Sentence examples for idols from the from inspiring English sources

Then there are the stunning statuettes and idols from the Middle East and India.

The reform consisted of removing pagan altars and idols from the Temple, destroying rural sanctuaries and fertility cults, and centralizing worship at the Temple of Jerusalem.

Eight years after his migration to Medina, the Prophet conquered Mecca, removed the idols from the Kaaba, and established it as an Islamic house of worship.

Known as "The Martyrs," they looked something like teenage idols from the 1950's, but their songs were about a different kind of love.

I was reminded of this formative moment when I interviewed the great soprano Leontyne Price, one of my early idols from the opera world, in public for The New York Times in 2004.

At Irving Plaza last Wednesday night, it had smoke machines puffing continually and strobe lights flickering at peak moments, just like its idols from the era when the regal psychedelia of a band like Pink Floyd could fill an arena.

In considering the great divide of renown that separates the idol from the idolized, "Buyer & Cellar" comes closer to crossing that gap than any play I've seen.

There he met his idol from the "N.Y.

A pop idol from the days before Pop Idol, the 5ft 2in singer is standing tall.

There was a festival that day, and the temple's custodians had removed an idol from the sanctum sanctorum and were parading it around a courtyard.

Now Conor Maynard can really be called "Britain's Justin Bieber" after the Brighton musical prodigy displaced the Canadian idol from the upper reaches of the chart with his debut single.