The book concludes with yet another rhetorical dialogue between interlocutors representing conventional interest groups, including the manufacturer of new draperies, the old-fashioned broadcloth clothier, a landowner's bailiff, and a farmer.
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The basic positioning of thedraperyis accomplished, and all these are more or less carried to the same stage.
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Finally,draperywas to be simple and bereft of texture or local detail.
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The round-headed chisel was used somewhat on the hair and on thedraperyat the back in conjunction with the flat chisel.
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The tool had flatter teeth than the one used at the back of thedrapery.
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One important quality ofdraperyis its opacity - in other words, its lack of transparency.
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Two speakers were placed out of site, behind thedraperyon each side of the monitor.
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The autonomous and emancipated character ofdraperystrains the movement of the eyes, compelling the viewer's gaze into the deep cavities formed in the fabric.
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In the mid sixteenth century, a new view ofdraperythat would eventually free it from its realism was accepted.
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The relationship ofdraperyto the underlying structure is clearly of fundamental significance and leads to a clearer distinction between tailored and draped architecture.
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The figure and much of thedraperyfacing the front is polished, while other parts of the statue are unfinished.
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Abrasives of several levels of fineness were used to polish the figure and the polished portions of thedrapery.
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Facial expressions became suitably harsh anddraperyappropriately modest.
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I pointed out that in many nursing homes there are still draperies and hangings which spread disease.
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Why should individuals who hold up land be subject to a penal tax any more than individuals who hold up, let us say, draperies or groceries?
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