Sentence examples for idols of a from inspiring English sources

Abbi and Ilana are the idols of a largely underserved and under-chronicled female id.

Clay idols of a fire god in the form of an old man with an incense burner on his back date from the same period.

For downhill skiers to become the idols of a boy raised on a Suffolk plain is barely a footnote to the great incongruities upon which their necks depend.

They might be idols of a primal cult, recalling the sex workers depicted in Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon with their primitive masks and distorted, angular bodies.

By now millions of dollars were at stake, and the utopian aura of the performers was in jeopardy, given the discrepancy between the band's symbolic stature as idols of a carefree youth culture and their newfound real status as pampered plutocrats.

At home they were the idols of an unlikely national religion.

Weinberger's subjects were working-class kids who rebelled in outfits inspired by American juvenile delinquents and rock idols of an earlier decade, but taken to bizarrely accessorized extremes.

Like angels, demons are regarded as spiritual, noncorporeal beings, but they have been depicted in religious iconography as hybrid creatures with horrifying characteristics or as caricatures of idols of an opposing religion.

But that American Idol of a stone, she said, plopped into the stream without warning back in 1967.

In the documentary, Ms. Cyrus likens that performance to the great Video Music Award moments of Ms. Spears, a pneumatic pop idol of a simpler time.

"She is the inverted muse of youth, the scarlet idol of a capsized world, the flower of evil of our age".