Sentence examples for a charming study from inspiring English sources

His face remains a charming study in tactlessness, lips pursed, brow rising and falling to a precisely calibrated transgression meter.

Augustus Vincent Tack's impressionistic "Seaside Scene" is a charming study of a young woman strolling along a bluff, from which she watches pleasure craft out for a sail.

Cutting through the pomp and circumstance is a charming study by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, of a bird pinned ever so gently between the plump hands of a young girl.

Among the 19th century oils, this writer was especially drawn to John H. Twachtman's "Horseshoe Falls, Niagara," a splendid evocation of the mist-shrouded cascade; Theodore Robinson's "Moonlight, Giverny," an atmospheric nocturne by an expatriate follower of Monet; Samuel Colman's charming study of an East Hampton farmyard; and the exquisite pair of Florida sunsets by Martin Johnson Heade.

Monet worked in the parks, while I, living in Lower Norwood, at that time a charming suburb, studied the effects of fog, snow, and springtime".

On its 1952 reissue, the book was described by music publisher Hubert J. Foss as "a work of art, a charming and penetrating study of a musical poet's mind".

Her portraits of the first Hackett babies were charming studies of childhood.

Kossoff has a charming A Woman Bathing (Study After Rembrandt) in which he makes the female subject of voyeurism into a depiction of innocent self-absorption, while Auerbach is represented with a powerful depiction of the stuff of landscape, Primrose Hill, Winter Sunshine.

The interview was thrilling to listen to as it sounded so likely to derail at various points, but it was also a rather charming, complex study of close siblings.

Situated in an Oxbridge-style quadrangle in attractive parkland, the college is a charming place to live and study - though it has a reputation for being a refuge of the Landrover-driving classes.

Rebecca Ryan makes a charming Margiana and Andrew Mackenzie-Wicks offers a wily character-study of her daft father, the Cadi.