Sentence examples for preferred to trace from inspiring English sources

"Emilio Pucci once did an entire collection in black and white — it wasn't always color and pattern," Peter Dundas said to explain an Emilio Pucci show that was whisper quiet on the house's signature prints and preferred to trace the Pucci swirls in chiffon inserts around a voluptuous body.

He prefers to trace the art back to classical Greece and believes, as Rabinowitz wrote in The Russian Review in 1991, that "balletic dance alone preserved the character of the Hellenic sense of plastic art".

Beckham prefers to trace his unconventional dress sense back to early childhood, when he says he once wore knickerbockers, knee socks and ballet shoes to a wedding instead of a suit.

There's another kind of liberal history, leaning economically left, that prefers to trace a pretty straight line from Thomas Paine to Thomas Jefferson to Andrew Jackson to FDR, incorporating the labor movement along the way.

We preferred to take speed.

As the historian Partha Chatterjee notes in the indispensable catalog to "Traces of India," Indians preferred to present historical events and cultural symbols in terms associated with sacred art rather than with the "profane realism of photography".

Memorials preferred to NYU School of Law.

More is preferred to less".

"Limb" was preferred to "leg".

He preferred to play baseball.

They preferred to just stay.