Sentence examples for heavy robe from inspiring English sources

Even when he dons the judge's heavy robe, he never succumbs to the self-seriousness that might diminish his subject's humanity.

The artist stands in the background, a tiny figure overdressed for work in a big hat and heavy robe with cumbersome sleeves.

(Dale Ferguson is the tone-perfect set and costume designer.) Mr. Rush — in red-striped pajamas, heavy robe and Kokoschkaesque face — suggests a Mother Goose monarch reconceived by Tim Burton.

Mr. Straw, for example, who is Britain's top legal official, did not look like a man of the people, dressed as he was in a baroque outfit that included a long, heavy robe trimmed with gold.

Half-glimpsed through laser-illuminated gloom, Karin stands motionless in a heavy robe, face painted to a deathly pallor, singing lines that less resemble the concerns of a conventional pop song than some eerie nightmare.

He kneels on a bed of flowers, and his heavy robe and folded drapery have a choppy and overflowing feel.

Women have abandoned the heavy robes urged on them by religiously zealous militias for a simple headscarf and jeans.

The women and girls around me, all veiled and clad in heavy robes, were laughing and competing to be sprayed in the face.

Two chic dressers who turned a tatami room into a staging area for a literary fantasy mind the train flowing behind my heavy robes.

To Christian critics of these practices, they are a distortion of the Scripture, because they add to the text more than is actually there — your own memories of a summer by the seaside, the feel of heavy robes.

Or of a saint tamping the grenadine Of his heavy robes before the Blessing of the Animals.I have heard tell of men who brought Great Pyrenees, a borzoi, or Some pocket mice, baskets of mourning doves beneath their wicker lids,A chameleon on a leash from the Prussian circuses, And, from the farthest caucuses, some tundra wolves in pairs.