Sentence examples for extraordinary miniature from inspiring English sources

The first thing that caught my eye was the extraordinary miniature circus, billed as "the Greatest Little Show on Earth".

The same conceit is embodied by everything from the extraordinary miniature replica of Alice's castle, which dominates her library, to the ceramic phrenological head that figures in the work's climax.

By the mid-seventies Brainard had started making his extraordinary "miniatures," perhaps his best-known works.

Whether you think the World Economic Forum is a worthy enterprise or a bunch of baloney, its annual meeting is an extraordinary creation — a miniature society, at once fluid and defined.

"The shortlist was so fantastically diverse," she said, "[but] this is an extraordinary book - a very original miniature world, with lots of contemporary and age-old themes.

The Towneley Lectionary, one of NYPL's extraordinary renaissance illuminated manuscripts, includes this miniature sermon on the mount.

As with the Stravinsky, he makes us very conscious of the music's influences – in this case Rimsky-Korsakov and Tchaikovsky – as well as reminding us of the extraordinary craftsmanship he lavished on his orchestral miniatures.

Here Hadrian created an extraordinary microcosm of his own empire, replicating in miniature all kinds of famous landmarks and artistic masterpieces from across the Roman world.

He creates spherical, oval or block-shaped objects of clear, solid glass in which miniature representations of North American wild flowers, rendered in colored glass with extraordinary accuracy and delicacy, are suspended.

Although miniature pigs may not work for every household, they do actually make extraordinary pets for the right families.

Through some clever shifts of perception, Park manipulates miniature worlds with some nimble handiwork, transforming the most ordinary environments into extraordinary scenes.