Sentence examples for dab of colour from inspiring English sources

It started convincingly enough, and there were times, almost without number, when this or that previously overlooked detail, dab of colour, or crisp phrase came up freshly minted.

Every dab of colour seems to be the result of days of thought and internal argument.

That history lesson done with, Mr Osborne began to relax, and a dab of colour returned to his pallid cheeks.

But that dab of colour soon fades and you're left with a pale rehash – unless, that is, you keep things moving.

I return to it, when the mood is on me, as a painter will return to his canvas, adding a dab of colour here or over-painting there before popping out again for absinthe.

At first glance this is nice to know, but no more than a dab of colour on the hills-and-dales Shakespeare who sits alongside the court-and-tavern one.

But, for all the long phrases and tasteful dabs of colour, something was missing.

During this period he came into contact with Impressionism and began to paint with broken dabs of colour.

Hunter's visits abroad produced a large number of paintings and his style changed noticeably in this period of European travel as he began using dabs of colour placed instinctively to portray underlying form.

For the eyes, you just dab a small spot of colour wherever you want the eyes to be.

Her platform style is certainly distinctive: Gražinytė-Tyla began with Debussy's Prélude à l'Après-Midi d'un Faune, applying the dabs of orchestral colour with sharp stabs of her baton, and sculpting the larger shapes of the music with sweeping gestures.