Sentence examples for figures of gods from inspiring English sources

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.

Thus, Copán architecture is embellished with gloriously baroque figures of gods, and its stelae and other monuments are carved with an extraordinary virtuosity.

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.

Its crisply carved border reliefs, described in the 17th century as depicting "loathsome devilish images," twine together figures of gods and mortals to suggest the interdependent forces that animate a morally balanced universe.

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.

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

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".