Sentence examples for striking objects from inspiring English sources

A visitor's eyes go from one to another of the striking objects poised on pedestals.

Even the apparently most striking objects – the masks decorated with turquoise – are fantastically ugly.

One of the most striking objects in this final section is another one of Zeshin's creations: a sword scabbard whose lacquered surface painstakingly imitates rotting wood.

One iron and leather damascened (decorated with gold and silver) shaffron is among the most striking objects in the arms and armor galleries.

And several of the most striking objects from that show, including a splendid silver ewer -- Sasanian in shape, Greco-Roman in decoration, found in China -- are in this one, too.

Among the exhibition's most striking objects is a weird jade-green faience sculpture less than three inches high representing a dwarf standing with each foot on the head of an alligator and each hand gripping a snake by the neck.

The most striking object, however, is a portrait of Jesus Christ wearing boxing gloves.

But the most striking object in the room was a blue screen that had been set up as background for the cameras.

For all the city's attempts at a cosmetic makeover, which was roundly condemned by international NGOs for the accompanying programme of forced evictions, this route into town still provides a striking object lesson in the power of apartheid planning.

Props are kept to a minimum, meals are imagined and the most striking object on stage is a fire escape that corkscrews its way into the sky like the twisted horn on the unicorn in Laura's collection of glass animals.

But for all the learning and networking opportunities afforded by the panels, talks and meet-and-greets taking place here this week, the most striking object lesson in resourcefulness could be found on screen, in the improbable form of "Closed Curtain," the latest from Jafar Panahi, who has been prevented from working and traveling by the Iranian authorities.