Sentence examples for poor illustrations from inspiring English sources

It has poor illustrations (largely taken from film stills) and a text that regurgitates versions of Everest history from better, secondary sources.

In his essay "Literary Pleasure," reprinted in ON WRITING (Penguin Classics, $15), one of three new Borges anthologies appearing this month under the general editorship of Suzanne Jill Levine, he says of his youthful reading -- "the greatest literary joys I have experienced" -- that he "believed everything, even errata and poor illustrations".

We can't afford to appear in second-rate catalogs with poor illustrations that make the product look less than it is.

That is a fair summary of the story's first part, but a poor illustration of the oddness of the rest.Fowles, who called the book "the greatest novel of adolescence in European literature", suggested that its detractors dislike being reminded of "qualities and emotions they have tried to eradicate from their own lives".

If Everything Were Lacquered In Case I Learn to Knit Stocking Stuffers Husbands Won't Call "Landfill" Ultimately, a Potting Room with a Copper Sink Would SAVE Money Eighty Thousand Subtly Different Votive Holders I Love Boutonnières Turning My Lawn Into Moss Service Vacations That Aren't Too Horrifying My Life Is Ugly and Poor Illustration by Kris Mukai.

In May 1902, Barrymore was fired from his newspaper position after producing a poor illustration for the paper while hung over.

Sadly this also means that her accounts of his major buildings, such as Trinity College library, Greenwich and Chelsea hospitals and St Paul's cathedral itself, are fragmentary and the illustrations poor.

Thus, just as chocolate-box paintings of children and dogs were matched by paintings of poor children, so were illustrations idealizing the virtue of work accompanied by images of exploitation of workers.

This book is certainly worth considering and had it not been for the poor quality of the illustrations, would be my first choice.

Eisläuferin, "skater", holds a special place at No 2, but until now the only version available has been a poor-quality mono illustration on Richter's website.

And when I began to write, at about the age of seven – stories in pencil with crayon illustrations, which my poor mother was obligated to read – I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading.