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Conversational Maxims and Scaffolded Learning in Children with Learning Disabilities: Is the Flying Buttress a Better Metaphor?
; ...successful scaffolding to evolve. Why the Flying Buttress May Be a Better Metaphor We agree...thinking in terms of construction : the flying buttress. This structure was introduced in...major architectural breakthrough, the flying buttress was an arch of masonry that was built... Read more
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; ...like watching, with the architect, a cathedral built stone by stone in broad daylight, arch by arch, flying buttress by flying buttress. This is a very different experience from wandering around in the cool, incense-laden gloom of a building... Read more
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; ...at the top of the cliff but it was in the wrong position. In June John Gardiner, aged 61, of Uppermill, Oldham, fell from the Flying Buttress. Coroner Nicola Jones said a rope belay may have given way or he could have been blown from a ledge. Read more
Food & Drink: Eating out - Artless dining Manchester's newest gallery, The Lowry, is an impressive location for a restaurant. Shame about the food, though
; ...going only, or mainly, to eat rather than admire the art or the architecture at millennium landmarks. Even if you give a flying buttress what the place looks like, trivia such as annoying theme tune becomes disproportionately important. Not that eating is supposed... Read more
Simon cements a place in history.
; ...Ex-Earlsheaton High School pupil Simon Dean and colleague Bill Tulley, from Sherburn in Elmet, are finalsing renovations of a flying buttress at 900-year-old Rievaulx Abbey, which they have been restoring with Historic Property Renovation Limited and English Heritage... Read more
Speakout for Friday, July 13
; ...solution to these sorts of problems was made 800 years ago with the building of those large cathedrals in France. It's called a flying buttress. City manager Maybe the mayor put Police Chief Anthony Batts in the city manager position because we need a new police chief... Read more
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; ...Front Rider, Island Mahal, Desert Call. 1.15: Chase Meridian, Ben Codogan, Hurling. 1.45: Just Call Me Sir, No Alimony, Flying Buttress. 2.15: Go Zak, Pale Moon, Aces Aplenty. 2.45: Cazulady, Gay McGinty, Gasgoigne. 3.15: Blueberry Hill, Za Tiara, Canny Joe... Read more
Almost Angelic; Palestrina Choir's Motets Plot a Heavenly Course
; ...distinguished by its seductive soprano sound. When the sopranos are singing, the ear gravitates upward, from buttress to flying buttress to clerestory, where Palestrina's sweetly step-wise top lines seem to defy gravity. The choir's music director, Michael... Read more
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; IF YOU DON'T know the difference between a finial and a flying buttress, or a gargoyle and a grotesque, then the new summer gargoyle tours at Washington's National Cathedral could be for you. Now through... Read more
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; ...it aims to vindicate faith in the eyes of unbelievers, or so it says, when in fact it is but the literary equivalent of a flying buttress for a creaking old cathedral, straining to support an outmoded pile of dogmas threatening to collapse upon the masses huddled... Read more

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flying buttress
flying buttress. See buttress . Read more
flying buttress
...crowns the pier, adding weight and enhancing stability. The flying buttress evolved in the Gothic era from earlier simpler, hidden...high-ceilinged churches typical of Gothic architecture . flying buttress flying buttress flying buttress Read more
flying buttress
fly·ing but·tress • n. Archit. a buttress slanting from a separate pier, typically forming an arch with the wall it supports. Read more
buttress
...known as an arc-boutant . See flying buttress ;buttress-tower: tower seeming...with steep triangular gables ;flying buttress, also called arc-boutant or...of Lincoln Cathedral, where flying buttresses are used. Pier-buttresses are... Read more
buttress
buttress Mass of masonry built against a wall to add support or reinforcement. Used since ancient times, buttresses became increasingly complex and decorative in medieval architecture. Gothic often featured marvellously daring flying buttresses. Read more

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