Sentence examples for scarecrow of from inspiring English sources
He is a handsome, intelligent, scarecrow of a man.
Eli is "a scarecrow of a man in a secondhand suit," a "beast among lambs".
He looked like a scarecrow of specialty gear — some limbs equipped for hard labor, others for intense recreation.
Ahmad was standing on the edge of a crater inspecting the panorama of rubble, a scarecrow of a man in a threadbare coat and white dishdasha.
As the lovelorn Gloria remarks in "The Scarecrow of Oz" (1915), "A young lady cannot decide whom she will love, or choose the most worthy.
Like the late, far graver German doer of things, Joseph Beuys, he makes the most of being photogenic: tall and gangling, a droll scarecrow of a man.
He made a scarecrow out of an old dressing gown, an African dance mask, and a demoded silk hat.
(If you're having trouble visualizing this, look up pictures of the 'Wizard of Oz scarecrow' on the Internet) Put on your bandanna.
In an autobiographical novel, "The Blood of the Lamb," De Vries wrote of sitting in children's wards with children as wasted as scarecrows, of watching mothers making wigs for their daughters out of dolls' hair, of X-rays and methotrexate, and of his prayers: "I ask, my Lord, permission to despair".
Logical Consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Trump has honed in on the rural and post-industrial poor with inspired salvos against the timed-tested American scarecrows of immigration and those-bums-in-Washington.
