Example sentences of "of the figure at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shape of the figure at the desk was vague , but distinctly human . |
| 2 | The head of the figure at the extreme left , for instance , is different in colour from those of the central figures , and even different from the body to which it is attached ; in it the pale pinks that had characterized so much of the work of 1906 have been mixed with black to produce a much more sombre effect . |
| 3 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 4 | Radiographs of the various individual heads taken for the Museum of Modern Art show that originally the faces of the figures at the right were painted in the same idiom as that of the figure at the left.1 Since the head of the standing figure represents an intermediate stage between that of the figure at the left and the one directly below it , it follows that the squatting figure , the still life and the drapery at the right were the last parts of the picture to be painted . |
| 5 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |