Sentence examples for figures engaged from inspiring English sources
One is the "Four Accomplishments," a sort of glorification of the well-rounded gentleman usually represented by four figures engaged in calligraphy, painting, music and games of strategy.
Even figures engaged in violent or painful action have a calm, detached expression that modern observers may find chilly and unfeeling.
It brings to mind two approximately equal figures engaged in a complicated dialogue, like Jefferson and Adams, or Siskel and Ebert.
Her finished painting, The Florida Case Before the Electoral Commission, was an astounding piece of work, faithfully depicting some 260 prominent Washington figures engaged in or attending the hearing.
Each picture is a panoramic shot of a desolate landscape -- a mist-filled swamp, a snow-shrouded forest, a bleakly unpicturesque lake -- populated by a few demonic-looking figures engaged in what could be esoteric rites.
Pratt Contemporary devotes most of a wall to a series of drypoints by the Brazilian artist Ana Maria Pacheco, better known for her wood carvings; titled "Dark Event," it shows shadowy figures engaged in acts of violence and torture.
SoHo Through Feb. 23 Like visions of hell by Bosch or Ensor, Erwin Pfrang's antically congested, primitivistic drawings are jammed with tiny, hyperactive figures engaging in sex, violence and other indecipherable behavior.
He populates his pictures with dozens of tiny, grotesque, hyperactive figures engaging in sex, violence and other obscure behaviors, producing teeming mindscapes that are like visions of hell by Bosch or Ensor (Johnson).
Gursky's subject matter during the 1980s ranged from office-building security guards behind their desks to vast panoramas in which small figures engage in leisure activities to landscapes of the Ruhr River valley.
A bold and powerful photography project is bringing celebrities together to pose as same-sex couples and families as a way to combat homophobia and provide positive images of recognizable figures engaging in queer relationships.
The new ad campaign by Metro Los Angeles, the city's commuter rail service, shows stick figures engaging in unsafe behavior around trains -- and the consequences are immediate, severe, detailed and accompanied by sardonic narration.
