Sentence examples for a sort of picture from inspiring English sources

The scarred earth is a sort of "Picture of Dorian Gray" for all the misery suffered here, and you feel the ghosts.

"The whole soul of man is a sort of picture gallery, a grand panorama, in which all the great facts of the universe, in tracing things of time and things of eternity, are painted," Douglass said in a lecture, in 1861, called "Pictures and Progress".

This was eloquently stated by Darwin, who wrote, "Thus the embryo comes to be left as a sort of picture, preserved by nature, of the ancient and less modified condition of each animal" (Darwin 1859, p. 338).

With one small stroke after another, it is painting a sort of Impressionist picture representing its own vision of public services.

"I've been aware of the work I do as an actor ­being directorial in feel," he says, "I have ideas about how a play could manifest itself, a sort of overall picture.

In September, I pictured, more or less, my daughter's teacher and her class on a "back to school" cover (click to expand) that jokingly pointed to the free time that parents would have now that their kids were back in class; it was something I saw every morning, and I thought it would make a sort of funny picture.

In her essay on Joan Givner's biography of Katherine Anne Porter, she writes, "Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye, and the parts of the right leg fitted together".

[ image: /photos/59095204019dfc3494e9dceb] In September, I pictured, more or less, my daughter's teacher and her class on a "back to school" cover (click to expand) that jokingly pointed to the free time that parents would have now that their kids were back in class; it was something I saw every morning, and I thought it would make a sort of funny picture.

MP: Well it does paint a sort of melancholy picture.

And all these pieces formed a sort of unified picture.

It is an odd sort of picture I have as I stand there".