europeans and Americans do not fall into the range where this effect is powerful, however.
Hope and reality lie in inverse proportions.
Fashion is to please your eye. Shapes and proportions are for your intellect.
