How To Use Half-length In A Sentence
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Saint Wynn was a half-length winner over his stablemate in the Skywalker.
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Venetian painters had pioneered the poetic narrative scene involving two or three half-length figures, but in the "Gypsy Fortune-Teller" and the "Cardsharps" both 1595, Caravaggio gave the genre a streamlined, streetwise spin—Mr. Graham-Dixon calls it "low-life drama.
The Misery Memoirist
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Be used as a women, my love man, respect them, say what man of greedy selfish, say what ascending half body and descend a half-length need, the man is on the hoof in fact and really very not easy.
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The presence, in the Gallery's reconstruction, of half-lengths of St Paul and, questionably, of St Andrew is hard to explain.
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David offers to massage her tense day away and Anna tries to move her hair to the side - and she could were she not wearing a half-length cut over her actual hair.
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Oberlin's painting is now installed at the National Gallery, Washington, as the focal point of a miniature exhibition, "Larger Than Life," paired with the gallery's recently acquired ter Brugghen "Bagpipe Player" 1624, a robust half-length figure that exemplifies the secular side of the artist's practice as brilliantly as "Saint Sebastian" does the religious side.
An Artist of Dual Allegiances
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The presence, in the Gallery's reconstruction, of half-lengths of St Paul and, questionably, of St Andrew is hard to explain.
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Three-quarter or half-length sleeves enhance the summer appeal of skirts and pants in fashion prints.
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Good things come in small formats to start the show—a tiny oval "Portrait of a Man" (circa 1627–30) by a follower of Franz Hals, a miniature half-length self-portrait by Gerrit Dou (circa 1645).
Dutch Masters Delight in Paris
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Originally made as a three-part series for French TV, it is five-and-a-half hours long in its full form (though a half-length feature is also on release in the UK), exhaustively researched and often exhilarating to watch, as we track the fledgling revolutionary, charmingly portrayed by Venezuelan actor Edgar Ramírez, through countless countries, attacks, hijackings and escapes, to his eventual arrest in Sudan in 1994.
Carlos director Olivier Assayas on the terrorist who became a pop culture icon
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These paintings of half-length figures grouped around a gaming board or table were probably meant to convey moral messages.
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The half-length mirror reveals a figure somewhat too full to be called imperially slim.
The Magi'i Of Cyador
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These works are not compatible with the bulk of the corpus of Caravaggesque half-lengths that the English art historian Benedict Nicolson had associated first with an unnamed ‘Candlelight Master’ and then with Bigot.
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Caravaggio returns to the half-length format of his early genre scenes, but all naturalistic bravura and illusionistic detail are gone.
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Sari-clad women move behind, like a frieze, one with her back turned, just below a painted half-length figure.
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Bernini also brought the more modest bust and half-length portrait figures in wall niches to new heights of pathos which were widely imitated in Catholic northern Europe, especially Flanders.
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Racing fiercely on the outside, the big gray gelding matched strides and then took a half-length lead.
BARRACUDA 945
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The most visually startling images were two half-length portraits from her ‘Bodybuilders’ series.
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A splendidly robotic half-length shows a bare-headed Cosimo right-side-on in state-of-the art armour; 25 versions exist – a small army.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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(AP) Tanda beat Switch by a half-length Sunday in the $100,000 Railbird Stakes for 3-year-old fillies at Hollywood Park.
Tanda wins Railbird Stakes at Hollywood Park
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She led by a half-length in midstretch and went on to defeat her stablemate in 1: 47.66 over a fast track.
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Everyone loved the mop of black hair, the half-length trousers, the bright Dr Martens and the cry of "Hiya pals", but you could spend hours figuring out exactly what made Gerard Kelly such a physically funny pantomime star.
Gerard Kelly obituary
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By the first 500-metre mark Germany had taken a half-length lead over the new United States line-up and Slovenia.
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Ladies Din, also trained by Canani and the loser by a nose to Silic in the 1999 Shoemaker, ran second again - this time a half-length behind his stablemate.
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He parked his car a few yards in front of Macawber, donned a light windproof jacket and half-length gumboots and wandered off towards the sea.
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Was young Gooch's half-length what the miniaturist copied?
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In winning the Irish Derby by a half-length, Alamshar handed stablemate and eventual Prix de l' Arc de Triomphe winner Dalakhani his lone career loss.
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Other highlights from the collection include a half-length cast bronze bust of George Bernard Shaw by Prince Paul Troubetskoy, signed and dated 1908.
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A life-size portrait, even if it is only a head or a half-length, always takes up more room than its intrinsic interest demands.
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Most are half-length casts made from a mould taken before 1902, which were also copied in wood and marble.
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a half-length portrait
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But he brought these "ignudi" crashing down to earth, revamping them as a sequence of sexily insalubrious half-length boys, interacting equally with spectacular still-life elements and with the viewer.
The Misery Memoirist
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The two crews were neck and neck at the half-way stage before York started to pull ahead to give themselves a half-length lead with 500m to go.
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But he brought these "ignudi" crashing down to earth, revamping them as a sequence of sexily insalubrious half-length boys, interacting equally with spectacular still-life elements and with the viewer.
The Misery Memoirist
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He idled in front up the hill but was never seriously troubled to hold on by two lengths from Yogi, with Alexanderthegreat another half-length away in third.
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She changed into loose-fitting trousers, made from real cotton grown in one of the neighbouring villages, and a cotton top with half-length sleeves.
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She was wearing a half-length nylon fur: worth money, Kenworthy thought, but probably not as expensive as it looked.
DISPLACED PERSON
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The central boss of the lantern groining is a half-length figure of Christ in glory, considerably above life size, and with the conventual clouding around it; it is boldly carved in oak.
Ely Cathedral
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Most of his 60 or so known paintings, mainly half-length portraits, date from 1642-6 after he had moved with Charles I's Civil War court to Oxford.
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Also impressive are the portraits of well-fed burghers, such as the 1643 half-length figure of Paulus Verschuur, confident in his stylish hat, crisp collar and voluminous suit; a bare hand, gloves, sheer cuffs, a silken sash, curling hair and alert features are teased into existence with assured, staccato brushstrokes.
Picture-Perfect Rogues' Gallery
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Anne Villiers herself was painted by van Dyck in a solo half-length.
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Romans is expected to decide later this week whether Shackleford, who finished fourth at the Derby before edging Animal Kingdom by a half-length in the Preakness, will go, according to a New York Racing Association official.
Belmont Face-Off Is More Likely
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After a half-length defeat in a Turfway Park allowance race, Sarava moved to McPeek's barn to prepare for a run at the classics.
