Word: porousness
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...Eastern League, sixth place) has taken quite a fall from its past two years of league domination. The Lions won the title outright in 1976 and tied with Cornell for the title last season, but this spring have stumbled at times due to graduation and the rather porous infield that has resulted...
...basilica in Assisi, Italy. The skeleton was first identified by Vatican experts in 1818. When the remains were exhumed so the grave site could be repaired, Pope Paul asked scientists to study them. Their findings: the saint, who died in 1226, was short and frail and Ms bones "very porous, denoting a form of malnutrition...
...portraits. Nude in Profile, 1977, displays her pubescent body with the columnar grace of a figure by Piero della Francesca; light flows around the shallow curve of the wall and invests her outline with a hushed archaic permanence; many coats and scumblings of paint have given her flesh the porous, mat quality of fresco plaster. Balthus' art is about stabilizing the eye, and giving measure, proportion and distance to what it extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms...
...score stood at 0-0 through most of the competition, but a long touchdown pass from Marc M. "Bubba" Sadowsky to Jonathan H. "Crazylegs" Alter sent the Crimson surging into the lead. The Law Review defensive line, porous with loopholes, collapsed under the Crimson pressure after that point...
...embarrassing manner in which defeat was wrought. Sure, the loss of the first-string quarterback, the limited multi flex that had to pass for an offense as a result and what is becoming to feel like the weekly Saturday rain all contributed to the debacle. The turnovers and porous performance of the offensive line didn't exactly help, either...