Sentences with phrase «outstretched limbs»

[13] The O is also thought to symbolize the egg, which exists as the window into the maternal structure with outstretched limbs.

Recumbent and reclining bodies are illustrated alongside austere landscapes, elaborate processions and dancers with outstretched limbs.

(pra - sa - REE - tah pah - doh - tahn - AHS - anna) prasarita = stretched out, expanded, spread, with outstretched limbs pada = foot ut = intense tan = to stretch or extend (compare the Latin verb tendere, «to stretch or extend»)

Still, T. limosus may have met a sad end between 66 million and 72 million years ago: Its reaching neck and outstretched limbs hint at the final struggles of a creature hopelessly mired in mud.

Always welcoming him with outstretched limbs, she willingly meets his most pressing needs; she gives him food to satisfy his hunger, shelter under which to rest his tired body, and companionship to ward off loneliness.

Not exact matches

• Dead tree as bogeyman — limbs outstretched, shrouded in Spanish moss signaling a fatal turn - off in The Gingerbread Man...

The delicacy of the animal's position — limbs outstretched, head slightly tilted — speaks of the underlying fragility of life and, in Hirst's words, the age - old paradox «of trying so hard to do something that you destroy the thing that you're trying to preserve» (D. Hirst, quoted in D. Hirst and G. Burn, On the Way to Work, London, 2001, p. 219).

Standing on what appears to be a broken foot (or leg) with limbs outstretched, forming a supplicant X, the hybrid creature compellingly begs for compassion, even though it is just an agglomeration of industrial materials.

Felix Plaza's consumerist shopping bags are devoid of interior contents that need to be provided, whereas So Yoon Lym's disconnected tattooed limbs present themselves aggressively on an enigmatic, narrative triptych, and Kymia Nawabi's couple in Nook (2012) cuddle, arms outstretched toward each other, in an attempt to embrace an evanescent bubble.