Sentence examples for lens in a from inspiring English sources

But this is like looking for a contact lens in a snowdrift.

At the Oscars, Carey Mulligan courted the lens in a Prada gown that walked the line between daring and decorum.

At the end of the film, there are moments when Devereaux stares at the lens in a similarly belligerent fashion.

"When I look through the lens, in a way, I'm trying to be a dancer, too," he said.

Modern sensors and lens design have meant that for many users, one camera with a huge zoom lens in a very small package will be more than sufficient.

So he built an inexpensive desktop device with which a minimally trained operator could turn a fast-hardening liquid into a finished lens in a few minutes.

If van Eyck had used the lens in a camera obscura, he would have had to paint upside-down, Mr. Stork said.

Lucas Samaras readdresses the nature of examining human characteristics with a camera lens in a pair of self-portrait photographs from 1990.

That is, we can see he used a lens... in a camera obscura to produce a sketch at one time, then used a lens in an epidiascope to transfer, and magnify, that image onto a canvas at a different time".

"Devices like Samsung and Nikon's models capitalise on this and offer people the best of both worlds - apps and a better lens - in a device they will probably not mind being bulkier than a smartphone".

The unlikely setting for this boisterous costume ball was the Louvre-Lens, in a former mining town with a population of 36,000 that is only an hour and 10 minutes from Paris on the TGV rail line but feels spiritually more distant with each passing slag heap.