Sentence examples for balances a mountain from inspiring English sources

In a stunning eighteenth-century miniature, Krishna, perhaps Vishnu's best-known avatar, calmly balances a mountain on his pinkie while a crowd, rendered in painstaking detail, takes refuge underneath it from a demon-generated storm.

Vinny Testaverde, the Jets' starting quarterback, balanced on a mountain bike outside Netherlands Hall after a training camp lunch, jawing casually with reporters as a gaggle of children screamed his name from behind a barricade 20 yards away.

The economy is balanced precariously on a mountain of debt, much of it owed to foreigners.

In an 18th-century painting Krishna shelters his followers from torrential rains by lifting a mountain and balancing it on his pinkie finger.

In "Telling the Truth" (2004), we see a girl in a bathing suit, with a mountain goat balanced on her head.

Banks are lending only to the most creditworthy borrowers to try and clean up their balance sheets, which still reflect a mountain of nonperforming loans.

We were just existing: wishing the weekdays away and living for the weekends, when we'd try to redress the work-life balance with family adventures – climbing a mountain, or sleeping under the stars.

Mostly a noun referring to an instrument that weighed things in the balance (unless you were scaling a mountain perhaps to measure it), the ancient image of the scales in the constellation of Libra was imprinted in humanities unconscious, and depicted in Egyptian tombs where the soul's worthiness was weighed against a feather at the end of life.

Not two plates (oops) and not a mountain of food balanced on one.

"Balanced but tangy," like the Duet beer he tastes in a mountain town in California, this book whets a prodigious thirst.

Like the tree pose you just did, it originates from a mountain pose, but this exercise requires more concentration to stay balanced.