Sentence examples for commanding picture from inspiring English sources

But it is also a commanding picture that contrasts areas of detail such as the face, skin and hair that are rendered photorealistically with a neutral grey background and white shirt.

Milsom's work, easily the largest and most commanding picture with the sepulchral figure of Waterstreet looming from the dark shadows like Nosfertau, towers over the rest of the works, including Mitch Cairns's more modest portrait of artist Peter Powditch, hung alongside Milsom's work and awarded the runner-up sticker of "highly commended" by the gallery trustees.

The IAF command post in Tel Aviv provided Ivry a real-time command picture of the air battle through various data links.

The blond baby prince in the gold-stitched gown commands the picture, but more interesting to me was the second child, who wasn't a child — or was he? — with his bristly hair, white apron and slack, cautious sideways glance.

In a trim print dress, with perfectly coiffed blond hair, she is a picture of commanding cool: all svelte silhouette and cigarettes, more Coward charm than Strindberg alarm.

She drinks fermented mare's milk and then learns how to milk a horse (a valuable alternative skill for the future, when she no longer commands $15 million to $20 million a picture).

And in the diagonal light, the tip of the dog's shadow, the top of the dog's head, the top of the Saint's head and the top of the window's bay – all lie along the slant of the vision and this commands the whole picture.

Yet it's been an age and a half since a Disney picture commanded the status of an event, a situation due partly to the shifting sands of culture and economics, and partly suspect quality control (it seems unlikely much of the aforementioned ripple at the BFI was caused by the prospect of Dinosaur or Treasure Planet being re-introduced to the big screen).

One of the few women who can still command $12 million per picture, Heigl is the new queen of romantic comedies.

The box office draw for this unexpected Kafka hit is another movie actor trying out the boards, a Hollywood A-lister who commands $22 million per picture.

The idea that top names can command $20 million dollars a picture, plus a percentage of the upside, and then complain about the paparazzi, is beyond infuriating.