Example sentences for: oeil

How can you use “oeil” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Facing an amphitheater auditorium is a fixed décor of classical Roman statuary and columns that looks far deeper than its 4 m (14 ft), a permanent stage “curtain” of trompe l’oeil depicting the ancient streets of Thebes.

  • When a trompe l'oeil shaving brush and a match turn up later in the show in Magritte's Personal Values (1952), they have an oneiric suggestiveness quite in contrast to Murphy's flat factuality.

  • And not a very accurate one either: for instance, in a trick that's repeated throughout the graphic, the fund-raising entries for Monday, June 17 form a solid block of type, but this is a trompe l'oeil achieved only by leaving a bunch of hours out of the "daybook"'s format.

  • Inside, Andrea Pozzo (himself a Jesuit priest and designer of the saint’s tomb at the Gesù) has painted a superb trompe l’oeil ceiling fresco (1685) depicting St. Ignatius’ entry into paradise.

  • Nonetheless, the initial trompe l'oeil is there.


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