Sentence examples for hemicycle from inspiring English sources

The five windows of the choir hemicycle (a semicircular arrangement) relate in various ways to the Virgin Mary.

There are plenty of people who mock the legitimacy of the European Parliament, and plenty more who can think of better ways to pass a morning than tuning in to a session in the hemicycle.

A massive 1 billion EUR lobbying campaign by groups representing the food industry saw the bill die on the floor of the hemicycle in the European Parliament.

The first non-European pontiff in 1,200 years delivered a sombre and thoughtful, if less than stirring, message to more than 700 MEPs gathered in the parliament's hemicycle in Strasbourg on France's border with Germany.

A few hours before our spat, Romano Prodi had unveiled his new blueprint for the future of Europe in the cavernous "hemicycle" of the European parliament.

The room, also known as the hemicycle, has been described by the historian Joseph Rykwert as the school's "spiritual center".

Goupil also had a hand in the distribution of Paul Delaroche's "Hemicycle des Beaux-Arts" (1841), an elaborate group portrait of artists from antiquity through the 17th century.

It is a baffling combination of towers, hemicycles, courtyards, conference rooms and tree-filled atriums, all linked together by glass lifts and dark, leather-lined corridors.

And then there are the hexagons, hemicycles, triangles, and spirals that pervade his late work.