Sentence examples for dying figures from inspiring English sources

1835) chronicled a similar incident, this time a British catastrophe, with a swamped vessel and dying figures also placed in the foreground.

The first task was dealing with the dead and wounded on the French ship: Magadie reported in the immediate aftermath that 200 men had been killed and 143 were seriously wounded or dying, figures that Barlow considered to be understated.

David's pupil, Antoine-Jean Gros, had, like David, represented "the grandiosities of a school irredeemably associated with a lost cause", but in some major works, he had given equal prominence to Napoleon and anonymous dead or dying figures.

The horizontal grouping of dead and dying figures in the foreground forms the base from which the survivors emerge, surging upward towards the emotional peak, where the central figure waves desperately at a rescue ship.

Remarking on the contrast between the dying figures in the foreground and the figures in the mid-ground waving towards the approaching rescue ship, the French art historian Georges-Antoine Borias wrote that Géricault's painting represents, "on the one hand, desolation and death.

Moving along, we come to a dying figure, pause, then go to the next berth, where a fellow has a shave.

I still remember now, the tender underscore of his slow ballads fusing with this decrepit imagery of melting Mars Bars, shit stained toilets in run-down diners and the crazed, bulging, dying figure of the man himself.

The Chavez government first minimized the number of casualties and then suggested that 30,000 to 50,000 people might have died, figures that are now considered exaggerated.

Scientists can look at that light to figure out how stars live and die, figure out the Big Bang, and maybe even get to the bottom of the whole "dark matter" situation.

The mice rapidly developed cancer and died (Figure 4A).

While cell growth was almost stopped, only 20% of cells died (Figure 2A).