Sentence examples for was shaped as from inspiring English sources

It too embodied neoclassical principles but was shaped as a perfect octagon.

Last year it was shaped as a honeybee; the current theme is a pig, in honor of the Chinese Year of the Golden Pig.

Capra called Grant Hollywood's greatest farceur, but the role was shaped as if for Fred MacMurray, and Grant was pushed into frenzied overreacting — prolonging his stupefied double takes, stretching out his whinny.

Viewed from the end of the cold war, the long struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union was shaped as much by divisions within the Communist world — Russia and China, most prominently — as by the confrontation with the United States, and vice versa.

Having grown up in a hard-working, somewhat unsophisticated, provincial region of south-west Germany, his character was shaped as a boarder at VfB Stuttgart's youth academy, which has a code of conduct requiring the young players to say a proper "Good morning" to any member of staff they encounter.

If she does, her biography will fall under a more powerful microscope, and what voters are likely to find is the story of an ambitious woman who has experienced poverty and wealth, is not as partisan as her detractors might think and was shaped as much by her single electoral defeat as by the unbroken string of victories ever since.

It is shaped as much by the margins as the mainstream.

Taste is shaped as much by listening experience and national musical culture as by scholarship or individual personality.

The entire rind of each wheel of authentic Parmigiano is imprinted with the name as the cheese is being shaped, as well as the month and the year.

But, except in "American High," the circumstances of their lives are shaped as carefully as any fiction, the players chosen with just as keen an eye for dramatic conflict.

I am an Indian, and my history has been shaped as much by the institutions of this empire as by a long tradition of struggle against them.