Sentence examples for torn garments from inspiring English sources

Their vivid scenes telegraphed the latest travails of sharp-jawed heroes, voluptuous women in scanty or torn garments and sundry bad guys and monsters.

Thus he could not call out to the King, could not call out, "Father its me!" Nor could he approach the carriage slowly making its way past him, for he knew that guards would not recognize him for he no longer resembled who he once was, his face now hard, covered in dirt and lines of pain, and his clothing was the coarse, dirty, torn garments of the street folk.

Thus he could not call out to the  King, could not call out, "Father its me!" Nor could he approach the carriage slowly making its way past him, for he knew that guards would not recognize him for he no longer resembled who he once was, his face now hard, covered in dirt and lines of pain, and his clothing was the coarse, dirty, torn garments of the street folk. .

For torn garments, try to repair them before the hole grows.

While it might seem fanciful as a dramatic device, there's something quietly moving about watching Damian's self-consciousness turn to momentary release as he mimics the steps that Kevin demonstrates from a dance based on the kriah, the Jewish mourning ritual of tearing garments.

You tore your garments with despair when he signed with the Eagles.

The Virgin cradles her dead son's head and leans imploringly into his face as if to revive him with her breath, while in the sky above, angels tear their garments and howl.

Many of the same commentators, who rightly tear their garments over every tragic incident, are precisely the same ones who want government to shrink, rail against the interventionist "nanny state", condemn local authorities for what they pay to senior staff and feel taxation – at whatever level – is too high.

Ezra goes as far as to rend or tear his garments and pull hair from his head and beard upon hearing of the people's sin (9 3).

Around its neck and bottom it wears many rag strips, probably torn from the garments of clients who entrusted this particular nkisi with assignments like witch-killing.

In the midst of the Vatican sex abuse scandal in 2010, Pope Benedict XVI delivered a speech in which he referred to the visions of a medieval mystic, in whose eyes "the face of the church is stained with dust… her garment torn by the sins of priests".