Luminaries Sentence Examples

Carved pumpkin luminaries can add an interesting touch to the décor of your wedding reception.

The personification of the two great luminaries - the sun and the moon - was the first step in the unfolding of this system, and this was followed by placing the other deities where Shamash and Sin had their seats.

The popular factor is the belief in the influence exerted by the movements of the heavenly bodies on occurrences on earth - a belief naturally suggested by the dependence of life, vegetation and guidance upon the two great luminaries.

All three works were combined in a single large volume, entitled De Statu Libri Tres, 1615, which was first brought into due notice by Dr Samuel Parr, who, in 1787, published an edition with a preface, famous for the elegance of its Latinity, in which he eulogized Burke, Fox and Lord North as the "three English luminaries."

The sir Francis than the luminaries also explored all.

I've even helped put words into the mouths of luminaries such Alistair Darling, Stephen Byers and former newsreader Richard Baker.

Now, these two luminaries are objects of veneration to the African tribes, and they determined to oppose so sacrilegious an enterprise.

A number of people including several e-learning luminaries have shared their dirty little secret with me.

He's just produced his 23rd album, the latest being troubadour featuring a host of luminaries including Cliff Richard.

He 's just produced his 23rd album, the latest being Troubadour featuring a host of luminaries including Cliff Richard.

Drape bushes with light netting, or place luminaries along the sidewalk leading up to the entrance.

Make luminaries using candles and plastic jugs or white lunch bags to line the walkway to the entrance.

Make luminaries by cutting out a stenciled design (flowers, hearts, doves) in a white paper bag.

If you are planning a sunset wedding, consider having candelabras up front, along with some luminaries around the area so everyone can see the entire time.

Set up tall shepherd's hooks and hang lighted luminaries or candles from them for evening lighting.

Instead of lanterns, luminaries can also be used.

This series starred such luminaries as Charlton Heston and Keith Carradine.

Luminaries such as Eddie Van Halen and Brian May from Queen have used guitars that they made themselves.

Solar luminaries come in many different designs, from dragonflies to flowers.

Coordinate outdoor decorations to match the candles by using white twinkle lights or luminaries if desired.

Sell luminaries to light the walk to put a spotlight on cancer.

Luminaries are a cool addition to the backyard for those nights when you grill and eat outside.

Raves from such luminaries as Oprah Winfrey have only propelled the demand higher.

Put lights or jack-o-lantern luminaries along the pathway to your front door.

You can create your own luminaries by punching a pattern of small holes in white paper bags, and then placing a flameless tea light inside.

The crowns suspended in churches suggested doubtless the sumptuous pensile luminaries, frequently designated from a very early period as coronae, in which the form of the royal circlet was preserved in much larger proportions, as exemplified by the remarkable corona still to be seen suspended in the cathedral at Aix-laChapelle over the crypt in which the body of Charlemagne was deposited."

To this end luminaries should have full horizontal cut off using a white light source to improve visual acuity.

To protect the candle light flames from the wind, use purchased luminaries or shiny metal buckets.

The generally recognized principal Avatars do not, however, by any means constitute the only occasions of a direct intercession of the deity in worldly affairs, but - in the same way as to this day the eclipses of the sun and moon are ascribed by the ordinary Hindu to these luminaries being temporarily swallowed by the dragon Rahu (or Graha, " the seizer") - so any uncommon occurrence would be apt to be set down as a special manifestation of divine power; and any man credited with exceptional merit or achievement, or even remarkable for some strange incident connected with his life or death, might ultimately come to be looked upon as a veritable incarnation of the deity, capable of influencing the destinies of man, and might become an object of local adoration or superstitious awe and propitiatory rites to multitudes of people.

But let it be observed, first, that to reduce the huge and confused mass of pre-existing law into the compass of these two collections was an immense practical benefit to the empire; secondly, that, whereas the work which he undertook was accomplished in seven years, the infinitely more difficult task of codification might probably have been left unfinished at Tribonian's death, or even at Justinian's own, and been abandoned by his successor; thirdly, that in the extracts preserved in the Digest we have the opinions of the greatest legal luminaries given in their own admirably lucid, philosophical and concise language, while in the extracts of which the Codex is composed we find valuable historical evidence bearing on the administration and social condition of the later Pagan and earlier Christian empire; fourthly, that Justinian's age, that is to say, the intellect of the men whose services he commanded, was quite unequal to so vast an undertaking as the fusing upon scientific principles into one new organic whole of the entire law of the empire.