Sentence examples for receding figure from inspiring English sources

Ms. Tarlow stuck her tongue out at his receding figure.

The final image is the receding figure of the despairing little boy.

The lone figure receding into the icy depths of the forest perfectly matches Shepard's story, but his descriptions of the woods, survival, ammo, and traps had me thinking of other hunting imagery as well.

These contribute to Munch's compelling representations of space – often receding from a figure or creature which is advancing towards the onlooker and is cut off by the frame of the canvas.

Sat in his dark suit, the wiry figure with receding hair looks, as do many of the cast, a little like a gangster in a Guy Ritchie movie.

Nevertheless, in the Christian understanding of Christ as being one with the Father, there is a possibility that faith in God will be absorbed in a "monochristism"—i.e., that the figure of the Son in the life of faith will overshadow the figure of the Father and thus cause it to disappear and that the figure of the Creator and Sustainer of the world will recede behind the figure of the Redeemer.

With winter now receding into memory, the figures should be cleaner and more reliable.

The barman's shirt had originally been white, but Ofili had painted it black, to make the figure recede.

She walks back home as the man's figure recedes, dispassionately narrating the mundane psychosis familiar to anyone who has ever spent too much time alone.

Although she has a prominent place in the narratives of the Nativity and the Passion of Christ, Mary completely recedes behind the figure of Jesus, who stands in the centre of all four Gospels.

In the Recede experiment (Figure 1, second row), the auditory (visual) target was paired with a receding disc (downward FM sweep).