Sentence examples for dead jesus from inspiring English sources

It portrays a profusely bleeding yet exceedingly dead Jesus held up by two sad angels with implements of torture pictured on a gold background.

The show begins with a fine crucifix by Lorenzo Monaco (around 1420), a tender, elongated image, more poetry than pain, of the dead Jesus.

The easiest one to describe is "Pieta" in which the dead Jesus lying across his mother's lap is wearing a Superman costume.

A large, affecting painting of the dead Jesus surrounded by mourning followers explains why he was in demand for church commissions.

So I asked whether turning the dead Jesus into a naked girl was meant particularly to heighten the shock by its blasphemy.

One of his earliest masterpieces, the life-size "Deposition of Christ" in Antwerp Cathedral, portrays the dead Jesus with a contorted, bloodless body modelled on a famous sculpture of Hercules in Rome.

In the Bible, Lazarus is the brother of Mary, raised from the dead by Jesus.

Holmes dies because heroes must, and returns from the dead, like Jesus, because the audience demanded it.

I won't time it to coincide with Xmas or Valentine's Day or Lincoln's Birthday, the book will not rise from the dead with Jesus on Easter Sunday.

Jesus is asked: "Who is my neighbour?" The moral of the story he tells in response - at least the one most people remember from Sunday school - is that it is the man who is beaten up and left for dead that Jesus points to as our neighbour.

Perhaps Aronofsky was also playfully hinting at Roland Barthes's ruminations in his 1957 essay The World of Wrestling: "I have heard it said of a wrestler stretched on the ground: 'He is dead, little Jesus there, on the cross...'." There is, however, nothing little about Mickey Rourke.