Sentence examples for lively figures from inspiring English sources

Works such as Jolly Flatboatmen in Port (1857) show Bingham's continued preference for compositions crowded with lively figures.

The main characters of the event (Holy Family, Magi, shepherds, and angels) were supplemented by hundreds of lively figures drawn from peasant or village life and shown pursuing their daily activities or bearing gifts to the Christ child similar to those enumerated in folk carols.

The choir has retained richly carved 14th-century stalls, famous for the many lively figures among the carvings.

She is an immensely colourful and lively figure with an extraordinarily deep, resonant voice.

She had been a lively figure in Greenwich Village's literary and lesbian circles in the 1910's...

His breadth of observation, his lively figure style, and his skill in assembling a large, jostling crowd secured for his etchings a lasting popular influence all over Europe.

His powers are essentially godlike — and God, for all His achievements in other media, has seldom made for a lively figure on the stage.

Nor does the tall, loquacious mother of three a more lively figure than any of Turkey's recent presidential spouses favour a draconian regime of the Taliban kind.

Mr. Irwin and his nimble associates are channeling an ancient, enduringly lively figure who was first sighted among improvisational theater troupes in Bergamo, Italy, five or six centuries ago.

Neighbors said Mrs. Dawson cut a lively figure, strutting down the street in a red bandana and bright red lipstick, riding bikes, playing ball in the street with her boys.

An angular, lively figure, Hill says the loss of James, her only child, made her see her pupils through fresh eyes: "You take a look and you think these lives are so precious, they've only got the one chance at life and I'm going to make sure it's the best possible damn chance".