Sentence examples for tutelary value from inspiring English sources

An architectural journal in 1918 spoke of the tutelary value of post offices: "They are generally the most important of the local buildings, and taken together, [are] seen daily by thousands, who have little opportunity to feel the influence of the great architectural works in the large cities".

They are harshly tutelary.

"This tutelary role deserves reward.

Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett hover as tutelary ghosts.

Since last the tutelary hearth.

Don DeLillo, a friend, is a tutelary figure.

Some of them are the tutelary deities of clans and later became the tutelary kami of their respective local communities.

Aphrodite is the group's tutelary divinity and inspiration.

Other buildings on a farmstead also had their tutelary spirits.

Brazil's democratic constitution gives the army vague tutelary powers.

Yakshas were often given homage as tutelary deities of a city, district, lake, or well.