Sentence examples for urban figures from inspiring English sources

Mr. Urban figures that ought to appeal to Prius-driving, organic-eating Democrats.

Two shaping elements were an early love of Edward Hopper's art and a college study of graphic design, both evident in the imagery she developed: alone-in-a-crowd urban figures projected in bold, black silhouette against checkerboard and paisley-patterned grounds.

Walter Benjamin more famously characterized the flâneur as an essential urban figure, an amateur detective and investigator of urbanity.

But has this happy turn for the city prompted the death of the street-smart New Yorker, once as large an urban figure as the opinionated cabby?

The lottery's lawyers argued at one point that the Little Tramp was a generic early-century urban figure, neither created by Chaplin nor uniquely associated with him.

Bernard himself emerges as a wholly urban figure who, in occasional excursions to the country, discovers that "all those trees and all that grass drain the spirit".

Of course Mr. Sarkozy is also seen as an urban figure, a lawyer with no roots in rural France, and, although Roman Catholic, of Jewish ancestry on his mother's side.

Beyond the ring of eight miles, around this new urban figure in the making, the suburb lives very well.

A recycling process of urban figure that generates new value by assigning new meanings to what already exists.

The post-metropolis is an urban figure that take advantage on spatial effects of an economical and social organization based on new media.

It is a process of recycling urban figure that generates new values through the assignment of a new sense of what is there.