still lifein a sentence
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"It's called a 'still life,' " Helen explained.
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still life = a painting of inanimate objects such as fruit or flowers
- Landscape, portrait, or still life?† (source)
- Still lifes, religious scenes, and landscapes accompanied portraits of nobility and politicians.† (source)
- Donald is a moderately talented painter of small still lifes of single, everyday objects: an egg, a cup, a comb, suspended against brightly colored backgrounds.† (source)
- The walls glowed with a warm, dull haze of opulence, a generic mellowness of antiquity; but then it all broke apart into clarity and color and pure Northern light, portraits, interiors, still lifes, some tiny, others majestic: ladies with husbands, ladies with lapdogs, lonely beauties in embroidered gowns and splendid, solitary merchants in jewels and furs.† (source)
- I'd finally loaded my camera and tentatively taken a few pictures, just objects and still lifes, no faces yet.† (source)
- Miss Moore searches the wall behind us as if the answer might be hiding there among her pastel watercolor still lifes.† (source)
- Landscapes, still lifes, she considered a change of pace.† (source)
- She's taken some of the still lifes, Wringer, Toaster, Deadly Nightshade, and Three Witches.† (source)
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- I was just wondering if it was a landscape, a portrait, or a still life.† (source)
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- "You'll have to find a way to make those still lifes interesting."† (source)
- "The world's greatest artists have seen fit to paint still lifes from time to time."† (source)
- Apart from the still lifes, what I'm showing is mostly figurative, although there are a couple of constructions made from drinking straws and uncooked macaroni, and one called Silver Paper.† (source)
- Here are the still lifes.† (source)
- Then I knelt, too, and prayed: "0 God, if there is a God, forgive him his sins, if there is such a thing as sin," and the man on the bed opened his eyes and gave a sigh, the sort of sigh I had imagined people made at the moment of death, but his eyes moved so that we knew there was still life in him.† (source)
- Landscapes, still lifes, animals—a fellow like me shrinks from absolutely nothing.† (source)
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- Bernini's Ecstasy of St. Teresa rose up like some sort of pornographic still life …. the saint on her back, arched in pleasure, mouth open in a moan, and over her, an angel pointing his spear of fire.† (source)
- In the half-light that comes through the slatted blinds these things gleam darkly, like a still life muted with varnish.† (source)
- Whenever you see flies or insects in a still life —a wilted petal, a black spot on the apple—the painter is giving you a secret message.† (source)
- I'm not sure what I expected to do with them. fly wife is an artist and I thought perhaps she might want them for a still life, but when I got home with the dogs—the eggs somehow unbroken, cradled in my pack bouncing on the rig—I saw Hawk sitting on her clutch of eggs.† (source)
- His lunch was spread neatly before him like a still life, and I opened my paper bag, extracting a sandwich.† (source)
- Drawing on her memories of still life class, she drew it in every detail: the smudged rim, the crack in the handle.† (source)
- So there was still life like this somewhere!† (source)
- What happened was that a few days after they split, I was in the Art Room with some other girls, working on a still life.† (source)
- To objectify all the senses, to flatten the consciousness, to put a temporary freeze on logic, to bring the advance of time to a halt if only momentarily-this is what he is trying to do: to fuse his being with the scene behind him, to make everything look like a neutral still life.† (source)
- A flashlight, a fishing knife, a pair of leather gloves, and a hunting vest fully packed with shells contributed further atmosphere to this curious still life.† (source)
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- Before I could ever get to my life, conscience was arranging it all like a still life or tableau.† (source)
- A quiet, still life, free of any risks, and so many sleepless nights to spend within it, my heart heavy, keeping secrets my sister had empowered herself by telling.† (source)
- A still life you might say.† (source)
- I'm sure your parents would enjoy a still life."† (source)
- An idyllic still life of apples, nuts, and a tiny, candle-lit Christmas tree showing a hand ripping through the canvas.† (source)
- Ahead, before the shadow, there was still life.† (source)
- Passing by one broad window, Max spied the easel and canvas where the girl had been working on a still life in the style of the Dutch masters.† (source)
- There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette Still burning, and a glass of water.† (source)
- Sarah didn't tilt her head as one might to study from a new angle, but Lee had the impression she was being weighed and dissected like a still life.† (source)
- The glass protecting a meticulous and vivid still life, a water color by Lee Adams, shattered in its frame with a loud report.† (source)
- I felt the shock closest to this a year later at the University of Wisconsin when I walked into my art class and saw, in place of the bowl of fruit and the glass bottle and ginger jar of the still life I used to draw at MSCW, a live human being.† (source)
- I stepped in to look: still life, candle and half-empty wineglass.† (source)
- "I guess it's a still life after all," I sigh, dipping my brush into the red paint.† (source)
- Across the room, I'd noticed several other paintings propped on the wainscoting: a still life, a couple of small landscapes.† (source)
- "A still life like this one —" he indicated the Claesz, with a slow wave (black-rimmed fingernails, scarred venous network on the back of his hand) — "well, so insistently a trompe roar.† (source)
- "I like this one too," whispered my mother, coming up alongside me at a smallish and particularly haunting still life: a white butterfly against a dark ground, floating over some red fruit.† (source)
- They found the daughter back at work on her still life, loading her brush with paint as she studied the arrangement.† (source)
- The final project was a still life with all these objects in it as well as a small hunk of plastic ham.† (source)
- If she wants a still life, we could just as easily paint the futures Spence is preparing us for day by day.† (source)
- Another still life.† (source)
- A still life?† (source)
- We shared a cab along the arid miles between the Lutyens still life and the warm, palpitating motion picture of Old Delhi.† (source)
- The lieutenant thought: No pulse, no breath, no heart-beat, but it's still life - we've only got to find a name for it.† (source)
- And in the autumn exhibition of students' work in the Castle he had two studies, a landscape in water-colour and a still life in oil, both of which had first-prize awards.† (source)
- He could not afford a model but painted still life, and Lawson constantly talked of a plate of apples which he declared was a masterpiece.† (source)
- He did not know himself; like a man catching at a straw, he suddenly felt that he, too, 'could live, that there was still life for him, that his life had not died with the old woman.'† (source)
- "The animal has still life in him," returned the squatter, "or the buzzards would settle upon their prey!† (source)
- Still life.† (source)
- Let my lady Dulcinea have patience, and when she is least expecting it, she will see me made a riddle of with whipping, and 'until death it's all life;' I mean that I have still life in me, and the desire to make good what I have promised."† (source)
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There's still life in her now though, in the rapid rise and fall of her chest, the low moan escaping her lips.
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still life = the two words in their literal sense that does not refer to art
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