Sentence examples for upon the picture from inspiring English sources

"That day, the instant I looked upon the picture, my entire being trembled with some pagan joy," Yukio Mishima wrote of this painting in his 1949 novel "Confessions of a Mask".

In 1936, a docudrama called "I Was a Captive of Nazi Germany" was reluctantly approved — "based solely," according to Breen, "upon the picture's technical conformity to the Production Code" — but it had trouble getting distribution.

This resonant behavior is well understood in the framework of a macroscopic model, based upon the picture of a heterogeneous surface, partitioned into small, independent, self-oscillating domains.

They arrive as he ponders upon the picture in the locket and tries to recall the original of it.

Wilde's lasting fame rests upon The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as De Profundis (From the Depths), a letter to his former lover and betrayer, written in prison.

When Roubina — who was keeping "a beady eye upon the pictures in the interests of her minor children" — discovered that the drawings were gone, she began the legal proceedings that ended in the raid on the apartment.

Despite his "locked-in syndrome," Bauby was able to write the book upon which the picture is based by blinking one letter at a time to his assistant.

She recognized it as her grandmother, Anna Lally Keane (c. 1890 1968); upon seeing the picture, Lawlor snorted Coca-Cola from her nose in astonishment.

(and there's been no shortage of comparing this movie to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and their on-screen pairings, as I did immediately upon seeing the picture's trailer, from Woolf, to The V.I.P.s to Boom!) Vanessa is the quieter, less braying and more beautiful Martha, the childless wife who considers herself a lousy partner.

Upon examination of the picture, you'll both determine that her ass is, indeed, hanging out.

As Fox Solomon, who is now eighty-five, tells it, Walker gasped upon seeing the pictures, and said that they recalled the murders of civil-rights leaders.