Sentence examples for a central image of from inspiring English sources
After all, isn't a central image of Christmas that of Mary and Joseph knocking on someone's door (scholars say it was a house, not an inn) for shelter?
Readers and writers of the future would be denied new versions of the likes of Vladimir Nabokov's Pnin, whose bald head along with his stately barrel chest becomes a central image of his personality.
The bat has emerged, regardless of its usefulness on the field, as a central image of street violence around the world — shopkeepers stash them behind the counters of their stores, hooligans use them to smash car windows or worse.
One of the masterpieces is "Triptych of Flowers and Rising Sun" (after 1824) by Sakai Hoitsu, three hanging scrolls that depict the four seasons with a central image of the rising sun, symbol of the emperor.
McCann is fond of quoting John Berger's line, that "never again will a single story be told as if it were the only one"; his novels groove on multiple storylines, diverse perspectives, and wide sympathies – all usually arranged around a central image of some awe‑inspiring human feat.
When all the sections have been unfolded, the illuminated manuscript is transformed into a swastika shape with a central image of the collapsing World Trade Center towers surrounded by portraits of the 19 hijackers and 3 major leaders of Al Qaeda.
The city is a central image in some of the work.
Artwork for Neil Young's latest album, "Greendale," for example, was released on CD, DVD and a Web site, but is unified by a central image, an illustrated map of the fictional California town described in the songs.
Another metaphor, that of a bird struggling to escape its cage, is a central image throughout the work, which consists of "a sequence of lessons about resisting racist oppression".
A soccer ball marooned in a minefield is the central image of Carlos César Arbeláez's quietly assured debut feature film, "The Colors of the Mountain," set in a remote village in the Andean region of Colombia.
Mr. Glaser chose the Garcia portrait as the central image of a poster he designed for a retrospective of his work last November at the American Institute of Graphic Arts in Manhattan.
