Sentences with word «atop»

Rome (CNN)- Through a square bustling with tourists, locals, pilgrims and dignitaries, Pope Francis made his way atop an open - top vehicle on Tuesday en route to a Mass that will officially inaugurate him Bishop of Rome.

The Spirit is like fire, deceptively polite in its dance atop the wax and wick of our church candles, but wild and mercurial as a storm when unleashed.

The cartoon by Gerald Scarfe depicts Netanyahu atop an incomplete brick wall with screaming Palestinians and body parts in the mortar.

It claims about 30,000 members and has a multimillion - dollar sanctuary that resembles a golden - domed spaceship atop a hill.

Pictures of the statue (now at last destroyed) can still be found, including a 1948 U.S.S.R. postage stamp depicting a boy atop a granite cylinder, holding a red flag and gazing into the future.

Interesting, then, that the Tall Halaf site near the southern border of Turkey in Syria features among its relics a stone tablet in which is carved the picture of a camel with a rider atop.

You'll feel awfully dumb if you die and find yourself atop Mount Olympus facing Almighty Zeus.

12) Back in the U.S.A., rock n» roll consumers were used to things like the Long Beach surf - band the Pyramids all shaving their heads, or arriving at a gig atop elephants.

Bespectacled and freckled 6 - year - old Rosa, standing atop a chair, proudly announces, «I'm Jewish and Mormon!»

There is The Word that's getting underlined, a Bible in a year, that teeters atop a stack of lesser books by my bed.

Molly Shannon's been goofing around in niche comedy lanes like Wet Hot American Summer and Children's Hospital for several years now, and placing her atop the reboot of The Office would be a long overdue return to prominence after her run on SNL.

Presumably these lands do not draw Fowden's attention because they did not lie between Constantinople and Ctesiphon and because they did not sit atop the key centers of monotheism.

These flashes of red and blue were, in fact, their chief adornments, worn atop austere Calvinist black and white surplices.

That hesitancy was a very 1963 phenomenon, a sort of swaying atop the fence dividing the Old era from the New.

Serial, which is now nine episodes in, is the fastest podcast ever to reach 5 million downloads as it sits atop of iTunes» podcast charts.

Let them all go sit atop a minaret and perish from the face of the earth in this manner.

Old Testament: God's presence is housed in the tabernacle — between the male and female cherubim atop the ark of the covenant.

come to think of it, has someone gone to make sure the Phelps family cemetery is not built atop one for pets?

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

Take, for instance, the fact that the videos showing the beheadings and executions of Ethiopian and Egyptian Christians were entitled «A Message Signed in Blood to the Nation of the Cross», and that the cover of ISIS» official magazine, Dabiq, in October 2014 featured a picture of St Peter's Square with an ISIS flag superimposed atop the obelisk that adorns the centre of that iconic Christian building.

Hamann's humor consists so much in ludicrous involutions of thought and language, and in the cumulative effect of one absurdity heaped atop another, and in the almost sweetly earnest obliviousness of a voice like that of a holy fool that one must almost entirely immerse oneself in his imaginative world in order to enjoy the fruits of his comic genius.

I remember sitting late one afternoon in the Basilica of St. Mary Major, atop the Esquiline Hill, with the rays of the setting sun reflecting on the Byzantine mosaic of Mary Theotokos — «the one who gave birth to the one who was God,» as Jaroslav Pelikan described the title given to the mother of Jesus at the Council of Ephesus in 431.

The Good Place won over a niche audience with witty wordplay, found national attention with a clever twist, and achieved mainstream popularity with a second season that sprinkled rich philosophical crumbles atop its comedic frozen yogurt.

Whereas Orthodoxy made belief (doxa) its starting point, and Reform Judaism put ethical monotheism atop its theological pedestal, Conservative Judaism's worldview emanated from a specific assumption about the social nature of Judaism.

In the hordes of immigrants, «nativist» Protestants saw mindless hordes controlled by the «Roman dictator» who sat atop the Catholic Church.

And this regime was, naturally, a fixed hierarchy of social power, atop which stood the gods, a little lower kings and nobles, and at the bottom slaves; the order of society, both divine and natural in provenance, was a fixed and yet somehow fragile «hierarchy within totality» that had to be preserved against the forces that surrounded it, while yet drawing on those forces for its spiritual sustenance.

Not surprisingly, Cardinals O'Connor and Ratzinger are, in this scheme, pushed out to join the Pope on the rightist fringe of the Church, while the homilists commonly perch themselves and their colleagues squarely atop the Medium Aureum of sober objectivity.

The late - twentieth - century epic is built atop all our inherited versions of Homer» not excavated, like some linguistic equivalent of Schliemann's Troy, but built upon: a new - made Iliad in English verse.

The slides featured ancient stone buildings, panoramic views of Jerusalem, and sunglass - wearing Americans standing atop of the Mount of Olives with the golden Dome of the Rock in the background.

When I walk to my office I see the gleaming smokestacks atop the University of Texas animal research facility, and I depend on drugs developed through excruciating animal testing.

Maybe such solitude is found atop a sandy dune or near a mountain stream, but it may also be found in your den or living room (provided the TV is turned off).

Two voodoo priestesses, turbans atop their heads, scattered gunpowder and grave dirt on the granite plinth.

We know that it was atop a mountain.

Today, Vulcan stands 56 - feet tall high atop Red Mountain overlooking the city, a symbol of Birmingham's history.

Officials have ordered services to halt at the 1,000 - member Xiaying Holy Love megachurch, and demolition work has reportedly already begun after the church refused to tear down the large cross atop its 10 - story building.

What will be remembered is the scent of a bubbling hot casserole for a family in need, the whoosh of a «Pentecost kite» whipping through the air, the feeling of prayer beads pressed against fingers, the dance of flame atop Advent candles.

(CNN)- Heaven and Earth are said to meet atop Jerusalem's sacred mounts, but the city's stony streets have seen more than their share of violence.

The video then jumps to the footage of decapitated head laying atop man's dead body — which I'm assuming is because cutting through his spine took them forever, so they got rid of that so they're not ridiculed for being complete amateurs.

He was on his knees, praying to the huge statue of Loyola that was standing atop the sarcophagus.

All of the Sophia drawings resonate with me... The one that sits atop my bedroom bookcase at just the right angle to be seen first thing in the morning still fills me with the same joy and exhortation to keep being me — the real me — as the very first time I saw it.

Incredible architecture, wonderful grounds high atop the city, and amazing carvings all over it, including sculptures of Darth Vader and other contemporary images.

I'm not going to add my weight to the pile already atop the prominent Atlanta law firm that walked away from the defense of DOMA, though I may alter my carbonated beverage purchasing habits somewhat (a bit hard to do in Atlanta).

Many many people get together each Sunday to worship Frankenstein, and if you do NOT believe in Frankenstein, you are condemned to live in a purple bubble that sits atop the Empire State building.

The hebrew war god which later took meds and turned into the christian «peace» god which then will stop taking meds and launch an attack from atop his magical unicorn claimed in Exodus 12:12 that it will punish all of the Egyption gods (and at the same time it'll end the lives of babies).

Atop the façade of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome are statues of the Apostles, Christ and John the Baptist.

With the deluxe version of the album atop the chart all week and the regular rendition sidling right behind it in the second position, Lecrae is expected to sell 60,000 copies in his first week, easily a first for a Christian rapper.

The space shuttle Discovery has made its final voyage atop a 747 — to the Smithsonian museum in Washington, D.C.

The intention of the poet to attach the words «vacuum» to «womb» and «torture» is as stark as their placements, one atop the other.

Improved traffic flow and public transportation access are likely to be atop the wish list of neighbors and potential tenants on the Lincoln Yards site that formerly was home to the A. Finkl & Sons steel plant and other heavy industry.

He used to watch the annual Warner Park July 4 fireworks display from atop the bridge.