Sentence examples for foster the image from inspiring English sources

PARTY Famous nightcrawlers like Ernest Hemingway and Ava Gardner helped foster the image of the Madrid barman as the epitome of cocktailing expertise.

In 2010 Mutharika also became chairman of the African Union and attended G8 and G20 meetings – even though Malawi was a member of neither – to foster the image of a technocratic and democratic African leader.

Her undoubted masterpiece, the two-part Olympia (Festival Of Nations/ Festival Of Beauty) was commissioned by the International Olympic Committee but funded by the Nazis to foster the image of a modern, powerful Germany abroad.

The tendency of writers, artists, musicians and other creative people to cluster with friends at the end of a long day of solitary work, accompanied by a drink or three, helped foster the image of the Hamptons as a kind of boozy bohemia by the sea.

Why? Because, the author said, Mr. Castro wants to preserve the image he has in certain European circles as a progressive if somewhat eccentric Latin leader and does not want to foster the image of the "cruel dictator" that Mr. Valladares describes.

His wacky turn of phrase (being reincarnated as an olive – LOL!), his bumbling demeanour – all foster the image of an outsider, the only politician who passes the "want to have a pint with and not simply to pour it all over his head" test.

Failing to live up to impossible expectations fostered the image of Twitter as a company that was always falling short.

The couple fostered the image of Martin as holding the camera while Osa held the rifle ready, as in this 1937 New York Times characterization of the couple: "the tall man who has turned the crank of a motion-picture camera half the uncivilized world over, and the small woman who always holds a loaded rifle at his side ready to kill whatever starts to kill him" (31).

Chinatown leaders actively fostered the image of Chinese-Americans as model citizens in the hopes that it would protect them.

For Murmelstein, the maintenance of the illusion that the Nazis intended to foster — the public image of Theresienstadt as a decent place for Jews to live — was essential to the survival of the camp's Jewish inmates.

The secondary job title, only ever remembered in moments of crisis, does foster the unhelpful image of the DG spending half their time wandering around the newsroom wearing a green eyeshade, as well as being chief executive of one of the world's biggest broadcasters.