Sentence examples for white owing from inspiring English sources

In solid form it is grayish white, owing to the formation of an oxide film on its surface, but when freshly cast or cut it has a bright, silvery appearance.

Cheke and Hume believe the painted specimen was white, owing to albinism.

And on Sundays, on their day off, you can see them on the street in groups, in white, owing through the street, their spirits shining from having attended church, the condition of servitude briefly lifted.

The two dark diagonal quadrants seen in panel (a) will be replaced by quadrants of a much lighter shade (but not white, owing to the fact that the word-content of a chromosome has a fair degree of homogeneity), with a black, narrow diagonal strip running through it.

Similarly, nucleotide variation in the gene phytoene synthase (Y1), which makes maize kernels yellow, was only 5.3% of that in the gene that makes them white, owing to the human preference for yellow grains, which have higher nutritional value [ 16].

The composition of "Townscape, Paris," painted in shades of black, gray and white, owes something to aerial photography, but the crisscross brushstrokes reduce what might have been a figural picture to near abstraction.

And you certainly wouldn't want to urge a child to model himself after an impostor!" As a young man I felt White owed it to me to bring more of his mess or mice into play.

As the black intellectual W. E. B. Du Bois later wrote, "Thus to a frail overburdened Yankee woman with a steadfast moral purpose we Americans, both black and white, owe our gratitude for the freedom and the union that exist today in these United States".

The artist's use of black and white owes something to ancient cave paintings, to the tradition of tonal painting known as grisaille, to Picasso's interest in classical sculpture and to his own Spanish heritage and artists like El Greco, Velázquez, and Goya, who worked in black.

During the early years of cinema, black characters had traditionally been played by corked-up whites, owing to fear of offending white Southern audiences, who ostensibly refused to countenance real Negroes on the screen.

The lighter, fresher style of so many Bordeaux whites owes much to the work of the oenologist Denis Dubourdieu, who also owns Clos Floridene in the Graves.