Sentence examples for expressive line from inspiring English sources

His elegant and expressive line gave commonplace scenes a sense of majesty.

Hokusai's drawings of social life in a humorous, almost grotesque vein reveal his complete command of the expressive line.

On the European continent, Art Nouveau was also influenced by experiments with expressive line by the painters Paul Gauguin and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

His use of free-flowing, expressive line, often becoming pure arabesque, resulted in highly rhythmical compositions (e.g., In the Circus Fernando: The Ringmaster, 1888).

His expressive line is like a more benign version of the British cartoonist Ronald Searle's, though there's a distinctly mischievous glint in the eye of the wild boar.

Days Like This Simon James Walker Bookss, £10.996+6+ for shared reading Simon James' expressive line drawings and water-colours bring the selected poems to life.

In Couperin, I also find the lyricism and poetry that, as a player, I love to express ( Les Langueurs-Tendres is a beautiful example of Couperin's long, expressive lines).

In the early 1960s she became known for brightly colored pop portraits of women, made with fluid, expressive lines, which appeared in Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and girlie magazines.

Richard Wilson's "Diablerie" stood apart, contemporary in its vocabulary and grammar but pursuing always the long, lyrical, sometimes operatically expressive lines of Romantic-era concerto writing.

The Ravel offered the singer most: beautiful and expressive lines, which he freshly sang, and a knowing tone he made delightfully comic.

Dercon was known in Munich as the "Captain" for his silver-grey hair and beard and expressive lines in his face, said to resemble those of a seafarer.