Sentence examples for figure built from inspiring English sources

This painting became a model of the figura serpentinata ("sinuous figure")—that is, a figure built up from several intertwining views.

Ang Sang's "Faces of the Buddha" (2011) is a black-and-white canvas with a Buddha figure built up from images of Che Guevara, Superman, Michael Jackson, Barack Obama and Pop Art's uber-icon Marilyn Monroe.

Visitors to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC, have been flocking to see the Bionic Man, a figure built from the most advanced artificial body parts.

The opener, Keeril Makan's "After Forgetting" (2009), portrays the vicissitudes of memory — trying to capture that elusive thought or word that is on the tip of your tongue — by way of an insistently tolling piano and percussion figure built of slowly shifting harmonies.

"Andy was the first sophisticated human figure built by the company," he says.

A simple, rocking figure builds to a thundering climax, representing the goddess of love's watery birth, ebbing away to close as it opened.

The strong figure builds on the second-quarter growth rate of 4.6%.

In the nineties, a coterie of business figures built corporate empires that had little loyalty to the state.

The epigrammatic, Wayne Shortenorsaxtheme sax theme of When Planets Collide was prefaced by bell-like electronics and quiet prepared-piano clatters, and a Goloubev solo of humming tones and delicate top-end figures built to a fierce percussion climax.

"Folk Music," which Greenstein wrote in the summer of 2004, is one of the freshest pieces I've heard so far this year: a Ravel-like kaleidoscope of intertwining figures built up from the simple notes of the B-minor scale.

One result was the double images of faces and landscape or of human figures built of books, fish, or pots and pans by the 16th-century Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo.