Sentence examples for mirror something from inspiring English sources

Even looking in the mirror, something did not add up: he didn't look like anybody in his family.

"The arts should be able to mirror something that is happening in contemporary society in a contemporary way," says Weisskopf.

His discography seems to mirror something about the city's spirit: chatty and omnivorous, tough and tender, awake to sorrow and beauty.

This is an angry, unapologetically gutter-mouthed nasty comedy, and while the plot may mirror something current, the vibe is more akin to classic 1970s independents such as Rudy Ray Moore's Petey Wheatstraw.

In one sequence, the playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, who was a close friend of Mr. Rogers's, is shown holding a camera and pretending to film himself in a mirror (something Mr. Rogers is seen doing earlier in the movie).

"Bruno Ernst, a collaborator and friend of Escher, sent me the idea for an optical drawing with a gate and a mirror, something that Escher was working on before he died," Mr. Orosz said from his home near Budapest.

Inevitably, the serious biographer also mirrors something of himself in depicting his subject.

Sachs, who founded the church's Center for Reconciliation and Mission, said the interfaith change mirrors something much wider.

In each case, art mirrored something that was happening in society -- the spread of black culture into the mainstream, for instance -- and triggered anxiety about it.

Turning Egypt into an Islamic state is an interim goal along the way to recreating the Islamic empire, or caliphate, of 1,000 years ago, with the modern version mirroring something like the European Union.

There are also anecdotes on Claude glass mirrors ("something like a lady's compact"), 18th-century versions of digital cameras that reflected the fleeting beauty of a landscape; and "Xiguo jifa," a 16th-century text describing a mnemonic technique for organizing everything you want to remember in a "memory palace".