Sentence examples for seen to advantage from inspiring English sources

It was a sort or species of suit in which I could have been seen to advantage in Naples.

Its purpose is to provide a foundation on which climbing plants can be seen to advantage and to give shade.

At Pendzhikent, a site close to Mug, and some 40 miles (60 kilometres) east of Samarkand, Sogdian architecture can be seen to advantage.

And almost all the work is seen to advantage in the Newhouse Center's oddball Main Hall exhibition space, once a dormitory for the retired seamen for whom Snug Harbor was built in the 19th century.

Kiosks and pavilions were built at places where the dawn could best be watched or where the moonlight shone on the water or where autumn foliage was seen to advantage or where the wind made music in the bamboos.

Its plastic qualities are seen to advantage everywhere here: in a large figure of the Buddha's disciple Kasyapa, depicted as a beak-nosed foreigner; in the forms of two gleefully swaying little bodhisattvas who look as if they can barely suppress a laugh; and in the tiny figure of a Buddhist angel, flying in a steamlined cloud of drapery over a gallery door.

No fellow chimp was seen to take advantage of his disability.

And Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade was never seen to better advantage, thanks to its new zigzag route.

But certain artists are seen to better advantage in the smaller-scale spaces of the Museum of African art itself.

Not surprisingly, the photographer's distinctive style -- tonally bold, sparely decorative -- is seen to particular advantage at this scale.

Brian Dennehy, as the A's manager, and Fred Ward, as Ryan's father, have been seen to better advantage.