Example sentences for: burne-

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  • The theme of recovery--of his father's craft ethos, of a mother's soothing presence--runs through Burne-Jones' career.

  • Burne-Jones explained, with characteristic vagueness and paranoia, that he had depicted "a sort of Sirenland--I don't know when or where--not Greek Sirens, but any sirens, anywhere, that lure men on to destruction."

  • Born in Birmingham, the stronghold of British industrialism, Burne-Jones was the son of a gilder and framer whose handicraft traditions predated the Industrial Revolution.

  • The model for the temptress with snakes in her hair was Maria Zambaco, a sculptress of Greek background who was in turn Burne-Jones' pupil, studio assistant, and lover before he broke with her in 1869 and returned to his long-suffering wife.

  • Burne-Jones hated it no less, but there's little of the social critic in his temperament.


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