The sun paints English faces with all the colours of his climes.
Cromwell would have his warts painted; and Montaigne paints his, and paintsthem too with a certain fondness.
The man who paints your face knows you better than your intimate friends do, and has a clearer knowledge of your amiable weaknesses, and of the secret motives which influence your conduct, than you oftentimes have yourself.
The sun, in whose light a system lives, warms me; makes the trees grow for me; paints the evening sky in gorgeous colours for me.
She paints herself, and she tries to make herself as young as a sucking-pig by injecting things in her veins.
He muttered: "Veriga himself paints so as to look younger.
The grandest imagery which he strikes out, and the finest pictures which he paints are immediately suggested by his subject.
He may select certain aspects which appeal to him, in fact he paints a particular scene exactly because that scene gives him more pleasure than others.
He paintshis sentimental passages with a yard broom.
He does not vex himself or his readers with description, but if he pauses to paint he paints with unmistakable bright colours.
His tastes have remained the same; his capacity for writing has developed; he paints miniatures, and his ingenuity expends itself on the elaboration and variation of the frames.
The use of art is to produce copies of things; and if an artist has a thorough knowledge of the properties of the thing he paints he can assuredly make a name.
And it is my opinion that the artist who paints portraits in this way need have no fear of the pitfall of mannerism either in treatment or touch.
They only attempted what they knew; only their range was wider than that of the man who, for instance, only paints landscapes or flowers.
He only paints the eyes with thoroughness, and possibly the head; but these he renders with a psychological absorption which is only to be found amongst modern artists, perhaps in Watts.
He paints phenomena as transitory as the shades of expression in Renoir.
He paints every blade of grass and every small plant, though there is at the same time a largeness in the midst of this scrupulous exactitude.
He paints Circe in a saffron robe, preparing the potion to enchant the companions of Ulysses, with a strange light in her orbs, while two panthers fawn at her feet.
The downright but convincing method in which Hogarth paints the soul has dislodged the hollow, heroical ideal of beauty of the older historical painting.
When he paints ancient sibyls, they are touched at once by the unearthly asceticism of the Middle Ages seeking refuge from the world, and the melancholy, anaemic lassitude of the close of the nineteenth century.
Even when hepaints Parisiennes he translates toilette and gesture into grandiose Spanish style.
He paints the inhabitants of the country in their Sunday best, as they sit telling stories, or as they go a-hunting, or regale themselves in the garden of an inn.
He goes where his instinct leads him and paintswith a muscular flexibility of hand whatever appeals to his eye or suits his brush.
Valerius Maximus[109] records a circumstance of her, which paints the influence she possessed over her people in a very striking manner.
The art of rendering timber and paints durable, and of making porcelain, mosaics, arabesques, and other ornaments, began and ended in western Europe with the Spanish Arabs.
Smooth flow his numbers when he paints the grove, Th' enraptur'd virgins list'ning into love.
He paints history rather than descants on it; he throws the colourings of a mind, unconsciously poetic, over all he describes.
If the wood has been well sand-papered water-colour paints can be used.
Older children can use oilpaints or penny tins of enamel.
It is far different with the artistic genius, who, without stopping to think, sees the picture and hears the symphony with the eyes and ears of imagination, and paints and plays merely what he has seen and heard.
When he paints a picture, he first thinks how certain persons would look under certain given circumstances, andpaints them accordingly.
Lastly, our author reminds us that a man who writes or paints does not remain alone before his easel or his writing-desk.
He paints with rapture his gardens bathed by the waters of the lake; the shade and freshness of his woods; his green slopes; his sparkling fountains, the deep silence and calm of his solitude!
Our historian discovered in that collection what compelled him to retract his preconceived system--he hurries to stop the press, and paints his confusion and his anxiety with all the ingenuous simplicity of his nature.
He paints himself:-- Observe Florelio's mien; Why treads my friend with melancholy step That beauteous lawn?
In the opening scene of the Restoration, Mrs. Hutchinson, an honest republican, paints with dismay a scene otherwise very ludicrous.
The dusty oblivion into which they are sinking, their past glory, their mouldy old tombs--everything he paints with the correctness of Teniers and the finish of Gerard Dow.
The pilgrims he paints in his immortal bundle of tales are no ideal creatures, but such real flesh and blood as Shakespeare drew and Hogarth engraved.
It paints the manners of the place at the latter end of Charles II.
The psalmist paints his calamities as storming on him in dismal continuity, each "flood" seeming to summon its successor.
The poet paints with few strokes the whole disastrous rout.
Memory supplies the colours with which Hope paints her truest pictures.
The second predicts the gathering of all nations into her citizenship, and the closing verse apparently paints the exuberant joy of the festal crowds, who shall then throng her streets.
Possibly there needs no supplement at all, and the expression simply paints the calm security of the man protected by God, who can "look upon" impotent hostility without the tremor of an eyelid, because he knows who is his Helper.
In vain do gentlemen point to the paragraph in the letter, so powerfully drawn, which paints the destruction of the Caroline, and the slaughter of the innocent as well as the guilty, asleep on board of her.
If a man once paints sea pieces the public look to get sea pieces from him, and won't take anything else.
He dashed it off in his note-book, and if he ever paints it, I would not have it hung up in my bedroom for a thousand francs, for I should never dare to go to sleep with it looking at me.
And when the Prince sets forth the mission of woman as the conservator of the results of civilization hardly won by the struggles of man, and paints his ideal of a perfect marriage, the Princess asks: “What woman taught you this?
Of the Manner in which Owlglass paints a Picture for the Count of Hessen, and how he persuades him that those of base birth could not see the Painting.
Of the manner in which Owlglass paints a Picture for the Count of Hessen, and how he persuades him that those of base birth could not see the Painting 23 VII.
It is a fine brush to draw with, as being flat it paints in planes, and having a rounded top is capable of getting in and out of a variety of contours.
If he paints the mountain faithfully from that point of view, it will suggest all these other associations to those who want them.
Charcoal is not on the whole the medium an artist with a pure love of form selects, but rather that of the painter, who uses it when his brushes and paints are not handy.
The two things that I have noticed are that the thin ends of the strips of white have invariably kept whiter than the thick end, and that all the paints have become a little more transparent with time.
Now if his hut is of wood, and he paints it to protect it from the elements, nothing necessarily artistic has been done.
It was found that the total damage was confined to that portion of the hold where the painters had stored theirpaints and oils.
But the conflagration had gained considerable headway, and some cans of paints and oils added ready fuel to the blaze.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paints" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
