Sentence examples for sacred figures from inspiring English sources

Kiva murals depict sacred figures or scenes from the daily life of the tribe.

Yes, I know, inside the Beltway Simpson and Bowles have become sacred figures.

These sacred figures, which may appear in statue or relief form, are sculpted out of various materials.

In the Late period huge numbers of excellent castings of conventional sacred figures and animals were produced.

Mr. Hitchens had no compunction about jabbing his pen into sacred figures, like Mother Teresa, or ripe targets, like Henry Kissinger.

It was with those works, in which he placed sacred figures in a modern setting and in modern dress, using a live model posed before him, that Caravaggio perfected the method that would bring him both fame and notoriety.

Assad himself has never been a sacred figure for Russia.

A sacred figure had been stolen from one of their shrines.

On one side is a defense of freedom of expression, on the other an unforgivable insult to a sacred figure.

And to add insult to injury, he quoted Benjamin Franklin, a sacred figure on the right, to support his arguments.

General Pinochet commanded it for a quarter of a century until 1998; to its officers, he remains an almost sacred figure.