Sentence examples for upon image from inspiring English sources

Piling image upon image, texture upon scent, she constructs a natural world both palpable and oppressive.

In this lovely sonnet, image is piled upon image as Herbert tries to convey what prayer is like, and what he believes prayer achieves.

As Kubo wanders through the movie's notionally medieval-Japanese setting, director Travis Knight and the Laika staff offer up image upon image of ruin, the little boy stark against empty buildings and abandoned temples.

The tactic here is basically pornographic — arouse the viewer with image upon image of what lies just beyond her reach — and the film makes feeble attempts to rein it in.

She does have a tendency to crowd her prose with similes and metaphors, some working better than others, and at times image piled upon image with no room to breathe threatens to overwhelm the characters.

Early last year, the company introduced a new model that improved upon image quality and framing of the first generation, while lowering the price point.

Yet there is another curious, and less remarked-upon, image in the ad.

Throughout Valencia's history, urban discourse has availed itself of biological and medical metaphors, even metaphors drawn from the field of physics, in order to construct a generally agreed-upon image of the urban society at particular historical moment.

I came upon images of children holding entrails.

He does not picture her in real life, strangled by a scarf, but plays upon images from her dances.

Seventy years later, in an age of multinational corporations and virtual reality, Walter B. Chrysler's glorious 77-story Art Deco tower may again become a powerful symbol for a new generation of automakers whose fortunes are as dependent upon images and Wall Street as engines and the open road.