Sentence examples for colourful material from inspiring English sources

She has colourful material to work with, as Rudolph Ditzen (who adopted the pen name Hans Fallada) killed a friend in a youthful suicide pact that went disastrously wrong, went to jail as a serial embezzler, and throughout his life had spells undergoing treatment for psychiatric problems and drug addiction.

Her simple home, a dome of plastic sheeting, hammered-flat tins and colourful material stretched over a tree-branch frame, is meticulously swept.

On our last stop, Udaipur, while we were walking in the busy main streets shopping -- ornaments of silver, colourful materials, dresses, turbans, having tea and snacks -- all of a sudden there was a big crowd which surrounded us.

She demonstrated how to apply the glue on to the board and add the colourful materials to produce the shapes and figures of the Rangoli.

Rangoli is a popular and decorative South Asian art form, similar to mosaics, through which pictures are made out of rows of colourful materials, often in intricate geometrical patterns.

The so-called fossil ivory from which these carvings were made is highly prized even today and, when found, is invariably turned into beautiful carvings that gain value because of the scarce, richly colourful raw material.

The only objects produced for the tourist market are copies and elaborations of colourful ceremonial material by some Huichol and the figurines and shell beads produced by the Seri.

She and Auntie Jeanie hold each end of the colourful, translucent material and it billows across the road as Auntie Jeanie walks backwards, halting the annoyed oncoming traffic with their huge, unfolding plan for an Activity.

"The more graphic and colourful the material is, the more psychologically destructive it becomes".

Any attempt to classify this colourful assortment of material is at best arbitrary.

It is the colourful yet banal background material of modern life.