Sentence examples for colossal image from inspiring English sources
Both could be fearsomely demanding deities, and a famous colossal image of Coatlicue, not in the show, has to be one of the scariest sculptures on earth.
Venerated as "the Christ of America," his colossal image flapping from Caracas skyscrapers, his red shirts ubiquitous on the streets, El Comandante is finally as exalted as his hero.
At almost the same time another Parisian shutterbug, Maxime Du Camp, was in Egypt, where he paid a team of local workers to excavate a colossal image of the pharaoh Ramesses II expressly so he could photograph it.
The story ultimately pivots on the painful contrast between greatness and mereness between the expression of extraordinary passions and the life that must be lived while doing so; between the colossal image of an actor that the camera brings to the screen and the life-sized image that an actor sees in the mirror.
The colossal image, which would need a billboard as big as a football stadium if it were printed, captures only about 3% of our sky, but it should help astronomers map the exact shape of the Milky Way and discover where the edge of the galaxy is.
These come in all shapes, sizes and styles, from colossal images in the guise of an Egyptian god to precious miniatures in silver.
One of the most impressive colossal images of the type is the brick and stucco icon at the Wat Mahathat, Sawankhalok, another Sukhothai technical forte, dating probably to the 14th century.
While Sherman generates ever more colossal images of himself, Self is diminished by guilt: "whatever emotional scars I might bear my life would remain coddled and my instincts conformist – only a striving such as Sherman's against his crushing disability could be accounted an exercise of will at all".
The colossal Buddha images enshrined in the temples were usually built of brick and finished in stucco, gilded and ornamented.
In 752 the emperor Shōmu dedicated the Daibutsu, the colossal bronze image of Vairocana at Tōdai Temple, and many of the ritual objects used in the consecration ceremony are still preserved in the monastery treasury, the Shōsō-in.
A NASA spacecraft orbiting the huge asteroid Vesta has snapped amazing new photos of the colossal space rock, images that reveal strange features never-before-seen on an asteroid, scientists say.
