Sentence examples for spectacular figure from inspiring English sources

He's a spectacular figure, too.

There is a spectacular figure of Uma as the 10th-century Chola Queen Sembiyan Mahadevi, one of the dynasty's first and greatest patrons.

There is a stocky man in his late 50's with suspenders who looks like Claude Rains and leans into a tango with such urgency and control that I construct a romantic life story for him, and a woman with a spectacular figure who is dressed like Chiquita Banana in a halter and a long white wrap skirt.

This truly spectacular figure of a woman - she looks even more like the Virgin Queen these days than Cate Blanchett - was paying a visit to the ladies when her lifetime achievement award was announced, but that didn't stop her passing comment on other people's appearance once she'd returned to pick up her gong.

But his principal example, occupying nearly a third of the book, is the Mexican poet and critic Octavio Paz, a spectacular figure who may have gone further than anyone else in articulating the grandeurs of Latin America's political-and-literary idea.

Such a spectacular figure is already a sure candidate for uncomplicated and one-dimensional appropriations, especially given the pressures of "watered-down" labeling demanded by mass culture marketing, not to say marketers.

The Sargon Chronicle is a piece of literary legendry concentrating on spectacular figures and feats of the past, whereas contemporary royal inscriptions, notably by Sargon I of Akkad and Gudea of Lagash, are historical documents in the proper sense.

The most spectacular figures, though, were the earliest: thousands of slightly larger than life-size terra-cotta soldiers made in the third century B.C. and buried at the tomb of the first Chinese emperor near Xi'an in central China.

However, the Oscar-tipped black comedy Birdman, starring Michael Keaton as the faded one-time star of a superhero blockbuster, picked up spectacular figures on its first week of limited release.

We have some spectacular figures in regard to worldwide support of the club.

Ms. Hodges, who was endorsed by Mr. Simon as Ms. Moore's replacement, is an attractive ash blonde with a spectacular lean figure.