Sentence examples for figures and patterns from inspiring English sources

It's difficult not to repeat certain figures and patterns.

Mr. Iyer's left-hand figures and patterns provide a center of gravity; his right-hand lines and flurries collude or clash with Mr. Lehman's tart saxophone, which can ooze and smear into microtonal crevices.

Implicit in them (and in the general principle of Prägnanz) is the assumption that whenever possible some figure will be perceived; more specifically, that the visual field will be articulated into figures and patterns of figures.

Janáček features accompaniment figures and patterns, with (according to Jim Samson) "the on-going movement of his music...similarly achieved by unorthodox means; often a discourse of short, 'unfinished' phrases comprising constant repetitions of short motifs which gather momentum in a cumulative manner".

Expressed in various ways, in the use of thick masses and in internal figuring and patterning, this interest has been the keynote of the most significant modern contributions to the art of glass.

Some of the sheets have also been painted with figures and decorative patterns done in a loose, spontaneous hand.

Corr's intensely colored gouache paintings are an appealing mixture of simple figures and detailed patterns.

There are metallic, nasty 70's prog-rock gestures on "Apostolic," with canonlike figures and tricky patterns in alternating meter: this is where Mr. Kotche's skills come on strong.

Stylistics, study of the devices in languages (such as rhetorical figures and syntactical patterns) that are considered to produce expressive or literary style.

Valle's keyboard figures and drum patterns rarely challenge the vocal, opting to support.

These portray combinations of mysterious figures and complex geometrical patterns with a psychedelic but non-specific quality of ritualistic, anthropological pageantry.