Sentence examples for bone church from inspiring English sources
And she allows the Bone Church at Kutna Hora to become the novel's most daunting image of adulthood — and what lies beyond it.
The Sedlec Ossuary, or Bone Church, in the town of Kutna Hora, less than an hour east of Prague, will strike you as a rather measly affair from the outside, but venture inside this gothic chapel and you will be greeted by an astonishing sight – the skeletons of around 40,000 plague victims plastered from top to bottom.
The designer created a backdrop that recalled ancient ossuaries, like the disturbing but mesmerizing "bone church" on the outskirts of Prague or the Capuchin crypt in Rome, where generations of monks laid out the remains of their dead forebears in an eerie anatomy lesson.
The bone church is a 15 min walk from the main station in a suburb called Sedlec.
At its creepy "bone church", whose interior is decorated with the bones of 40,000 victims of the Great Plague and the Hussite Wars, you can literally stare death in the face.
One American tour guide at the church told his group that "there are bone churches like this all over Europe".
If the production, by the experienced director Beth Greenberg, was bare-bones, the church setting was richly appropriate.
Bone said the church needed leadership and clarity.
The suits he wears while reviewing (typical line: "The burger caught me off-guard, 'cos it was hench … man definitely chewed on a bone") are his church clothes.
But all these years later, "The dinosaur bones of the church novel show signs of quickening flesh," he proclaimed.
