Sentence examples for exquisite form from inspiring English sources

Using rich, subdued colours, Vuillard produced paintings characterized by harmonious composition and exquisite form.

He would save that exquisite form of torture for this morning before the trial.

With exquisite form, he imbeds staple-shaped, rubber-covered steel pins directly into the wall.

Two mothers contrived to devise a particularly exquisite form of torture; they left, with their children, then came back five minutes later.

Papa Noel, now 60, is still in exquisite form, both as guitarist and singer, and he's joined by another guitar hero, Syran Mbenza.

But for those aspiring to be funny, this is the place to be – and Gaulier's tongue-lashings are an exquisite form of torture.

"I don't want to speculate on that," Heywood said, his mind turning to exquisite forms of torture.

During the murrhine technique, these cross sections are stretched, compressed, melted or blurred, changing with the shape of the vessel while conjuring all kinds of exquisite forms.

Even more to the point, gothic novels and Romantic literature had typecast Spain as the place for the darkest and deepest passions, and for the most exquisite forms of repression – spiritual, intellectual, physical, sexual.

In portraying the civilized savagery of the Marquise de Merteuil (Ms. Huppert) and Vicomte de Valmont (Ariel Garcia Valdès), her partner in erotic crime, Mr. Wilson turns the sort of exquisite forms with which he made his reputation into the visual equivalent of a perfume that masks the stench of putrefying flesh.

Emin's unique touch works on a big scale, in her huge drawings, paintings and embroideries, but it communicates just as well in tiny, exquisite forms, for instance a charm bracelet, which is one of the pieces she has created in collaboration with Stephen Webster for her new venture into designer jewellery.