Sentence examples for instant figure from inspiring English sources

It's a first feature of an astounding comedic virtuosity and, as such, it's a perfect test for those who claim a mitigated taste for Lewis's persona: it dispels the image of the familiar overgrown child of his films with Dean Martin and replaces it with an instant figure of history in the image of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton — company he belongs in.

The 27-year-old Suarez became an instant figure of controversy on social media worldwide when he bit an Italian defender on the shoulder during Tuesday's game.

Second, with time domain multiplexing protective transmission gaps need to be introduced at the transmission-reception switching instants (Figure 7).

In her 1983 proposal for the Peak, an unbuilt country club in Hong Kong that made her an instant cult figure in architectural circles, buildings resembling big concrete beams looked as if they were about to splinter off into space.

The movie became an immense popular success in Asia, and when it was shown at the Toronto Film Festival in 1987, it turned Woo into an instant cult figure in the West.

They recall that during his first tour in the Senate, he resented laboring in the shadow of Mr. Bradley, New Jersey's senior senator, the former basketball star and Rhodes scholar who was an instant national figure once in office.

In Fig. 1 this situation occurs in station j, since the number of vehicles n j results lower than the station j's low critical threshold at the time instant the figure refers to.

In Fig. 1 station k is able to send a vehicle to station j, station z is not in this situation at the time instant the figure refers to.

Pee-wee became an instant cult figure and for the next decade Reubens would be completely committed to his character, doing all of his public appearances and interviews as Pee-wee.

With his positive attitude and quirkiness, Pee-wee became an instant cult figure, earning a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame by 1989, and successfully building a Pee-wee franchise, with toys, clothes and other items generating more than $25 million at its peak in 1988.

Instant hourglass figure.