Sentence examples for melting clocks from inspiring English sources

But Dali painted melting clocks, and yours isn't melting, is it?

Saucer-eyed, we hustled over to the Museum of Modern Art, where we saw, among the Cézannes and the Matisses, Dali's famous painting of melting clocks, the shockingly tiny "Persistence of Memory".

The hours have blended into days and the days into weeks, so that he might as well be telling time by one of those melting clocks in the Salvador Dali painting.

Known by his tag, Freedom, Mr. Pape went on to paint huge murals of the Venus de Milo, Dali's melting clocks and Goya's "The Third of May," on the tunnel's cracked and slimy surfaces.

Probably the most famous image of surrealism in the world, the melting clocks in Salvador Dalí's 1931 masterpiece The Persistence of Memory, showed up this year, in a sense, in the form of a pair of stunning but ultimately ill-advised Time magazine cover.

The early 1930s offer material for Babaouo, a 1932 script set against a near-future pan-European war; and exquisite pen-and-charcoal storyboard-like sketches for The Surrealist Mysteries of New York, featuring an anthropomorphic skyscraper alongside the familiar ant-infested hands and melting clocks.

The overall effect is African ski lodge meets Mad Men, glazed with a dollop of melting clock.

A melting clock reveals how time distorts during prison life, and there's humour with embroidered words: "Switch that bloody torch off".

Woozily distorted pictures of sports-car dashboards and, downtown, melting clock faces dissipate the focused power of the blue car picture (Johnson).

For a few moments, which, like those before an accident, seemed measured on a melting clock, Judy was unaware of her prime-time exposure.

Amid the beanbags, swivel armchairs, wicker furniture and paper lampshades, they needed something for the walls: a Salvador Dali melting clock, perhaps, or a Che Guevara, a Jim Morrison or a Jimi Hendrix surrounded by multicoloured, psychedelic swirls.