Sentence examples for seems a figure from inspiring English sources

Barb is not sure why she got into this; she seems a figure for any woman who has pursued her love for her husband too far: moved to the wrong place, had too many children or too few, stopped working or never started.

The pre-Raphaelites rejected him, the Modernists ignored him and, even now, when his reputation has risen yet again among scholars, to many ordinary art lovers he seems a figure of the past, all those small figures set in idyllic countrysides with their references to mythological history.

But, by the end, slide seemed a figure for her longevity.

At the time the couple first met, Mr. Townsend seemed a figure out of Cole Porter, a playwright, slim, insouciant, carefree, chatty.

Baelish may seem a figure conjured from Tudor mythography, but the king who rules in the first book in fact resembles Henry VIII less than he does his grandfather: the founder of the Yorkist dynasty, Edward IV.

But Mr Zhou seems a diminished figure.

He seems a wax figure, perfectly constructed, but without the grubby breath of life.

The crowd "ooh" in genuine sympathy; he seems a popular figure, as late-bloomers in sport often are.

Like most of his surviving rock'n'roll contemporaries, he currently seems a lost figure, cut adrift from popular taste.

Suddenly the Mary Magdalene of the Gospel seems a sympathetic figure, brought to life by Mr. Adams's wrenching music.

Just now Ms. Molina seems a pivotal figure; she's wonderfully free in her conception of what flamenco may include.