Sentence examples for war painted from inspiring English sources

Robert Seldon Duncanson, an African-American artist in Cincinnati before the Civil War, painted portraits of abolitionists and panoramas of harbors, waterfalls and ruins.

Four severe women, faces war painted and bodies bandoliered in striped fabrics — they looked like nautical majorettes — began high-stepping in place and screeching in the upper octaves.

"Bush at War" painted such a flattering portrait of the great leader that the Republican National Committee sold it on its website.

One is a walk-in version of the many half-finished and abandoned houses found throughout a country torn by civil war: painted in pretty pastels, it looks like a chapel or a child's playhouse.

Why don't we remember Khartoum and Omdurman, or The Last Stand at Isandlwana, a harrowing moment in the Zulu war painted as a General Custer-style act of desperate heroism in 1885 by Charles Edwin Fripp?

Sheenah Shirakhon, an Iranian Jew who grew up in San Francisco, took off the blouse and red skirt she had worn while speaking at the podium, revealing a silver bikini top that had "NO WAR" painted across it and shorts with "IN IRAN" painted across the back.

Carrie's War paints a poignant and realistic picture of what the second world war was like for a child.

Mr. K ler focuses on the Civil War, painting famous battle scenes, portraits of admirals and generals from both sides of the conflict, and domestic interludes.

Her father's secret war paints a tableau of an evasive figure.

The man who led his country into four wars painted himself as a peacemaker and Nato as the aggressors, with Serbs the victims of an international conspiracy.

Earlier this year Del Naja's own return to the art world materialised with a major exhibition of new paintings, War Paint.