Sentence examples for earthly setting from inspiring English sources

The painting of landscapes, as the earthly setting of man's activity, has its first modest beginnings in this period.

From the late Middle Ages the theme of the Madonna enthroned with Christ Child is presented in an earthly setting peopled by mortals.

Most events of mythology, set in a time before the gods' withdrawal from the human realm, take place in an earthly setting.

The lyrics also imply a deficiency or unfulfilment on Harrison's part – "an acknowledgment of the trials and tribulations he was facing in a more earthly setting", author Ian Inglis suggests.

"For if you saw your transient, earthly life set in dimensions of eternity, there wouldn't be any virtue in endurance.

Visually "Pour Your Body Out" is a kind of vanitas — a still life symbolizing the transience of earthly pleasures — set in motion.

As I noted in the column, one of the striking things about Aslan's depiction of a political Jesus intent on setting up an earthly kingdom is that his protagonist ends up being relatively boring: The actual figure of Jesus recedes into a larger portrait of revolutionary turmoil, and the Nazarene becomes just another rabble-rouser with relatively unoriginal ideas.

When the mob came for Tajudeen A. Tijjani, they came in the name of the Lord, setting his house on fire, destroying all his earthly possessions.

Erika Fromm, sternly setting the old Dutchman on her couch, detected in The Garden of Earthly Delights the "polymorphous perverse" fantasies of an impotent homosexual who exposed his "fears about genitality".

The disembodied voice of Clark's father, Jor-El, is introduced; he communicates to Clark through his spaceship, setting the stage for plots involving his role in fulfilling Clark's earthly destiny.

The imagery of the outer panels is set in the earthly realm with the donors, and saints painted in grisaille to imitate sculpture.