Sentence examples for pictures devoted to from inspiring English sources

These pictures, devoted to air and water, were made at a swimming pool, and revolve around divers and the explosive trails of bubbles they leave in their wake.

Images of towns and cities had figured for centuries in European art but almost always as background scenery in pictures devoted to religious, historical or mythological subjects.

Later, Mérida's paintings of interlocking blocks of color became increasingly formulaic, but it is nevertheless inspiring to behold four culminating pictures devoted to the seasons, each a combination of solid dark rectangles and luminous colored space.

She has tattoos up and down her arm that are tied to moments when her twin ran away or attempted suicide; now she keeps a wall of pictures devoted to him, showing me remembrances in a box, including signed artifacts from local sports franchises like the Phoenix Coyotes or Arizona Diamondbacks offered to the family as gifts following his death.

In another, a mosaic of pictures is devoted to his neck alone.

Works are grouped by the different categories of Edo ukiyo-e: beauties, actors, landscapes and "joy of life" pictures (broadly devoted to the pursuit of leisure, these might include still lifes of flowers or illustrations of folk tales).

The following lovely, lyrical stretch of the picture is devoted to his spiritual rehabilitation (cue meditative farming montages), a resting of the muscles before they're called back into service against the enemies of Tianjin.

The picture is devoted to the travails of an unhappy Midwestern Jewish family — a real menagerie — in the sixties, and, in the end titles, the Coens have inserted, after the names of hardworking laboratories, the words "No Jews were harmed in the making of this motion picture".

✒ Friday's Daily Mail included a Jan Moir rant and a two-page, 11-picture spread devoted to Tony Benn's funeral, depicted in the giant headline as a gathering of its hate figures ("Scargill, ex-IRA chiefs, BBC luvvies and Cherie Blair"), with photos of others including Diane Abbott, George Galloway, Jack Straw and Peter Tatchell.

While there is a key relationship (with an acute portrayal of sexual dynamics), the focus is on a different kind of love: the for-better-or-for-worse bond between a grown-up childhood gang in a picture-postcard town devoted to tourists with limited resources for resident teens.

Tell a young person from Shanghai that you're going clubbing and it's unlikely they'll picture a night devoted to £1.50 drinks deals, pubs that smell of sick and minor head trauma.