How To Use hemicycle In A Sentence
- It is a very short voting list (they are all in the 'hemicycle' voting on it as I write this), mostly concerning foreign affairs, so UKIP decided to abstain on most of the issues. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
- A cross-axis at the entrance hall opens to the left onto an elaborately shaped dining room - a square with intersecting hemicycles and a half-octagon - and to the right onto a ‘den’ with a half-octagonal porch beyond.
- These return from the columns which stand third on the inner side to the antae which project from the pronaos, and which touch the edges of the hemicycle at right and left. The Ten Books on Architecture
- Their courtly coffins are ranged in a kind of hemicycle, with the little coffins of the children that died before they came to the knowledge of their greatness. Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 3
- But above this sacred hemicycle there was another range of boxes; equally private boxes; as all the boxes of an Italian theatre are; -- and the key of one of these upper "loggie" had been secured by Ludovico, and presented to A Siren
- The muse sits neglected, if not forspent, in the hemicycle of the arts: Dark Science broods in Fancys hermitage, 0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900
- This is one of the most successful small classical buildings of its period, with a widely spaced Roman Doric hemicycle, and a copper roof with a bulbous finial for the clock.
- With a six-story spiraling ramp, the Guggenheim is a hallmark example of "hemicycle" design. About.com Architecture
- Inside the fabulous wood-panelled hemicycle of the Camera dei Deputati, beneath the stunning Beltranni stained glass windows, 630 Italian parliamentarians are in mid-debate.
- Delaroche incorporated a widely admired portrait of Antonello da Messina in his 1841 hemicycle at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
