Sentence examples for distant reflections from inspiring English sources

The work is decoratively lavish, but the figure style conveys only distant reflections of Italian painting.

There is, of course, the slim and elegant language of numbers, the alphabet of the powers of ten, but then this would not be a story in the sense in which it wants to be a story; that is, a fable that awakens echoes, and in which each of us can perceive distant reflections of himself and of the human race.

The making of "Playtime" proved to be as enormous an undertaking as the construction of its set: in this simulated futuristic Paris (where the familiar monuments are seen only as distant reflections in glass doors), Tati put swarms of people in motion, dispersed multiple fields of action throughout the frame, and captured the choreographed tumult on 65-mm.

In the two zones of action (they hardly count as stories), Tati plays Monsieur Hulot, a tall, spring-jointed, aging Everyman who goes to see a bureaucrat about a document, while a busload of American tourists blithely disembark in a Paris of iconic landmarks that they see only fleetingly as distant reflections in glass doors.

The same might be said of "Domino" itself as it casts back at us, in distorted yet penetrating form, a distant reflection of our own reality.

(Come to that, was Vance aware that an obsessive examination of the mirror caught by Camera 5 actually showed him in distant reflection?) Even having known them a matter of months, I found that there were suddenly too many imponderables.

"He was one of those men on whose head God lays His hand while they are asleep so that they get to know what they don't know, so that they are filled with intuitions and conjectures, while the reflections of distant worlds pass across their closed eyelids": so wrote Schulz about Alexander the Great, in his story "Spring" (as translated by Celina Wieniewska).

Although they can only be seen in the mirror reflection, their distant image occupies a central position in the canvas, in terms of social hierarchy as well as composition.

And it may always be the curse and blessing of "Homebody/Kabul" that it begins with her character's solitary, elliptical reflections on the distant city of Kabul, Afghanistan, from her cozy, cloistered home in London.

The woman was me -- I had seen my own reflection in a distant mirror and, for a split second, hadn't recognized myself.

A few entries, celebrating the sun's return and describing the northern lights — "as if I might have seen in the heavens the reflection of a distant battle, the flames, the palls of smoke, the arcs of gunfire" — are far more effective, but fleeting.