Sentence examples for mythical statues from inspiring English sources

They had discussed Gaudí and Ferdinand Cheval — a French postman who worked for decades to build an uninhabitable castle, covered in mythical statues.

The interior of the house featured a number of mythical statues, as well as artwork by Gaspard Dughet, portraits of William Congreve and Godfrey Kneller, and Tintoretto's Esther Before Ahasuerus.

But you have to remember that he didn't free the slaves on day one (nor had he promised to), he didn't stand on principle on every issue and he was not some sort of mythical statue of a man that never budged.

One-and-a-half million tourists visit "Juliet's tomb" every year, gaze at "her" balcony, wear away the hand and breast of "her" statue, regardless of their totally mythical status.

On Aug. 29 a pair of whimsical, 12-foot-high fiberglass dogs will stand guard like 21st-century Komainu, those mythical lionlike statues commonly placed at the entrance to Japanese shrines to ward off evil spirits.

Plato's own solution to this problem was to argue that the property distinctively possessed by knowledge is that of being 'tied-down' to the truth, like the mythical tethered statues of Daedalus which were so life-like that they were tied to the ground to ensure that they did not run away.

So he has achieved near-mythical status.

Among imposing statues of mythical animals are the well-known winged bulls, guardians of the palace.

At 4 am, when the wake-up bells ring each morning, the tall trees smell like earth and fog creeps around the elegant Burmese-style pagodas and gazebos, making their statues of mythical lions and other creatures look as though they have just emerged from another world.

The gate is guarded by Chinese-style statues, including mythical warriors and lions.

Statues of the mythical twins Castor and Pollux guard the entrance to Palazzo Reale and watch over the border between the sacred 'white magic' and diabolical 'black magic' halves of the city.