Example sentences of "of [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kind he likes he calls ‘ detail ’ , as opposed to ‘ long shots ’ — the equivalent , that is , of the long shots over-used by cameramen of the Iranian Revolution : ‘ it is through details that everything can be shown ’ — that truth can be shown . |
| 2 | This was Ursula of the long blonde hair and double-barrelled baronial-barbaric surname ( withheld by Behrens ) , who had fled what survived of ancestral estates — on one view of the matter — and had made her courageous way across Europe , shot at and winged by border guards , to Vienna , and on to London , where she fell among art historians and was counselled by Anthony Blunt . |
| 3 | But just as the mere thought of the long run is liable to blight any work on which one is engaged , so the thought of a tone distinct from though inseparable from the shit is guaranteed to bring even the most promising project to a halt . |
| 4 | And all this , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , in spite of the awareness , always present , sometimes blinding , of the long perspective , the common fate of all , the eventual overheating of the universe or its eventual overcooling , the end of everything . |
| 5 | By this time they had left the classroom and were walking down one of the long , high-ceilinged corridors of the Faculty building . |
| 6 | Other than that , it was important that she should look interesting so that even if what she said was dull the audience would not be bored ; that the outfit should take account of the long range view — jewellery or other small items were irrelevant — and that it should draw attention to her face . |
| 7 | The best way of escaping from the top-ropers is to go on one of the long classics . |
| 8 | In deference to ageing stalwarts , the Communist Party 's new leader , Jiang Zemin , recently made a pilgrimage to Yenan , the remote village where the Red Army took refuge at the end of the Long March . |
| 9 | Born in the coastal province of Fujian in 1904 , Chen began serving Mao in Yenan , the remote village in northwest China where the Red Army took refuge and regained its strength at the end of the Long March in 1937 . |
| 10 | It is an immediate , positive image which embodies the character of this production , and indeed of the long tradition at Peter Cheeseman 's Vics Old and New . |
| 11 | ‘ Seeing only the whirlpools and counter-currents but not the progress of the long river of history only reveals the observer 's political short-sightedness . ’ |
| 12 | Moon , who led by two strokes half-way through the third round of the Italian Open , made birdies at all five of the long holes . |
| 13 | Many would dismiss Peter Thompson 's pessimism out of hand were it not for the fact that he was the author of a paper in July 1987 , when the market was at its pre-crash high , called ‘ The End of the Long Bull Market ’ . |
| 14 | Anyway , they represent only a fraction of the long distance paths Britain has to offer . |
| 15 | It evoked comparisons with Macmillan 's bloody ‘ night of the long knives ’ in July 1962 . |
| 16 | During one of the long corridor scenes dad falls asleep . |
| 17 | On the southern side she saw the mandarin silks of the beginnings of civilisation and the huge courage of the Long March ; and on the other , to the north , the eternal silence of the greatest desolation . |
| 18 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 19 | The latter is primary ; the emergence , or at least acceleration , of the former a consequence of measures adopted by newly confident conservative states to cope with the re-entry of the world system into a succession of capitalist crises after the exhaustion of the Long Boom . |
| 20 | Finally , on the sixth lap , Mass got around Brundle at the end of the long pits straight , and gave him an old-fashioned chop as he turned into Moises Solona Corner . |
| 21 | What the Edwardians called ‘ boy-life ’ had its own kind of ‘ clubbable ’ logic whether amongst the ‘ Old Boys ’ of the Long Room or on the terraces of Old Trafford . |
| 22 | In the middle of the long teak dining table lay Lilian Hatton 's wedding hat , an elaborate confection of satin leaves and tulle as green and fresh as the real leaves he could see through the picture window in the Kingsbrook meadows . |
| 23 | The same actor , Tom Courtenay , plays the Borstal boy in Tony Richardson 's The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner ( 1962 ) who loses the race he 's trained for as a way to spite the governor . |
| 24 | The pop style of Tom Jones was a development of Richardson 's magpie approach to cinema aesthetics , already evident in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner , even drawing upon some pantomime elements from the ‘ Carry On ’ films . |
| 25 | One of the long shots for a wild card are the Kansas City Chiefs , who have to beat Miami on Christmas Eve while others lose . |
| 26 | Because of the long gestation and lactation periods , the interval between calving is usually at least two or three years . |
| 27 | I prayed for the ardour of the fruit tree , the passive rapture of the long grasses , the patient infinite receptivity of the stone walls that also pulsed and shivered with love of the Light . ’ |
| 28 | His sense of the long , mixed past of his own family , and the need to rebel against the purpose — if not the pattern — of his upbringing , left him neither passionately involved in everyday things , nor yet coldly indifferent to the other people . |
| 29 | Part of the long top hung out beneath his short leather jacket and the material caught in the zip of his tight jeans . |
| 30 | Then there were those brown corduroys and blue jeans : the very seams of his old , faded pants enraptured me , seeming to underscore the seductive outlines of his lower frame , running from the back of his thick leather belt down along that mysterious , rich intercrural channel , and coming out at the other end of the tunnel at the tense crossroads orienting the scrotum 's heavy bag with its blissful raphe , or subtly defining and underlining the inside and outside of the long , smooth thighs and the stocky , bulgy , athletic calves . |