Sentence examples for draperies of from inspiring English sources
A sunroom is bathed in light filtered through draperies of bridal tulle.
Once again, state and federal courts are ignoring uncontested facts by hiding behind the draperies of legal procedure.
6. Draperies of Arlo striped silk, $108 a yard, are lined with orange silk called Makat; $129 a yard.
The flowing robes that Ritchie describes ("uniting Paris art and the draperies of Raphael") anticipated the rage for "Artistic Dress" that reached its height in the eighteen-eighties.
He proposed to put his dancers in simple draperies of contrasting colours, worn in such a manner as to reveal the figure in movement.
The falling, painted draperies of Francisco de Zurbarán delay us with their planes of light and shadow, enfolding us in their mysteries.
His flesh was of ivory, his drapery of gold.
The chapel was hung with the purple drapery of Lent, the season of suffering and waiting.
It was an abrupt, arresting presence, a simple cuboid structure enveloped by a drapery of gold- embroidered black cloth.
It contains a number of terra-cotta molds believed to have been used for the drapery of the Olympian Zeus.
There are jokes in Sokurov, but they tend to be lugubrious, muffled in the drapery of the past.
