This is how Bazille represents him, sunken into the sheets and pillows, a gentle and tender figure, lovingly painted in muted shades of beige and brown.

"Most people want the United States to restore order here," he said, spitting past a lovingly painted mural of a Coca-Cola bottle.

The front of each card looked as if it had been painted lovingly by a gifted hand.

Although his arched back, thighs and legs are according to the Irish critic Colm Tóibín, "lovingly painted", Dyer is by now clearly a broken man.

Nothing is done without scrupulous care, but the arrangements of fruit are the most lovingly painted.

Her ghostly white apples, dead bluebird, dead bat and dead bumblebees are all precisely, lovingly painted and often rendered with an odd, often nocturnal light.

Brown crouched behind the car closest to the door, a seventies Charger, a muscle car lovingly painted in maybe twenty hand-rubbed coats of metal flake candy-apple red.

Wonderful Victorian houses, with turrets, verandah and lovingly painted gingerbread, abound in the hills that rise behind Main Street.

The Pillow Book When Nagiko (Vivian Wu) was a child, her father, a calligrapher, lovingly painted words and characters on her skin.

Slouched in a chair, her unruly hair clamped down with a barrette, her skirt hiked above her knees, she is lovingly painted in every last detail.