Example sentences of "[art] eyes " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the latter he quoted a sentence by Lucian , the second-century Greek rhetorician : ‘ A work of art requires an intelligent spectator who must go beyond the pleasure of the eyes to express a judgement and to argue the reasons for what he sees . ’ |
| 2 | If any one element in his style is to be singled out as predominant , it is that haunting expression of far-away desire never absent from the eyes and lips , and conveyed in every gesture , feature and attitude . |
| 3 | Painting is the art of reaching the soul through the eyes , but if the picture appeals to the eyes and never reaches the soul , the painter has fallen far short of his aim . |
| 4 | Painting is the art of reaching the soul through the eyes , but if the picture appeals to the eyes and never reaches the soul , the painter has fallen far short of his aim . |
| 5 | In other words , on the divorce question the Roman catholic clerical leadership were still using their joint authority , which is legitimate in the eyes of the majority in the Southern state , to press into civil legislation their views of public morality , and to use the informed conscience of the faithful as the primary vehicle . |
| 6 | He has trained the eyes to do it . |
| 7 | From Europe , we present the films that have caught the eyes of critics and audiences at the major European film festivals . |
| 8 | A magical tale , which tells of man 's disrespect for the natural world around him , as seen through the eyes of an elderly recluse and two young children on the Isles of Scilly at the outbreak of the First World War . |
| 9 | I looked up and deep into the eyes of the cafe proprietor . |
| 10 | The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day . |
| 11 | For example , as the stick is moved forwards a little , the eyes see the nose of the glider moving down , and the brain expects the sensation and understands what is happening . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , what about this world-wide exhibition ? ’ said Jay staring Lucy between the eyes . |
| 13 | Obvious attacks on the eyes are prohibited , though the odd mis-directed punch is not interpreted as such . |
| 14 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 15 | But the eyes give him away : sometimes they are all-seeing , giving the impression that he is quietly dissecting one 's soul . |
| 16 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 17 | So we end up dissociating one piece of behaviour from another : in ‘ blindsight ’ , the verbal response ‘ No , I did not see the light ’ is dissociated from the ability to move the eyes towards the light . |
| 18 | worketh on the eyes , ears and other parts of a man 's body ; and by diversity of working produceth diversity of experience . |
| 19 | Who shall be higher in the eyes of Heaven . |
| 20 | And it takes a lot to light up the eyes of a man dying of tuberculosis . |
| 21 | The eyes narrow . |
| 22 | Once the width between the eyes had been determined and marked out , George worked on both eyes ; that way , neither eye ends up larger than the other . |
| 23 | The body is laid out on the back with hands at the side , the eyes are closed ( coins or cotton wool on the eyelids will help ) the jaw supported by a pillow , and all the natural outlets of the body plugged with cotton wool . |
| 24 | They also opened the eyes of the audience to the endless possibilities of expressing meaning through dance . |
| 25 | His Spanish dance has therefore many authentic features seen through the eyes of a master classical teacher . |
| 26 | As John Weaver said ( 1708 ) : ‘ The face is the mirror of the soul ’ , and in dance ‘ must speak through the eyes ’ . |
| 27 | Still not satisfied with the delicious idea of a soldier taking the doubtful reading matter away in a wheelbarrow , Dostoevsky adds , in Stepan 's reportage , ‘ and covered it with an apron ; oui , c'est cela , an apron ’ — as if in the eyes of Stepan there was something specially affronting or sinister , anyhow notable , about the apron . |
| 28 | He added that people usually pale below the eyes and above the cheek bones , have many dreams including nightmares and hallucinations , suffer disturbed sleep especially at full moon , get up tired and listless , are prone to attacks of flu , and are driven to drink , drugs and heavy smoking . |
| 29 | This is true , to a lesser extent , of all forms of imaginative writing , but poetry is the most obviously governed by convention and genre , and in the eyes of both the Russian Formalists and of non-literary readers the most likely to display linguistic deformation . |
| 30 | In the sweetness of victory , Mr Andreotti 's Roman cohorts have forgotten that they are mortal and , in the eyes of many churchmen , their greed and arrogance now risk bringing Catholic politics into disrepute . |