She took the leg of mutton and held it high above her, as though it were the head of John the Baptist on a platter; and, the cigarette still in her mouth, advanced with solemn, hieratic steps.

Apparently Rose had muddled them all up; and it was a long time before the figure was finished and sent to the Pavilion in a long basket to take on itself the robes and the hieratic pose of the Empress.

Driving through the streets in her big landau she exhibited to the indifference of the natives and the stares of the tourists a long-waisted, youthful figure of hieratic stiffness, with a pair of big gleaming eyes, rolling restlessly behind a short veil of black lace, which, coming down no further than her vividly red lips, resembled a mask.

During the contact of that unexpected and lingering kiss Mr Verloc, gripping with both hands the edges of his chair, preserved a hieratic immobility.

The artifacts include King Amenhotep II's wooden box covered with a layer of white mortar and engraved with the king's cartridge and a hieratic text; a group of Osirian statuettes; a limestone statue of Senefer, the fifth dynasty's top official; and a 26th dynasty relief bearing the image of a sphinx.

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They recalled the sculpture of Constantin Brancusi, but without that master's hieratic elegance.

You don't exist anymore, killed with a hammer, baton or electric current, carved up for meat, each blood-soaked piece torn apart and eaten, your Moses' head thrown into a steaming cauldron, your hieratic head from which myth peeked out with doleful eyes.

"A number of artefacts were found inside the tombs, which consist of a large remains of a funerary mask bearing a human face and painted in yellow; a set of pottery vessels of different shapes and sizes, and tow ostraca, one of which contains hieroglyphs while the second bears text written in Hieratic ," said Gamal Al-Semestawi, the general director of Antiquities of Middle Egypt.

That it has come to be supposed that the conventional, the hieratic , the formal, is a dead thing and that there is life only in the natural & idiosyncratic.