Sentence examples for lowly subjects from inspiring English sources

I was about to ignore him, like a king passing his lowly subjects, when he turned, looked directly at me and we realized it was Dustin Hoffman.

It's classic modernist English impressionism: lowly subject; dirty; urban; everyday".

The book is only occasionally unsurprising: Seyburn plays lowly subject matter against lofty diction for an irony that can feel formulaic.

According to Bellori, Caravaggio resented the restriction to such lowly subject matter: "As he was working at these things against his will and feeling great regret to see himself kept from figures, he welcomed the opportunity offered by Prospero".

But with his kaleidoscopic project "Mariposas Nocturnas," the American photographer Emmet Gowin does for the moths of Central and South America what the influential German duo Bernd and Hilla Becher once did for the water towers of Western Europe, transforming an apparently lowly subject into riveting art.

Although most scholars agree that it represents Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of a local silk merchant, there is no consensus on why the artist chose such a comparatively lowly subject when he was evading requests from the Marchioness of Mantua.

Farnham's jewelry designs were inspired by even the lowliest of subjects, from lizards to spiders.

The remaining population was lumped together as "the more lowly," humiliores, subject to torture when giving witness in court; to beatings, not fines; and to execution (in increasingly savage forms of death) rather than exile for the most serious crimes.

But he was skeptical of triumphalism, and conscious of the dangers of foreign occupation: "Even the lowliest men prefer being subjects to men of their own people rather than to any aliens".

An absorbing story of Eisner's career as a professor of chemical ecology (a discipline he helped found), interwoven with a passionate celebration of his subject -- the lowly insect -- and countless did-you-know's from the world of entomology.

Ms. Shapiro's subject may be lowly, but she finds inspiration in the masters.