Sentence examples for urban faces from inspiring English sources

Unquestionably antique yet eerily familiar, the likenesses suggest that certain urban faces occur and reoccur, reborn, perhaps, in new bodies across the span of time.

And I don't get offered period dramas because somebody out there has decided I've got an urban face.

Among the recent entrants in Barcelona's never-ending urban face-lift is the new five-star Hesperia Tower by the British architect Richard Rogers, who was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honor, last month.

With the flight from countryside to cities accounting for the largest movement of people, above all in Latin America and Asia, Mr. Salgado's photographs also bare humanity's "new urban face," as he puts it: vast unmanageable metropolises scarred by overcrowded shanty-towns, rampant unemployment, environmental degradation, urban violence and pockets of dizzying wealth and privilege.

Dare to dis Vegas, with its yellowed, tattered edges showing everywhere, its billboards for "discount bankruptcy" more ubiquitous than Wayne Newton signs, the urban face for a state with the nation's highest unemployment rate and percentage of homes in foreclosure, and you get a Goodman mouthful.

It is not an urban face.

On his blog, Urban Face, Charles writes that after two years, "portraiture became my medium".

This correlated with research on the urban face of food and nutrition security, emphasising health and food security as important prerequisites for nutrition security, which highlighted the magnitude of rural urban and intra-urban health differences in mortality, morbidity, and malnutrition [ 11, 12].

To help with the moral challenges a modern urban vicar faces, Liam Neeson appears as God to guide Adam when he faces hostility from the neighbouring church.

It can be concluded that improving governance of water management in Zimbabwe's urban areas faces more challenges than in the rural areas.

The Jing-Jin-Ji Urban Agglomeration faces a great challenge to manage trades-offs between narrowing down intra-regional disparity and maintaining regional economic and ecological benefits.