Sentence examples for whose robe from inspiring English sources

This action radiates from the figure of Jesus, about to bring down a raised whip on a terrified male figure seen from the back; the man, whose robe has fallen from his shoulders, lifts his arm in self-protection.

His aim was to express a new relationship between the earthly and spiritual church, and this comes across most spectacularly in an image of a haloed man whose robe and body encompass a scene of the Crucifixion.

And it is this contemporary spirit that infuses the Pearl's production, which, as directed by Joseph Hardy, makes the throne an office chair and dresses the characters in a vaguely contemporary style, including the king who wears a tie and whose robe is a long raincoat, and a servant girl in blue jeans.

Gaze on the lowing heifer that inspired Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn and the goddesses whose robes uncannily resemble pictures by Leonardo da Vinci.

Nearby is an album folio, from Uzbekistan and dating from around 1600, of a seated princess whose robes appear to be made of small human and animal figures.

The appearance of the ghost (also Mr. Gracieux, whose robes and crown make him look a little like the Statue of Liberty) is marvelously staged, in light and fog that creates the atmosphere of a horror film and a swift choreographic moment that gives the illusion that the body is truly ghostly, without substance.

That we will never know what we are doing and that there will always be a guru whose robes we must cling to as we genuflect in awe of their unattainable achievements.

Peterson and J. Mase III unpacked the story of Joseph -- whose colorful robe is better understood to be a many-colored princess dress rather than a robe.

A Superior Court judge acquitted a voodoo priest yesterday of a charge that he attempted to murder a Haitian pop singer whose hooded robe caught fire during a ritual in October 1997 in a rented garage in Irvington.

However, as a child of Brooklyn, as a scholar whose academic robe bears the number 42 in homage to Jackie Robinson, and as a practicing Catholic with a doctoral degree in religion, Dr. Sexton has for more than a dozen years chosen baseball and God as his professorial focus.

They stood back, and in strode Mr. Justice Byrne, a lean figure in a close gray wig that oddly simulated a bristling crew cut, and whose scarlet robe, broadly banded with ermine on the sleeves, was girded around him by a wide black sash.