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Description: And while today's mass produced cover illustrations are marketing tools, the cover designs of early books were made to order. Even spines have a history. Initially, they were not considered aesthetically important, and the earliest ones were flat, rather than rounded. The flat form made the books easier to read

Jeanne Moreau

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work.

French Actress

Omari Hardwick

I didn't want to just do a show where my character stood out and other characters were flat or one-to-two-dimensional. I wanted everybody to have meat.

American Actor

Peggy Noonan

I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is something beyond the flat world we see.

American Writer

Cara Delevingne

I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.

English Model

Suki Waterhouse

I've been wearing Supergas forever. I'm always in flats, running around, so it makes sense for me.

English Actress

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga

Well, I like characters, players with personality, I don't like flat people.

French Athlete

Bhushan Kumar

It's not easy to tell a life story in two-and-a-half hours flat.

Indian Producer

Sherlyn Chopra

All through my teenage life, I've had a flat chest.

Thomas Friedman

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

American Journalist

Eddy Arnold

Don't be afraid to fall flat on your face.

American Musician

Use 'flat' when describing a surface's smoothness or lack of texture.

Physical Texture

'Flat' can imply something is simple or lacking in detail and intricacy.

Lacking Detail

When someone or something is 'flat', it means full contact with the surface, no gaps.

Full Contact

'Flat' emphasizes the completeness of how someone has fallen or is lying down.

Complete Fall

'Flat' in business means no significant change or growth, sometimes unexpectedly.

Lack of Growth

'Flat' describes land with very little elevation change, often expansive.

Geographical Feature

In the UK, 'flat' is commonly used to refer to an individual housing unit.

Housing Term

Remember, 'flat' as a residence is specific to the UK; Americans use 'apartment'.

Cultural Variance

'Flat' can mean with full force or effect, often in idiomatic expressions.

Complete Commitment

In music, 'flat' indicates a note is lower in pitch, usually by a semitone.

Musical Pitch

A performance or speech described as 'flat' may lack emotional variation or energy.

Emotional Tone

 And while today's mass produced cover illustrations are marketing tools, the cover designs of early books were made to order. Even spines have a history. Initially, they were not considered aesthetically important, and the earliest ones were flat, rather than rounded. The flat form made the books easier to read

The evolution of the...

 Being cupped, rather than flat, enables it to better sense the direction of the incoming light. Among its other uses, this ability allows an organism to seek out shade and hide from predators. Over the millenia, as such light cups grew deeper in some organisms, the opening at the front grew smaller.

 And if a glowing strip doesn't show up on a recent bill, you have a fake on your hands. For times when you're not dealing with counterfeit masterminds, looking for simple visual cues will do. Make sure the portrait looks lifelike and not flat, the seal has perfectly even sawtooth points,

How to spot a...

 Your knees should be at a right angle with your feet flat on the floor. But what if your posture isn't that great? Try redesigning your environment. Adjust your screen so it's at or slightly below eyelevel. Make sure all parts of your body, like your elbows and wrists, are supported,

The benefits of good...

 even on a flat piece of paper, our brain reflexively creates the 3D concave or convex shape. Now for that creepy Lincoln upside down face. Faces trigger activity in areas of the brain that have specifically evolved to help us recognize faces.

How optical illusions...

 and it's seen as power. But they're not strong characters who happen to be female. They're completely flat, and they're basically cardboard characters. The problem with this is that then people expect women to be that easy to understand,

Tavi Gevinson: A teen...

 the girl does not know her beauty she chooses to believe that her eyes are dark and troubled no one told her evany was the color of the universe's wings she thinks her nose is too flat her breasts too small her legs too long in

“She Does Not Know Her...

 only ascent that I have which is a flat where I am residing as a collateral security and then got the low because there's no such technology we are the first in the world so the technology had to be created

A Spoon You Can Eat Is a...

 living flat jackets the mothers are worried and quickly scoop up the youngest here the two males face each other the family man backs towards one of his more loyal wives calling for support

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 But out on the flats, the scent of dying snail wafts away on the tide. It's a scent that these hermit crabs are partial to. It's vital that the crabs have the best possible protection

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