Sentence examples for figure of god from inspiring English sources

So sighs the figure of God in the prologue to Goethe's great poetical drama, "Faust".

in The Simpsons (1989-) Recommended by SMortonTHD The figure of God – whose face always remains off-screen – has appeared in several episodes of The Simpsons.

The intimate family scale of Genesis yields to something cooler and more mechanical; Alter in his introduction speaks of a "new wide-angle lens" and "the distancing of the central character and the distancing of the figure of God".

He wrote to Alec of a crucifix he once saw, with the figure of God hovering behind the dying Christ: "The nails that pierce the Son's hands pierce the Father's also: the thorn-crowned head of the Dying Saviour is seen to be lying upon the Father's bosom.

"This eminence, this towering figure of God's best creation -- this was God's best work".

Bright, winter light is filtered through an extraordinary stained glass window, which depicts the bearded figure of God surrounded by vibrant flames of turquoise and inky blue.

His easel-size illustrations of scenes from Revelation, teeming with muscular, cartoonish figures of God, Jesus, angels, demons, mythic monsters and souls of the damned, have generous, slightly crusty surfaces and a frosty light that gives them a slightly eerie, visionary quality.

Colossal marble figures of gods, fragmentary but overwhelmingly powerful, convey the titanic authority of Greek myth.

Small figures of gods, originally placed on the prows of canoes, were depicted in a deep squatting stance.

The conventions of Kona-style bodies occur in some earlier figures, including smaller figures of gods mounted on props, apparently personally owned by chiefs.

Monumental stone figures of gods, in a style that persisted into the 19th century, were being carved and installed on marae in the Marquesas about 1500.