Sentence examples for vast battle from inspiring English sources

In J-L David's painting Leonidas at Thermopylae, a nude warrior pauses at the heart of a vast battle.

Although Napoleon commanded him to paint vast battle scenes, such as Marengo (1804), his real talent was for intimate genre and for drawing rather than for painting.

June 30 , 1789Paris, France January 17 , 1863Paris, France Horace Vernet, (born June 30 , 1789 Paris died Jan . 17 , 1863Paris) French painter of sporting subjects and vast battle panoramas, notably those in the Gallery of Battles at Versailles.

Horace Vernet, (born June 30 , 1789 Paris died Jan . 17 , 1863Paris) French painter of sporting subjects and vast battle panoramas, notably those in the Gallery of Battles at Versailles.

This season Spartacus is leading a rebellion against Rome, and it begins with a vast battle that shows off this series's best skill, such as it is: capturing blood as it spurts, splatters and sprays in super-slow motion.

This is the vast battle now swirling around arts professionals: that is, those who create and organise art and those who make a profession of judging it, the arts critics.

Here is the latest wuxia action extravaganza from Zhang Yimou: a festival of intrigue, court plotting, vast battles and sexual obsession from imperial China a millennium ago.

Mr Vollmann has penetrated the soul of a place that is like few others on earth, but whose hardships and triumphs tell you something universal about the durability and ambition of the human spirit".Imperial" (and its companion volume of 200 pages of photographs that Mr Vollmann took as part of his research) is about two vast battles: the struggle for water, and the struggle for work.

They spoke of long marches and vast battles.

At times today, it seemed the entire eastern side of Kobane was one vast street battle.

The city is vast: gun battles might consume one area while life goes on as normal elsewhere.