Pictorial Sentence Examples

No mention is anywhere made of a hieroglyphical writing, but on the eastern frontier the medicine-men or tomba of the Moso have a peculiar pictorial writing, which is known in Europe from two published MSS.

Their general purport is shown in many cases by pictorial figures relating to various objects which appear on them - such as chariots and horses, ingots and metal vases, arms and implements, stores of corn, &c., flocks and herds.

Many of the feature articles were largely pictorial, with an emphasis on historical British aircraft.

In the days of its greatest power Rhodes became famous as a centre of pictorial and plastic art; it gave rise to a school of eclectic oratory whose chief representative was Apollonius Molon, the teacher of Cicero; it was the birthplace of the Stoic philosopher Panaetius; the home of the poet Apollonius Rhodius and the historian Posidonius.

Pictorial art of a purely indigenous character, whether on ceramic material or plaster, made great strides, and from ceramic forms we may legitimately infer also a high skill in metallurgy.

So perfectly does the modern Japanese embroiderer elaborate his scheme of values that all the essential elements of pictorial effectschiaroscuro, aerial perspective and atmosphere are present in his work.

Of the epic poets of the Silver Age P. Papinius Statius (c. 45-96) shows the greatest technical skill and the richest pictorial fancy in the execution of detail; but his epics have no true inspiring motive, and, although the recitation of the Thebaid could attract and charm an audience in the days of Juvenal, it really belongs to the class of poems so unsparingly condemned both by him and Martial.

Reinach, therefore, supposes that in the Stone age which succeeded, pictorial art was banned because it had got into the hands of magicians and had come to be regarded as inevitably uncanny and malefic. This is certainly the secret of the ordinary Mahommedan prohibition of pictures and statues, which goes even to the length of denying to poor little Arab girls the enjoyment of having dolls.

Most of the websites that carry patio furniture repair parts also provide detailed and easy to understand directions, online instructional videos, or pictorial how-to guides.

The inlay is typically for a medallion or larger pictorial floor, ceiling, columns, or walls.

By entering in a couple of addresses, you can find pictorial routes with distances between each new turn.

You can plug "birthday cake ideas" or "birthday cake designs" into any major Internet search engine to get a list of URL and pictorial results that are easy to browse.

Katie Price's modeling career took off in 1996 when she appeared in The Sun as part of the "Page 3" pictorial.

In the mid-1990s, Fawcett agreed to a pictorial in Playboy magazine, perhaps to once again boost her pin-up status.

Lefebvre will appear on the cover of the June issue as well as a pictorial of nude photos in the issue.

And, just to ensure that she continues to gain a little of the spotlight, news of a Kardashian cover and pictorial for Playboy has just been revealed.

Not only did she get a ten page pictorial, she also made the cover.

Heidi Montag's Playboy pictorial is coming soon to a newsstand near you.

Nope, Heidi Montag's Playboy pictorial isn't going to work in her favor, career wise anyway.

Texas A & M University provides an extensive pictorial research section on various tomato diseases on their website.

This site, which labels itself as where all the bad shirts go, will provide you with a pictorial preview of each offensive tee they carry, while also giving you adequate color and sizing options.

You can either follow pictorial directions or download videos.

On the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons website, there is a helpful pictorial guideline to performing a variety of stretches for every part of the body, including the shoulders, lower back, hips, knees, calves, and hamstrings.

The pictorial was expanded for this year's issue, based on the popularity of the spread in last year's video game issue.

Pictorial Genealogy is a company that sells genealogy charts featuring photographs, and they have a very nice example of a descendant chart.

Electric Scotland offers a pictorial tour through the beautiful countryside and cities, giving children an up close and personal view of the country.

This is why pictorial and model-based activities can make a tremendous amount of difference when it comes to math.

Golden Gate National Recreational Area offers up-to-date news on Alcatraz Island, plus pictorial tours of its military, prison and Indian occupation years.

Members post their projects either as written, pictorial or video instructions and anyone can view them.

A gorgeous pictorial tat can speak for itself.

This pictorial language has characters that are intricate, and each stands for a whole word in the English language.

In parts of Asia, tattoos using different colored dyes were being seen, as well as more detailed pictorial tattoos using black inks.

The tattoos will generally consist of one or more symbols intertwined into one graphic pictorial.

Kat fans will be delighted to learn that she is currently working on a pictorial timeline of her art, hand-in-hand with Harper Collins publishing.

This pictorial representation of a stylized eye conveys protection and was used on the tomb of kings to impart protection in the afterlife.

This innovative Vinyasa card series is a helpful pictorial of many asanas used in Vinyasa flow.

The following websites offer pictorial guides to sport stretches.

A pictorial history of Girl Scout Uniforms is available on the official website of the Girl Scouts of the USA.

As many as one hundred and thirty-seven painters and pictorial students passed through his school, established towards 1440, which became famous all over Italy.

This connexion of Andrea with the pictorial rival of Squarcione is generally assigned as the reason why the latter became alienated from the son of his adoption, and always afterwards hostile to him.

There is evidence that the use in Crete of both linear and pictorial signs existed in the Early Minoan period, contemporary with the first Egyptian dynasties.

His power of rapid and exhaustive observation and of accurate pictorial reproduction was phenomenal.

Believing that the pendulum had overshot its swing from conventional classicality towards pictorial realism, he turned from the " fleshy " school towards the Greek, while realizing the artistic necessity for modern feeling.

In the deepest part of the excavations, however, inscribed clay tablets and fragments of stone vases are still found, though the cuneiform characters upon them are of a very archaic type, and sometimes even retain their primitive pictorial forms.

The race who first developed it spoke an agglutinative language, and to them was due the invention of the pictorial hieroglyphs which became the running-hand or cuneiform characters of later days, as well as the foundation of the chief cities of the country and the elements of its civilization.

The art was one of imperfect evolution, but for thirteen centuries it was the only living pictorial art in the world, and the Chinese deserve the honor of having created landscape painting.

The books illustrated by the men of this school were mainly collections of useful information, guide-books, romances and historical and religious compilations; but much of the best of their work is to be found in the collections of pictorial designs, very often taken from Chinese sources, which were produced for the use of workers in lacquer, pottery and similar crafts.

The pillars, architraves, ceilings, panels, and almost every available part of the structure, are covered with arabesques and sculptured figures of dragons, lions, tigers, birds, flowers, and even pictorial compositions with landscapes and figures, deeply carved in solid or open workthe wood sometimes plain, sometimes overlaid with pigment and gilding, as in the panelled ceiling of the chapel of Iyeyasu in Tokyo.

The plate thus obtained shows accidental clouding, or massing of dark tones, and these patches are taken as the basis of a pictorial design to which final character is given by inlaying with gold and silver, and by kata-kiri sculpture.

So perfectly does the modern Japanese embroiderer elaborate his scheme of values that all the essential elements of pictorial effects chiaroscuro, aerial perspective and atmosphere are present in his work.

The dominant feature of the designs is pictorial.

In the products of the KiOto branch the decoration generally covered the whole surface of the piece; in the products of the other branch the artist aimed rather at pictorial effect, placing the design in a monochromatic field of low tone.

It is an easily traced outgrowth of the second branch of the Cloisonless first school just described, for one can readily underEameis stand that from placing the decorative design in a monochromatic field of low tone, which is essentially a pictorial method, development would proceed in the direction of concealing the mechanics of the art rn, order to enhance the pictorial effect.

In his Commentaries, by laying aside the ornaments of oratory, he created the most admirable style of prose narrative, the style which presents interesting events in their sequence of time and dependence on the will of the actor, rapidly and vividly, with scarcely any colouring of personal or moral feeling, any oratorical passion, any pictorial illustration.

The practice of inducing pictorial hallucinations by such methods as these has been traced among the natives of North and South America, Asia, Australia, Africa, among the Maoris, who sometimes use a drop of blood, and in Polynesia, and is thus practically of world-wide diffusion.

A person can either induce the pictorial hallucinations (he may discover his capacity by accident, like George Sand, as she tells in her Memoirs - and other cases are known), or he cannot induce them, though he stare till his eyes water.

The Jews were as well able as their neighbours to fashion golden calves, snakes and the minor idols called teraphim, when their legislator, in the words we have just cited, forbade the ancillary use of all plastic and pictorial art for religious purposes.

Motives drawn from homoeopathic magic may thus explain the occasional disuse and prohibition of pictorial and plastic Xiv.

Pictorial representations in early manuscripts, and the rude effigies on their coins, are not very helpful in deciding as to the form of crown worn by the Anglo-Saxon and Danish kings of England before the Norman Conquest.

In comparing these ruins in Yucatan, Chiapas, Guatemala and Honduras, it is evident that, though they are the work of two or more nations highly distinct in language, yet these nations had a common system of pictorial or written characters.

Lossing's Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution (2 vols., New York, 1850-1859), not always accurate, but preserves local traditions and details.

This, however, did not represent any definite rule; and the orphreys of chasubles were decorated with a great variety of pictorial subjects, scriptural or drawn from the stories of the saints, while the rest of the vestment was either left plain or, if embroidered, most usually decorated with arabesque patterns of foliage or animals.

These copies are invaluable as being the only evidence we now have of pictorial art in India before the rise of Hinduism.

On arriving in London he was engaged in the preparation of various serial publications of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, the most important of which were the Pictorial History of Palestine and the Pictorial Bible.

But though about this time he had got ready all or most of the materials for his fundamental work on Body, not even now was he able to make way with its composition, 1 The book, of which the copies are rare (one in Dr Williams's library in London and one in the Bodleian), was printed in quarto size (Paris, 1642), with a pictorial title-page (not afterwards reproduced) of scenes and figures illustrating its three divisions, " Libertas," " Imperium," " Religio."

In several of the earlier editions of this work very ample details are furnished regarding the same, with malty interesting pictorial illustrations of the processes of production.

Its elements in the hieroglyphic form are pictorial, but each hieroglyph had one or more well-defined functions, fixed by convention in such a manner that the Egyptian language was expressed in writing word by word.

The most importai* pictorial tombs of Beni Hasan belong to this age; the great princes appear to have largely quarried stone for their palaces, and to have cut the quarry in the form of a regular chamber, which served for the tomb chapel.

These two magnificent folios, though first published in London between 1842 and 1845, give the best pictorial representation of the Alhambra.

The tablet itself was in October 1907 removed by Chinese officials into the city proper, and placed in the Pei Lin or "forest of tablets," a museum in which are collected tablets of the Han, Tang, Sung, Yuen and Ming dynasties, some of which bear historical legends, notably a set of stone tablets having the thirteen classics inscribed upon them, while others are symbolical or pictorial; among these last is a full-sized likeness of Confucius.

His Pictorial FieldBook of the Revolution (first issued in 30 parts, 1850-1852, and then in 2 volumes) was a pioneer work of value in American historical literature.

Further, numerous pictorial representations of flax culture and preparation exist to the present day on the walls of tombs and in Egypt.

His History of the Christian Church, already mentioned, resembled Neander's work, though less biographical, and was pictorial rather than philosophical.

The pictorial art of the Tasmanians was poor and childish, quite below that of the Palaeolithic men of Europe.

In one of the sections of his projected Treatise on Painting, Leonardo has detailed at length, and obviously from his own observation, the pictorial aspects of a battle.

The certainties of religious faith are matter of feeling or immediate assurance, and are expressed in the pictorial language of imagination.

For him, as for Strauss, the unity of God and man is the central truth, of which Christ's atoning death is a sort of pictorial symbol.

Nilus, the disciple and defender of Chrysostom, permitted the symbol of the cross in churches and also pictorial delineations of Old and New Testament history, but deprecated other symbols, pictures of martyrs, and most of all the representation of Christ.

But tho the general import of their message is clear enough, the details of Bosch's pictorial language are still enigmatic.

The original fractal, this is a pictorial representation of a complex equation to describe systems with a hierarchy of repeating patterns.

New Style of poster design which this work heralded, is Lautrec's skill for pictorial simplification and abbreviation.

Most important to the distinctive New Style of poster design which this work heralded, is Lautrec's skill for pictorial simplification and abbreviation.

Use pictures and memory hooks to provide pictorial and memory hooks for sounds.

To be found in large format pictorial glazed boards are 96 printed pages.

From a purely pictorial point of view, his films are among the most beautiful ever made.

A mainly pictorial, induction level, 16 page, full color booklet that instructs new employees on the essentials of food hygiene.

This top quality book will be highly pictorial, with leading case studies of achievement, relevant to both businesses and schools alike.

The shapes and sizes of the words and the way they are put on the page is also pictorial and part of the message.

There are usually two or three long articles in each issue - with a mostly pictorial content.

To be found in landscape pictorial glazed boards are 80 printed pages of 87 all color photographs, the majority being full page.

Providing good quality pictorial content for those with a visual learning style â we always include information packs in our training courses.

This holiday offers a blend of spectacular autumn landscapes, pictorial nature photography and rutting red deer.

Content Technical Graphics I Apply manual techniques of pictorial representation to suit subject matter.

Hans Makart's painted dome in the natural history museum is the largest pictorial canvas in the world.

Tradition credits him with an especial genius for the delineation of animals and landscape, and commemorates his skill by a curious anecdote of a painted horse which left its frame to ravage the fields, and was reduced to pictorial stability only by the sacrifice of its eyes.

Lorenzo Costa was much associated with Francia in pictorial work.

In pictorial art Agni is always represented as red, two-faced, suggesting his destructive and beneficent qualities, and with three legs and seven arms.

From the early part of the 8th century they began to ornament it with dust of gold or mother-of-pearl, and throughout the Heian epoch (9th to 12th century) they added pictorial designs, though of a formal character, the chief motives being floral subjects, arabesques and scrolls.

The picture drawn may be a caricature, or a misrepresentation of the fact - as that of the father of Demosthenes, " blear-eyed with the soot of the glowing mass," &c. - but it is, with rare exceptions, realistically conceived, and it is brought before us with the vivid touches of a Defoe or a Swift, or of the great pictorial satirist of the 18th century, Hogarth.

It was followed by the Vein Shimbun (Pictorial Newspaper), the first to insert illus.