Sentence examples for spectacular figures from inspiring English sources

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and feats of the past, whereas contemporary royal inscriptions, notably by Sargon I of Akkad and Gudea of Lagash, are historical documents in the proper sense.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.

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.

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.

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.

James Bacon wrote in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1973, "Here was a girl with real comedy talent, spectacular figure and looks and yet ridiculed herself out of business by outlandish publicity".

Of these, the colonisation of the air-liquid (A-L) interface by the wrinkly-spreader (WS) genotype is the most spectacular (Figure 1), leading to the development of a substantial cellulose matrix-based biofilm.

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