Sentence examples for grave relief from inspiring English sources

A gift from Isabel B. Wilson, the museum's new chairwoman, and her husband, Wallace S. Wilson, it joins a marble grave relief from Classical Greece acquired last year.

The early works in the show include a lovely time-softened grave relief from fourth-century Ionian Greece of a man taking leave of his family; a fantastic Roman vase carved with figures and animals; and a somber head of a man, also Roman.

On Athenian grave reliefs the Classical calm gave place to expressions of controlled but deep emotion.

When her earthly sojourn is at last complete, Agnes departs with grave sympathy and relief.

To think of the ground as a womb and no longer as a grave is a relief.

The UN deputy secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief voiced grave concern about the risks faced by civilians.

It can provide a relief from grave awkwardness, when the randomness of conversation has led down darker alleys than one had planned to traverse: to talk of personal terrors, tragedies in families, the sad or cruel or squalid deaths of once-promising friends.

In 2006, the Getty returned or promised to return four looted objects to Greece: a stele (grave marker), a marble relief, a gold funerary wreath, and a marble statue.

Two of the sculptures - an ornate 2,400-year-old 2,400-year-old 2,400-year-oldand archaic votive relief - were surrendered blacke worlimestoneest art institution after less than three months of exhaustive negravetions.

The bas relief on her grave marker was created by sculptor Jo Davidson.

For the West to accept such a result with relief would constitute a grave misreading of Russia's mischief-making.Mr Putin has used the Ukrainian crisis to establish some dangerous precedents.