Sentence examples for twisted figures from inspiring English sources

As the music started, huddled masses walked slowly across the stage: twisted figures, presumably the condemned souls whose ranks Faust would soon join.

The most obvious reference is to the 20th-century modernist Alberto Giacometti, in particular his scarred and twisted figures of walking men from the 1940s and '50s.

In Walker's work, slavery is a nightmare from which no American has yet awakened: bondage, ownership, the selling of bodies for power and cash have made twisted figures of blacks and whites alike, leaving us all scarred, hateful, hated, and diminished.

Ten weeks after a judging controversy at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City twisted figure skating into a pretzel, the International Skating Union remains at the center of doubts about the sport's credibility.

After graphite was intercalated by formyl acid and exfoliated by microwaver, graphite flakes were elongated in the C axis (Figure 2a,b,c,d) and became worm-like (Figure 2a) and twisted (Figure 2b,c), but also formed lot of porous structure (Figure 2d,e,f).

Interestingly, fibrils were twisted (Figure 6B).

But Michelangelo shows up anyway as a huge force in El Greco's paintings, Michelangelesque twisting figures absented of their weight.

The twisting figure and modernized drapery give the Venus great nobility.

The societal misfits who narrate Yamaguchi's life story are twisted, compelling figures drawn to the movies as an escape from dead-end lives, part sycophants, part outsiders basking in Yamaguchi's reflected glory.

Remember Robert Longo's twisting figures and the endless conjecture of whether they were dancing or being shot?

Beginning in 1734 Legarda carved masterful sculptures of the Virgin of the Apocalypse that reveal the spatial extension characteristic of Baroque sculpture from the period; because his twisting figures demanded more space than had previous sculptures, they could no longer be confined within a small niche of a retable.