Sentence examples for block statue from inspiring English sources

The 12th-dynasty block statue of Sihathor is the earliest dated example.

The simplification of the human figure was carried to its ultimate in the block statue, a uniquely Egyptian type that represents the subject squatting on the ground with knees drawn up close to his body.

Certainly, the office of mayor of Thinis was occupied by several notable New Kingdom figures: Satepihu, who participated in the construction of an obelisk for Hatshepsut and was himself subject of an exemplary block statue; the herald Intef, an indispensable member of the royal household and the travelling-companion of Thutmose III; and Min, tutor to the prince Amenhotep III.

A five-foot-high Lego-block statue of Bartok, the bat in "Anastasia," the studio's first major animated feature, still sat in the lobby beside some posters from "Titan A.E.," its most recent and final animated film.

After the men's arrests in January, monks from the Buseok temple filed a motion in court to block the statue's return.

This month India's Supreme Court blocked the statue-building spree.

Here cause and effect are not wholly distinct (since the block and the statue share some parts) nor are they identical (since the block is not the statue), thereby avoiding the difficulties implied by the preceding two accounts.

The supporting conditions could not exist without the block and the statue could not exist without either or these.

For proof, he nodded toward a stone wall in the parking lot that was built to block the feline statues' harmful qi, or energy.

It is just a few blocks from the statue of Saddam Hussein that was pulled down on the day that Baghdad fell to the Americans.

And at a church a few blocks from a statue commemorating in grizzly detail the slaughter of a Polish officer by Soviets in the Katyn Forest during World War II, the changes brought by the winds and Father Iwanowski are bitterly resented by many of the older Polish parishioners.