Sentence examples for pagoda as from inspiring English sources

Some of the protests in Yangon used Sule Pagoda as a staging ground.

When the democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi called for a "second struggle for national independence" in 1988, she chose Yangon's gold-spired Shwedagon Pagoda as the site to deliver her watershed speech.

We nurse fond memories of the previous night's do for Gus Van Sant's Last Days: the film's star, Mike Pitt, played with his band Pagoda, as Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon wandered through the New York in-crowd.

This video pagoda, as some refer to it, ultimately became Park's lasting trademark, fostering his endeavor to bewilder the perception of simple phenomena.

Then, Surf in the water until you see a house with a pagoda as its roof.

The grounds are dotted with stiff bamboo as well as pendulous willows, pagodas as well as ducks.

And Hanoi, which had suffered severe aerial bombardment over the many years of the war, looked to me wondrous in its postwar prosperity, with boulevards and villas, ponds and pagodas — as glorious as it had been when it had been the capital of Indochina.

Harbin Festival, China One of the biggest snow festivals in the world, covering 40,000 square metres, Harbin is the home of Chinese ice and snow art, famous for its sculptures, giant jelly-tot-coloured ice lanterns and ice pagodas, as well as music, folk dancing and fireworks.

The Place de la Bastille station suggests Chinese pagoda architecture as well as Art Nouveau.

Orville Schell, who runs China programs at the Asia Society, described passing a series of pagodas as he approached the Mingyong Glacier on the Tibetan plateau.

He lit up a Red Pagoda Mountain cigarette as soon as I got in the car.