Sentence examples for composite creature from inspiring English sources

Watch particularly for duets, where Cherkaoui is interested in the different ways people connect with each other: one will turn into a puppet master, or shadow the other, or they'll merge into a composite creature.

THE "young baron of England" in "The Merchant of Venice" is a composite creature: "I think he bought his doublet in Italy, his round hose in France, his bonnet in Germany and his behavior everywhere".

Originally Danish, this is available as a recut version with English-speaking actors (rather like the original Godzilla) but the "dinosaur" is some weird composite creature (it has dragon-like wings and can breathe fire) and the monster is on strings and looks like a Blue Peter cast-off.

In Greek mythology: a composite creature with the body and head of a lion, a goat's head rising from its back, and a serpent's tail.

Her peripatetic imagination turns her dancers into composite creatures, funny and poignant, whose gaits, gestures, and behaviors elicit fascination and empathy.

In fact, this was a conventional trait of much Greek figurative sculpture of the time, but it remains a mystery -- a mystery that dovetails nicely with the mystery of exactly what centaurs and other composite creatures actually meant to the people who created them.

What remains problematic is the distinction of simple and composite creatures in terms of quiddity.

Composite creatures have fascinated throughout the ages.

Griffin, also spelled griffon or gryphon, composite mythological creature with a lion's body (winged or wingless) and a bird's head, usually that of an eagle.

The image of a composite horselike creature on a belt buckle from the third century B.C. represents a motif brought from the Black Sea to the northern border of China and then into China itself, where it has been found decorating a typical Chinese lacquer box in Hunan province far to the south.

Cecilia is holding an ermine, Sforza's emblem, and even without the adjacent studies of bears and dogs' paws, one sees that this animal must be a composite, a mythical creature.