Sentence examples for figures on the screen from inspiring English sources

The researchers projected two figures on the screen, one the outline of the rider and the other the outline of the competitor.

After all, he is mainly famous for playing gruff but decent authority figures on the screen; his only experience of elective office is eight years in the Senate.

To win, you "make a virtual trip to Iowa" and quickly maneuver little figures on the screen to drum up sufficient support for Dr. Dean.

They might have guessed their man had won from the rumours and whispers that had been circulating for hours, but they needed to see the victory in figures on the screen, and with their own eyes.

The flickering oil lamp of the Javanese wayang enhances the shadows of the figures on the screen; as long ago as 1781, the scene painter Philip James de Loutherbourg used a large model theatre called the Eidophusikon to demonstrate the range of lighting effects that could be achieved with lamps.

Yesterday, as the market tumbled, and my hunching over a keyboard constantly hitting refresh on a Web page tracking the declining Dow revealed itself as pathological and absurd, it seemed sensible to turn instead to something more durable than the changing red figures on the screen.

By the end the most vivid figure on the screen is the lovable doggie who goes wherever dangling fingers are waiting to give the happy pooch a scratch.

When he played computer games in the past, there was little to relate the figure on the screen jumping around to the single click on the joystick.

The winger was just a slightly sad figure on the screen of Carl Jenkinson's phone when Arsenal players cavorted around Wembley in May after the FA Cup final.

Unlike voiceovers that distance characters from the events they describe, Ed's gives us access to the reticent figure on the screen.

She'd remained perfectly still, but the figure on the screen had been busily engaged in what appeared to be a non-stop slow-motion dance workout.