Sentence examples for king god from inspiring English sources
Many of the extant figures in stone are votive statues, as indicated by the phrases used in the inscriptions that they often bear: "It offers prayers" or "Statue, say to my king (god)…." Male statues stand or sit with hands clasped in an attitude of prayer.
Yet within a scant three months there opened one show after another — all modest in presentation, but fierce in impact — that kept raising not only the neighborhood's intelligence quotient but its emotion quotient: "Exit the King," "God of Carnage," "Hair," "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," "Mary Stuart," "Next to Normal," "The Norman Conquests," "reasons to be pretty" and "Waiting for Godot".
Everyone was starving, and they were basically killing God, because they were killing the king, God's representative; they were writing their own rules.
As the one primarily responsible for maintaining the well-being of the state, the king (God's vicar on earth, according to the Siete Partidas and numerous other medieval texts) tended to concentrate power in his own hands.
The two most famous deities were Jupiter (the king God) and Mars (the god of war).
However, God saw the heart of King Herod and while the magi had good intentions of sharing baby Jesus with the king, God knew his intentions were not so pure and noble.
"After so many years of Christian persecution we were finally able to call on Zeus, our king-god, to bring peace to the world ahead of the Olympics.
"His Dark Materials" may be the first fantasy series founded upon the ideals of the Enlightenment rather than upon tribal and mythic yearnings for kings, gods, and supermen.
Ms. Sikander's medium is the miniature: the laborious, seemingly archaic (or in her words, anachronistic) art form that emerged 500 years ago on the subcontinent to depict the lives of kings, gods and courtesans-in-waiting.
The "genre painting" refers to the realistic painting that illuminates the moods of domestic life and the ordinary beauty of its characters, so different from the style of portraiture of kings, gods and goddesses of the times.
Still, the ambiance of an old-time village comes across in dozens of palapa-style buildings on the site and the liberal sprinkling of statues of Mayan kings, gods and goddesses.
