Sentence examples for figures traced from inspiring English sources

Patrick Barth explores the line between "friendly" competition and armed conflict in an illustration of a battle scene from "The Iliad," which uses figures traced from contemporary sports outfitted with ancient weaponry.

The novel is populated mostly by figures traced from the main players in Noriega's slow-motion ouster: the papal nuncio, the puppet presidents, the dissident Panamanian colonel who consults mystics of his own and an American general rather like the one reporters in Panama used to call Mad Max.

For example, in the early L'Homme de Rene Descartes (written sometime before 1632), which Claude Clerselier (1614-1684) edited and then published (giving it this title) in 1664, fourteen years after Descartes's death, Descartes tells us that the figures "traced in the spirits on the surface" of the pineal gland are ideas.

"Why should we inquire into style at all?" he asks rhetorically in "Figures Traced in Light".

In "Jerry Maguire," Mr. Bordwell writes in his 2005 book "Figures Traced in Light," there are "fewer than 30 blinks among three characters in a passage of nearly three minutes," which exaggerates and amplifies the interpersonal cues.

Most of those who worked on the investigation acknowledge that the driving force was a soft-spoken detective who, like many organized-crime figures, traces his roots in part to the neighborhood around Pleasant Avenue in East Harlem.

The four-and-a-half-billion figure traces back to the practice of valuing startups according to whatever their last round of funding establishes as their worth.

The single instance of root to fin whale is shown in figure 2, while figure S1 traces the evolutionary rates inferred by different methods along seven representative lineages.

It can be hard with public figures to trace a clear line between what is in the public interest and what should remain behind the bedroom door.

The show includes paintings with figures in them traced from other paintings.

Figure 6 traces both quotients over time in duplicate experiments.