Sentence examples for violent strokes from inspiring English sources

The brushwork applied in violent strokes seems to tear apart the sitter's figure in a way that anticipates German Expressionism by more than three decades.

He hops all over the world, and his method makes it impossible to develop anything in depth, though he handles certain physical things, like Hezbollah's rough way of welcoming guests to Beirut, with masterly violent strokes.

The Rog battled back, relying on a serve that, given its smooth, easy delivery doesn't seem all that intimidating at first blush, not like Roddick's short, violent stroke.

The city is burning; Rembrandt brushed smoke in thin, wild strokes over a dark ground; against this violent holocaust the prophet rests in a disorienting diagonal.

We obtained death certificates of the deceased cases and censored all causes of death that were not related to breast cancer, such as accidents, violent crimes, stroke, heart attack, and liver cirrhosis, in our analysis.

Violent strikes were frequent.

"They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes," he recalled in an interview with The New York Times in 1995.

The parallel is a good one: both investigations concern violent events which at a stroke changed everything.

Violent men die violently.

The application of paint is violent and harried – criss-crossings; short, brutal down strokes; interlocking meshings and spikings.

In the first (in Boston) a full-blown Romanticism is evident in the dense, smokey haze and swift and brutal brush strokes that speak directly to the violent death of the Emperor and his aides.