Sentence examples for shape familiar from inspiring English sources

But they shape familiar sounds into something that sounds fresh.

A nearby headstone is inscribed with a weeping beech, its shape familiar from Colonial funerary paintings and samplers, and also, as it happens, from the gardens of New Castle.

A batch of the postcards, written between 1901 and 1928 and found by Heinrich's grandchildren among his daughter's effects, scroll down a giant flat-screen monitor here at the Buddenbrookhaus museum, set in the speech-bubble shape familiar from text messages.

Poems with titles such as "Never-to-be" and "Winter Dusk", always liable to spring up amid the "Bunches of Grapes", were now taking over: "The Last Guest", "Never Again", "Never Yet", "In a Churchyard", "The Bourne", "This Is the End", "No" and "No, No, No!" The enemy was death, of course, taking a shape familiar to readers of 19th-century literature: growing up.

(It features many of the twisting shapes familiar from his architecture, but what is revolutionary in a building is merely pleasant in a necklace).

Recalling the war, Bartle says, is "like putting a puzzle together from behind: the shapes familiar, the picture quickly fading, the muted tan of the cardboard backing a tease at wholeness and completion".

Dr Makris and his team noticed that, in the transition from tenth-century fithele to 18th-century violin, the holes on top of the sound box evolved from simple circles to the complex, elongated f-shapes familiar in today's instruments.

The work seems to bloom among the plants in a variety of colors and shapes, familiar if you've ever seen one of Chihuly's garden installations like the one currently at the Dallas Arboretum (through November 5, 2012).

Meanwhile, his light sculptures are attempts to create dimensionalities that merge the formless, unexplained miasmas usually associated with space, and humbler shapes familiar to our everyday lives: a cube or a pyramid.

The stimuli involved in the task are only simple geometric square shapes, familiar to most all individuals.

It's a fabulous collection of the artist's assemblages that riff on the shape and familiar essence of the folk guitar.