Sentence examples for a figure alone from inspiring English sources

In his pure fashion work, he might place a figure alone on the page without a stroke of context, but you knew from her slouch or the way she held her gloves the kind of furniture she collected and how she treated her maid.

Another drew a nude figure alone in a cell, clawing at the brick walls.

There's a single image that haunts all of his films -- you'll see a single figure, alone and lonely, standing in an oversized topcoat, shouldering all the misery of the world.

At an international summit in Tripoli in December he cut a forlorn figure, alone and smoking in the public areas of the summit venue while Gaddafi's intimates were cloistered in a private room.

Almond, slight, singular and always intensely intense, plays an Everyman figure alone in an almost empty city, conjured in director Stewart Laing's nifty design by a forest of music stands with absent musicians, and a stage within stage that suggests not only the closed playhouses, but also the houses in which the infected are walled up.

(Rothko might as well have been thinking of Friedrich when he characterized his own abstractions as "pictures of a single human figure — alone in a moment of utter immobility").

A small, geometrical figure, alone and running, bears a flag clearly too heavy for him to support.

Noyes instructs that the purpose of the contribution statute is to promote settlement, that a low settlement figure alone is not evidence of "bad faith," and that settlements should be routinely approved without extended hearings if the purpose of the statute is to be served.

This effect distills that of the furry-edged, drifting masses of ineffable color with which Rothko aimed, he said, to evoke a mood of "the single human figure, alone in a moment of utter immobility".

"She found that the figure alone was a self-contained form, while the figure in relation to other figures became an energetic, volatile, shifting form.

There were 44 violent assaults – and this figure alone is a shocking reminder, if we needed one, that antisemitism is alive and well in modern Britain.