Sentence examples for great spiral from inspiring English sources

The great spiral moves counterclockwise — west, south, east, north.

They whirled in a great spiral, silver blades flashing on the edge like comets.

City Hall's great spiral ramp, which leans back on its curving axis as it rises from basement to roof, has the sublimity and spacial daring of a late baroque master such as Borromini.

The feature of the house, which must have been a rich merchant's at one time, or a sea captain's, was a great spiral staircase that soared up to a skylight with off its landings, according to Truman, 28 rooms.

The narrative description dear to Roman art found its best expression in the great spiral frieze on Trajan's Column, where the emperor can be seen among his soldiers at various times in the Dacian campaigns; the story of the war plays a most important part, although, like most imperial monuments, the column is meant to exalt the leader.

The entire Local Group the cluster of galaxies consisting of the Milky Way Galaxy, the great spiral galaxy in Andromeda, the smaller spiral in Triangulum, and more than 20 other stellar assemblages contains but one supergiant nebula: the Tarantula Nebula (also called 30 Doradus), in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

But it feels like more than compensation — something closer to fate — that they should enjoy their Manhattan debut in Frank Lloyd Wright's great spiral-shaped museum.

In Bosnia it is cooked in great spirals, in round baking trays.

For the solo show of the young European artist Tino Sehgal, the great spiraling rotunda, recently ablaze with Kandinskys, has been cleared out.

Descending into the valley in great spirals, hunting the thermals, until the whooshing power is under the wing, straining as we ascend again.

We were building to the grand finale, New York's answer to Boulez beneath the pyramid: a presentation of Henry Brant's "Orbits," for eighty trombones, organ, and soprano, in the great spiralling rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum.