Sentence examples for cracked mirror from inspiring English sources

But there is also the mindless recycling of familiar ideas: china, wallpaper and fabrics printed with various art-historical motifs by Jessica Smith and a seemingly cracked mirror and partly shattered glass vase from the Jason Miller Studio.

Beyond the poignancy of a long life that began during the great war and ended in the year 2000, this biography also holds up a cracked mirror to its century, though its subject might have disdained the idea.

Even as Stritch wowed audiences in shows ranging from "Pal Joey" to Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," and in such movies as "A Farewell to Arms" and Woody Allen's "September," it was her pathos — the drinking, the failed love affairs, her inability to live up to herself — that made her the cracked mirror we were drawn to again and again.

Even as Stritch wowed audiences in shows ranging from "Pal Joey" to Edward Albee's "A Delicate Balance," and in such movies as "A Farewell to Arms" and Woody Allen's "September," it was her pathos the drinking, the failed love affairs, her inability to live up to herself that made her the cracked mirror we were drawn to again and again.

Paul had cracked mirror guitars and rhinestones.

Sometimes I think we're living in some scary, cracked mirror world because it feels as if we're spinning out-of control.

Characters dine on cold and greasy food; they regard their sallow faces in cracked mirrors; they endure successive evenings in smoky bars filled with volatile, lonely drunks.

A bathroom off the kitchen has cracked mirrors, an idea Mr. Hollis said was inspired by the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles.

But they come because they can, unperturbed, perform elegant tangos, grind to James Brown or drink wine upstairs amid the cracked mirrors and haunted atmosphere of the Mirror Salon.

But in the 500-plus pages of "New England White," he's up to more than suspense and the gothic apparatus — including coded anagrams and cracked mirrors — he wields with considerable aplomb.

Chipped paint and cracked mirrors have been deliberately left, but this is a living, breathing hub, not a museum – used equally by quickstepping septuagenarians and Berlin's trendiest twentysomethings.