Sentence examples for reluctant model from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the punishment is to become both a painting herself, and its reluctant model.

3. As in the film, the Avedon's marriage was a "Pygmalion" story of a celebrated photographer who transformed a bookish clerk into a reluctant model, then fell in love with his creation.

This humour manifests in a variety of manners, such as a scene in which "a mortified Daigo, naked except for a pair of adult diapers, is the reluctant model" for an educational video regarding the encoffining process, as well as a scene in which Daigo discovers that the person he is preparing is a trans woman.

She is said to have inspired the beatnik-turned-reluctant-model character played by Audrey Hepburn in legendary fashion film Funny Face (1957).

PAGE D1 THE RELUCTANT ROLE MODEL When Robin Roberts, a co-host on ABC's "Good Morning America" and a former college basketball standout, learned she had breast cancer, she said she felt as if her body had let her down.

A holiday toast, then, to another (reluctant) role model and to a great American tradition.

The industry has been too slow and too reluctant in addressing model health.

A reluctant feminist role model, Ms. Dickens said she was originally scared to write about issues like sexism and the oppression of women.

Even as reluctant a role model as Harnisch proved to be, he is rare and courageous in sports, where the stigma of needing emotional help is so great that nothing happens until a Strawberry overmedicates himself or a Rocker throws a tantrum for attention.

Consequently, operating companies are reluctant to adopt model-based production optimization into their operations.

While the WoT community has clearly identified the need for interoperability with other Internet applications, the domain of enterprise business process modeling so far seems to be more reluctant to address and model aspects of the real world.