"There's always the anxiety of not drawing symmetrically," Saito said.
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Instead, judges need only evaluate whether the parties were treated symmetrically.
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AND I still had to get everything to lay out symmetrically.
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And those symmetry rules mean theme entries must be arranged symmetrically.
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Everything worked fine symmetrically, except for the 10-letter ROGER MOORE.
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Camarena and Gallardo are presented symmetrically in this table-setting episode.
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Large circular and floral forms are often positioned symmetrically on her canvases.
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So I could put both OTHELLO and REVERSI into the grid symmetrically.
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They could also help determine whether an exploding star collapsed symmetrically or not.
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One, our job is to keep inflation, you know, at 2 percent symmetrically.
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"Anna" opens on an empty, symmetrically framed train platform in Essen, West Germany.
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The symmetrically round face, the perfectly placed curls, the look of pure, childlike happiness.
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For a balanced world economy, trade adjustments symmetrically apply to surplus and deficit countries.
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I also have the symmetrically placed ON A PAR and CARDED in the grid.
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If he were to run symmetrically, it could be an unnatural gait for him.
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First, all of our entries are paired in length, so they can be placed symmetrically.
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The four words were arranged in a neat, symmetrically balanced stack, one above the other.
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The issue that reveals the origin of Rorschach is laid out symmetrically — like a Rorschach blot.
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After some brain storming, I found the final configuration of BUTTERFLY and CHRYSALIS symmetrically intersecting CATERPILLAR.
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Octagonal, flat sided, its two fuel tanks and two oxidizer tanks arranged symmetrically around its central axis.
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And there's pleasure to be derived in a comedy as scrupulously and symmetrically assembled as this one is.
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The theme is revealed by two entries that are symmetrically arranged, LALA LAND, at 235- and 22017-Down.
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Grade: 🐪🐪🐪 It's a sizable camera bump, but at least the cameras are all symmetrically aligned.
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Tailoring one's fill so that synonyms are symmetrically partnered and then clued exactly the same is very impressive.
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Once she's got me symmetrically plumped with massage, Veronica goes about affixing the suction cups to my rear end.
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Are we facing a "Hegelian moment" in which two symmetrically opposed contenders have erupted onto the stage of history?
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The fit and finish is unparalleled, and the curved display is matched by a symmetrically curved back glass panel.
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Are there other means, price-level targeting, temporary price-level targeting, over the economic cycle to hit 2% symmetrically?
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There are a lot more constraints here than meet the eye, since the theme answers cannot be placed symmetrically.
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Finally, because the turned entries aren't symmetrically located, the grid layout was more constrained than it otherwise would be.
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I started on the long side closest to the pink stripe, where speakers of assorted sizes were arranged symmetrically.
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Since I wanted the theme letters to be located symmetrically, the middle entry had to be of even length.
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Wu's breakthrough research revealed that during the process of radioactive decay, decaying identical nuclear particles didn't always behave symmetrically.
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BURTON-TAYLOR fit the bill, and it just so happens that their names fit symmetrically right across from BEATTY-BENING.
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Basically, this evolution needs to happen symmetrically, which limits the sorts of graphs that can be explored using quantum particles.
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"We could respond symmetrically, asymmetrically, (or) we could lengthen our own list of 'sanctioned' politicians," Ryabkov told International Life magazine.
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"We could respond symmetrically, asymmetrically, (or) we could lengthen our own list of 'sanctioned' politicians," Ryabkov told the International Life magazine.
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On the back, the four cameras are placed symmetrically, inside an unapologetically large bump that also sports a glowing Motorola logo.
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Mr. Piscop was thoughtful enough to place the theme entries symmetrically, so they should be easy enough for solvers to find.
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Near the end of constructing the bottom half, I noticed by chance that WEIGHS and SCALES fit symmetrically across the revealer.
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The 6-week-old squirrels also had broken bones in their tails, which had been braided together symmetrically, the outlet reported.
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Did you notice the circles are symmetrically arranged and, if connected with a pencil, approximate the shape of the Space Needle?
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And, weirdly but symmetrically enough, the same applies to microbes — the bugs have their own little resident bugs to make them themselves.
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Because most of the paintings are symmetrically composed, they resemble Indian mandalas designed to encourage centered meditation on eternal objects and ideas.
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This process is known as X-ray diffraction, where different materials produce different patterns depending on how symmetrically their atoms are arranged.
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The bump was there but it was very gentle, and the three cameras and the flash were, again, symmetrically positioned within the bump.
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Getting the semithematic ROCKET FUEL and AIRPORT BAR to fit symmetrically in the lower part of the grid was yet another lucky coincidence.
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Using purloined ink and paper, he portrayed inmates in a tidy serpentine line, emerging from a mountainous horizon to wind around symmetrically planted trees.
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Getting the wave to break, symmetrically and hard, with a face curved in an ideal shape for surfing, was a problem of another order.
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I was very happy with the outcome because not only do the theme answers fit symmetrically, but their order is not forced or random.
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The Fed hasn't hit its price goal sustainably or symmetrically — meaning that overshooting is as common as undershooting — since formally adopting it in 2012.
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Butler's "Gladly" AS YOU WISH I liked how Mr. Heaney placed GRAMMYS (63A) and BAD GUY (26A) symmetrically at either end of the grid.
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Adjacent to the "Triumph of Caesar" are symmetrically arranged classical busts: a 2nd-century Marcus Aurelius that is an exercise in unmistakable Roman verisimilitude.
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I'm sitting in the Gallery's central domed chamber; its concentric structure parallels the symmetrically arranged, abstract geometric drawings that hang on the walls around me.
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Because the front curve is symmetrically matched by a rear-glass curve, the sides of the Mate 20 Pro narrow down almost to a point.
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The insufferable pretentiousness of the symmetrically spiraling pubic hair reads like ideal smoke, or, with a bit of wit, as the wig of the king.
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Though they tend to move around a lot more, that movement isn't a concern because they are symmetrically shaped and look the same despite their positioning.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that Russia would "respond immediately and symmetrically" if the U.S. broke the intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty, according to Reuters.
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We could also change our tax system in a way that is more like the value-added tax, that treats imports and domestic products more symmetrically.
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Mr. Putin said last month that Russia would respond "symmetrically" to the American move, a decision formalized Monday with a decree posted on the Kremlin's website.
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Some works seem inspired by images of gorgeous black women, possibly lifted from magazines, doubling them symmetrically to imply an American present and an African ancestry.
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Both iconic dishes, they adhered to a symmetrically circular plating style and highlighted ingredients (oily fish, raw meat) that exhausted taste buds after just a few forkfuls.
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We batted it around for a while over email, but it started to seem impossible to find enough good examples, never mind for them to work symmetrically.
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On the back, the uniformity of the shiny Gorilla Glass 5 surface is only broken by two, symmetrically placed rear cameras, the flash and an unobtrusive fingerprint sensor.
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Although this editorial change brings the theme square count to a hefty 73, my constructor's brain is bothered that the symmetrically placed 21-Across is not likewise thematic.
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In "Overlap" (2010), Lerner symmetrically divides the painting's surface into twelve triangles, with a diamond (composed of four triangles) bisecting the panel from the top to bottom edge.
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"I do think it's important that inflation run close to, and sustainably, for a sustained period of time, and symmetrically around 2 percent," Mr. Powell said on Wednesday.
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I'm happy I was able to come up with seven themers that worked symmetrically — but at the same time, I'm not sure I'd still submit this puzzle today.
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I chose what seemed to me the best symmetrically fitting possibilities consistent with my groan-worthy pun revealer, and I'm delighted that The Times has published the result.
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Noland's current exhibition at Yares Art, brings together prime examples of one of the artist's signature motifs: concentric rings of color centrally and symmetrically ordered in square canvases.
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"Composition Abstraite" (1958), for example, is split symmetrically along a vertical axis which is intersected at the seam of two differently-sized red shapes, above the halfway mark.
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If they try to get inflation to average 22019% over time, instead of ranging symmetrically on either side of it, interest rates could be cut sooner rather than later.
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It's extremely difficult to achieve symmetrically; think in terms of squeezing a grapefruit so that it becomes the size of a lemon without squirting any juice in your eye.
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The trick was to find couples who were real star-crossed lovers, whose last names could be crossed, and hopefully who could be set up symmetrically in a grid.
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"Without a doubt, Russia, as is diplomatic practice, will respond symmetrically and observe parity when it comes to the number of diplomats," RIA news agency quoted her as saying.
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These PHONETIC code words not only contain the letter or letters they designate but, as Mr. Kahn notes below, all eight code words can be placed symmetrically in the grid.
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This means that the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of the water molecule are 'delocalized' and therefore simultaneously present in all six symmetrically equivalent positions in the channel at the same time.
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At least visually, the sensor seems somewhat similar to the designs of previous Intel RealSense developer kits that's symmetrically designed with six sensors tracking the area in front of the headset.
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There were also hieratic abstractions of simple forms—such as a purple balloon shape above a black crossbar, a blue disk, and a red trapezoidal base—symmetrically arrayed and lurkingly animate.
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Evans noted he wants to see solid evidence inflation is moving upwards on a sustained basis and have more confidence that inflation expectations are symmetrically aligned with the Fed's inflation target.
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To the best of our knowledge, this is the first published quad stack that contains three grid-spanning, 16-letter, vertical entries that are symmetrically situated and cross the central quad.
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Next task was gathering pairs of presidents according to numbers of letters in their last names and then seeing how many could be jammed symmetrically into a 15 letter puzzle grid.
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One boy was making a tall structure with symmetrically arranged arches and towers—and, thus, exploring principles of geometry—while a girl pretended to snap photographs of it with a small block.
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Prior to Wu's work, the laws of physics stated that all objects and their mirror images behaved in the same way, symmetrically, meaning that nature could not distinguish between right and left.
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We are strongly committed to symmetrically and sustainably achieving our 2 percent inflation objective so that in making long-term plans, households and businesses can reasonably expect 2 percent inflation over time.
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Originally, KITTYCORNER was the only revealer — It was truly a stroke of luck that I noticed in the midst of filling the grid that LITTER BOXES both fit symmetrically and described the same gimmick.
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Though you can see in the picture below that the Razr has a chin, even when folded, while rumored photos of the Z Flip seem to suggest its two halves may close more symmetrically.
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Could get cute and put OLIVE on top of the MARTINI circle etc ... I think the circles should be symmetrically placed in the puzzle — just like they would be if they were theme entries.
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The layout of the residential streets is indeed reminiscent of suburban design — the streets and sidewalks were narrower than what you would find in a city setting, and trees were symmetrically lined along the roads.
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It'd be good to be continually reminded, as I grew older, about how much rampant life, how much emotion and conflict and joy and disappointment, can be conveyed in a novel so perfectly, symmetrically structured.
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Ones discovered in the intestine and characterized throughout the 1990s and 2000s indicated that certain stem cell populations could replicate far more vigorously than those residing in the bone marrow, and could sometimes divide symmetrically.
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Officials, for example, view their 2 percent inflation target "symmetrically," and say they are willing to tolerate inflation a bit higher than that without overreacting, just as they were willing to tolerate inflation a bit weaker.
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Perhaps the most off-the-grid installation was the Todd Merrill booth, a Hollywood fantasia: chromed branches of a chandelier floated over demi-settees and a tufted sofa, arranged symmetrically as in a Busby Berkeley musical.
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We have the ATLANTIC OCEAN running down the center of our grid today and, on either side of the "Pond," Mr. Trudeau has managed to symmetrically place the British and American English equivalents for four words.
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My favorite phone design of this year was the Galaxy Note 220's, and although Samsung screwed it up with the whole exploding battery farce, the inherent appeal of a symmetrically curved device of that kind remains.
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This doesn't mean the Mi 66 is an ugly device; on the contrary, it's quite elegant, with dual camera lenses sitting flush with the phone's back, and symmetrically placed speaker grilles and sensors on top and bottom.
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You may notice that I broke a fairly rigid crossword rule in that the theme entries are not symmetrically placed, but it would have been near impossible to do so, given that they each span several rows.
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Now, since the chords are rolled and arpeggiated, one can arpeggiate quicker or slower, and help the flow of the melody in a much more flexible style than what one hears when these chords are symmetrically crashing.
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Noland's current exhibition at Yares Art, Kenneth Noland: Circles – Early (21999-7453) + Late (2745-24) brings together prime examples of one of the artist's signature motifs: concentric rings of color centrally and symmetrically ordered in square canvases.
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Its satirical fire is aimed not from the left or the right, but at both (not quite symmetrically) from an unmapped middle, an unpolarized, perhaps imaginary place from which plagues can be called down on both partisan houses.
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But I was super pumped about what I had going for me in this corner, so I did what I did and moved on to make sure I could pack as much juice into the symmetrically opposite corner.
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I'm lucky that SEVEN SEAS and CARIBBEAN are the same length and that CARIBBEAN is a good candidate for the top-left point of the 7 glyph, which means SEVEN SEAS can be symmetrically placed as a revealer.
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"We wanted to underscore our commitment to 2% not being a ceiling, to inflation running symmetrically around 2% and we're not satisfied with inflation running below 2%," Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said during his post-meeting news conference.
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It is good to see her open and delicate face again, her brown symmetrically parted hair, her apron slung over a version of the outfit she seems always to be wearing: inscrutable and well-cut navy blue and black.
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For instance, in the bucolic landscape "Grain Elevator, Oradell" (1940), a telephone pole, leaning on a diagonal, dominates the center of the picture, conspicuously dividing the grain elevator's deep red façade, which is symmetrically placed at an angle to the viewer.
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ATTERIGEVILLE, South Africa — On a sunny winter day in May 2015 in this run-down suburb, a 7003-minute drive from the shiny office buildings and shopping centers of central Johannesburg, 30 tables were symmetrically arrayed in a large, shabby hall.
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Let's hear from Mr. Kahn who, thankfully, is not spelling out his notes: This theme works because the eight letters in PHONETIC are all different and the eight code words spelling out PHONETIC can be placed symmetrically in the grid.
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With inflation running too low both in the United States and globally, the Fed needs to show its commitment to achieving its inflation goal "sustainably, symmetrically, and sooner rather than later," Evans said in slides prepared for a speech in Chicago.
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A symmetrically composed, funkily rendered abstract landscape, the composition is bisected by a striped path or stairway, which is flanked on either side by looping lines that appear to be vestigial tracings of a scrubbed-off image, the contours of an absence.
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What they did: The researchers created 3D computer animated faces with slightly different smiles constructed from combinations of different angles of the mouth, varying extents of the smile, how much teeth were showing and how symmetrically the smile formed on the face.
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On a technical and storytelling level, it's one of the greatest duels I've ever seen committed to screen: Oberyn, using his showmanship to gain reactions, fights symmetrically and elegantly; Gregor, only interested in winning, breaks up the beauty as much as possible.
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So putting that in place and with the other themers as my guide, it turns out that WATERTANKS and STEAMBOATS are both 10 letters and fit perfectly and symmetrically at 11D and 26D, locking all the theme words together quite nicely I thought.
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If this assumption is correct (and it almost certainly is) then it demonstrates a profound asymmetry between the parties, as well as an awareness on the part of the political media, which often treats the two parties symmetrically, that something is dangerously dysfunctional about one of them.
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"Untitled (Black Light Painting)" (1975), consists of a symmetrically arranged area of black paint framed on either side with six white squares that reflect the illumination in the gallery in tiny point of intense light (the result of plastic confetti that clings to the paint's irregular surface).
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And he set that off symmetrically with a bit of German-ness, Johann Jakob Froberger's "Lament on the Painful Loss of the Royal Majesty Ferdinand IV," offered as an encore and a tribute to a mentor, the early-music specialist Gustav Leonhardt, who died five years ago.
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But his work there later became a standard for hospital design nationwide, where, according to the report issued by the Landmarks Preservation Commission, pavilions were built symmetrically around a central administrative building and each building had a specific focus and was run autonomously to contain germs.
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The ceiling lattice work with its orderly scheme of glass windows and the manicured, symmetrically placed, under-lit trees are beautifully picturesque, but the rhino barely visible in cobalt and black has its open mouth raised to the night sky which is obstructed by the anthropogenic ceiling.
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Then there's crossing SAFE ZONES with the symmetrically placed revealer, and having to connect BOOK O(F) RA at the F. Don't forget that CY(B)HICS / BERETTA still needs to find its way into the grid somewhere … and now we're up to three theme answers being accounted for.
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We have OTHELLO at 23A and REVERSI at 50A, but it's the word ladder hinted at in 23A that makes the theme: You can almost feel the disk flipping from one color to the other as the ladder proceeds symmetrically down the grid in a backward S pattern.
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WHEN WE SAY WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DELIVER 2% INFLATION SYMMETRICALLY, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DELIVER IT. AND IF PART OF NOT BEING ABLE TO DO THAT IS WAGE GROWTH IS LOWER, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING TO MAKE SURE OTHER PARTS OF – KERNEN: I'VE GOT A LIST OF OTHER NOBEL PRIZE WINNING ECONOMISTS.
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At one point in the "Gounod" finale, Balanchine lines his corps de ballet in six vertical lines (each five deep) and quickly shows an energetic impulse passing symmetrically outward from the center, so that lines 3 and 4 transfer it to lines 2 and 5, and then to 2007 and 6. Boom!
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Position your broadside correctly, smack in the di lep's path, and your hull would rock symmetrically, side to side — in a manner that would turn a loose cabbage into a pendulum and teach an anthropologist, a physicist and an oceanographer a hard lesson about the human gastrointestinal system's adaptation to life at sea.
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"If growth runs close to its potential and inflation builds momentum, then some further rate increases may be appropriate over time to ensure that the economy settles in on its long-run sustainable growth path and that inflation runs symmetrically about our 2 percent target," Evans said in remarks prepared for delivery in Hong Kong.
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IN OTHER WORDS YOU DON'T NEED TO HAVE A CATCH UP. WE'VE HAD SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS OF AN UNDER RUN, WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE A CATCH UP. WHEN I SAY WE DON'T WANT TO RUN SYMMETRICALLY ABOVE OR BELOW, WE CAN RUN A LITTLE BIT ABOVE OR A LITTLE BIT BELOW, AND THAT'S FINE.
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Still, this was just a thought — I couldn't believe my luck when I discovered not only that DESTROYER, CRUISER, SUBMARINE and CARRIER could all be incorporated into lively, nonnautical-related entries, but also that along with BATTLESHIP as a revealer, these entries could be arranged symmetrically when their respective boat names were replaced with the number of squares corresponding to the boat's length in Battleship!
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Margaret Farrar, the puzzle's inaugural editor, imposed Times-ian rigor on what was then considered a thoughtless amusement, codifying most of the rules you know today: The grids are nearly always square; words must be three letters or longer; black squares must be arranged symmetrically so that the grid's pattern looks the same upside down; every letter should be "checked," meaning it appears in both a word reading across and one reading down, giving you two chances to figure it out.
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