Sentence examples for a torso of from inspiring English sources

On one side is a torso of a Roman sculpture, 1601-02.

A torso of fruit cups with my head and neck composed of chicken nuggets and cheese sandwiches.

A splendidly built young man, stripped to the waist, and with a torso of dazzling white, was standing not far from me.

Their lives were hard and full of melodrama bordering on the mythological – there were poisonings, suicides and betrayals, mares mysteriously getting their legs hacked off and a villain with metal bars for arms and a torso of chiselled black marble.

In January , 1998 the Italian culture ministry presented the Getty with a dossier; a year later, the Getty, working with the ministry, arranged the return of the work, together with two pieces of Roman sculpture — a torso of Mithra and a stone head — that the museum had identified as belonging to Italy.

The main difference in the anthropomorphic form portrayal is that the first two avatars are depicted with a torso of a man and the bottom half as animal, while Varaha has an animal (boar) head and a human body.

At Ben Janssens Oriental Art, also from London, there are two exceptional Tang Dynasty sculptures: a limestone torso of a bodhisattva and a pottery figure of a girl seated on a stool.

One of the disputed objects, he said, is a stone torso of a young woman, a kore, that has been claimed by both Greece and Italy.

"The Whitehall Mystery" was a term coined for the discovery of a headless torso of a woman on 1888 in the basement of the new Metropolitan Police headquarters being built in Whitehall.

A damaged torso of a Sānchi yaksha is preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

In January, the photograph of a marble torso of a Roman figure landed on the desk of Gallus Pesendorfer, deputy director of Sotheby's Vienna office.