How To Use Caryatid In A Sentence
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Stern-faced caryatids with gilded wings support card tables, above legs carved as muscular lions' paws; gilded acanthus leaves curl around the pillars of center tables and sideboards.
Furniture for a Young Nation
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The sunken rosettes, surrounded by raised arabesque borders, between the caryatides, are sculptured with such a careful reference to the distance at which they must be seen, that they appear as firm and delicate as if near the spectator's eye.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
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We have much of the frieze of the treasury of the Siphnians of c. 525, as well as one of the caryatid figures supporting the porch; other buildings so decorated are extremely scrappily preserved.
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Even those dim and shapeless monsters of notions which I have not been able to describe, much less defend, stepped quietly into their places like colossal caryatides of the creed.
Orthodoxy
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Worn walls reformed themselves into a series of buttresses and rounded finials, bearded caryatids, zoomorphic statues.
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The porch over the main entrance is supported by caryatids, set in front of the asymmetrical facade as a direct historicist quotation.
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I became an ardent fan of Rodin after seeking him out due to Jubal Harshaw's paean to the "Fallen Caryatid" in Stranger in a Strange Land.
REVIEW: The Enigma of Departure by Nicholas Royle
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Sometimes it may be called a caryatid, which is, as I understand it, a cruel device of architecture, representing a man or a woman, obliged to hold up upon his or her head or shoulders a structure which they did not build, and which could stand just as well without as with them.
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
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Statuettes like Caryatides sustain the columns of the triforium.
The South of France—East Half
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Classical ornament here and there accentuated the contrast; caryatides and carved masks of comedy or tragedy looked down from corners of the building upon the grey confusion of the garden paths; but the faces seemed to be frost-bitten.
The Complete Father Brown
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First examine the caryatides who support the central structure.
Studies in Central American Picture-Writing First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 205-245
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Each of the legs of the table incorporated a naked ormolu caryatid.
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Several of the miniatures feature caryatids holding up the mountains and temples.
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Eventually the statuesque and barely made-up Helena Pikon, often resembling a caryatid in her straight-and-narrow stance, takes on the persona of a sorrowing Penelope from the "Odyssey" as she makes her mark as something of a loner in this community, often trailing tristesse in her wake.
Tides of Memory
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There are considerable remains of this building, particularly those beautiful female figures called Caryatides, which support, instead of columns, three of the porticoes; besides three of the columns in the north hexastyle with the roof over these last columns, the rest of the roof of this graceful portico fell during the siege of Athens, in 1827.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852
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They are like young, half-wild oxen, such strong, sturdy, dark lads, thickly built and with strange hard heads, like young male caryatides.
Twilight in Italy
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The porch on the left is supported by caryatid figures.
Erechtheum
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The architecture of the museum shared many of the same features—massive stonework, statues that were strikingly similar to the lovely caryatids and other sculptured figures created by the masterful Grecian artists, columns topped by Ionic capitals, and acroteria—the elaborately carved figures adorning the corners and tops of pediments.
Highborn
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Modigliani's early, remarkable images of caryatids (female figures that serve as columns) are sometimes as strong as his later portraits.
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The caryatids were sculpted not by Leoni himself but by Antonio Abbondio working to drawings by the owner.
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Rational Review
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This spatial richness was supported by the increasing complexity of the decorative scheme, with the frieze above the first floor decorated with medallions beneath an attic storey supported on caryatids.
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Caryatids hold up the entrance to a barn and the former farmyard is littered with modern sculpture.
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Nor am I supporting any of the architecture (which, I also learn from Wikipedia, would then properly make me a telemon or atlas, the male version of a caryatid).
I'm a caryatid!
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She entered the familiar vestibule, with its scarred stone caryatids and crumbling pillars, and walked down the short flight of iron-railed steps to the main chamber of Father's rooms.
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He then ran off in search of a vehicle, while Irving and I stood close up, like a pair of male caryatides, under the very narrow protection of a hall-door ledge, and thought, at last, that we were quite forgotten by my patron.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860
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No marble caryatid was as sleek and lovely as her PowerBook.
The Gift of the Magi: The Sequel
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The little room, extended in length, is decorated with a frieze which represents scenes with vintager Puttos, delimited by caryatids.
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“You are not offended, Frank, are you, with me, for making you meet two caryatides of the Parisian temple of pleasure?”
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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But there is a pressure on these Italian soldiers, as if they were men caryatides, with a great weight on their heads, making their brain hard, asleep, stunned.
Twilight in Italy
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Their beauty and fitness are not those of the grand columns of the temple; they are the sculptures upon the frieze, the caryatides, or the graceful interlacings of vines.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
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A day or two after Mrs. March had met Mrs. Adding, she went with her husband to revere a certain magnificent blackamoor whom he had discovered at the entrance of one of the aristocratic hotels on the Schlossberg, where he performed the function of a kind of caryatid, and looked, in the black of his skin and the white of his flowing costume, like a colossal figure carved in ebony and ivory.
Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2
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Defender (This creature can't attack. )When Carven Caryatid comes into play , draw a card.
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Schlossberg, where he performed the function of a kind of caryatid, and looked, in the black of his skin and the white of his flowing costume, like a colossal figure carved in ebony and ivory.
Complete March Family Trilogy
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_caryatides_ in camaieu is of a richness of ornamentation in keeping with the rest of the volume.
Illuminated Manuscripts
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Some of the bronzes are caryatidlike figures with limbs missing, and it is not at all clear whether they are intended as representations of amputees or references to the damage that time metes out to antique sculpture.
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Varda begins to retell the story of Baudelaire's later life, and then reads his poems, using the images of neo-classical Paris, in the guise of the caryatids, to evoke the melancholy feelings created by the poetry.
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Meanwhile, the caryatids and atlantes just watch, waiting.
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Among its wealth of neoclassical details are the legs in the shape of inverted obelisks, the torsos of draped and winged caryatids and atlantes, and the allegorical figure (possibly Summer).