Sentences with phrase «as shrines»

Her brightly patterned ceramic animal sculptures act as shrines for spirits to incarnate and serve as safeguards — offering soul protection to those passing through Stern's experiential world.

In the ninth century, during the Roman Empire, Fortuna the goddess became more present as shrines were built in her name.

Its bite - sized approach to the traditional dungeon works surprisingly well, as these Shrines alleviate the pace of discovery and exploration, while never giving into the sense of quantity over quality, as each Shrine is dynamically unique and implores a radiating sense of critical - thinking.

Meaning they should not be «blank», timeless rooms as the shrines seem to be.

In this context, the Einstein museums, houses, and reconstructed offices may be regarded as shrines to his memory.

Bodies as rentals, as shrines, as homes.

4:1 - 9) not only as commemorative monuments but also as shrines.

Nobody wants the burial site to be used as a shrine... this is true.

In England, Catholics of the Victorian era knew of Walsingham only as a shrine destroyed under Henry VIII — today it is a major part of Catholic life, renewed afresh in this 21st century having been revived in the early years of the 20th.

Those with access to the site used the cross as a shrine of sorts, leaving messages on it or praying before it.

It was moved by crane on October 3 and installed on October 4, where it continued as a shrine and tourist attraction.

The space, which feels like a hybrid of a Shinto shrine and a tree house, was built with a similar thoughtfulness by Brackett's father who trained as a shrine carpenter (the bar is made out of a single century - old cedar tree).

The circular beds are gone, and nobody stalks the halls in silk pajamas anymore, but the cavernous bar, dark and oppressive, still stands as a shrine to the black arts of bacchanalia.

If there's another indie demiurge to which Michôd pays obeisance, it's Michael Mann — and the success of the picture (as shrine to masculinity, as introspective character study) suggests that cribbing from Kitano and Mann, if it's as successful a larceny as this, can be successful in no other way.

Yet Kick - Ass isn't a satire so much as a shrine — a celebration of not simply what we love when we go to the movies, but also what the movies inspire us to be on drowsy Saturday afternoons, drunk on Mexican stand - offs, cops and killers acting like brothers, and physics that bend just enough to allow our heroes to run on walls, dodging bullets in their dark sunglasses.

Its references easy to pick out in a junior «Trivial Pursuit» sort of way, the picture is clearly intended as a shrine to Bond and a pick - me - up for his fans, who enjoy jostling each other whenever a simple - minded in - reference collapses on the screen to die.

The room of Samantha Alejandra, 18, in Mexico City, doubles as a shrine to her favorite K - Pop boy band, Super Junior.

I laughed at a retrospective as a shrine to the artist.

Through a poignant installation of life - sized objects made from exotic woods and string, as well as shrine - like forms crafted from steel and glass, the acclaimed furniture maker, educator, and artist makes a compelling case for the preservation of these endangered animals in the wild.

Today is the last day of the first stage of Oko's exhibit, in which Schnabel's four paintings — «St. Sebastian,» will be followed by «The Patients and the Doctors» (1978),» The Mutant King» (1981) and «Abstract Painting on Blue Velvet» (1980)-- are to be exhibited one at a time for two weeks each, an idea that struck me as shrine - like and off - putting until I actually went to the space and saw how small it was.

Not exact matches

As in many faiths there is a place considered the grail, a shrine that must be visited at least once in a lifetime.

While in Brazil, the pope will visit one of the world's biggest shrines to the Virgin Mary, who is revered here; visit a hospital for recovering drug addicts; hear confessions from juvenile prisoners; and visit a slum known as a favela.

For centuries the only way this religion of sword has been able to proliferate has been to brainwash people by getting them angry, and injecting sorrow, into their souls about the dead and martyrs, as well as creating hate towards an enemey, even a made - up one Without a funeral, mourning, and a physical shrine, muslims are lost!

Imagine a Bin Laden shrine with his body as a tangable reason for martyres to visit before future acts of terrorism.

No place for supporters to worship — no shrine — no increased security costs to guard a site terrorists would surely hijack as a base for terrorism.

The shrine rapidly became one of the most popular in Europe and later helped to develop and deepen the idea of England as the Dowry of Mary.

A suicide bomber detonated a device at a Shiite shrine in Kabul, as worshippers were marking the Shiite holy day of Ashura, Afghan Health Ministry spokesman Kargar Norughli said.

[Many tend to assume that because I prefer Obama's healthcare plan to John McCain's I must certainly have a secret shrine to the democratic nominee stashed away in my bedroom closet, and that I'm not the least bit offended when they sarcastically refer to him as my «Messiah.»]

If the gods of their other altars or shrines fail them, perhaps an «as - yet - unnamed» deity will look favorably upon them.

Even in the early days, Hannah, the mother of Samuel, came to the shrine of Yahweh to pray concerning a personal and family matter, (I Samuel 1:9 ff) and in the second temple, as the Psalter reveals, the individual, as such, had part in the sacrifices, not simply as a member of the nation but in the light and right of his own private needs.

The Old Testament, however, as we shall see, clearly reveals the inner perplexity and the outward conflict involved as religious thought and practice moved from primitive shrines toward the idea of Jesus: «Neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father....

(Hosea 4:13) Similarly there were sacred springs (E.g., Genesis 16:7) and sacred caves, (E.g., I Kings 19:9 and, in general, shrines so numerous that, when the prophetic demand for the centralization of worship in Jerusalem arose, Jeremiah described his people as playing the harlot «upon every high mountain and under every green tree.»

The Concordant Literal translates the two words as «sodomites» (those who practice sodomy — either anal sex (an act not limited to m / m pairs, although they do practice it; the NIV uses the phrase «shrine prostitute») or zoophilia (person / animal)-RRB- and «catamites» (young boys kept by older men for sexual purposes; it is suggested by some scholars that the boy the Centurion asked Jesus to heal in the Gospels was a «kept boy»).

I don't get it, as an atheist I've never had a desire to ridicule the religious, their way of life or disregard their customs in their shrines like you do, but tried to understand their beliefs and learn history of their religions.

«On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.»

Whether it be a shrine, or as simple a thing as the clock found in the rubble of a town that stopped at 3:20, the moment the tsunami crushed the hopes and dreams of a great many people, each is a symbol given to us as a method of rememberance of something most of us will never endure.

Small huts or «shrines» and sacred stones were considered as dwelling places of demons or genii.

See the feeble band of desperate men and women as they leave their city walls to the invader, give up their homes and hearths and draw in about their temple and their shrine.

«33 The reason is attributed to the availability of adequate soil coverage and water systems in Nazareth that make agriculture possible even at the hilltop.34 Archaeological digs at Nazareth by Bagatti has shown that the artifacts recovered under the shrines of Nazareth, among others, include silos, olive - pressing and wine - pressing installations, cisterns, and holes for storage jars, some of which coming from a period as early as the Iron Age.35 This led Meyers and Strange to conclude that Nazareth was a peasant village since «the principal activity of these villagers was agriculture.

If the mission of Jesus had as its aim the integration of a new Israel as the true people of God, then sooner or later his message must be presented, and presented in a way that challenged a decisive response one way or the other, at Jerusalem, the central hearth and shrine of historic Israel.

The CCP stirs the nationalistic emotions of the people by contesting Japan over issues such as: the disputed territorial claims with China: its writing of history that omits Japanese atrocities in its invasion of China, and in recent visits by its leaders to Japan's Yasukuni shrine which honors national heroes including convicted war criminals.2

Once on the inside, she plans to start melting down all the gold and so forth and using the money to help feed the hungry as I am pretty sure that Jesus would not be happy with the glittering shrines.

The religions of Canaan, ornate as they were with divine symbols in public worship and private shrines, were in large measure characterized by the features of so - called nature worship.

Thus Absalom, while in Geshur, vowed a vow to the Yahweh in Hebron (or so he claimed as part of his scheme of revolt) and, in course of time, went away from the official shrine in Jerusalem in order to pay this vow in Hebron.

He is thus now unfazed by the fact that current expansion at the shrine, including its new status as a Basilica, and plans for its further development, appear to be bearing out his hopes over the decades.

Iranian children light candles next to the Imam Hussein shrine as part of the ritual ceremony of Ashura in Karbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, on November 25, 2012.

The three - day festival for Hazrat Ali Bin Usman, popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh, started with traditional zeal with a «chaddar» laying ceremony and the distribution of communal milk at the shrine.

A humble herdsman of Tekoa, he appeared one day at the royal shrine of Bethel and, with a religious earnestness that moves us even yet as we read it, began to denounce the spiritual shallowness, the exploitation of the poor by the rich, the bribery, sexual indulgence, and general moral laxity which he saw all about him.

At the Izumo Tai Shi shrine in downtown Honolulu, there were as many as 100 weddings a day.

The French who occasionally have expressed strong fears of US cultural imperialism have received «this shrine of American pop culture» enthusiastically despite some critics describing the Disney invasion as a «cultural Chernobyl» (Marguerite Duras).