Sentence examples for figure subject from inspiring English sources

In his 60's, Dr. Shapley (pronounced SHAP‐lee) found himself for the first time a public figure subject to criticism and abuse.

As we have detailed before, Trump's $91 billion figure includes $50 billion in additional estimated liabilities that could emerge over the next 20 years, but that's a figure subject to change.

Failing a higher bid at auction, Monitor will be bought by Deloitte, an enormous professional-services firm, for just $116m, a figure subject to future reductions as Monitor sorts out its finances.

She's a national figure, subject of much speculation.

Holm warned the nearly $2 million cleanup cost is a "moving figure" subject to change as the agency conducts a thorough inventory of what's broken and missing.

With her hair wrapped in an elaborate scarf, leaning her head on a book, she presents herself both as a sort of sibyl and as a figure subject to melancholy humors, considered the source of artistic genius.

Ma occasionally painted flowers and figure subjects.

Themes included figure subjects, portraits, and scenes from history that had an ethical or didactic purpose.

He sought the quality of his figure subjects rather than their absolute likeness.

Jacobson helped him through an impasse that he had reached with the figure subjects, and the work gradually becoming mellower, the figures less dominant.

They have figure subjects in panels that are surrounded with coloured grounds and an excess of floral and other ornament in unprepossessing combinations of colours.