Sentence examples for figures of holy from inspiring English sources

Today, "Freedom" is number one again, thanks to Oprah, but the point is that literary fiction proved it could attain sales figures of holy proportions without the blessing of the queen.

Figures of holy men and dancing girls were normally sculpted for deep niches and recesses.

He started assembling the presepio -- the name is Italian for Nativity scenes -- in the late 1960's with ceramic figures of the Holy Family and some scenery.

Done in oil on metal in the 19th century, it is an image of the upright hand of Jesus, pierced with a nail and balancing figures of the Holy Family on its fingertips.

Even though Shia culture is much less sensitive than Sunni to the depiction of holy figures, it was decided that no image of the Prophet's face would be shown to reduce the potential for controversy.

In apses there was a trend toward static and symbolical representation of holy figures and a reduction of detail.

Haloes set with tilted cubes that bring out the circle of light surrounding the heads of holy figures became common in Byzantine mosaics of the 6th to 7th centuries, as is seen in the mosaic panels dating from this period in the church of Áyios Dhimítrios, Thessaloníki.

Having traveled in and reported from India, I've seen numerous images of many-armed divine multitaskers, and I know that the Hindu pantheon includes a vast array of holy figures.

Looking today at his creepy eschatological Vision of Saint John, from 1608 1614, it's hard to imagine how the conservative religious community of Toledo would have understood its anguished gray sky, its unorthodox use of scale and its transformation of holy figures into stark, twisting panes of colour.

Draw silly caricatures of holy figures, and continue to write profane literature.

Regardless, the movie is still being banned in some Arab countries, as the depiction of holy figures in art is considered sacrilege in Islam.