Sentence examples for he commissioned him from inspiring English sources

He commissioned him to do first graphics, then his home.

He commissioned him to do a bust of Demosthenes, leaving with him a check and his address in Clinton.

Fehlbaum, who considers Fukasawa to be on a par with Dieter Rams (the highest possible praise), was so impressed that he commissioned him for an industrial project.

Although Aretino was no longer to write laudatory letters to Tintoretto, he commissioned him to execute family portraits, and after his death, his likeness was to appear in Tintoretto's huge Crucifixion of the Scuola Grande di San Rocco (1565).

His music exploded in popularity too; he had nine records in Billboard's Hot 200 over the next three years, including six collaborations with the arranger Anita Kerr and The San Sebastian Strings, starting with The Sea. Sinatra admired McKuen's material so deeply that he commissioned him to write an entire album.

Charlie Brooker likes him so much that he commissioned him to make cartoons for his BBC show Screenwipe.

Goodman tackled a Hindemith Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, a piece he had commissioned him to write.

Last year he conducted polls on attitudes toward pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong and even about the country's most senior leaders but he is guarded about who commissioned him and what he found.

BBC2, he tells me, has commissioned him to direct a 90-minute film set in Hackney.

In "Architecture in the Garden," Mr. van Sweden recalled the problem he perceived when Ms. Winfrey commissioned him, for a reported $9 million, to improve the grounds around her country home in Indiana: nothing separated it from the surrounding farmland.

After finishing his studies, he met David Brower, who commissioned him for what came to be known as "battle books," cornerstones of Sierra Club environmental campaigns.