Policemen rushed up, but, as they moved toward the fiery column enveloping the erect figure of the monk, some of the onlookers started shouting and shoving them away.
His tall, erect figure and handsome profile lend star quality to his remarks at the black-tie openings and museum dinner parties that he claims, somewhat unconvincingly, to loathe.
Tito couldn't erect figures or busts in honour of generals because he didn't want to be seen to be favouring any ethnic group, for example a Bosnian general or a Serb war hero, so instead they made these things that didn't refer to people".
Mr. Poitier stood at the microphone, almost as erect a figure as the honorary Oscar he was holding, and looked out over the audience directly into the viewer's eye.
A ramrod-erect military figure with a bristling moustache, spectacles, thinning hair, a loud laugh, flamboyant waistcoats and the skills of an amateur conjuror, Harris had the manner of a mildly eccentric Edwardian gentleman.
Mr. Valtinos stands erect, a single figure on a raked platform above the rest of the stage.
Didn't male politicians see anything odd, they wondered, in erecting a female figure as a symbol of liberty for a nation whose women couldn't vote?
Federal authorities announced that Andrew Schneck, 25, had been charged on Monday for attempting to bomb a statue celebrating a Confederate military figure erected in 1905.
The statue to this racist and gender-divisive figure, erected at a time when Britain imposed its colonial will in the world, should be a reminder of how and where we must not tread again.
In particular, the skull preserves features such as small parietal fenestrae, paired squamosal fenestrae, and erect supraorbital horns (Figures 1 3), that have been variably considered individual variation, ontogenetic features, pathology or valid characters separating the taxon from Triceratops (e.g., [1] [3], [5], [7], [10], [13]).
He is now 60 but maintains a trim figure and erect bearing.
