Sentence examples for decorative impulse from inspiring English sources
She thought it unfortunate that so many women wrote "out of a decorative impulse" and sought to avoid wasting her own talents on mere "literary needlework".
The Kelley-McCarthy "Heidi" included vaudevillian sex and violence involving life-size dummies, and tutorials in aesthetics that equated the decorative impulse with wildness, filth and tattoos.
The decorative impulse achieves warp speed in the show's largest gallery, where numerous designers -- Werkstätte members and not -- intensify Werkstätte nature-based patterns.
Perhaps Mr. Wesley's strongest suit is his decorative impulse - the way he plays positive against negative spaces, the way he arranges shapes to create patterns that have nearly the rigor and complexity of Islamic designs.
Elsewhere, though, violence gives way to more decorative and naturalistic impulses.
In some cases violence gives way to more decorative and naturalistic impulses; "Moss" is a kind of "Waterlilies -manqué, Waterlilies -manqué and greens and its mix of sheared and scraggly tufts.
One wishes he would give freer rein to his impulses -- decorative, metaphorical, philosophical or otherwise -- and allow his imagination a fuller range of expressive possibility.
The viewer will also have been exposed to an extraordinary give-and-take between Japanese and Chinese influences, between religious and secular impulses and purposes, between the innovative and the conservative, and the natural and the decorative.
