They bowed their heads, let their hands flutter heavenward, and declared a new-found love for Jesus.
In like manner, the figure of the Madonna in the Immaculate Conception (1607 14), originally in the Church of San Vicente, floats heavenward in a paroxysm of ecstasy supported by long, distorted angels.
They contributed powerfully to the growing conception of an eternal Roman empire, seen no less in the special types of eagle (the soul flown heavenward) or funeral pyre or temple in honour of "good" emperors consecrated as divi than in the annual record of military victory, economic security, and provincial peace and implicit in the regularity of imperial succession.
In a bizarre throwback to their granny's day, modern wives are expected to just roll their eyes heavenward, and put up and shut up.
On sweltering summer days and crisp autumn mornings I have looked at the South's beautiful churches with their lofty spires pointing heavenward.
Such hope and opportunity enable humankind to cooperate with the Godhead so as to defeat Satan, avoid damnation, overcome death, and ascend heavenward.
The planet is cathedral-like, with elongated vegetation and rock formations (resulting from the planet's light gravitational pull) symbolically pointing heavenward.
Burnished by the sun's rays at dawn, King resplendently ascends heavenward to his eternal reward.
For days on end, her view of the street was blocked by the satellite-TV trucks parked at the curb, their tall masts raised, their great dishes pointed heavenward, as if waiting for a word from God.
But, even in this winter lull, the question on growers' minds is the same as it has been since Robert Frost pointed his ladder heavenward and Winslow Homer painted his young pickers in sunbonnets: How can you tell when an apple is ripe?
Late one night, the sky scaffold will be moved approximately 30 feet west, and then, from the chaos of the concourse, heavenward gazers will get a lasting first glimpse of bright golden stars in a startling blue sky.
