Sentence examples for exquisite studies from inspiring English sources

As a boy, he collected them on the Connecticut shore and pored over the exquisite studies of John Henry and Anna Botsford Comstock, two 19th-century naturalists, to explore the evolution and the vein-structure of the wings of lepidoptera.

The show encompasses two hundred or so objects, ending with Strand's exquisite studies of lilacs and vines made in his garden at Orgeval near Paris in the years before his death and stretching all the way back to his faltering attempts at fogbound, neo-romantic landscapes in the nineteen-tens.

If you judge by the exquisite studies in graphite of male and female studio models, jockeys on racehorses and a dead fox in black and red chalk — all from the 1850s and '60s — he could have become a first-rate academician, like Bouguereau.

The exquisite studies carried out by Barzilai's group are done in a single well-defined ethnicity, Ashkenazi Jewish individuals.

Liane was an exquisite study of erotic nostalgia, while Rückweg carried the sinister implications that a return home equates with a loss of personal freedom.

It applies Hitchcock's editing style and attention to significant detail to an exquisite study of the tragic affair between a married literary intellectual (a plausible, sympathetic Jean Desailly) and a beautiful young airline hostess.

The JACK Quartet followed with Matthias Pintscher's exquisite "Study IV for Treatise on the Veil," a spellbinding sequence of tiny, hushed gestures inspired by a series of drawings and paintings by Cy Twombly.

Research also reveals that one of the paintings on display here, "Twilight" (1858), an exquisite study for Church's major painting "Twilight in the Wilderness" (1860), in the permanent collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, was exhibited at the National Academy in 1859.

It also seems odd to include Sylvia Townsend Warner's witchy feminist tale Lolly Willowes (1926) – a good book, but not a great one – and yet to exclude, say, Margaret Kennedy's The Constant Nymph, the bestseller of 1924, and an exquisite study of jealousy.

But taken individually, they are exquisite character studies: urbane, assured and filthy rich in smart observations.

The critic R.W.S. Mendl described this sequence as "exquisite nature studies", with a unity and shape lacking in the earlier formal tone poems.