Sentence examples for fancy picture from inspiring English sources

All it is is a fancy picture".

Sometimes a big box with a fancy picture on the front bears little relationship to what is hidden inside.

"It's no use developing fancy picture-tube TV's anymore, because they won't be noticed by customers," a Philips engineer in the Netherlands noted in an e-mail message.

Yes, you might say, but those are fancy pictures.

The "fancy pictures" painted in the 1780s gave Gainsborough particular pleasure.

"No amount of fancy pictures is going to trick people into believing they stand for the things they actively oppose".

Throughout the 18th century, portraiture remained the most important genre of British painting, despite the efforts of Reynolds and Gainsborough in their "fancy pictures".

Among what Sully called his "fancy pictures" are "Gypsy Girl" (1839), which Mr. Rudolph described as "a beautiful, sexy picture, like a pin-up".

Although Sully's fancy pictures were not an overnight success, he had completed more than 600 by the time his eyesight failed in 1870, and he was able to sell them and support himself until his death.

Paintings like this were often referred to as "fancy pictures," an elusive term that gained traction in English art circles in the 18th century to describe rural scenes in which "idealized peasants behave rather more as if they were in the studio than the countryside," as the art historian Harold Osborne puts it.

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