Sentence examples for was perfecting from inspiring English sources

A quarter of a century after Marilyn's death, Madonna was perfecting her Monroe look.

The biggest challenge was perfecting the colors of the polluted water and soiled creatures.

I wanted everyone to be stronger, to embrace the stoicism I was perfecting.

She was perfecting a technique that she had begun developing in her first published novel, Sense and Sensibility.

So, in the 1900s, as Mr. Wright was perfecting the Prairie Style in the Midwest, Caroline Pratt perfected the building block.

And if my dad never did get around to making garlic ice cream, it was only because he was perfecting his garlic-laced gazpacho sorbet.

COOPER UNION -- At the time Otis was perfecting his safety elevator, Peter Cooper was making plans for an academy on Astor Place.

He was perfecting a recent invention -- grilled octopus with watermelon pickle -- inspired by the Japanese barbecue he tasted when he worked as a chef in Tokyo.

The most blatant is "RED, WHITE AND TUNA," the climactic chapter of the satirical Tuna Trilogy, which was perfecting blue-collar comedy before there was such a thing.

In the early 50's, while traveling in Europe, he was perfecting a style characterized by harsh tones, emphatic shapes, blur and tilted angles.

At the same time, Ike was perfecting the art of leading while leaving no trace -- the "hidden hand" for which he would be known while in the White House.