Sentence examples for through spectacles from inspiring English sources

In the late 19th century, artists began to look at the world through spectacles tinged absinthe green and suicidal black.

Peering through spectacles that made his eyes seem abnormally large, he confessed with some embarrassment that he had come for me the previous day.

He peers through spectacles – his myopia is so severe he often has to act without being able to see very much.

In projection instruments the photographs are projected onto a table in different colours so that, through spectacles with lenses of complementary colours, each eye sees only one image, and the operator visualizes a three-dimensional model of the ground.

Instantly, right in front of his distraught siblings, he is transformed into "an elderly gentleman, handsomely but rather dowdily dressed, who was looking down at them through spectacles and asking them the nearest way to the railroad station".

The errant genius of just a few seasons back now wears a business suit, peers through spectacles and sits in governance of his fellow man as an elected Brazilian congressman: the poacher turned gamekeeper.

The spokesman's detestable behaviour could perhaps be read as an attempt to polarize voters through spectacle.

They are searches for what a play might be and how a story might be told – or a reality conveyed through spectacle.

Her portraits, through spectacle, evoke the essence of her subjects' inner self.

Like the hyper-masculinity in Mizer's photographs and Tom's drawings, it disarms establishment power through spectacle and humor. .

"The games a lot of people acknowledge as mature or emotional are really only achieving those things through spectacle," O'Neill says.