286 examples of make-up in sentences

A thing of shreds he was, elaborately ragged, a face overrun with a scrub of beard, and preternaturally drawn, surmounted by a stiff-dried, dirty, cloth semi-turban, with a wide, forbidding stain along the side, worked out the likeness to a make-up.

No, Obed might be a peculiar sort of fellow, but really there did not seem to be much of guile in his make-up; if it turned out to be so, then he, Bandy-legs, was ready to call himself a mighty poor reader of character.

People with hair upon hands, arms and legs, alone, are generally pituitary, or have a striking pituitary streak in their make-up.

Persons in whose make-up it rules are more liable to imagine disturbances of their mentality, or exhibit a well-developed imaginative streak.

The former, the gonado-centric personality, is a digression of growth, a deviated evolution of the individual because of the conflicting forces, some masculine and some feminine, in his make-up.

It will be above all in the understanding of children, their make-up, reactions and powers, that the biologist will achieve some of his finest triumphs.

" "Queer," commented Tom, "how most of these schemers prove to have a yellow streak in their make-up, when the test really comes.

Let me conduct you to my dressing-room, where you will find all that is necessary for your make-up.

He was singularly handsome; and a lameness resulting from a deformed foot lent a suggestion of pathos to his make-up.

And it is well to remember that in pleasing his public there was nothing of the hypocrite or demagogue in his make-up.

" The Professor's hand-clasp and absent-minded smile seemed like a perfect character make-up.

Moreover, there was no element of the sneak in Lee Ellis's make-up.

I can see, however, that your make-up is capitalyou are the man himself.'

If he has any particle of the artist in his make-up, he will see at once that the story ought to begin: "One day a very haggard and nervous-looking patient called at the house of a fashionable doctor, etc. etc."

There was no silly sentimentality in her spicy make-up.

Newspaper make-up and headlines.

The Last word in make-up.

GALL, ELLEN M. Modern make-up, by Ellen M. Gall and Leslie H. Carter.

ROBERTSON, HAROLD G. The art of make-up.

With an appendix on costume and make-up by Fairfax Proudit Walkup.

The shortness of the dress made the curious raw-hide moccasins only the more prominent, and the whole make-up of the party was a curious sight.

The boss-man had a vein of humor in his make-up, though it was not visible; so he told the young man that he did not know, as he had been over this route but once before, but he thought that Stubb, who was then on herd, could tell him how it was; he had been over the trail every year since it was laid out.

His "make-up" was very pale, and this made his face beautiful when one was close to him, but at a distance it gave him a haggard look.

Character is expressed in dirt; the bright and shining school-boy face is devoid of interest, an artificial product, quite unnatural; the smutty street urchin is an actor on life's stage, every daub, spot, and line an essential part of his make-up.

I was too utterly done up to reply, for two days' violent seasickness rather takes the mental ginger out of one's make-up.

286 examples of  make-up  in sentences