foreshortened in English

verb
1
portray or show (an object or view) as closer than it is or as having less depth or distance, as an effect of perspective or the angle of vision.
seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened

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1. Viewed from above, their bodies were foreshortened and partly hidden.

2. Smoking was certainly one of the factors that foreshortened his life.

3. She could see herself in the reflecting lenses, which had grotesquely foreshortened her.

4. The logo, a life study of a foreshortened figure, represents an ideal of development.

5. Viewed from so high up, their bodies were foreshortened and hidden by the faces in front.

6. Writer and educator George Leonard has described some of the dangers of a foreshortened perspective on time.

7. Seen from the road, the mountain is greatly foreshortened and its true proportions are best appreciated from a distance.

8. Delaney focussed in on the waves piling up tightly one behind the other, like a huge wall in the foreshortened view.

9. It is an Axonometric projection in which the three coordinate axes appear equally foreshortened and the angle between any two of them is 120 degrees

10. A Carbine, strikingly foreshortened, lay across the pommel of the saddle, kept in place by the right hand grasping it at the "grip"; the left hand, holding the bridle rein, was invisible

11. ‘The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping Contrapposto to provide a virtuoso ‘frame’ for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.’

12. ‘The figure is artfully foreshortened, engaging in a sweeping Contrapposto to provide a virtuoso ‘frame’ for the sudarium, the origin of all cult images, made without human hands from the face of Christ.’

13. Huge ships of weird design were Crisscrossing the air above, obviously looking for something.: The great steel derricks and their Crisscrossing cables cast curiously foreshortened shadows on the gleaming white expanse.: Something was crossing and Crisscrossing inside him like two rings tossed