Sentence examples for the only ceiling from inspiring English sources

"To have a ceiling by Guercino and the only ceiling by Caravaggio makes it the most special residence of this kind in Italy," he said.

"Willie gave me and others the opportunity where the only ceiling on us was our own limits," Mr. Halberstam told a crowd of more than 200 in the auditorium of what was once Morris's elementary school and is now the town's cultural center.

4. When the issue of raising the debt ceiling comes up, tell the people that the only ceiling you'll be raising is the one over your in-house chapel, so that you can be closer to God.

I could present you with my husband's side -- we live on the fourth floor, we have no elevator, and (his coup de grâce) the only ceiling in our place high enough to accommodate a 12-foot tree is our kitchen -- but why?

In about 1725 27 he undertook his only ceiling painting, the "Glorification of St. Dominic," for the Chapel of the Sacrament in Santi Giovanni e Paolo.

"The only glass ceiling that remains is in the process of shattering, and that is that we cannot show what we can do, we don't have a record.

Early in the evening, a gentle cover of "Michelle" ends, and then the only sound is the ceiling fans, whirring in defiance of the winter outside.

He found a shell of a building, the internal walls removed, a solitary crystal light fitting hanging from the ceiling the only remainder of his home.

Again, we are in a very particular place, the wood-paneled rec room where pipes gurgle behind the drop ceiling (the only place to go is down to row-house living).

The ceiling — the only one Caravaggio is known to have painted — was eventually covered over and then rediscovered in 1968, when chips in the paint revealed a face strikingly similar to Caravaggio's own.

But when Wallace asked whether the only way a debt ceiling increase would pass would be with amendments, McConnell did not answer directly.