Sentence examples for escaping world from inspiring English sources

Already an artists' colony, Provincetown was a mecca for European artists escaping World War I. Stella Johnson and Jessie Fremont Herring, two of Lazzell's companions from her tour in Italy, were already in Provincetown and Lazzell stayed with Johnson's mother.

It is not always the case that slow-moving disasters escape world attention.

In 1914 the family immigrated to the United States to escape World War I and settled in New York City.

Jonathan Kranz, an adjunct lecturer of government at John Jay College who works part time for the Road Runners, recalled the tenacious immigrant who escaped World War II.

Hungarian gilded-silver vessels and jewelry that narrowly escaped World War II looters will go on display on Friday for the first time in seven decades at a Christie's auction preview in New York.

In 1915 Sutzkever and his family fled their home in White Russia to Siberia to escape World War I; they returned to the region in 1920 and lived near Vilna, where Sutzkever later studied literary criticism at the University of Vilna.

From about 1950 a group of artists in the United States called Action painters adopted automatic methods, some under the direct influence of Masson, Gorky, and Ernst, all of whom had moved to the United States to escape World War II.

Considering the Artest-era history, the league could have justified something much longer and, as Bill Plaschke writes in The Los Angeles Times, the Lakers were very lucky to escape World Peace's latest lapse with only seven games.

In 1939, his family immigrated to New York City to escape World War II, and he grew up in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn.

She left Europe to escape World War II, and Mexico became the adoptive home where in the last 10 years of her life she produced the bulk of her mature work.

Mr. Holl 's design is not about escaping this world but transforming it into something more poetic.