Sample Sentences for
Mona Lisa
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    Despite the estimated five days it would take a visitor to properly appreciate the 65,300 pieces of art in this building, most tourists chose an abbreviated experience Langdon referred to as "Louvre Lite"—a full sprint through the museum to see the three most famous objects: the Mona Lisa, Venus de Milo, and Winged Victory.  (source)
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    And the way her mouth curled up on the right side all the time, like she was preparing to smirk, like she'd mastered the right half of the Mona Lisa's inimitable smile...  (source)
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    The exchange rates — one Mona Lisa equalled Bergen-Belsen, one Armenian genocide equalled the Ninth Symphony plus three Great Pyramids — were suggested, but there was room for haggling.  (source)
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    It would be like putting a veil on the Mona Lisa.†  (source)
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    Mona Lisa, the Pyramids, the Empire State Building.†  (source)
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    If I had a euro for every stupid thing I've done, I could buy the Mona Lisa.†  (source)
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    But this is hardly the first time the Mona Lisa has traveled.†  (source)
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    Billy's smile as he came out of the shrubbery was at least as peculiar as Mona Lisa's, for he was simultaneously on foot in Germany in 1944 and riding his Cadillac in 1967.†  (source)
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    I am dying to try a different subject, something easy like designing an entire city or copying the Mona Lisa, but he won't budge.†  (source)
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    It was a Mona Lisa smile, the meaning of which no one could figure out.†  (source)
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    "Not me, I guess," Veronica says, handing me a stack of magazines, a book of word games, and an old jigsaw-puzzle box of the Mona Lisa, whose famous mien, I am beginning to think, is the expression of a young woman concealing a pure feeling of joy.†  (source)
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    The Thinker bears about the same relation to sculpture as the Mona Lisa does to painting, or "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" to poetry — a great work of art that has become hard to see for itself, buried under banal associations and dumb jokes.†  (source)
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    Francie couldn't help noticing that Mama was smiling sidewise, the way the lady did in the picture in the school auditorium, the one they called Mona Lisa.†  (source)
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