Word: granularity
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...open on top of a healthy portion of shredded fennel, red cabbage, and black olives. Lightly dressed in vinaigrette, the salad tops a circular "pancake" of ground garbanzo beans. The pancake is strangely savory with a crisp and lightly fried exterior and a moist and tender interior. The coarse, granular texture was reminiscent of polenta, though the waiter swore that garbanzo beans were the sole ingredient. This is a star appetizer, iconoclastic...
...this medium Canova became a virtuoso almost from the start of his career, with a formidable talent for organizing the softness of flesh, the bulges and hollows of the body, the movement of windblown cloth into the live whiteness of the granular, crystalline, semitranslucent stone. Canova's desire to imitate Greek statuary by fusing the Ideal with the Real translates into a high degree of abstraction in the physical details of his sculpture -- smooth limbs with no warts, wrinkles or blemishes, and elaborate transitions that lead your eye around the figure or the group. The garland of six linked arms...
Angiogenesis may play an important role in ulcer repair because a key step in the repair of any wound is the development of granular tissue, rich in small blood vessels. Researchers were interested in determining whether bFGF could be used to stimulate angiogensis and thereby promote the healing of stomach ulcers...
...record of Seurat's thought lies as much in his drawings as in his final paintings. He drew on Ingres paper with Conte crayon, a waxy black stick that, stroked over the rough surface, produced a slightly blurred line and deep granular tones -- the equivalent of his intricately speckled surfaces in painting. And he was a great draftsman -- one of the greatest since the Renaissance, worthy, at the top of his form, of being compared to Rembrandt or Goya...
Like the skiers, the trails at Stratton are exceptionally well-groomed, and Liftline was no exception. The snow was carefully packed to provide a great packed-powder surface. Even on days when other mountains are icy, Stratton's trail groomers are able to scrape up a frozen granular surface...