Sentence examples for massive gate from inspiring English sources

But his second take on the lateral paintings in the Cerasi Chapel in Santa Maria del Popolo in downtown Rome, next to the massive gate that received visitors traveling from the north, offers a striking contrast to the grandiose altarpiece, an "Assumption of the Virgin" by Annibale Carracci, another star of the time.

A massive gate drops from the ship's stern and troops depart ashore aboard LCACs (Landing Craft Air Cushion), fast, powerful hovercraft they can also carry an M-1 tank that look a bit like the spaceship in the old TV series Battlestar Galactica.

For starters, they said, forget Hollywood vistas of massive gates at the palace of Priam.

Only a few decades ago, there were 10 or 12 massive gates to the Old City; now only one remains.

The outer circle of walls, about 2.5 miles (4 km) long, supplemented at intervals by fine medieval towers, is penetrated by three massive gates.

The city, with its wall and massive gates, served as the Deccan headquarters of the Mughals until Aurangzeb moved the capital to Aurangabad in 1636.

Next to the 2,500-year-old 2,500-year-old 2,500-year-oldzzar's role in the construction of the massive gates and courtyards are modern insertions that explain how the palace was restored to its former glory "in the age of Saddam Hussein".

Beyond the shadowed frieze of Delft's venerable protective walls and massive gates, bright sunshine illuminates the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk, burial place of the princes of Orange and the city's symbolic core.

Go through the massive gates and you will leave the narrow and unremarkable streets of Spongano village to enter a white-gravelled, white-walled courtyard dotted with wrought-iron tables and chairs.

But the Japanese, rather than pamper their patrimony, have the habit of tearing down temples, shrines or massive gates that are hundreds of years old, only to immediately construct replicas".The ideal form of beauty for the Japanese is the cherry blossom," says the Japanese fund manger, in perfect American-accented English.

It's 72 feet high in the front with these massive gates that open.