Sentence examples for formal shapes from inspiring English sources

"Mike is the last of the great modern artists interested primarily in formal shapes".

Even "Isle," while somewhat pictorial, tells its tale through quality of movement, formal shapes rather than descriptive gesture.

From professional milestones (officiating the funeral of Coretta Scott King, with three former and one sitting president in the audience) to personal ones (a commemorative portrait of Long and his wife) he clearly favours pastel tones and formal shapes".

A fundamental premise of their work was that the formal shapes of naming could not embrace the complex integrity of existence, as reflected in actualities.

The band resisted giving it formal shape.

And, over the decades, a pattern developed "in both their content and their formal shape".

It was redesigned for 1963-64 with a squarer, more formal shape.

Linklater came up with the screenplay by giving some formal shape to his characters' manias.

This sectarian division, still existent today, probably took time to assume formal shape.

President Clinton and Prime Minister Jean Chretien were early supporters of the permanent tribunal, now taking formal shape as the International Criminal Court.

The repetition of incidents, characters, and themes provides The Book of Laughter and Forgetting with its formal shape.