Sentence examples for posed against a from inspiring English sources

The "Nude Before a Mirror" is posed against a wall of Pieran blue.

Hubbard had posed against a studio's formal painted backdrop of a garden colonnade.

A woman in outline is posed against a faint background of paisley or leaves.

Well, yes; anything to relieve the monotony of a model posed against a blank wall is welcome.

The particular experience of the slaves is not posed against a universal meaning but infused with it.

The subject has half a loaf of bread in his bucket, and is clad in shredded sackcloth France, unused This Breton beggar is posed against a studio backcloth.

Posed against an outdoor, thickety background, the handsome, long-faced sisters in floor-length gowns could be protagonists in a Brontë novel.

This picture might seem comic, but the woman is posed against an American flag so it doubtless had a serious intent.

In one courtyard I was surprised by a fashion shoot in progress: a spectrally thin blonde, a professional smile fixed on her face, posed against an ancient wall while a photographer with a British accent clicked away: "Beautiful, luv, beautiful!

Two miles away, Zia Mustafa, an Afghan widow, sits at her kitchen table with its plastic tablecloth, looking at a scrapbook with bright color postcards of Turkmen girls in elaborate dress posed against an azure sky.

Their raw portrayal of creased flesh and bony joints in one celebrated picture posed against an uncooked leg of lamb will strike many viewers as more humane than the famously brutal nudes of Bacon or Freud.Spencer's personal life (the subject of "Stanley", an excellent 1996 play by Pam Gems) was far from straightforward.