Sentence examples for a figure from a from inspiring English sources

A moneybags man patrols the action, whip in hand, like a figure from a Grosz cartoon.

Sixty years later Lewis seems more than ever like a figure from a distant age.

But Bilton turns Dorsey into a figure from a Jacobean revenge play, plotting against the erstwhile partners who betrayed him.

Watching Williams work is like seeing a figure from a documentary perform a fictional reënactment of her own life.

Now its successor is shambling into view, like a figure from a bad dream you hoped you had forgotten.

That creates a link to the Schubert, which uses a figure from a song as the basis of its second movement.

Perhaps it is the way her wide-set eyes give her the look of a figure from an anime cartoon.

Mr. Cui, the onetime spokesman for disaffected youth, was seen increasingly as a figure from an earlier time.

The Donkey's Ears: Politovsky's Letters Home (2000) is a long epistolary poem from the perspective of a figure from an early 20th-century maritime tragedy.

One day when I arrived, Reznor was in the back yard with a copper-colored greyhound that sat upright on a couch, like a figure from an Egyptian painting.

With its weird nonhuman figures scuttling around the stage — one is called, aptly enough, the Accordian Man, another looks like a figure from an anime movie crossed with a robot from "Star Wars" — "Kurios" achieves indescribability with ease.