Sentence examples for portrait of god from inspiring English sources

On one wall of the living room was a portrait of God staring down from the heavens.

This is so flawed, funny and oddly noble a portrait of God, that the most hard-hearted atheist may find him hard to resist.

Willy Lam, a Hong Kong-based political analyst, told me this week that Mao has the status of "a demigod," and one cannot be "allowed to make a portrait of God.

There is also a kitschy portrait of God, his arms in spread open on an invisible cross, surrounded by a cloud of celestial light, which appears deliberately tawdry and cartoonish.

For example, when I said that my piece The Beautiful Names [a setting of the 99 names of Allah in the Koran] felt like a portrait of God, I meant it.

Those who have heard this Protestant teaching outlined through the centuries have regularly seen the difficulties it raises insofar as the portrait of God's character is concerned.

They decorated their room with portraits of gods and unpacked a suitcase full of brightly colored costumes they changed into at different stages of the rite.

For example, Plato argued that the view that God is singularly good should be preferred to the portrait of the gods that was articulated in Greek poetic tradition, according to which there are many gods, often imperfect and subject to vice and ignorance.

On almost every home is a brightly painted portrait of the elephant god Ganesha, alongside inscriptions to signify the wedding date of its occupants.

But with Mickelson it's a portrait of, "Oh my God, what have I done!" Think of the final shots of Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday.

Most auspiciously, Ramya Ramnarayan — who has received sparkling praise from Alastair Macaulay, chief dance critic of The New York Times — offers "Shyama — The Legend of Krishna," a portrait of the Hindu god drawn through the gestural language of Bharatanatyam.