Example sentences of "he as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The Wrench he creates the rigger Faussone , the practical man whose cranes girdle the world and who keeps returning , a little heavy-footed , to the house in Turin where two old aunts fuss over his welfare : Faussone was spoken of as ‘ my alter ego ’ , and the book has to struggle to accommodate him as a second person , available for interview by Levi . |
| 2 | Margot Iverson had struck him as a very controlled woman . |
| 3 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 4 | She liked him , never thought of him as a boyfriend , he was too comfortable . |
| 5 | There are those who accept him as a subverter of meanings , including his own , an anti-philosopher , a disconcerting jester , gleefully overturning accepted habits of thought . |
| 6 | In the second camp are those who regard him as a true philosopher , however provocative his manner , who is restating traditional philosophical problems in a new way . |
| 7 | Heredia wants to be poetic and hard ; the hardness appears to him as a virtue in the poetic . |
| 8 | Most athletes first encountered him as a voice , bellowing in multi-lingual fury at officials who had broken rules or arrangements designed to make racing safer or more fair . |
| 9 | In 1981 , Zhao Ziyang , then China 's prime minister , praised him as a ‘ bold and patriotic capitalist ’ . |
| 10 | When he appeared in a Spanish court as an expert witness concerning US extradition laws for Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela , otherwise known as ‘ The Chessplayer ’ , the prosecutor pilloried him as a turncoat . |
| 11 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 12 | AN OFF-DUTY police inspector saw the alleged killer of Marie Wilks but dismissed him as a good Samaritan , the M50 murder trial was told yesterday . |
| 13 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 14 | He was head of the Military Intelligence Service ( MIS ) until his fall from grace in 1983 , when it was thought that Ne Win , Burma 's autocratic ruler since 1962 , perceived him as a threat to his leadership . |
| 15 | Mr Sisulu 's generosity and warmth did not waver during his time in the maximum security prison of Robben Island , where other inmates deferred to him as a charismatic senior statesman of what has been called ‘ the government-in-exile ’ . |
| 16 | RENTAMINSTER , the third market company which supplies labour to the construction industry , has instituted court proceedings against Anthony Swales and dismissed him as a director of the company and its subsidary BES Construction Services . |
| 17 | They can not imagine him as a Prime Minister , and they can not imagine that the British public can be persuaded to elect him to that post . |
| 18 | McKenzie , who has never been in trouble before , was described by people who knew him as a pleasant individual . |
| 19 | Mills Roberts was a stickler for discipline but everyone recognised him as a good soldier and therefore , for all his shouting , he was a popular figure . |
| 20 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 21 | His fellow-undergraduates thought of him as a gangly youth with brown hair . |
| 22 | Ramsey described him as a character , without popular appeal , donnish , with no great interest in his big rural diocese , but full of wisdom and learning , and eager for friendship with young men . |
| 23 | This was contrary to the opinion of the world and society which thought of him as a boffin . |
| 24 | At the first performance Vivienne was terrified by Sweeney , seeing him as a homicidal madman . |
| 25 | Here they are reinvoked to discredit Wilde , yet in a way which still acknowledged him as a threat . |
| 26 | He told me about Midge when he got back to London and I called him from the shop one Saturday , telling him we 'd be interested in him as a singer . |
| 27 | His Majesty appealed to him as a Statesman and as one who had been a Minister of the Crown to place before everything the present dangerous situation of the country , Sir Herbert replied that he and his party were just as patriotic as the Conservatives : the country would be in far greater danger from Tariffs — price of food stuffs would rise , there would be strikes and outbreaks all over the country . |
| 28 | Likewise , Wemyss had few kind things to say about Salisbury , and on more than one occasion denounced him as a ‘ socialist ’ for enacting measures like free education in rural districts and the Workmen 's Compensation Act . |
| 29 | When they met in Paris in 1963 , Breton hailed him as a surrealist , but in a recent interview Gironella disclaimed so tidy a classification , saying he is as much a baroque artist as a surrealist . |
| 30 | So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers . |