Sentence examples for native figures from inspiring English sources

But in "The Orenda" Mr Boyden taps directly into the earliest source of the conflict.The book's most startling aspect is the way Mr Boyden's native figures explode the classic image of the "noble savage".

The semishrouded woman and cherubic child in the foreground of "A View of Maitavie Bay in the Island of Otaheite [Tahiti]" (1776), for instance, look much like something out of a fresco by Raphael, and there are many classical models for the poses of the native figures in "Landing at Mallicolo [Malakula], one of the New Hebrides" (c. 1776).

Many figures from the Buddhist and Hindu scriptures, such as gods and goddesses, heroes and princesses, hermits and magicians, demons and dragons, flying horses and winged maidens, became fused with similar native figures, and, gradually, folklore plots became merged in the general religious themes.

All three paintings are imagined versions of some primitive Brazilian native figure, recycling ethnographic stereotypes through the lens of surrealism.

If the native figure represented America's rebellious spirit, the goddesslike Columbia, with her shield and starred tiara, signified American strength after the Revolution, with the threat of Britain still in recent memory.

Benjamin West, another important native figure in the history of American painting, was born in Pennsylvania but settled in London in 1763, where he became the second president of the Royal Academy.

The CD spectra of these proteins show all of them fold as native form (Figure S2) and the mutations do not disturb protein folding.

In contrast, the CD spectrum of these proteins show all of them fold as native form (Figure S2) and the mutations do not disturb protein folding.

In the field on adult trees, stronger differences were found, with both early- and late-successional species presenting higher nitrogen contents than the invasive species (p < 0.001; 70% more compared to the natives, Figure 3).

The native form (dotted line, Figure 5) elutes earlier than S2Cb-X21/Y21-S2Cb aline (dashed line) because it acquires S1-S2b/S2Cb appendages.

Co-elution studies using reverse phase HPLC demonstrated identical folds of synthetically produced and folded α-1 and the isolated native peptide (Figures S3B,C).