Example Sentences

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At present there is a discord between our pictorial illustrations and our unpictorial type. 

From Reviews by Wilde, Oscar

On these scenes the great painters have lavished all the resources of art; but the narrative of the Gospels is brief and unpictorial.

From The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion by Stalker, James

It is Pope Alexander VI. presenting this very Pesaro to St. Peter; that is, in plain unpictorial prose, giving him the appointment of admiral of the galleys of the Roman states.

From Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

They remark that the character of painted glass is nearly akin to textile decoration, that it is essentially flat and unpictorial.

From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess