Sentences with phrase «life effigies»

Reeves and Pomerantz are here to find out why spiders in this particular species have apparently taken to arranging that debris into larger - than - life effigies of themselves.

Other members adorn their webs with debris, but Reeves and Pomerantz are here to find out why spiders in this particular species seem to arrange jungle and insect parts into larger - than - life effigies of themselves.

Not exact matches

One thinks of William Temple, who in more ways than one deserved the phrase humorously applied to him in early days, «not one, but all mankind in effigy,» 46 Those who think of him first of all as philosopher, Christian socialist, ecumenical statesman, or evangelist should remember that it was the priesthood of the Church of England to which his life was primarily devoted, and by its traditions that he was inspired.

Last weekend she went to Lafayette Park, across from the White House, to stand next to life - sized effigies of convicted terrorist Oscar Lopez Rivera and demand that President Obama release him.

By the twentieth time its simpleminded mantra (bringing a life into the world instead of taking one can change a hardened heart) is summoned literally and imagistically, culminating in a grotesque effigy of a fallen friend posed in the middle of an indistinct tableau, Greenfingers has lost all power to instruct and become something at once odious and unintentionally funny.

When you die (and you will), you now lose a fragment of your available life (down to 50 %, unless you sin) and can only access the lost portions by using a rare item called a Human Effigy.

You see life taking place all around you, with people begging on the streets, wandering out of taverns, singing and chanting, burning effigies and fighting among themselves, but Arno is rarely involved enough to ever feel like he's truly a part of it.

An amusing example of this taboo on confronting a dressed lady with a naked man is embodied in a group portrait of the members of the Royal Academy in London in 1772, represented by Zoffany as gathered in the life room before two nude male models: all the distinguished members are present with but one noteworthy exception — the single female member, the renowned Angelica Kauffmann, who, for propriety's sake, is merely present in effigy, in the form of a portrait hanging on the wall.

One was invited onto stadium seating among Oscar Murillo's life - size effigies of Columbian workers, their papier - mâché heads simultaneously highly detailed and expressionless.

Pictured above: Autobiographical Confessions through effigies, idols, saints and Martyrs A journey through the stages of a life: sex, love, marriage, childbirth, betrayal, rage, revenge, illness, healing and redemption, 2010 - 17 Mixed - media installation Courtesy of the artist

Featuring a bevy of life - size burlap puppets hung from the booth's walls, there is something scary and vaguely oppressive about these effigies in everyday clothes whose arrangements and shabby condition seems to suggest the plight of migrants on the move.

As you approach, the effigy appears to come to life, audibly breathing.

«Like gargoyles looking down from the sides of medieval cathedrals, funerary effigies in medieval churches or the cadaverous presences who inhabit the unredemptive darkness of Goya's black paintings or Ensor's carnivalesque processions, these sculptures of the living dead are cautionary figures for an unvirtuous age» (J. Lingwood, quoted in Public / Political: Thomas Schütte, Germany 2012, p. 157).

Half puppet, half effigy, Saar's life - sized figure maintains her dignity even as she is left to our manipulations.

We surround ourselves in life with effigies, objects, products, to find meaning in our existence, and to create a sense of memory, of presence, and of belonging.