1.   Tripped on the wooden blocks painted to look like ice, the doll careening away from her down between the blocks.

2.   Their faces were painted to look like skulls.

3.   An early evening march to the federal prison on the edge of Terre Haute included enormous puppets painted to look like Jesus and Uncle Sam.

4.   An everyday kitchen floor has been made into a day at the beach, with floorboards painted to look like sand scattered with seashells.

5.   At each gala the president and first lady were received under an arch painted to look like Roman columns.

6.   Between them was a stranger with his face painted to look either like a professional wrestler or The Phantom Menace himself.

7.   Each of the four bullet-pocked target dummies displayed at the press conference were painted to look like a different ethnic group.

8.   Hardy had indulged his theatrical impulse by constructing walls within walls and making cutouts through which to view surfaces painted to look like a cloud-filled sky.

9.   He walks easily on his prosthetic legs, painted to look like jaguar pelts.

10.   In a mountain landscape, the shadows of trees are carefully painted to look opaque rather than solid black.