My copy of the book sported a classroom-ready cover of muted grays and the title was announced in a blockish, sober font.
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Wade, who, for a Spielberg hero, strikes me as a little blockish and numb, has created an alter ego called Parzival, suggesting an implausible passion for medieval German romance literature.
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When I first began tasting blaufränkisches, wines made in the 1990s and early part of the 21st century, many were stolid and blockish, aiming for the density, power and oakiness that were then in vogue.
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" Other buildings on the award's shortlist included London's "bland and boxy" Lewisham Gateway, a high-rise commercial and residential project; and an orange eco-house in South London that the judges described as "garish, blockish and a clumsy and alien blot on the streetscape.
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One of my first Madden lessons was that if you handed the ball off to video-game Barry Sanders — at least that's who I assumed No. 20 in the unnamed Detroit jersey was meant to be — and repeatedly pounded the spin button, tacklers bounced harmlessly off his blockish body.
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This cat gives the initial impression of being a miniature leopard. It has a long, lean, somewhat muscular body and a low slung walk, along with spots. The most desired shape of spots on the cats is round, yet somewhat blockish. Triangular, oval, or square spots are acceptable also.
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The coupe's doors were extra long and featured frameless glass. The B-pillar was also distinctive and the quarter side windows sloped with the roofline. The combination of a very long low hood and a tall short rear deck enhanced the coupe's wind-shaped look. The new coupe featured a totally unique design to avoid the massive, blockish look.
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By Carl Friedrichs, in Der Doryphoros des Polyklet, Berlin, 1863. For modern eyes, a fragmentary Doryphoros torso in basalt in the Medici collection at the Uffizi "conveys the effect of bronze, and is executed with unusual care", as Kenneth Clark noted, illustrating it in The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form:Clark, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form, 1956, fig 26 p. 69. "It preserves some of the urgency and concentration of the original" lost in the full-size "blockish" marble copies.
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A similar portico is placed on the house's western side. Another distinctive component of the architecture is the weatherboarding: although made of wood, the house's exterior has been shaped to resemble the appearance of ashlar decorated with quoins. These elements, together with the house's blockish shape, combine to give it the appearance of an Italianate residence with Neo-Renaissance influences. Since the days of the Parry family, the house has ceased to be used for residential purposes; it has been converted into a historic house museum, the Parry Museum.
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In discussing the "problem of description" in archaeology, A. A. Donohue has shown that historically, most scholars have described Nikandre's dedication in negative terms. Donohue holds that the "objective" description of archaeological objects has been anything but. Through an evaluation of the historical, ethnic, and psychological context of scholarly criticisms of the statue, Donohue illustrates how the reception of Nikandre's dedication today should not necessarily build on previous descriptions, which have often scorned the flat nature of the work and the heavy dress as poor craftsmanship. In comparison with later Hellenistic sculpture, which is characterized by a progressively idealistic treatment of the human form, Nikandre's dedication, with its heavy garment and blockish torso, appeared to many early scholars as wholly unfeminine.
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But, on the beheading of Charles I, the presbyterian ministers of Antrim and Down (Milton's "blockish presbyters of Clanneboye") broke with the parliament and held a meeting in Belfast (February 1649), at which they protested against the king's death as an act of horror without precedent in history 'divine or human,' and agreed to pray for Charles II, who, for his part, promised to establish presbyterianism in Ulster. The parliamentary generals replaced the presbyterian by independent and baptist ministers, and Adair had to hide among the rocks near Cairncastle. In March 1652 he took part in a public discussion on church government between presbyterian and independent ministers at Antrim Castle. He was the mouthpiece of the ministers who declined (October and November 1652) to take the engagement to be true to the commonwealth against any king, and was one of two ministers appointed to wait on General Fleetwood and the council in Dublin (January 1653) to seek relief therefrom.
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