Sentence examples for personal idiom from inspiring English sources

Receptive to the influence of others, he rejected more than he assimilated, transforming all into a uniquely personal idiom.

Developing a personal idiom over time is a career strategy, but as Mr. Chatham admits, he gets bored.

About 1610 he moved to Italy, where he had leading nobles as patrons and assimilated Caravaggio's realism and dramatic use of artificial light into a personal idiom.

It was Gaudi who took modernisme to its extreme, creating an entirely personal idiom, and it is impossible to imagine Barcelona without his major works.

There are echoes of Britten's operas and Debussy's Pelléas, but also of Wagner and perhaps Janáček too, yet all are fused into an entirely personal idiom.

The Surrealists' idea that art is the expression of the artist's unconscious enabled Gorky to discover his personal idiom, which he pursued the last eight years of his life.

Instead, each developed personal idioms capable of a depth of expression that words could not match.

"Walla was fascinated by the materiality of words and by their plastic, or three-dimensional quality as well as by symbols, and collected foreign-language dictionaries, from which he drew terms, and invented personal idioms by combining different words... His works were talismans to him against dangers particularly against spirits, humans and death".

Having collected and studied folk music from his native region, he forged a highly personal melodic idiom based on rhythms and inflections of rural speech and song, which was rediscovered after World War II.

And Mr. Goldberg, who at the time of Marina City's opening was hailed as one of the nation's architectural eminences, has faded considerably from view, though his work did receive a major retrospective in Paris last fall and though he has continued to build in a highly personal, geometric idiom, his buildings full of curves and circles.

Other works, such as the last three symphonies, employ a personal musical idiom that facilitated intense emotional expression.