Sentence examples for pillars from from inspiring English sources

The animals might be mythical characters, symbolic scapegoats, tribal families, mnemonic devices, or perhaps totemic scarecrows, guarding the pillars from evil.

Largely untouched by humans and topped with thick jungle flora, the rock formations rise dramatically in conical peaks and pillars from the surrounding waters, which feature offshore coral reefs, freshwater swamps, mangrove forests and sandy beaches.

Dressed in an elegant simple blue silk dress reminiscent of her days as a Tehran cabaret star, and encircled by replica pillars from the ancient Persian site of Persepolis, she paused reflectively.

Agreeing to one of the temple lobby's most significant demands, New Delhi sent a high-ranking official to join the prayer service and to accept the pillars from Mahant Ramchandra Paramhans Das, the movement's 93-year-old religious leader.

Outside the window is a monumental steel sculpture by Arnaldo Pomodoro called "Triad," the tallest of the sculptures on the grounds: three steel columns, which look like ceremonial pillars from ancient Rome, appear to be bursting apart at the middle, revealing a mathematical grid inside, as though an empire were being destroyed from within by the forces of modernity.

Two of the stand-out pieces are a long stretch of an antique Berber tent that fills a wall in the sitting room and the tall warped wooden pillars from a mosque in southern Morocco that date back to the 18th century.

Vidal's third novel, "The City and the Pillar," from 1948, is about homosexual relationships.

The primitive forest effect is amplified by an ebony Tucker Robbins pillar from the Philippines.

A 17th-century carved stone pillar from a Himalayan mosque stands in the living room.

A pillar from the same church associates five-lobed palmettes common in 10th- and 11th-century Iran with knotted motifs reminiscent of Viking ornament.

Dating from the end of the 7th or the beginning of the 6th century bce is a famous cippus (small pillar) from the Roman Forum; it is inscribed vertically on its four faces, in boustrophedon style.