Sentence examples for compelling statues from inspiring English sources
Florence is a city of compelling statues where Donatello's St George shares the honours with … oh yes, Michelangelo's David.
Pools of water, simulated fire, compelling statues, places you on the shores of Normandy on D-Day.
They're compelling works of art, and it's rare to find such large statues in such good condition.
And, yet the serenity of the sleeping Buddha lying in one of the caves, the summer and winter solstice sunlight illuminating statues of the praying Buddha, the spellbinding architecture and the compelling beauty of the wall paintings lift Ajanta above such worldly concerns.
The Norton Simon, which declined to make museum officials available for an interview, said in its written announcement of the statue's repatriation that it responded to "a unique and compelling request by top officials in Cambodia to help rebuild its 'soul' as a nation".
To geographers, cartographers, real-estate agents, land-use planners, teachers and map-addicts everywhere, it is quite possibly the most compelling application yet seen on the web free for browsing with lots of famous sites (including the Statue of Liberty, the Grand Canal in Venice, the Pyramids of Egypt) already tagged for the newcomer to explore.
No bit of history is without its compelling trivia (how many others would know, for example, that in Santiago de Compostela's 12th-century church of Santa María Salomé there is a statue of an angel wearing glasses?).
Statues usually imply respect.
