Sentence examples for animated statues from inspiring English sources

In the corridors, animated statues and arms sticking out of the wall bearing candelabra should be reciting from novels and poetry.

As early as Homer, Greeks were imagining robotic servants, animated statues, and even ancient versions of Artificial Intelligence, while in Indian legend, Buddha's precious relics were defended by robot warriors copied from Greco-Roman designs for real automata.

Mayor seeks to gather evidence that concepts of robots, animated statues, human enhancements and artificial intelligence arose long before technological innovations made them possible, as well as investigate the relationship between classical myths and real historical automata that began to proliferate in the Hellenistic era.

First-timers will delight in the animated statues and the ever-changing skyscape on the scenic ceiling.

And the sheer flexibility of his features and delivery could sometimes result in unworthy gurning, such as his turns as an animated statue of President Roosevelt in the Nights at the Museum series.

She combined the roles of C ise and the Statue (they are usually taken by two singers), and instead of allowing Pygmalion to enjoy his creation brought to life, she devoted part of the work's central dance suite to having the spirits dress the newly animated statue in C ise's clothes.

Other holes depict an animated statue of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a boarded-up library and a desert island.

Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is also depicted in the golf art exhibit, though his animated statue has not garnered as much controversy.

Religious art from the 16th and 17th centuries includes gorily realistic sculptures of the dead Christ covered with blood and faces of the Virgin apparently shedding wet tears: to animate such statues was just another way to awe and move the Catholic pious.

The tender strangeness of other Shakespeare plays -- Hamlet's sea voyage, the animate statue in "The Winter's Tale" -- must yield to "Cymbeline's" final act, which discloses more than two dozen improbable secrets with machine-gun speed.

The projection mapping animated the iconic statue to create the illusion that the statue was 'embracing' people and the city.