Sentence examples for guises in a from inspiring English sources

Villiers is depicted as a shepherdess three times but she also took biblical guises in a painting of the Madonna and Child by Lely, and she appears as the penitent Mary Magdalene in an etching after a Lely painting.

"The web is an amazing technology that affects all our lives and has a huge impact on society, yet there hasn't been anywhere to go and study it," says Hall. "You can learn about the technology in computer science and human behaviour in social science, but this is an opportunity to study the web in all its guises, in a cross-disciplinary way".

Merchandise may never have been a punk band, but Cox and his bandmates were certainly once punks: they played in various hardcore and powerviolence guises in a scene known for its strict ethical code regarding DIY principles and rejecting the mainstream.

In the true Clinton manner, both are also chameleons, ready to don new guises in a flash -- from Mr. Gore's down-home wardrobe to Mr. Bush's last-minute emergence as a champion of campaign finance reform, patients' rights and clean air.

Today, however, Knightley has brought her long limbs and regal jawline into town to discuss a sunnier guise in a musical of sorts.

The metaphor returned in a different guise in a seminar I teach at Harvard, which I begin with a discussion of how science advances, and how the optimal scientific description can depend on the frame of reference.

Facebook is hiding behind its "we're a tech company, not a media company" guise in an effort to excuse itself from the fact that it hasn't figured out the news.

Facebook is hiding behind its "we're a tech company, not a media company" guise in an effort to excuse itself from the fact that it hasn't figured out the news.

• INSIDE TRACK: In diesel guise, a jolly sort-of-green giant.

VW has no plans to sell the Lupo -- which comes in several guises in Europe, including a hot GTI -- in the United States.

Coconut has many guises in the cuisine.