Sentence examples for a telling image from inspiring English sources
He was nature's tourist, and rarely at a loss for a telling image from his travels.
She has to climb high on lonely hillsides to get a signal; Hogg has created a telling image of inertia and seclusion from mobile telecommunications.
Whatever happened, this charred metal corpse is a telling image of a society that may be heading for the nightmare of war.
But the snapshot happens to be a telling image of what the leaders of the other 27 member states want to convey.
The police observed, but were virtually powerless to act; a telling image of the early 1990's was of impoverished police in burned-out east European sedans giving vain chase to the sleek Mercedes favored by the newly monied.
That same rope binds luggage to the top of the car that takes that grandmother, along with her husband and baby daughter, to New York City, where she holds on to it as they drive into the big city — a telling image for children, who are constantly asked to venture into new situations while retaining a sense of self.
The "walking Photofit" is a particularly telling image.
The director of photography, Roger Deakins, delights in drowning our senses: enemies clash by night in a frothing torrent, at the foot of a dam, and, in one telling image, K's boss, Lieutenant Joshi (Robin Wright), is barely visible through a window, such is the deluge streaming across the panes.
It's a pity the film was never made, because the script darts from telling image to telling image, building an impressionistic picture of Proust's creative apprenticeship in and around a louche Paris.
Here, again, there were a few telling images in the stream of processions and bursts of dancing, among them a shift of power between a rapist, who confusingly seemed to be the presiding Nuremburg judge, and his victim.
Like the painter who joins the expedition, he has an eye for telling images: a wrecked steamboat painted to resemble a gigantic serpent; red buttes like "huge fixed sails in a great stone armada"; and a line of Conestoga wagons "drawn up in the dim morning light like a school of sleeping fish".
