18 examples of well-drawn in sentences

The well-drawn character of Betty Flauntit is her own, and the realistically vivacious bagnio episodes of Act iv replace a not very interesting or lively tavern with a considerable accession to wit and humour, although perhaps not to strict propriety.

But the rest are hardly well-drawn, or, at least, pleasingly portrayed."

Paley does see that a character may be "well-drawn" without necessarily being "pleasing"; and even that he may be eminently pleasing as a part of the play while very displeasing in himself.

Adj. descriptive, graphic, narrative, epic, suggestive, well-drawn; historic; traditional, traditionary; legendary; anecdotic^, storied; described &c v..

A well-drawn bill and answer will draw him all the world over, and a breviate as far as the Line.

Franciabigio did the scene of the Marriage of the Virgin, which contains another of his well-drawn boys on the steps.

The first number presents a well-drawn portrait of an Idler, and from that character no deviation could be made.

With that the stork craned his neck, raised his wings, and darted off like an arrow when it leaves a well-drawn bow.

The story is not told; the figures are not grouped but huddled together; they are not well-drawn individually; the character is vulgar and tame; there is no taste in the disposal of the drapery and ornaments, no effect of chiaroscuro.

We have only room to enumerate "The Birth-day," a sketch from Nature, by Mrs. Opie; an extremely well-drawn Irish sketch, by Mrs. S.C. Hall; and "The Shipwrecked Boy," a tale, by the author of Letters from the East.

The musician will find these volumes invaluable in the pursuit of his studies, the general reader will be interested in the well-drawn descriptions of men, manners, and customs, and the antiquary will pore over the pages with a keen delight.

In stately frigates most delight you find, Where well-drawn battles fire your martial mind.

They dined out, like that well-drawn bishop in Little Dorrit, who "was crisp, fresh, cheerful, affable, bland, but so surprisingly innocent;" or like the prelate on whom Thackeray moralized: "My Lord, I was pleased to see good thing after good thing disappear before you; and think that no man ever better became that rounded episcopal apron.

For this Reason I have no Exception to the well-drawn Rusticities in the Country-Wake; and there is something so miraculously pleasant in Dogget's acting the aukward Triumph and comick Sorrow of Hob in different Circumstances, that I shall not be able to stay away whenever it is acted.

Yet so far know, and credit me, 'twas made By such, as were held work-men in their Trade, At a time too, when they as I divine, Were truly merrie, and drank lusty wine, The nectar of the Muses; Some are here I dare presume, to whom it did appear A well-drawn piece, which gave a lawfull birth To passionate Scenes mixt with no vulgar mirth.

It was a well-drawn will and it apparently gave full effect to his intentions.

What I had before me was a well-drawn map of the Kingsland district, made in white outline, showing trails and distances between farms.

So he who attempts to lift the veil that separates the REAL from the IDEAL, or to remove the heavy curtain that for a century may have concealed from view the actual personages of a well-drawn popular fiction, or what may have been received as such, should bring to his task a tender heart and a delicate and gentle hand.

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