They had found a way to release the dense imagery and the charged colors of their canvases into something literally more grounded -- rich to the eye, sinking into comfort, the way Matisse famously wrote, "What I dream of is an art of balance... a soothing, calming influence on the mind, something like a good armchair".
An eye, sunk low on a knotted head, peers in our direction.
That means making sure the parts of the face that form shadows (where the eyes sink in, etc).
Peter's skin had always been sallow, his hair a dark kinky mess, his eyes sunk in gloomy sockets.
Gothic looks make eyes sink deeper into their sockets: mysterious in the young, scary in the not so young.
His forehead is high; his eyes sink into caves; his long jaw somehow breaks into a wide, sharklike grin.
But her lips were lovely, the color of cold meat, and her eyes, sunk deep in their sockets, were clear blue.
On a recent afternoon Mr. Jacobs lay in a hospital bed staring blankly at the ceiling, his eyes sunk in his skull, his skin lusterless.
They were bony, pallid, their eyes sunk in the sockets; and had they not made slight movements, it would have been imagined that they were dead".
She was beautiful, or perhaps she was just so unusual-looking, with wide-set eyes sunk deep in her face, that "beautiful" was the easiest way of describing her.
