Sentence examples for figures becoming from inspiring English sources

Instead, says Sweet, there has been a move to fantasy roles, with many dolls becoming princesses and popstars and action figures becoming superheroes.

Though they have no legal obligation to do so, most publicly traded retail companies divulge their monthly sales performance and offer an estimate of their annual profits, with the figures becoming guideposts for Wall Street, economists and investors.

Tanning's paintings grew increasingly abstract, her figures becoming so fluid that bodies dissolved altogether.

Sacred imagery was shown in a didactic and moralistic manner, with religious figures becoming marginalized and relegated to the background.

It's scenes like this one that follow me straight through the TV, figures becoming half-formed shapes I think I'll catch staring at me out of the corner of my eye.

"He takes his big idea, that of the father figure, the protector figure, becoming a villain, turning into someone you are afraid of.

Jon Snow comes walking into the shot, his willowy figure becoming more substantial, more recognisable, as he strides forward, all alone in the middle of the road.

Indeed, it is hard to imagine this figure becoming much better, given the vulnerability of power supply grids to bad weather, animals shorting out transformers and other equipment and drunken drivers hitting utility poles.

Creighton found peace under an ornate, seven-foot-high obelisk adorned with crossed bats "Creighton was the first baseball immortal," Mr. Spencer said, "and given the myth about how he died -- swinging at a home run ball -- he is the perfect example of the sports figure becoming larger than life".

McNair — a photographer who captured images of King and other black leaders at the height of Birmingham's racial turmoil — emerged as an influential local civil rights figure, becoming one of the first African American candidates elected to the Alabama Legislature in modern times.

I grew up in South Africa during a time when there was plenty to fix -- poverty, apartheid, access to healthcare, the list goes on -- so I figured becoming somewhat of a spiritual consultant would at least give an opportunity to be around inspiring individuals.