Sentence examples for the human statues from inspiring English sources

It's the street performers I feel most sorry for, especially the human statues.

The loudspeakers affixed to nearly every lamppost still play the lulling airs that can make you feel as if you're strolling through the opening credits of a bad movie; the scruffy buskers still strum their tired tributes to Bob Dylan and Bob Marley; the mimes and the human statues still give you the creeps.

A mostly unemployed cook, part-time church janitor and newcomer to the human-statue profession, Mr. Rodriguez complains that he was run off by the Colombian cartel of Statue of Liberty impersonators who have had a lock on the concession for years.

Among the cheap plastic toys for sale and the card sharps attempting to scam the unsuspecting, the frozen human statues hold court.

But, ah, clothed in absolutely nothing but her sheath of shimmering honey, she has turned into the ultimate objectified woman, a bit like one of those human statues in "Goldfinger".

But only indirectly, making overtures through greasepainted human statues (the kind in Times Square), birds hitting windows, voices hidden in radio static and the ubiquitous presence of insects.

All four Petits participated in the church's annual Living Nativity pageant, posing as human statues in the parking lot for 20-minute shifts in support of local charities.

On the other side of the Va Laetana, the Gothic Quarter begins at the Pla de la Seu, where street musicians and human statues panhandle in front of the cathedral.

There were greeters at the entrance, along with trumpet players and human statues.

The British sculptor stands accused of bringing terror to the streets of Manhattan with his latest art installation, Event Horizon, which features 31 life-size human statues strategically placed around the Big Apple.

This Somerville resident will be curious to see if fairweather basketball fans will temporarily overcrowd nearby Harvard Square, an area that's usually the go-to place to find hippie-dippy buskers, human statues and underground comics.