Sentence examples for ancient robes from inspiring English sources

Just when it seems like the Triads will have their day, the hero reappears as a transformed man, dressed in ancient robes — Moses down from the mount, or, perhaps more appropriately, Goku gone Super Saiyan — to calmly, methodically, and spectacularly kick everyone's ass.

The first time Mullah Muhammad Omar was allowed to enter the Shrine of the Cloak of the Prophet Muhammad here in Kandahar, and cast his gaze on the sacred ancient robe, he trembled.

I wear ancient African robes, Asian robes, European robes.

But the objects and textiles she has collected in Asia over the years are largely from the 17th and 18th centuries, including a Tibetan painted box (traditionally used to hold ritual butter sculptures) and ancient Japanese robes.

B3 CLOAK OF THE PROPHET -- In Kandahar, inside a shrine that is considered one of the most holy places in Afghanistan, lies an ancient, sacred robe.

She's acquired everything from antlers in Dallas which now serve as a hanger for necklaces to an ancient Turkmenistani wedding robe in Istanbul, Turkey.

It was a form of worship that, to an outsider, could seem so wholly foreign as to be impenetrable, with its candles and censers, the processions of robed priests and acolytes, and the recitations of ancient rites that the initiated followed in a Book of Common Prayer.

We readily invoke the term for Russian billionaires or robed senators in ancient Rome.

In one, during "Twinkle," Amen Khum Ra, a specialist in ancient Egyptian language, chanted wearing white robes and holding an ankh, the ancient symbol of life; that was followed by Om'Mas Keith, one of the collaborators on the album, reading part of Peter Finch's famously outraged "mad as hell" speech from the movie "Network".

The robe is normally hung from the left shoulder, leaving the right shoulder bare, though some ancient texts speak of disciples arranging their robes on the right shoulder before approaching the Buddha with a question.

But by evening he may well be clad in a robe and yarmulke, chanting ancient prayers in a darkened synagogue.