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sitters
noun
Plural of sitter
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In his paintings hard noon light casts unflattering shadows on his sitters, who grimace and squint in protest.
Like many sitters, Freud's often look forlorn.
Mrs Cameron wanted to show the emotion of her sitters as well as their physical features.
Perhaps in the grim, unflattering expressions of his sitters we can also see traces of the Flemish Renaissance master Hans Memling, whom he admired, as well as the eerie realism of Weimar Germany's "New Objectivity" painters, grafted on to a mid-western homestead.In cultural terms, Wood's masterpiece is harder to read.
These portraits, several of which are in the show, provoke the persistent question: if his sitters can't stay awake for the painter, why should we It is a thought that never intrudes when looking at his luminous variations on the theme of the cherry tree.
More remarkable still, the sitters are the same woman: Berthe Morisot, a fellow painter.
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The heated mood may inspire more of Iran's army of fence-sitters to get out and vote.Their voice could make all the difference.
Others joined him, and for 16 months tree-sitters have been living in the branches.
When Mr Bush said you are either with us or against us, he in effect pushed fence-sitters into the enemy camp.Then there was Iraq.
But after so much killing, and the shattering of hopes, there may not be many fence-sitters left in Baghdad.
It would also allow for an unelected prime minister, should no legislator earn enough support.In this section Base issues A bolly good read A baby-sitters' charter Frittered and frazzled Legal fallout Forty years on ReprintsThe constitution will probably also see the lower house pushed around by an enlarged and more powerful senate.
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