Sentence examples for such as christ from inspiring English sources

In his early work, such as Christ Nailed to the Cross (c. 1480) and the Nativity (early 1480s), he followed the Haarlem tradition as represented by Ouwater and Geertgen but already gave evidence of his superior power as a colourist.

Bordone painted many scenes of the Madonna and saints seated in a landscape (a genre known as sacra conversazione), along with other religious subjects such as Christ Among the Doctors.

It is unseemly, according to their views, to desire to portray a personality such as Christ, who is himself divine, because that would mean pulling the divine down into the materialistic realm.

A fourth passes without comment, provoking Wilson to turn and exclaim: "Fucking asshole!" His speciality is striking up conversations with strangers and then stinging them with rebukes such as "Christ – do you realise how ridiculous you sound?" Yet, some of his snipes expose discomfiting truths.

With 80km of beachfront, a dusk-till-dawn club scene and world-recognised icons such as Christ the Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro attracts more tourists than any other South American city – around 2.8 million each year.

In European contexts, this extremely valuable material was mined in present-day Afghanistan and traded via Venice [1, 20], and it was reserved to specific iconographic elements of the composition, such as Christ and the Virgin's blue cloaks [1, 20, 26, 27].

Various other Eskayan legends recount the stories of Boholano kings and heroes; a few of these stories even make reference to actual historical figures such as Jesus Christ, Datu Sikatuna, Ferdinand Magellan, and Francisco "Dagohoy" Sendrijas.

At breakfast in the Grand Hotel, they utter such cries as "Christ, am I allergic to powdered eggs with a hair in 'em!" with a passion that seems immense even for such immense provocation.

These ideal exemplars manifest themselves in historical role models, such as Buddha, Christ, Hannibal, Leonardo, and Napoleon.

The icons depict single figures such as saints, Christ, or the Virgin; single Christian scenes such as the Annunciation (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) and the Crucifixion (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin); or even the full Greek Festival Cycle.

Likewise, people should be able to give clear answers to straight questions such as "was Christ's resurrection physical, leaving an empty tomb?", even if that answer is "I don't know".