How To Use Life-size In A Sentence
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At about the time Hanson began making his realistic figures in the 1960s, other artists were also making life-sized figures molded from actual people.
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More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
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They offer an up-close view of a life-size, red-blue-and-white clad young woman in an overgrown ravine before a chain-link fence.
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The Kiltimagh native joined legends of the entertainment industry with a life-size waxwork dummy of the music manager.
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I was more preoccupied by the life-size models of the pelvis and newborn doll.
Times, Sunday Times
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About 125 years later, the town erected an enormous, life-sized model of the squid, so that all who look upon it might be awestruck.
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The team put life-size models in a wind tunnel used for testing aircraft to discover how the creature stayed airborne.
The Sun
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HeyUGuys. com and E1 Home Entertainment have teamed up for a contest to give three lucky winners the chance to win a life-size cardboard standee of Bella, Jacob, or Edward.
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After the double coffin they made more life-sized models of themselves, this time fast-forwarded to the end of their lives.
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Once in a while a student may tip a pot of paint over the head of the life-sized copper statue of the dog by George IV Bridge.
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a life-size sculpture
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To create one of the large life-size animal statues, he needs about 100 kilograms of the fragrant plants.
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Taking its cue from the day's headlines, the XYZ Show presents its own version of the news, using a small army of life-sized puppets to satirize Kenyan politics.
Puppets, Political Satire Popular on Kenyan TV
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Inside, life-size tableaux re-create moments in history, like Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery meeting the native Nez Perce.
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One hand shading his eyes, he discerns either two people or two life-sized statues seated facing each other at a vintage picnic table at the very back of a great and empty white room.
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A realistic life-sized mouse may be seen in one place, just as if it had run out to inspect the work; and the numbers of little tipsy "putti" who disport themselves in all attitudes, in perilous positions on narrow ledges, are full of merry humour.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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The medical team has been rehearsing the operation using life-size models which not only replicate the babies blood vessels, but show their veins.
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The worn but spit-shined sanctuary is silent this weekday morning and the life-size statues of La Virgen de Guadalupe and St. Jude, aglow in shadowy candlelight, gaze benevolently out of their gaudy, flower-bedecked encasements.
American Grace
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Amongst a life-size model of a woman dressed in a 'stars-and-stripes' burka, human hearts half buried in sand and children chiseling away at an edible depiction of the crucified Jesus, is the creator of all the aforementioned works: iconic artist and graffiti pioneer Nick Walker.
Constantin Bjerke: In Gods We Trust (Video)
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A rag of colts will overrun the streets as the riding center launches a public art exhibition of life-size horses painted by artists.
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The statue is twice life-size.
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A video piece of handwashing by Bruce Naumann sits comfortably with a splendid display of Delft tiles; and a blue-and-white chamber pot and several life-size sofa-type objects with their "backs" made from tons of processed human feces somehow go nicely with the 1661 English delftware plate deflatingly inscribed "You and I are Earth.
Dishing the 'Dirt' on Filth
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The dog looked exactly like a life-size, breathing version of the stone statuette.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Two life-sized models of the dinosaurs were put on public display for the first time today in Hohhot, which is the capital of China's Inner Mongolia region.
Undefined
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We did a life-size elephant recently made out of 8,000 white roses.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the entrance, a life-size sculpture of a barefoot, shirtless man lay on a row of empty birdcages.
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Called "The Flat Daddy, " the gift is a life-sized poster that can be pasted up on a cardboard, foam, wood to remind children that their parents always love them.
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In the latest transformation of the heart of urban Manchester the three life-sized models have been placed in the square to promote next year's Cow Parade.
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He detailed life-size human figurines, birds and other animals, flowers, and cornstalks, as well as "the most incredible jewelry" and "golden vases full of emeralds.
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In a commodious alcove, in a glow of pink light from above, was a life-sized group of musicians -- statues in colored metal of a Spanish girl playing a mandora, an Italian with a slender calascione, a Russian playing his jorbon, and an African playing a banjo.
The Changing Sun
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In one corner was a strange life-size wooden cut-out of a black boy holding a tray.
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A life-sized sculpture of a cruise missile commemorates the base's Cold War role, and the council is also planning to buy the three remaining missile silos from the Ministry of Defence.
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Eighteenth-century miniaturists were part of an industry of copyists who provided full-scale replicas for a range of residences and official sites or reduced life-size portraits to handy pocket-size miniatures.
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A life-size portrait, even if it is only a head or a half-length, always takes up more room than its intrinsic interest demands.
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They were joined by a life-size chewing gum model made from 2,450 pieces of gum found in a small area of Orchard Street, Preston.
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Visitors can sit and pray in a makeshift chapel that features a life-sized statue of Mother Teresa sitting in the ground in a corner, hunched over in prayer.
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In 1996 he revealed his laid-back attitude to his work after vandals smashed up a life-size model of a plane.
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A youngster stands next to a life-sized statue of Pele at a museum in Rio de Janeiro last week.
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The (in) famous demon statue, life-size and crouching on one knee just inside the door, is usually referred to as Asmodeus (a demon who guards buried treasure).
The Sion Revelation
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A life-size bronze arm of a Roman statue has been excavated from a rubbish-filled ditch or watercourse in the City of London, just south of the Roman amphitheatre.
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In a park facing the river is the life-sized statue of a cloaked man gesticulating above a reclining female beauty.
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His life-sized but nonetheless obviously fake trees are colored to emphasize the imposture - jarring industrial green or gleaming silver and bronze, for instance.
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The worn but spit-shined sanctuary is silent this weekday morning and the life-size statues of La Virgen de Guadalupe and St. Jude, aglow in shadowy candlelight, gaze benevolently out of their gaudy, flower-bedecked encasements.
American Grace
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He has a life-size sculpture of me in his garden.
Times, Sunday Times
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The life-size acrolith statues were originally displayed inside a temple in Morgantina, an ancient Greek settlement near what is now the Italian city of Aidone.
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Raytheon's MathMovesU invites visitors to create your own roller coaster, construct life-size tangram puzzles, relax in their Cyber Café and more.
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They were shown to a small table in the corner, next to a life-sized plaster wolf.
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The figures are life-size cut-outs, silhouetted against the stark white walls, which gives them a three-dimensional sculptural quality.
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These days it's home to a wine museum, but don't be surprised if you come across the odd life-sized model of a suitably forlorn prisoner languishing in a corner.
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And what of the most mysterious object in the entire exhibition, the life-size figure or voodoo doll?
Times, Sunday Times
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Containing 11 recent, life-size portrait statues of physically deformed individuals, the show had New York critics buzzing for weeks.
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So it's been a long day at the trade show: the crowds, the life-sized chipmunks, the spokesmodels in skimpy little dresses.
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We three on motorcycles riding through Outpost, beside houses with shrubs and pumpkins to the Junior Community College of brick buildings, through the piney campus, past the Geology building and Stable Isotope Lab, where there is a brontosaurus, metal, life-sized, out front.
Rodeo Days
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Some are life-size effigies, and they are dressed in tawdry finery, with a mask or false-face topped by a three-cornered cocked hat.
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He collected antique furniture, teardrop lamps, urns, even a pair of life-size bronze Abyssinians, complete with turbans and slippers.
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The life-size painting is a traditional portrait that depicts Drinkwater in a three-piece suit holding his trademark cowboy hat.
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Their task is to decorate a life-sized cut-out of their local identity, as part of a national centenary of federation event called Peoplescape.
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A permanent installation by a Polish artist features 112 larger than life-size, headless cast-iron figures.
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His necktie was a flaming red, adorned by a glittering horseshoe pin, almost life-size.
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I found Emerson on the roof, brooding silently in the starlight like a life-sized sphinx.
LION IN THE VALLEY
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The portrait circumscribes the subject: in showing usually only the head and shoulders in an oval or a roundel, the miniature constitutes a reduction from life-size to miniature and from the whole body to a part.
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It's a life-sized sculpture of an elephant, and it's destined to become a millionaire's garden ornament.
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The dress is intricately pleated and ruched, like unravelling rope, giving her the appearance of a life-sized corn dolly.
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About a mile away, a steady stream of fans arrived in pairs to take pictures at the life-sized bronzed statue of Paterno outside Beaver Stadium.
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She has painted a series of larger than life-sized paintings and drawings depicting the Passion of Jesus.
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At the far end of the courtyard, there's a life-size statue of Juliet.
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The eye-catching clusters of life-size Winnie the Pooh bears seem to have a magic power that locks your gaze onto them.
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More than 70 marble, bronze, terracotta and plaster busts and life-size sculptures are on display together for the first time in nearly two centuries.
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A family of life-size stone monkeys sit beside them; nearby graze deer while a cow is being milked as its licks its calf.
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The burning of life-sized effigies of Guy Fawkes on bonfires is a relatively new custom.
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The eyes were painted about twice life-size -- some rolled up, some canted down, some squintin 'sideways, and a lot was just cross-eye.
Shorty McCabe
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The figures are life-size cut-outs, silhouetted against the stark white walls, which gives them a three-dimensional sculptural quality.
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The old gentleman had purchased in his wife's name a nearly life-size Venus of Milo in bronze, and ordered it sent to the house, with the bill unreceipted, just before the dinner; so the entire family had used their efforts to the persuading old Mrs. Bowdoin that she had acquired the article herself, while shopping, and then forgotten all about it.
Pirate Gold
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The life-size piece, now in Karlsruhe, may have graced the altar dedicated to the saint in the nun's choir.
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The large pieces are 68 to 76 inches tall, and, standing on low plinths, the figures are well over life-size.
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He detailed life-size human figurines, birds and other animals, flowers, and cornstalks, as well as "the most incredible jewelry" and "golden vases full of emeralds.
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Her striking life-size horse head is made out of hammered and welded stainless steel and is priced at 5,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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In one, an antique black-and-white television balances on the wall below a life-size poster of a pixilated Japanese warrior.
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He does occasionally handcuff me (if such things scintillate you) to his life-sized, diapered replica of Roman Polanski, though.
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Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very life-like, life-sized bronze statue of a rat.
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Translate this promiscuous flamboyance into pottery and you have majolica, into theater and you have Palermo's life-sized puppet shows, into cuisine and you have… caponata.
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And you might see a herd of life-sized red giraffes, zookeepers, ringmaster, opera diva and pyrotechnic effects thanks to Compagnie Off's Les Girafes, which brings the festival to a rousing climax starts General Gordon Square SE18, 2 Jul.
This week's new theatre
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Looking around at the exotica, he notices a very life-like, life-sized bronze statue of a rat.
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The first thing I saw on entering was a life-size model of a heron standing on a counter.
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The cave now contains an unbelievably horrible life-size plastic model of a mylodon.
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Two life-sized statues of Mary and Joseph stand in the linoleum-tiled entranceway, each with a kneeling rail and a few candles and flowers scattered at their feet.
American Grace
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There was however a bronze life-sized statue of Mother that now stood outside the chapel.
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A life-size living room contrasts nicely with a miniature house, a full-size segment of a ship downstage with the entire ship in miniature upstage.
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The AR Rahman Library and Gallery houses a life-size painting of Rahman in Bollywood-poster style, three albums of the Oscar winning composer's pictures, a large repository of newspaper and magazine articles, an audio-cassette collection, and about 20 frames capturing Rahman in various moods.
Analysis
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This installation is a three-dimensional, life-size, 168-square-foot replica of a typical American kitchen of the 1950s.
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The site is a circus of curiosities, from the queer-looking craft stalls to the life-size animal installations.
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He and I manhandle his life-size plastic punching doll into the elevator.
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After a rosary is said by all, the Christ child, usually a life-size doll but occasionally a real baby, is placed on a bed of straw in the Inn. After midnight Mass, there's a fiesta with music, hot fruit punch, sugar cane, oranges, and candy.
Las Posadas: the nine days of Christmas
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Its risqué shell is a life-sized simulacrum of the female reproductive region, including hips, an exposed midriff, two thighs and a pudendal cleft—complete with a tuft of alarmingly lifelike hair on the mons pubis.
The Fruit Hunters
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The aim is to create the first full-length, life-size tintype photographs.
Times, Sunday Times
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Elsewhere, a life-sized figure of the theosophist Madame Blavatsky appears to levitate between two chairs, in a work by Goshka Macuga, held aloft by the power of thought alone.
Saatchi's Newspeak: the good, bad and indifferent
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In the life-size portrait, Correggio painted a young woman in three-quarter view, seated beneath trees of laurel and ivy, which form a kind of niche around her head.
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Perhaps I should make a life-size cut-out of my boss in secret and sit at the front desk one day…
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In the dining room, American artist Roxy Paine's linen canvas drips with white paint near a life-size sculpture of an obese Asian man belly-flopping onto a waist-high block of faux ice.
Art's New Pecking Order
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The on-stage sing-a-long participants shuffled into the wings as Ringo's wife and mullet-coiffed grandchildren wheeled out a life-sized drumset cake.
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He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll.
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Made of teakwood covered with silver filigree, it had a life-size female figure at each corner with natural hair and movable eyes.
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For the record, m'lud, the young lady still managed to eat an enormous (almost life-sized) squidgy blue shark jelly-sweetie thing afterwards.
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On the door there are usually life-size representations of the archangels Gabriel and Michael, above which there are several rows of other icons, including saints, martyrs, and apostles.
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The work of Kuroda Seiki, the painter who introduced such western genres as the nude to Japan, and Edo-period "pornotopia", is the inspiration for paintings of outsize genitalia, cut free from context against bright planes of pattern, while his sculptures present life-sized girly Manga figurines with comedically exaggerated attributes.
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Though the figures are the size of a matchbook, they address our life-sized peccadilloes and imbroglios.
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The life-sized robot, known as HRP-4 , has a realistic face and movable features that are able to mimic the expressions of a human singer.
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Michelangelo was happy to assist and designed an ambitious, free-standing structure around 34 feet wide and 50 feet high and including 40 life-sized marble statues.
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Chen Lung-bin chips away at the faded pages of discarded books such as the bulky Manhattan telephone directory, trashy hardcover novels and glossy magazines to form life-size three-dimensional human figures.
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Hardly anyone can pull a life-sized Dostoevsky out of an opera hat.
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The show is at an outdoor bandshell located outside of town in a park with a fake farm; it looks like a toy blown up to life-size.
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Her striking life-size horse head is made out of hammered and welded stainless steel and is priced at 5,000.
Times, Sunday Times
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The town water tower has a faded painting of the Man of Steel emblazoned on it; several stores have life-sized headless Superman cut-outs that you can pose behind if you're skinny enough.
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There is also a life-size mask of similar appearance, together with some sculptures of royal figures and some staffs with human heads.
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Drawn by the intrigue of all-night vigils in cemeteries and life-size skeletons propped jauntily in shop windows, tourists flock to Oaxaca and other points in Mexico for Day of the Dead.
Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos in Oaxaca
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It would be a life-size bronze of a highland bull, a drover and his dog.
Country diary: Dingwall mart
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It is a life-sized statue of the Pharaoh in the customary royal striding position, wearing the royal head-cloth nemes and holding a mace in one hand.
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In Torajaland in Indonesia I bought a carving of a woman threshing rice, a miniature replica of a life-sized death effigy.
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Following a trip to Paris in 1909 and exposure to Aristide Maillol's work, she modeled life-sized figures in stone.
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Also, standing beside the life-sized model of Angus, my ampleness paled into insignificance.
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He was involved in Arte Povera and Happenings, for example, and in 1980 he began making over-life-size heads and torsos carved in polyurethane or marble.
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Then he saw Mella's life-size Angel cut-out and made a confused face.
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The life-size crosses and figures of saints were one of the great forms of benefaction in the eleventh century and are described in churches across England.
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Onsite activities include tennis, chess on a life-size board, shuffleboard, and hiking through the surrounding woods.
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One young graphic designer from Ennis had come to the protest with a life-size effigy of the prime minister.
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His job was to handle two life-sized dummies equipped with instrumentation including an oscillograph.
The Dream Machine
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And what of the most mysterious object in the entire exhibition, the life-size figure or voodoo doll?
Times, Sunday Times
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The dinosaur, a life-sized statue of a triceratops, was showing signs of the ills that can befall fiberglass likenesses, according to the National Zoo, where it has been on display for years.
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A life-size bronze arm of a Roman statue has been excavated from a rubbish-filled ditch or watercourse in the City of London, just south of the Roman amphitheatre.
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It emerged this week that funds for a life-size statue of the town's most famous son and his comedy partner to be built in the town centre have topped the half way mark.
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It was intended to be bronzed and auctioned for charity, but after it was made, the deal fell through, leaving Aden with a life-size sculpture of the Queen Mother on his hands.
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The arcade nearest the land is pretty bad and has really scary life-sized clown statues doing circus tricks in the ceiling.
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In the 30-second spot, a life-size computer-generated bar performs a striptease to bump and grind music.
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The second is that the mnemonic power of a life-size naturalistic effigy vivifies the presence of the dead during the second-burial ceremony, enabling mourners to treat the image as if it were alive.
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He also launched the ‘colours’ campaign, a visual extravaganza that will feature her on massive blow-ups and life-size cutouts displayed at prominent locations.
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He works with cardboard and glazed paper, making ever more elaborate, often life-sized models of rooms or landscapes.
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The museum has several life-sized sculptures of people and animals.
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Called "The Flat Daddy, " the gift is a life-sized poster that can be pasted up on a cardboard, foam, wood to remind children that their parents always love them.
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An image appeared in front of him, life-size, three-dimensional, evidently made of light.
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For the holidays, the row houses were decorated to the hilt with multicolored lights, life-sized mangers, plastic reindeer hitched on roofs.
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But unlike most, this market also is populated by 26 life-size androgynous sculptures spookily standing, sitting or kneeling throughout the park.
A Midtown Market Share
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A gold drinking horn with a lion's head vies with a life-size golden fish for the title of most gorgeous thing on display.
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Becky's granddaughter, Courtney, has a life-sized cut-out Frankenstein Monster on the storm door for Halloween.
Rodeo Days
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The statuette is a small replica of a life-sized bronze statue to be donated to the people of Soweto later this year, said
ANC Daily News Briefing
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It was all done with life-sized puppets but they were so convincing you had forgotten they weren't the real thing after five minutes.
The Sun
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Slightly smaller than life-size, the statue's forehead bears a cobra, a symbol of royalty, and the face is painted a rich sienna.
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We have a life-size cut-out of Frank so he is with us to see the game.
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He grabbed her collar, dragging her clear and across the mud like a life-size rag doll.
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A terracotta army of over 7000 life-sized soldiers made at his instigation and buried in three large pits near the tomb was discovered in 1974.
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Fragments of a life-size statue, along with two ornate altars, all now in the Museum of Antiquities, Newcastle upon Tyne, show it was dedicated to Antenociticus, a youthful god with a neck torque.
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Armes for The Wall Street Journal Players looked on as a life-sized 'Jenga' game was set up next to the course.
The Mini-Golf Art Gallery
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The life-size cardboard cut-out policemen helped the firm establish itself on the other side of the Atlantic.
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What am I going to do with a life-size portrait of a bishop?
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There are also several halls that exhibit mining memorabilia, artifacts and pictures from the Ikuno mine, and a life-sized diorama exhibiting the steps involved in the refining of silver ores.
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Work on display includes life-sized Elizabethan figures, a mural and an exhibit featuring the projection of slides on to specially made screens.
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The life-sized robot, known as HRP-4 , has a realistic face and movable features that are able to mimic the expressions of a human singer.
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My sister used to work in a record shop, and they'd frequently get life-sized cut-outs of stars to display on the premises, which would come to a horrible end in the alley round the back.
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Watching the old Chinese at work, removing the piles, piece by piece and dusting them, I spotted what looked like a life-size torso lying under a twisted heap.
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He makes striking glass sculptures where primordial life-sized figures, intricate dream-scapes and surreal mythological narratives, appear three-dimensional and 'frozen' inside in the glass, as if preserved in a moment beyond time.
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Michelangelo was happy to assist and designed an ambitious, free-standing structure around 34 feet wide and 50 feet high and including 40 life-sized marble statues.
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When Bobby died in 1872 he was buried in the kirkyard beside his master and a life-size bronze statue was commissioned.
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A life-sized cardboard cutout would be just as qualified as Rubio.
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Work on display includes life-sized Elizabethan figures, a mural and an exhibit featuring the projection of slides on to specially made screens.
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The Augustanera sculpture of a life-size male in a toga was secured on a foam-covered wooden frame to cushion its rescue.
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Using state-of-the-art technology in animatronics and engineering, these life-size dinosaurs are able to move, roar and blink their eyes.
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The work of Kuroda Seiki, the painter who introduced such western genres as the nude to Japan, and Edo-period "pornotopia", is the inspiration for paintings of outsize genitalia, cut free from context against bright planes of pattern, while his sculptures present life-sized girly Manga figurines with comedically exaggerated attributes.
This week's new exhibitions
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Indeed the life-sized granite bust of Ramses II here shows him looking as if somebody has reminded him of a private joke.
British Museum handsomely fulfils its duties to England outside London
