In this direct moment, more transcendental than the image of figures ascending to heaven in "Folding," Mr. Shen says something about life and death.
Riding up the chairlift, I looked back hungrily across the canyon, at the vast untracked south face of Superior, and then followed the ridgeline east, until I saw a lone figure ascending a pristine snowfield.
After visiting the house he reported seeing a ghostly white figure ascend the stairs.
A picture painted in 1934 by Lyonel Feininger, in a style combining memories of French Cubism in its geometrical stylization, of German Expressionism in its stridency and of Surrealism in the weirdness of its figures, gracefully ascended to $7.36 million.
According to witnesses who saw him in Abu Kamal after the end of the Muslim festival of Ramadan, he was looking tired and drawn, a shadow of the confident, black-robed figure who ascended a pulpit in Mosul's Great Mosque of al-Nuri in mid-2014 to proclaim the "caliphate's establishment".
While Woods was backing down the leader board, some familiar figures were ascending it.
The album's first single was "Genesis," an elegant little song that paired indistinct lyrics—something about "my heart"—with simple melodic figures: an ascending synthesizer line, a descending vocal melody.
The sentimentality and sensationalism of the annual exhibition were found here also, and so too was much exhibitionist virtuosity devoted to depicting the veiled faces and figures of ascending souls and their androgynous angelic escorts, as well as to recording bourgeois haberdashery.
You hear it in bent notes in the violin and viola lines, in brisk running passages on the piano, and most of all in a recurring syncopated three-note figure — an ascending and descending minor third — that calls to mind a similar motif in the hard-rocking finale of Prokofiev's Piano Sonata No. 7.
When we applied this attachment angle to each pup, some individuals showed a negative angle when they ascended (Figure 2, red line).
Staccato oboe notes tapped out a stream of digits in the movement dedicated to Johnson, while excited ascending figures traced the eventual liftoff of a spacecraft.
