Sentence examples for waxen figures from inspiring English sources

Add a shot of yourself standing next to the waxen figures of Bill Clinton or Charlie Sheen at Madame Tussauds.

The trainer who clutches the horse's bridle and the stable lad are as stiff as Madame Tussaud's waxen figures and the outhouse in the distance is painted with curiously amateurish clumsiness.

James Berardinelli's Reelviews An inert pageant of waxen figures that fails completely as drama even as it insults the sensibilities of anyone not clinging to rosy memories of the slave-era South.

This waxen image looks like a page ripped from nineteenth-century French erotica, yet it lacks erotic spark; Buñuel would not have approved.

Many are pen-and-ink drawings on vellum, exquisitely finished, of which 1856's Waxen Image is one of the earliest and best examples.

The obituary recounted: "a metal cylinder on a shelf above a table in it wrapped in silken cloth and a robe was a waxen image".

The first was ordered to search Sherwood's home for waxen or baked figures that might indicate she was a witch.

She looks like her name: jaundiced, waxen and wan.

Clark, in his book, speaks of the "smoothed-out form and waxen surface" of the academic nudes of the nineteenth century.

The flesh was cool, waxen, but already she could feel it coming on, the reviving fizz of the nerves.

The closing days of the Saturnalia were known as Sigillaria because of the custom of making, toward the end of the festival, presents of wax models of fruit and waxen statuettes that were fashioned by the sigillarii, manufacturers of small figures in wax and other media.