Sentence examples for threw upon from inspiring English sources

The critic William Hazlitt, for whom Rembrandt was indisputably "a man of genius," described him in 1817 as "the least commonplace in his grossness of all men" and "the least fastidious of the imitators of nature," for "he took any object, he cared not what, how mean soever in form, colour and expression, and from the light and shade which he threw upon it, it came out gorgeous from his hands".

The deal was thrown upon us".

At the lonely rectory in Somersby the children were thrown upon their own resources.

What other master, then, do you wait for, to throw upon that the delay of reforming yourself?

If so, the risk should not fairly be thrown upon the promisor". Williston, Contracts (Rev. ed.) § 1931 19388).

Nor, I submit, is any light thrown upon the present question by the history of legislation in Great Britain about seamen.

Pretty pretty "Inside" Empty used up and thrown out so much trash thrown upon a pile what is left?

Their built-in glow is so intense that it can match whatever electric wattage is thrown upon them.

Hence it may naturally be supposed that the risk of a man's conduct is thrown upon him as the result of some moral short-coming.

Much of the financial burden of providing for the starving Irish peasantry was thrown upon the Irish landowners themselves (through local poor relief) and British absentee landowners.

"War is inherently inhumane," he writes, "but the Japanese practiced extraordinary refinements of inhumanity in the treatment of those thrown upon their mercy".