Sentences with word «somnambulist»

A serious painter works all the time, like a somnambulist.

The characters in the 1920 silent thriller The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, in which the title character keeps a somnambulist captive in a cabinet to carry out murder in his sleep, spin hypnotically around a soundstage filled with painted set pieces.

Less a city symphony than a muted impressionist painting of urban drifting, the film takes place within the shadowy side streets, modest corner bars, and nondescript 24 - hour diners of the eponymous northwest Portuguese city, where Jake is burning time as a manual laborer and flannel - clad somnambulist.

That said, the film is considerably more commercial (and splattery) than Gray's last, The Yards, which was slow, almost groggy: The light seemed unable to pass through air thickened by corruption; the protagonist (Wahlberg again) moved through the bowels of Queens like a somnambulist.

The stalemate was their fifth such result in nine games, and though United have the best defensive record in the league this term — conceding just 10 goals in 15 games — they are somnambulist specialists, scoring just 20 times in what sometimes feel like a sleepwalking daze up to the opposition goal.

-- If then the solitary man who ascends Mount Moriah, which with its peak rises heaven - high above the plain of Aulis, if he be not a somnambulist who walks securely above the abyss while he who is stationed at the foot of the mountain and is looking on trembles with fear and out of reverence and dread dare not even call to him — if this man is disordered in his mind, if he had made a mistake!

And like so many lemmings, the majority of somnambulists rush to fall off that cliff.