Example Sentences

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“To create the sense — as we know from classical painting — of the pictures’ worlds seeming to unfold as we study them, uninflected by the presence of an intrusive photographer-shaper,” he said.

From New York Times • Jul. 12, 2022

Both went viral, doing the pictures’ marketing for them.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2017

Dunn and Boyd agreed that any post-screening Q&As and talk-backs should involve, in part, the pictures’ implications during the time they were originally released.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2017

No other work in “Glass Giant” is quite that standoffish, but Gubbiotti does use various gambits to emphasize his pictures’ status as physical objects rather than mere images.

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2017

All the vulgarized associations with Puritanism and abominable little ‘Scripture tales and pictures’ peel off here, and the inimitably truthful representation of life and character—not a flattering one certainly—comes out, and it feels like Homer. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet