Sentence examples for coloured shift from inspiring English sources

The Mona Lisa demonstrates this aspect of his treatise perfectly in that La Giaconda is dressed in a coloured shift, loosely pleated at the neck, instead of the tight clothes that were then popular.

He showed how to tackle the problem in his portrait Mona Lisa, by dressing her in a coloured shift that is loosely pleated at the neck instead of the tight clothes that were then popular.

We discover a group of figures in parchment coloured shifts and tunics facing a massive wall.

Yet somehow I found myself scrolling down the Daily Mail's sidebar of shame, looking for just one more picture of Alamuddin in a pastel-coloured shift dress.

Planes of coloured light shift and pool across walls, while a new commission will send slowly dancing light over the facade of the house each Friday and Saturday night.

Also featured were bodiced, body-con dresses with blocks and strips of tulle and velvet arranged in patterns that evoked art deco, while stripes of jewel-coloured velvet decorated shift dresses.

Inside, on the highly polished black stage bathed in gently shifting coloured lights, is what looks like a huge revolving flower with an oversized video screen at its centre.

At first he worked with wax figures animated by stop motion, but his most significant films are the symphonies of shapes and sounds he called "coloured rhythms," created from shifting colour fields and patterns matched to music by classical composers.

No sooner will the Sydney Test finish than the emphasis for the next three months will shift to coloured clothing, the white ball and a different set of imperatives.

It is not the click of a computer mouse but the shift of brightly coloured plastic holders, organised in rows in front of each air traffic controller.

Robert Wilson's minimal staging, consisting of little more than shifting pools of coloured light, was absorbing.