Sentence examples for fierce figure from inspiring English sources

If so this fierce figure is liberty with a vengeance.

She is a diminutive yet fierce figure, an undercut searing one side of her head, her pixie features framed by the velvety fur of her leopard print-lined cloak.

The giant, fierce figure of The Colossus as he rises above a fleeing crowd of people, carts and animals is one of Spanish artist Francisco de Goya's most dramatic and famous pictures – at least it was until yesterday, when Madrid's Prado museum declared he had not painted it.

In a slightly later phase of his work, fierce figures or the suggestions of them began to appear, apparitions to which he gave the generic name homunculus.

The professorial, slightly bumbling figure of Benjamin Charles J. Robyy) seems helpless against the fierce figures around him: the beautiful Lauren LoGiudice as Arendt; Lutin Tanner, now as a dandy, now as the hunchback; and particularly Félix Gardón, who first appears as a manic, cross-dressing personification of cabaret decadence and then, only slightly toned down, as Kafka.

In areas such as Idlib, where fighting has been fierce, that figure is much lower.

There is a wonderful small painting by Leonora Carrington from 1959 of a fierce, masked figure wearing a cloak of leaves.

A wisecracking frog, a fair damsel in disguise and a dragon that is far more ticklish than fierce also figure into the tale, which takes gleeful pleasure in upending fairy tale cliché.

There are fierce deity figures in halos of fire, animal-headed dancers, and buddhas hovering in aureoles". .

In Java and Sumatra there is iconographic evidence of the popularity of the buddhas, bodhisattvas, and fierce quasi-buddha figures mentioned above.

Julia Wolfe's "Early That Summer" for string quartet offered repetition in its attack mode: fierce and rapid figures exploiting the emotional pull of the repeated note.