skeleton frame

"He is extraordinarily thin and his dress-coat hangs on a skeleton frame. His eyes are so deep that you can hardly see the fixed pupils.

The grime and sordidness of the House of the Seven Gables seemed to have vanished since her appearance there; the gnawing tooth of the dry-rot was stayed among the old timbers of its skeleton frame; the dust had ceased to settle down so densely, from the antique ceilings, upon the floors and furniture of the rooms below,--or, at any rate, there was a little housewife, as light-footed as the breeze that sweeps a garden walk, gliding hither and thither to brush it all away.

Brahem's sparse, maqam themes offer a skeleton frame for collective sound-scaping of the most intuitive kind: Holland's low growls and Surman's plaintive cries a sympathetic sonic foil to the oud's meditative meandering.

He went through various processes of taking the outer skin--so to speak--off of a garment, and revealing a skeleton frame He found a simple beauty there.

Because the hammer utilizes a compact coil spring and doesn't need a skeleton frame to house it like a leaf spring does, the grip "frame" is a simple, sturdy post that juts down and rearward.

Then we have run the gesture recognition service and checked the latency between the time input skeleton frame was read from the device and the time the gesture was classified.

Internal building lighting exposes the skeleton frame of the building's circulation and active areas.

And the recent makeover of its four-star, city-centre 163-room Mercure St Paul's Hotel and Spa reflects the greenness with back-lit leaf vein motifs and a table at centre stage in reception with a leaf skeleton frame.

The steel skeleton frame, as opposed to the load-bearing stone walls used for thousands of years, became the new standard upon which tall buildings would be constructed.

The proposed mini-airship architecture uses flexible films expanded by a skeleton frame to form a super lightweight streamline hull and unpressurized gas cells to provide buoyant lift and partial support to the hull.