In all the sculpture Calder strove to keep in mind the significance of the Exposition and the spirit of the people who were celebrating. With him styles of architecture and schools were a minor consideration, to be left to the academicians and the critics. He believed that sculpture, like all other art-forms, was chiefly valuable and interesting as human expression.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
Educational panels inlaid in wall over smaller entrances, by pupils of School of Sculpture of Beaux Arts Architects, and National Sculpture Society.英文原著 · 《The City of Domes》
[459] -- FEYTO DE HUAS MEYAS CANAS. I am doubtful as to the meaning of this. Examination of the mass of ruins now remaining would settle all these points. Stone sculptures were broken up and left. They were not removed. (See also p. 288 below.)
[460] -- Mr. Ferguson has ingeniously emendated Senhor Lopes's reading from YINAGEES POR QUE NAS QUE ESTAO METIDAS TO YMAGEES PEQUENAS QUE, &c ...英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
The MS., however, which is itself a copy, has POR QUE NAS. [461] -- SAO DE MEAS CANES (see above, p. Meaning not understood, unless it be as rendered. [462] -- This description deserves special notice. The writer is evidently describing a MANDAPA richly sculptured, of which so many examples are still to be seen in temples, and he states that the whole of the stone carving was richly coloured and gilded. This probably was always the case. Traces of colour still remain on many of these buildings at Vijayanagar. [463] -- PRANHUS (see above, p.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
You haven't got your lesson yet. You've got to stay after school. We make a needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take. Memento mori! We don't understand that sublime sentence which some worthy got sculptured on his gravestone once. We've interpreted it in a grovelling and snivelling sense; we've wholly forgotten how to die.英文原著 · 《A Plea for Captain John Brown》
In the midst of this, in glided Zoe, and seemed to extinguish everybody, and even to pale the lights, with her dark yet sunlike beauty. She was dressed in a creamy-white satin that glinted like mother-of-pearl, its sheen and glory unfrittered with a single idiotic trimming; on her breast a large diamond cross. Her head was an Athenian sculpture--no chignon, but the tight coils of antiquity; at their side, one diamond star sparkled vivid flame, by its contrast with those polished ebon snakes.英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
And you don't think your father Who spent a fortune to turn you into a sculpture,美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
I was like, "Uh-oh, what happened to Diane?" Then I got distracted because Todd got his tongue stuck to the ice sculpture.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
- I love what you did to your neck. - I didn't-- Did you see that ice sculpture?美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
...so I don't accidentally miss the stamp with my tongue and then roll down the stairs with my tongue out and then smack right into the ice sculpture with my tongue.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》