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Ellipses pimple sentences randomly and often, serving no purpose.
From New York Times • May 26, 2020
Ellipses also have interesting reflective properties: A light ray emanating from one focus passes through the other focus after mirror reflection in the ellipse.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
And so the current show of seven new pieces, the Torqued Ellipses, in the Geffen Contemporary building at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, is--to put it mildly--quite an event.
From Time Magazine Archive
His "awe and wonder" at this sight is recapitulated, more strongly than ever before in his work, in the Torqued Ellipses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ellipses have two centers, or foci; the more elongated the ellipse, the farther apart these foci are.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
