Sentence examples for casts of figures from inspiring English sources

The big moment in exhibitions devoted to Pompeii is usually courtesy of one of those eternally poignant casts of figures – images in plaster of the voids once filled by the human form, flesh decayed to nothingness after the superheated debris and ash hardened into a solid mass around them.

The "play" gives rise to fresh and inventive stage-pictures, as snow and policy papers drift down over an implacably advancing cast of figures from disparate worlds.

It's classed as one of his handful of "Wimmelbilder," or "busy pictures," which were characterized by an encyclopedic cast of figures, none overlapping, all engaged in miscellaneous activities, against a background with an elevated horizon.

Visitors to her Tennessee home in the US see only a small part of her collection on display, but the rotating cast of figures is chosen from an army of thousands carefully preserved in boxes.

Central figures tend to be surrounded by large casts of subsidiary figures, animals and plant life.

He then made plaster casts of the figures, both of people and animals (on one occasion he made a donkey stand up so it would not move).

There are only 11 recorded bronze casts of this figure.

Even in the 18th dynasty the casting of bronze figures occurred only on a relatively small scale.

Nineteenth-century temperance campaigners deployed a familiar cast of stock figures: starving children, battered wives, drunks staggering and dying in the streets.

The U.S. Treasury department recently announced a plan to diversify the cast of historical figures on U.S. currency — putting abolitionist Harriet Tubman, for instance, on the face of the new $20 bill.

Intrepid and burly, he's one in a cast of dogged figures Maing followed between 2014 and 2017, earning their trust as the NYPD12 grew in both strength and numbers.