Sentence examples for spot of colour from inspiring English sources

The bill is strong and slightly hooked and in some species shows a spot of colour.

They provided a rare spot of colour in otherwise grey lives; many people decorated their walls with such images (unintentionally, the paper also proved useful as insulation).The alliance between art and the party weakened almost as soon as commercial advertising started again in 1979.

Someone blind since birth and newly made to see would not originally perceive everything before him as if it were a "point" (i.e., an unextended spot of colour), but would experience "light distributed (répandue) in every direction [outwards as well as above, below, to the left and to the right]" (Essay I.vi. §§12, 14).

For the eyes, you just dab a small spot of colour wherever you want the eyes to be.

Time for pictures by the record-breaking 25-foot pencil and a spot of colouring-in at the Cumberland Pencil Museum, before dad drags daughter round the new Bond Museum next door and gets all misty eyed about Roger Moore's Lotus Esprit Turbo from For Your Eyes Only, which he owned a Dinky Car version of as a child.

Othon Friesz found the emotional connotations of the bright Fauve colours a relief from the mediocre Impressionism he had practiced; Raoul Dufy developed a carefree ornamental version of the bold style; and Georges Braque created a definite sense of rhythm and structure out of small spots of colour, foreshadowing his development of Cubism.

Van patterned cats had small spots of colour near the head and tail, and occasionally one or a few pigmented spots on the dorsal or lateral side; hence a more extreme white expression than bicolour.

These spots of colour can be clustered to highlight the presence of patterns of support/ rejection, by rearranging rows and columns separately for genes and topologies, so that they correspond to a dendrogram from hierarchical clustering.

There are spots of high colour on his cheeks that make him look, oddly, rather vulnerable and take the menace out of his pointy incisors.

In fact, she resembled a stiff peg doll, thin and hard, with a peg nose and two spots of high colour on her wooden cheeks.

Fatty streaks (lesion type II) macroscopically were stripes and spots of yellow colour, slightly standing out over the vessel surface.