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Sentence Examples Celebrations to mark the golden jubilee of Reynolds' pub and drapery store at Castle Street, Dunmore were held in the pub earlier this month. Made of wood or metal, decorative rods span the window frame and act as the primary support for the drapery or scarf. Jabach is known to have retouched drawings in his collection, and Viatte suggests that all the drapery studies have suffered this fate. This mother of seven was widowed just after arrival in one of the First Four Ships, and supported the family by opening a small drapery business. He discovers that donning the dusty drapery magically transforms him into a genuine vampire. The lower part of her mantle cascades in regular folds, but the hem represents a noticeable display of wind blown drapery. The stage is stripped of drapery, and lighting battens at various heights form a sloped canopy overhead. The sculptural solidity of the forms and the sharply creased and complex drapery folds are characteristic of the youthful Bronzino. Her parents had been milliners in Clapham, just down the road, and had run a millinery and drapery shop. A sheer, a see-through or sheer fabric usually used as an inner drapery, gives a softening effect to window treatment. There flows a ruddier light through the blood-colored panes, and the blackness of the sable drapery appalls. Many of the large drapery shops have closed and instead a large number of boutiques have opened offering specialised merchandise. He wore a breastplate and leg armour, as well as the expensive, linen drapery around his body. On the right are some vertical oblongs that suggest large, loose drapery and hint at the presence of a human figure. Vintage jewelry can be used as beautiful drapery tie-backs and they make stunning additions to wrapped presents. Top treatments can run the gamut from elaborate swags to a simple piece of fabric tossed casually across a wooden drapery pole. It is dressed with classicizing drapery, rather that contemporary costume, to convey a sense of timeless quality. The artist also parallels the columnar folds of Peace's drapery and the regular fluting of the columns behind her. The flying off and curling of the drapery by the wind serves as an equipoise to balance the projection of the Triton's elbow. Lightening, is a master of fooling, his business as the salesman in Miffin's drapery emporium being exceedingly funny. Show More Sentences The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Braque revived the Western idea of the female nude, also the drapery depicted is another traditional element. The drapery is one of the best understood among the modern works, but much inferior to the aforementioned antiques. The rhetorical quality of gesture and patterns of drapery are influenced by ancient sculpture. Manet even kept the screen and drapery of Boucher's painting, but transposed them from right to left, as in a mirror image. In Dang, elaborate folds of drapery and heads of big hair, viewed from behind, are the predominant motifs. But the perfection of this statue consists principally in its drapery, for it is totally clothed. While other sculptors made use of clinging drapery, they rarely did so with naturalistic consistency. The set designed by Rosas consisted of gauzy drapery of brilliant yellow hung in scallops across the center stage, while a somber gray archway loomed behind it upstage center. We can detect a loosening of the brush in some of Garofalo's other paintings, notably in the drapery and visually resonant landscape of the Suxena Altarpiece. Be sure to attach to a drapery holdback that is secured to the wall. A smile touched his lips as he recalled how bored and frustrated he was with her drapery samples, carpet swatches, and catalogs of furniture and linens. Bending, with a breaking heart, I touched the marble drapery with my lips, then crept back into the silent house. Choosing their own fabric rather than buying a ready-made drapery also enables homeowners to make coordinating cushions or to cover a chair with the same material. Her right hand shields her pubic area, while her left arm is raised at the elbow and her left hand holds a piece of drapery that falls onto an amphora. Her subjects are usually depicted with faraway Botticelli eyes and zaftig physiques, placed amid quasi-Platonic iconographic schemes and classical-looking drapery. Frank Gehry's first building on a rural site is a model performance complex clad in swishing, sensuous steel drapery that animates its Arcadian campus setting. This approach to drapery was at odds with the spectrum of mainstream contemporary sculpture as practiced by both its most and least innovative exponents. She threw on the black silk scarf, whose simple drapery suited as well her shape as its dark hue set off the purity of her dress and the fairness of her face. Within Duquesnoy's circle, the well-established association between Greek sculpture and the nude seems to have held clear implications for the rendering of drapery. Show More Sentences The highly unusual drapery of the bronze statue in Milan is, we believe, fashioned in direct reference to this legend, tying the statue to this originary image. She asks how the accomplished writer approached the less familiar task of curating an exhibition that explored the drama of drapery from the early Renaissance. A drapery scarf is sometimes added to this dress, of white barege, with the ends in stripes of gold across, and finished by a splendid and gossamer-like fringe of white silk. Other times, the professional eavesdropper subconsciously shields himself with wire fences, translucent plastic sheeting, and window drapery to deflect prying questions. But raising the right arm instead of the left or veiling a nude figure with drapery were not the only ways of taking possession of another's image or object. The chairs don't make me squirm, the napery and drapery are the only aspects that sparkle or dazzle and the lighting obscures the scars of my years of debauchery. Among the terracottas found there, were Buddha heads, torsos of bodies and pieces of drapery belongings to Buddha figures of monks and laymen and women profusely decorated. Wrap tassel drapery cords around the pillow and tie them to the chair. The Welsh cloth makers, who lacked capital, produced poor quality drapery for which there was relatively low demand. The painter arranged several items among drapery and began to work. The dancer wears a long, soft drapery, which is never lifted to her ankles. Agility and apparent bonelessness are her characteristics. The drapery should always be perfectly white, of dimity, twilled muslin, or other neat strong material. The weight of elderdom in our family was like a drapery to be taken for granted. In which anyone could at times gratefully hide. At times, he included classical and biblical references and inscriptions, as well as drapery, architecture, and symbolic props. The drapery became more intricate and structured over time, with the cloth forming a tight roll across the chest in later periods. Canada and Thailand, COIT is a leading supplier of carpet, upholstery and drapery cleaning services. His son, Isidore, went on to develop the drapery business and to create a large, fashionable, store. Formerly the Beehive, which served for 75 years as general drapery and millinery shop. The cave decorations consist of stalactites, stalagmites, pillars, drapery, rimstone pools, flowstone, helictites, soda straws, and other unusual crystal formations. These contrast with a well-found orange in Elizabeth's drapery. Show More Sentences Folds of loose netting, much like a window drapery, snag on a fish's tail and fins and wrap the fish up in loose netting as it struggles to escape. In 1865, Morris Wartski, a refugee from the Tsarist pogroms, first established a jewellery business on Bangor's High Street, and then a drapery store. The clothing of Reynolds' sitters was usually painted either by one of his pupils, his studio assistant Giuseppe Marchi, or the specialist drapery painter Peter Toms. Further votive treasures were added to the adornments of the chest over the years, while others were placed on pedestals or beams nearby, or attached to hanging drapery. For all who cross his palm with silver he condescends to lift the drapery that hides the reclining figure, and the larger the coin the longer the look. Examples from Classical Literature Between two smirking waxen women in sheeny drapery he saw that which brought him to a pause and set him gazing. But there was one spot thrown into alto relievo by the sombre drapery of woe. This shows the stipple effect in the face and drapery, and a broken line effect in the background. Only the glass and a thin lace drapery separated her from without, as the storm door had been left open. The artist was working on a picture of a nude Bacchante sprawled on some drapery. They showed the beauties of the female form not apart from, but by the help of, drapery. In this event it may be set into a scarf or drapery of China or surah silk with charming results. The sun had just risen over the hilltops of Lauzon, throwing aside his drapery of gold, purple, and crimson. A lay figure on a divan in the corner, emerged wildly from a trail of drapery. He wears a taenia, and there are traces of drapery which passed over the shoulder. For walls it had the primeval forest, with its drapery of luxuriant foliage. It is true that full drapery seems more consistent with the dignified and august figures of Phidian art. She rose from the couch, her Turkish towelling drapery flowing far behind her small figure. Her light drapery is raised by the breeze, and discovers the beautiful form and morbidezza of her limbs. Behind a statue of Erato, she was sure that she saw coloured drapery floating in the moonlight. There are also florescent details in the halos, drapery, and so forth, which are closer to Agostino di Duccio than to Donatello. Her face, shaded by a drapery of dove blue, was as fair as sculptured marble. She asked to see it, and I wheeled out the easel and threw the drapery back. It came to the surface soon as touched by the grappling iron, which caught in the loose drapery around it. She arose, and with a grand sweep of her drapery, moved toward the door. Show More Sentences In fig. 130 this couching is to be seen in use upon drapery. Drawings of a male body, a female body, and a piece of drapery. Amy saw him coming, and drawing the drapery on one side, smiled at him. Mr. Knight wished Tom to go into the drapery, but Tom would not. It was beyond the verge of the horizons of the drapery trade. The fluting does not look like its ornament, but its drapery. This graceful drapery recalls the chlamyde worn by the Diana of gabies. They forget that drapery about the perfect was suggested by immodesty. The match had fallen on some inflammable drapery and set the place afire. Words are not more than tasteless drapery to obscure their lines. Deprive my figure of all drapery, or upholster it like a window-frame. She raised its drapery, and I saw that the sofa was built of packing cases. There were no drapery curtains at the dormer windows, no pictures on the wall. Thirty first-rate pictures, uniformly framed, separated by bright drapery, ornamented the walls, which were hung with tapestry of severe design. He crept from his hole and stood, hidden by the black drapery, beneath the scaffold. She inherited her mother's gift for devising drapery and costume. The folds of the drapery, the fall of the curtains, had been arranged and rearranged, by Adolph and Rosa, with that nicety of eye which characterizes their race. An Amritzar courtesan near the window sniffed behind her head drapery. She could not reconcile the anxieties of a spiritual life involving eternal consequences, with a keen interest in gimp and artificial protrusions of drapery. Partly shrouded in the voluminous folds of one of the window curtains, which fell from the ceiling to the floor, was seen the white drapery of a lady's robe. Show More Sentences The mantel's chastely severe outline was ingloriously veiled behind some pert drapery drawn rakishly askew like the sashes of the Amazonian ballet. Find more words! 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