Sentence examples for as foil from inspiring English sources

As foil, informant, partner in absurdity.

It's not yet 2012, but Republicans have already hauled China back into the ring as foil and spectre.

Here, dance and stylized movement serve as foil, a nonverbal language able to withstand Euripides' mad torrent of speech.

Like "Die Zauberflote," "Der Stein" features a second, comic couple as foil to the principal, "heroic" pair.

As the genre demands, the buddies don't get along, with the stoic Hank serving as foil for Earl's occasionally funny rants about mistreatment of black people.

"The chef takes it as a compliment," she said as foil swans with slivers of duck magret in their bellies swam across the dining room to our table.

He has a history, after all, of large-scale pictorial works and environments, if not always exactly paintings, using wall-to-wall carpet, chandeliers and Styrofoam as well as foil-covered insulation inscribed by viewers.

"Some we use as foils".

His book is filled with guys doing guy things, and women often figure as foils.

In Conal's universe, the politicians he frequently skewers serve as foils for their animals.

At rallies, he used the people inside the penned press enclosures as foils and targets.