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  • So the first thing the morpho software did was take each side of your face and double it, like holding a mirror right down the middle, creating two examples of perfect symmetry.  (source)
    symmetry = exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing plane
  • I know a little of the principle of design, and I know this thing was not arranged on any laws of radiation, or alternation, or repetition, or symmetry, or anything else that I ever heard of.  (source)
    symmetry = balance among the parts of something
  • Perhaps that is no surprise, poets like such symmetries: Witch Circe skilled at spinning spells and threads alike, at weaving charms and cloths.†  (source)
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  • In photos from this period I'm struck by the symmetry: I look like everyone else.†  (source)
  • You admire the fluid symmetries of troops on the move, the harmonies of sound and shape and proportion, the great sheets of metal-fire streaming down from a gunship, the illumination rounds, the white phosphorus, the purply orange glow of napalm, the rocket's red glare.†  (source)
  • He read books on calculus and logarithmic algebra and loved what he called the poetry and symmetry of math.†  (source)
  • If I've learned anything in Kabul, it is that human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.†  (source)
  • Then by the slightest turn of the wrist, the shards begin to shift and settle into a new configuration—a configuration with its own symmetry of shapes, its own intricacy of colors, its own hints of design.†  (source)
  • While it was a beautiful body, with all the right prominences, curves, continuities and symmetries, there was something a little strange about it—nothing visibly missing and not so much deficient as reassembled.†  (source)
  • On either side of the chapel, in perfect symmetry, were two ten-foot-high marble pyramids.†  (source)
  • It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.†  (source)
  • But the lack of symmetry bothered me.†  (source)
  • It publishes itself in creatures, reaching from particles and spicula, through transformation on transformation to the highest symmetries, arriving at consummate results without a shock or a leap.†  (source)
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