Sentence examples for postcards rather than from inspiring English sources
He has asked fans to send him postcards rather than visiting the site, "as it may upset the staff who have been really pleasant".
His saturated palette of brick reds, kudzu greens and dirt browns, as well as the miniature scale of his prints, harks back to the vernacular tradition of picture postcards rather than to the American sublime.
As Mr. Kiehl points out in his introduction to the exhibition brochure, miniature prints were originally made to be printed in books, or viewed in the palm of your hand like postcards, rather than framed and hung on walls.
Francesca Zambello directed the production, in picture-postcard rather than provocative mode.
That's the computer equivalent of sending a postcard, rather than a letter — it's easy for others on a network to read what's being transmitted, said Craig Michael Lie Njie, a consultant who did the technical analysis for the report.
"Everyone who sends an e-mail over the Internet should think of it as a postcard rather than a note in a secured envelope," said Dave Ausprey, a vice president at security software firm Trend Micro.
Others in the administration have couched this claim by saying that the vast majority of people will be able to file their taxes on a postcard — rather than saying they actually will.
"I remember seeing the On the Buses film when I was 10," Beesley adds, "and thinking: 'This is the funniest film I've ever seen!'" The Inbetweeners has a ribald humour in the tradition of Donald McGill's postcards, though, rather than a relationship to Peep Show or Phoenix Nights.
Yet for all of Fry's subversiveness and curiosity, it's hard to shake the sense that we're firmly in Wish You Were Here territory, a picture-postcard documentary rather than anything truly searching.
In this, he was a small-town bank clerk horrified when he receives pornographic postcards in the post, rather than the calculator he ordered.
Rousseau worked as a lowly customs official after moving to Paris in 1870 and his dreamlike visions of the jungle were inspired by postcards, films and his imagination rather than first-hand experience.
