Sentence examples for be virtually unrecognisable in from inspiring English sources

And although he is possessed of rugged good looks – cheekbones that look as though they have been hewn from granite; a nose as straight and sloping as a Pythagorean hypotenuse – he can alter his face to such an extent as to be virtually unrecognisable (in the 2001 French thriller Read My Lips, he wore a ferrety moustache and a false nose stuffed with lavatory paper).

'The island [and the realities of Gauguin's life there] are virtually unrecognisable in his representations, carefully calculated to intrigue the French audience,' said Mathews.

New Zealand would be virtually unrecognisable without that stuff.

Rojo in conversation is virtually unrecognisable onstage as Juliet.

Other black kids respect him because of what he's been through.'" He has been lucky, but he's also relieved that his career has gone beyond acting out his past (he was virtually unrecognisable as Michael, the nonconformist serviceman in BBC1's 2009 adaptation of Andrea Levy's Small Island).

Football is virtually unrecognisable.

Other than the debts, the club game is virtually unrecognisable from two decades ago.

Linking play cleverly, he was virtually unrecognisable from the ineffective passenger of recent months.

Monetary policy is virtually unrecognisable from five years earlier, when the central bank controlled all key interest rates.

Even the carpet of flowers in the foreground, which had been traced for the weavers' guidance by Morris's assistant, J.H. Dearle, is virtually unrecognisable.Burne-Jones resented Dearle's floral foregrounds, complaining that they cluttered up his designs.

Let them come and get us now, if they can.'" That rough-cut teenage warrior is virtually unrecognisable today.