Sentence examples for left it unfinished from inspiring English sources

It offers an intimate encounter with the daring of Michelangelo – and it is intimate for the same reason it is daring: because he left it unfinished, much of its surface is pockmarked by his chisel.

Walter Benjamin worked for 13 years on his magisterial "Arcades Project" but left it unfinished when he committed suicide to avoid falling into the hands of the Nazis.

The score brims with the kind of lush and ravishing 12-tone music that only Berg could write, but he left it unfinished at his death in 1935.

It's as if the people who once inhabited this place have left it unfinished, or perhaps the place itself has begun to mutate after they've gone.

Vasari himself, writing half a century later, says that Leonardo, after toiling over the portrait for four years, left it unfinished, and that the work is now in the collection of the king of France in Fontainebleau.

Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Masi said of the shows return "I thought it was awesome," "It had [a lot of] heart and we had a lot of fans and we kind of left it unfinished, so there's a chance to wrap things up for the fans".

Then again why leave it unfinished?

Almost half have had to outsource work to other firms rather than leave it unfinished.

Ferruccio Busoni labored over "Doktor Faust" for more than a decade, leaving it unfinished at his death in 1924.

The Bible gives us one tall building and leaves it unfinished, and ends with a shining city coming down from Heaven, but never says how many floors its towers have.

Rolls of corrugated paper can be purchased from uline.com (about $78 a roll); a coat of primer or paint will tint the paper, but purists may prefer to leave it unfinished.