Sentence examples for marble ceiling from inspiring English sources

When she won the gavel, after the Democratic landslide of 2006, many saw it as a sign that the "marble ceiling" in American politics was cracking.

Its large outer vestibule was covered by a marble ceiling, supported by marble beams with a free span of 18 feet, about which Pausanias wrote, "The Propylaea has a ceiling of white marble which in the beauty and size of the stones remains supreme even to my time".

What was constructed is beautiful: a tower of local Kersanton granite 60 yards above sea level, with a curving staircase of 272 steps tiled in pale blue-green opaline glass, rising to a wood-paneled room with a statue of the marshal and a marble ceiling, with brass finials.

For our daughters and our granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling.

That just made me more determined to break the marble ceiling".

"We are preparing to shatter the highest, strongest marble ceiling in our country," the San Francisco lawmaker said.

The restaurant has a whiff of Old World with lofty marble ceilings of the former Metropolitan Bank building.

Beneath the soaring marble ceilings, the group of mostly African-American activists joined hands in a prayer for local control.

Marble columns, ceiling tiles, stained-glass windows and a little woodwork were deemed salvageable.

You meet Luciano and his family at that astonishment, a riot of gilt furniture, cascading waterfalls, marble floors, ceiling murals, carved cherubs and celebrating, sweating, shouting humanity.

In the marble rotunda, ceiling murals by Henry Siddons Mowbray (1858-1928) appear to have been brightened through touch-ups, though this is an illusion.