Sentence examples for partly turned from inspiring English sources

The strings sat with their chairs partly turned away from the audience.

Robert C. Stempel, the chairman and chief executive whom G.M.'s board ousted in 1992, acknowledged that G.M. has been partly turned around on Mr. Smith's watch.

A row of small, cast plaster reliefs, perhaps used for making silver decorations, are exquisite, especially one depicting a helmeted youth seen in profile, with his back partly turned to us.

In Friendly's programs, the interviewer is ordinarily a relatively shadowy figure; his back is partly turned to the camera, and he is well to one side of the person he is interviewing.

THE cartoonist, were we drawing him, would be full body and partly turned away, the shoulders protectively hunched, the eyes downcast, and, as the cartoonist is Ben Katchor, rendered with a gray wash.

But in his 1995 book American Color, Manos partly turned to the beach, and America's love affair with it.

The story partly turns on the difficulties of English spelling and reading comprehension.

Obstruction charges partly turn on the offender's intentions; Trump admitted his.

The story this time partly turns on a new cure for the mutant gene, which pushes the series' gay metaphor without developing it in any interesting way.

Preventing homelessness was another area that the administration had hoped to reorganize and, at least partly, turn over to private groups.

It's place in the history of censorship ostensibly rests on the way the plot partly turns on the backstreet abortion that kills the mistress of the Independent politician, Henry Trebell, at its centre.