Sentence examples for an altarlike structure from inspiring English sources

He spread his hands before an altarlike structure dripping with orchids and succulents.

In a lot adjacent to the arts center, the Westchester-based artist Laurel Garcia Colvin is working with local community groups to construct an ofrenda, or offering, an impromptu altarlike structure often found in Latin American villages and towns to remember ancestors, saints or lost loved ones, or to mark the sites of important events.

Joni Mitchell, or rather her doleful face as seen on the cover of her "Blue" album, weeps big blown-glass tears in an altarlike sculpture by Chris Bogia.

In 1961 Kikuhata Mokuma assembled an altarlike piece, called "Slave Genealogy (By Coins)," incorporating candles, a carved phallus, a scattering of five-yen coins and emblems associated with Shinto, Japan's national religion and one with tainted political associations.

Composed of Japanese Buddhist paintings, manuscripts and sculptures, it revolves around an altarlike arrangement of a slender 13th-century Buddha flanked by celestial bodyguards.

Decorated with plaster curtains and hand-painted paneling, it holds an altarlike wall unit with photos and films of the mother standing romantically windswept by the sea, cavorting in the snow and sitting at home with her adult son perched on her lap.

It shows a procession of painted, naked dancing African figures making offerings of flowers, fish, rice and birds to an altarlike image of a double-edged ax, a popular symbol for Shango, a powerful god in Yoruba mythology and in Afro-Cuban Santeria.

A noise barrier is a permanent structure.

A persuasive essay has a similar structure.

It's an impossible structure.

SAC has an unconventional structure.