Sentence examples for recurrent figure from inspiring English sources

Were dead bodies and funerals not such a recurrent figure in the work, the collection could be called "Nine Lives".

Mr. Ratmansky gave Ms. Ananiashvili one particular little beaten step (in ballet terminology, a grand battement raccourci battu) that intoxicatingly caught a recurrent figure in the music.

The "third man", a recurrent figure with Greene, turns out to be God, for whom Sarah has become "a bride in Christ".

Jonah (a recurrent figure, associated with resurrection), sleeping nude in the shade of his large-leaved gourd vine, looks like the pagan Endymion.

He has become a recurrent figure in movies, documentary and otherwise, where he is often inscrutable and vaguely sinister, a watchful predator in relation to the young people who surrounded him in the 1960s Factory days.

If it has a serious concern that goes beyond an eccentric life and a touching love story, it's with the confidence trickster as an archetypal chameleon-like American, a recurrent figure in life and literature from Melville's The Confidence-Man to Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can.

Two other recurrent figures are a fat, tattooed biker and his embittered lover, an overweight slag with musical ambitions, who bicker about their dog.

Such children are recurrent figures in Godden's work; they are vulnerable, observant individuals who are deficient in charm but gifted with perception beyond their years.

These three men are recurrent figures in Drohojowska-­Philp's narrative, which pans back and forth in time.

For a time in Berlin, while finding his feet as a writer, Wilder worked as a gigolo, and the kept man and the pimp were to be recurrent figures in his American pictures - Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Irma La Douce, Kiss Me Stupid, for instance.

In this tradition, recurrent figures may be portrayed with the same facial features or clothing, despite changing eras or styles.