24 examples of futurist in sentences

Vincy, with all his gentle manner, had in art an extraordinary taste for brutality and violence, and his rooms were covered with pictures by Futurists and Cubists, wild studies by wild men from Tahiti and a curious collection of savage ornaments and weapons.

In the plastic arts, the laws of form and the criteria of beauty have been swept aside by the futurists, cubists, vorticists, tactilists, and other aesthetic Bolsheviki.

Still more effectually does the League forbid those creations of the futurist imagination, the imperialism of Italy and Greece, which make such threatening gestures at the world of our children.

Lulu thought about such gatherings in somewhat the way that a futurist receives the subjects of his artforms not vague, but heightened to intolerable definiteness, acute colour, and always motionmotion as an integral part of the desirable.

A neo-futurist of the most bizarre type prances through the pages upon his head, causing enough "tumult" to satisfy any one.

There is a touch of Sterne about the book; not the exaggerated super-Sterne of Tristram Shandy, with eighteenth-century-futurist blanks and marbled pages, but the fluent, casual, follow-your-fancy Sterne of the Sentimental Journey.

" In the Futurist exhibition held in Sackville Street in 1912, one of the most notable pictures was called "Rebellion."

The scream of the shells and the crash when they fell near by formed quite a suitable if somewhat Futurist accompaniment.

They wandered aimlessly through several rooms, until they emerged into the Cubist and Futurist sections and stood rooted to the floor with surprise and horror.

It was a Futurist mind that answered: "Think of the men who will."

So early as the year 1902 he was lifting up his voice, not exactly in the wilderness but at least in the Royal Institution, against the legal as compared with the creative or futurist type of mind.

The two armored cars, containing guns, were hidden away amongst the shattered ruins of a little hamlet; their armor-plated bodies, already rendered as inconspicuous as possible by erratic daubs of bright colors laid on after the most approved Futurist style, were further hidden by untidy wisps of straw, a few casual beams, and any other of the broken rubbish which had once been a village.

When Rita Sismondi appears in an evil Futurist black-and-white gown by Viola you can tell at once she is the goods.

Miss RICHARDSON has evolved a way of writing a novel which somehow suggests the Futurist way of painting a picture; but The Tunnel has left me wondering whether she has not carried her method a little too far.

We had passed into Edward's reign and the decadence which ended in the war had already set inGrimshaw was the last of the "pomegranate school," the first of the bolder, more sinister futurists.

Grimshawthe exquisite futurist, the daffodil, apostle of the aesthetic!

Certainly the appearance of the guns of the present time would rejoice the heart and soul of the "Futurists."

Slavs with matted hair, American girls in Futurist frocks, Italians like figures out of pre- Raphaelite frescoes, men with monkey faces and monkey manners, men with the faces of mediaeval saints a little debauched by devilish temptations, filled the long bare room, spoke in strange tongues to each other, and made love passionately in the universal language and in dark corners provided with ragged divans.

War had killed the Cubists, and many of the Futurists had gone to the front to see the odd effects of scarlet blood on green grass.

In the Great Hall through which in the days of peace pretty women used to wander with raised eyebrows and little cries of "Ciel!" (even French women revolted against the most advanced among the Futurists), there was a number of extraordinary contrivances of a mechanical kind which shocked one's imagination, and they were being used by French soldiers in various uniforms and of various grades, with twisted limbs, and paralytic gestures.

I selected the nearest thing on the counter, a futurist necktie at two-and-six-three, and, as I was leaving the shop, turned back carelessly.

Hats, plumes, scraps of vivid silks, gilded slippers, a spangled fantheir unrelated vividness struck Claire as fantastic as a futurist painting.

REVELATION, BOOK OF, or THE APOCALYPSE, the book that winds up the accepted canon of Holy Scripture, of the fulfilment of the prophecies of which there are three systems of interpretation: the Præteritist, which regards them all as fulfilled; the Historical, which regards them as all along fulfilling; and the Futurist, which regards them as still all to be fulfilled.

At the beginning of the war there had been many cabarets"The Cow," "The Calf," "The Dog," "The Striped Cat"and these had been underground cellars, lighted by Chinese lanterns, and the halls decorated with Futurist paintings by Yakkolyeff or some other still more advanced spirit.

24 examples of  futurist  in sentences