Sentence examples for trying to depict a from inspiring English sources

In the coalition government, he often resembled someone trying to depict a limp handshake through the medium of interpretive dance.

In trying to depict a facsimile of reality, the opera only underlined its own clumsiness — the reality it's based on is smoother, more sophisticated and simply better.

Despite the Marlowes' being portrayed by actors, "we're trying to depict a real family, not a stylized one," Mr. Alexander said, "and the real issues families are facing".

This chimes with the non-specificity of Cook's narrative; rather than "trying to depict a real country in a specific way", Haydon explains that "it asks you to look at the underlying processes of a revolution" and the ways in which power can "warp reality".

But Pereira is nonetheless a modernist, and rather than trying to depict a painterly narrative in music, he was more attracted to the meaning of techniques — how, for instance, Francisco de Zurbarán's use of light alters perspective in the Spanish painter's only still life, "Still Life With Lemons, Oranges and a Rose". There were no reproductions (or even descriptions of the paintings) provided.

Batsheva's choreographies never try to depict a real situation, but instead aim to provoke an interior effect.

The industry, promoting a tougher bankruptcy law that President Bush is likely to sign, has tried to depict a culture of spendthrift deadbeats.

"Rice Boy," based on Mr. Kuruvilla's memories of childhood trps to India, does not try to depict a cross section or intertwining of two cultures.

But after a terrible misstep with her last novel, "Child of My Heart," which clumsily tried to depict a relationship between a teenage girl and a lecherous septuagenarian, Ms. McDermott has returned to the territory she knows best: the family (specifically, the Irish middle-class family, around the 1960's).

Dos Passos never managed or even tried to depict a fully realized inner life, and his experimentalism, his technique of narrating characters externally in the vernacular of their own voices, prevented him from achieving the tragic effects of Dreiser's clumsier, more earthbound realism, though the picture of American dreaming is just as dark.

For example, he said, the recently opened Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios Hollywood tries to depict a mythical Scottish town where commercial ads might disrupt the magical atmosphere.