Sentence examples for like a prism from inspiring English sources

"Detroit is like a prism on any story you want — social, economic, health care, race, education — it is all there.

They seem like a prism into a lost world of Palm Beach cotillions from the Eisenhower years.

The Lucas family said it would have one of the LifeGem diamonds made into a pendant that could hang in a window to reflect light like a prism.

This book works like a prism, regarding the same people and events from different perspectives until they are finally, deeply understood.

Managing appearances was always going to be hard in Vienna, a city with so many layers of history, acting like a prism on the present.

She referred to her art as "a natural response to life – what I see and feel changes like a prism, moment to moment.

To her, it didn't seem like disagreement, but "more like turning a prism — to see something from another point of view".

Lute had a more practical explanation for liking the image, a prism that doubled as her necklace in the still-to-be-released Beautiful Things video.

It's full of unexpected angles, more like gazing into a prism than like reading a manifesto.

But shopping for a low-light sunglass can be like walking into a prism -- or suddenly stumbling into a dazzling array of different tints, with myriad options for style and size.

The omniscient narrator and the characters share these terms of art, as visitors to the House of Holes (several of whom make repeat appearances) work themselves into lathers and release, in one example, "a spume, a trilateral spray... like light through a prism".