Sentences with phrase «as mythological figures»

(Some Incan and Aboriginal Australian cultures perceived such dark gaps as mythological figures, like negative versions of the bright constellations.)

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But especially because you obviously have no concept of what «blasphemy» is... The fellow you judged didn't take your Jesus» name in vain, he just used the name as part of his conversation while talking about the mythological figure himself...

Jesus Christ is certainly presented as the Son of God, a pre-existent divine Being, and therefore to that extent a mythological figure.

Usually the one who dies and rises is a mythological figure, such as Osiris in the Isis cult.

The sooner humans cast off this remant and actually see the amazing beauty and power in the universe as naturally occuring and not the work of some mythological figure (s), the better off we'll all be.

Okay, so this fine figure of a monster isn't so much mythological as just really old and really extinct.

An excellent all star cast lend their voices to figures from mythological childhood figures such as Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman), Jack Frost (Chris Pine) and the Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), each with extraordinary abilities, that are sent by the Man in the Moon to protect the children of the earth from the evil Pitch (aka The Boogyman - voiced by Jude Law).

Even down to Eric Roberts, in a fascinating five - minute turn as the doomed Wolfmann: part Germanic bogeyman, part pathetic victim of a deep betrayal, part mythological figure.

Josh Brolin's Lt. Det. Christian «Bigfoot» Bjornsen emerges as another product of bogeyman / mythological figure: the stoic representative of law and order who, at one point, plays a mean trick on Doc by making him think Shasta's been found dead, while at another he's seen as henpecked and small as his wife (Delaina Mitchell) berates Doc for the shrink bills he's inspired.

Now on Earth, Atlas is walking through notable periods of time, meeting various historical and mythological figures, all of whom have been depicted (in real life) in paintings and other works of art, such as statues or books — from the likes of Henry VIII, to Medusa, to William Wallace and a demon that blew up Mount Vesuvius.

Essenhigh's large scale paintings create an enigmatic world in which animated action figures are cast alongside mythological characters and the demimonde in roles where time - honoured human concerns such as patriotism,...

ABN: Much of your work explores mythological figures, such as «The Three Graces,» a trio of larger - than - life figures that you combined into one 8 1/2 - foot - tall piece and unveiled at the Peninsula Shanghai last October.

As could be expected, there were plenty of works that adopted the visual form of the atlas, including a 1998 diagram by Gerhard Richter of his ongoing, encyclopaedic Atlas, while the mythological figure Atlas was represented by August Sander's Hod Carrier (1928) and Berlin Coalheaver (1929).

For many centuries religious / mythological figures in particular — for instance, Adam and Eve — were used in painting as a way to represent the naked body, usually a controversial, prohibited subject.

He proved that he could paint any subject he chose, and his oeuvre was marked by consummate treatments of the human figure, both nude and clothed, still lifes, portraits, interiors, religious and mythological subjects, drapery and colored papers as subjects in themselves, and to a lesser extent landscapes and cityscapes.

Named after constellations that were in turn named after mythological figures, each painting is filled with movement, longing, seduction and elusiveness, evoking messy human encounters as well as the mysteries of stargazing.

The subjects of these works, mostly from 1982, range from the grandly mythological to the merely mundane; they include figures such as Atlas and Midas as well as anonymous contemporary types — a Blind Person, for example — along with a broad array of activities as varied from each other as are Subduing a Gunman, 1981, Hanging Up a Coat, and Training a Tiger.

Her female figures draw on advertising and branding, as much as history and mythological tropes.