Sentence examples for resting on hand from inspiring English sources

She faces whatever life might throw at her, lips slightly pursed, chin resting on hand, head slightly tilted.

In 16th-century portraits, the head resting on hand pose was to become a universal image of the soul afflicted by sad thoughts – as in Moretto da Brescia's Portrait of a Young Man in London's National Gallery.

He walks slowly and seductively, resting one hand on a hip and one hand on his blond hair.

The final image he selected, which foregrounds two mourners deep in concentration, heads resting on hands, is not straightforwardly beautifully or conventionally framed – but it's as close to a decisive moment as you could imagine.

Their mother rested one hand on each of her boys' shoulders and scrunched her eyebrows together.

Her arms were still in an attitude of prayer, her chin resting on one hand in perfect piety.

His chin was resting on his hand and his hand was clutching a front-row railing.

Portraits gave their sitters the troubled eyes and cheek-resting-on-hand pose of Melencolia I; melancholy became a fashion.

A black velvet cape over her shoulders, one leg up and the other extended, her chin resting on her hand resting on her knee.

Those works are "Horse Galloping on Right Foot," "The Masseuse," and "Portrait of a Woman: Head Resting on One Hand".

Lewis wore a gray striped button-up shirt, untucked, and sat with his chin resting on his hand, looking down.