Sentence examples for work seized from inspiring English sources

The painting it wants to keep is "Portrait of Wally" (1912), a work seized by Nazis that has been at the center of a restitution case.

When Mr. Morris suggested he do the job, Mr. Alterman, now possessed by the idea of promoting his friend's work, seized the opportunity.

Schubert wrote songs in bursts, on the back of restaurant menus, when the mood took him, or when a particular poet's work seized him; it's probably true to say that all Schumann's most famous songs were written in one emotionally momentous year, that of his marriage, 1840.

But its rivals, the hungry two other top-tier consultancies Bain & Co. and the Boston Consulting Group, are surely gleeful today, and will get to work seizing whatever advantage they can tomorrow.

J as well has had a great impact in the market and on our culture, providing leadership in design, and in creating a passionate and involved Xbox community, and earlier being at the center of our work seizing the importance of the Web for the company.

The PCGG was unable to say immediately whether any or all of the 15 works seized might be authentic or duplicates, or forgeries.

Munich argued that those principles were applicable only to art taken from Jews, not works seized as part of the "degenerate art" purge.

The Degas, "Count Lepic and His Daughters" (circa 1871), he said, was less impressive than the other works seized and inferior to the artist's best portraits.

Some of the works seized in the apartment appear to resemble the titles of works that were in the custody of American and German investigators sent to safeguard cultural treasures in the late 1940s, said Marc Masurovsky, founder of the Holocaust Art Research Project.

As these paintings emerge, Cuban families are increasingly active in trying to reclaim what was once theirs, in the way that European Jews and their heirs have sought to recover works seized by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

But she did an admirable job, reeling off words like "rosewood" and "allegory" as she led me through climate-controlled rooms that housed medieval tapestries, works seized from the Nazis still in their original German-labeled crates, a war tent given by an Ottoman sultan to Empress Catherine II, and the grand finale — a hall housing the Hermitage's magnificent horse-drawn carriage collection.