The larger-than-life bronze statue by Tom Tsuchiya, shows Bench in the act of throwing out a base runner.

Thorpe is memorialized in the Pro Football Hall of Fame rotunda with a larger-than-life statue.

B. Priestley Library at the University of Bradford, which he officially opened in 1975, and by the larger-than-life statue of him, commissioned by the Bradford City Council after his death, and which now stands in front of the National Media Museum.

The best-known ass in Kuurne is ' Ambroos ' ( Ambrose ), a larger-than-life and somewhat stylised statue in front of the town hall.

In 1885, von der Ahe erected a larger-than-life statue outside of Sportsman's Park, not of any of his star players, but of himself.

The sculptor Fred Parhad ( 1934 -) created a larger-than-life statue of Ashurbanipal, which was placed on a street near the San Francisco City Hall main square in 1988.

In 1903, the assassinated president was honored with a larger-than-life statue beside the library.

Venetian artist Antonio dal Zotto was commissioned to create the larger-than-life bronze statue of the maestro, which was eventually mounted on its pedestal in 1896.

A larger-than-life bronze statue of Pilot Officer Mynarski, sculpted by Keith Maddison, was dedicated in 2005 at RAF Middleton St. George, the bomber base in England where he served.

The Pier now features a large front lawn showcasing numerous larger-than-life public art sculptures and an interactive animated fountain created by WET ( of Fountains of Bellagio fame ).

The twelve niches created by Borromini's architecture were left empty for decades until 1703 when Pope Clement XI encouraged the completion of the decoration, by sponsoring a competition to select the designs for larger-than-life sculptures of the apostles.

" A larger-than-life fiberglass sculpture of the Hodag, created by a local artist, resides on the grounds of the Rhinelander Area Chamber of Commerce where it draws thousands of visitors each year.

Loosely based on classic TV sporting commentators such as Rex Mossop, Doyle created Slaven as a larger-than-life persona, an utterly opinionated, impossibly talented " sporting everyman " who has represented Australia in every field, won innumerable Melbourne Cups on his ageless mount Rooting King, is on intimate terms with every sporting celebrity ( including many top racehorses ), as well as film and music stars, politicians and other leaders of society around the world, yet who retains the " common touch " and stands for Australian manhood, fairness, and honesty.

Hay and Abraham Lincoln are depicted in a larger-than-life bronze sculpture by Mark Martino, entitled A Learning Moment, in the Sesquicentennial Plaza at Carthage College.

The " Bond movies " were characterized by larger-than-life characters, such as the resourceful hero: a veritable " one-man army " who was able to dispatch villainous masterminds ( and their disposable " henchmen ") in ever-more creative ways, often followed by a ready one-liner.

Crockett became famous in his own lifetime for larger-than-life exploits popularized by stage plays and almanacs.

Directed by Johnny Simons, and co-starring Avner Eisenberg and Nicholas de Wolff, the development of the play was supervised by Crumb, who also served as set designer, drawing larger-than-life representations of some of his most famous characters all over the floors and walls of the set.

She originated the role of a larger-than-life, addicted, sexually voracious Hollywood legend trying to extinguish her fears about her career with a young hustler named Chance Wayne, played by Newman.

During the course of the indoor boat ride, guests float through an immersive, larger-than-life pirate adventure featuring gunshots, cannon blasts, burning buildings, and carousing and pillaging pirates, all accompanied by the now-iconic song " Yo Ho ( A Pirate's Life for Me )" written by George Bruns and Xavier Atencio.

* Torg-Storm Knights, deliberately larger-than-life heroes engaged in fighting the invasion of Earth, to prevent it being conquered by invading dimensions, largely corresponding with popular role-playing genres.

In addition to children's projects and play, a replica of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello has been constructed with more than 2, 500 bricks of Play-Doh, and, to celebrate Play-Doh's fiftieth anniversary in 2006, a larger-than-life birthday cake with more than 40 pounds of Play-Doh as its main ingredient was " baked " at New York City's American International Toy Fair by Warren Brown, host of Food Network's Sugar Rush.

The plot generally focuses on the custody battle for Ryunosuke and the attempts by Akiko and Mishima Heavy Industries to reclaim Nuku Nuku's body, which often involves amusingly larger-than-life battles between Nuku Nuku and military hardware produced by Mishima Heavy Industries.

However, this larger-than-life legalist cannot find any grace, mercy, or slack in his plastic heart for minor infractions by children all over the world, having followed the handbook too strictly.

A distinct application of Dada was his own work with masks, seen by Hugo Ball as having generated fascination with their unusual " kinetic power ", and useful for performing " larger-than-life characters and passions.

Graham Hill ran a new team of Lolas, the larger-than-life Hesketh team entered its own car after running James Hunt in a March, and Americans Roger Penske and Parnelli Jones entered their own cars late in the season.

1 was mostly a showcase for various Juice Crew affiliates to strut their stuff, notably on the larger-than-life posse cut " The Symphony.

“ He was a larger-than-life figure, handsome, provocative, and difficult to pin down.

Although Zola would not accept that it was either scientifically or artistically justifiable to create larger-than-life characters, his work does present a number of larger-than-life symbols which, like the mine Le Voreux in Germinal, take on the nature of a surrogate human life.

María Félix ( April 8, 1914 – April 8, 2002 ) was a Mexican actress and the most iconic leading lady of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema, known for her larger-than-life, tough character in films.

In the book, Chablis and her larger-than-life adventures provided a counterbalance to the darker narrative of murder that was central to the book.

Few artists have had careers as long, rich and influential as his, and he leaves a larger-than-life legacy as powerful and soulful as he was.

He talked about her larger-than-life adventures and careers for over two years before Bob and the other Knights decided the ruse was out of control ( Brian had claimed they were engaged and even sent out wedding invitations ).

However hyperbolic that early Hall of Fame speculation appears more than 20 years later, it was a natural extension of Gooden's larger-than-life presence in New York City.

Kid Creole was to be " the larger-than-life central figure in a multi-racial, multi-cultural musical carnival.

In the next two years, Mohanlal was typecasted in similar larger-than-life action hero roles in movies like Ravanaprabhu, Praja, Onnaman, Thandavam and Chathurangam.

He was renowned for his larger-than-life carousing during this period, but he never sacrificed his dedication to his art.

He was a larger-than-life character who, according to a rival team boss, " lived without sense, without an analyst and provoked astonishment and affection from everyone.

It is full of anecdotes about the larger-than-life characters who dominated Broadway between 1915 and 1930, but the biographer Frances Donaldson writes that it is to be read as entertainment rather than reliable history: " Guy, having once invented an anecdote, told it so often that it was impossible to know whether in the end he believed it or not.

Attention was also focused on the proper way to depict Kamehameha ’ s body ; it was eventually determined that to convey his heroic and larger-than-life status, Kamehameha should be depicted with typical Herculean features, including a broad back and shoulders, strong, powerful arms, and a commanding chin.

On September 29, 2012, the Orioles unveiled a larger-than-life bronze sculpture of Robinson at Oriole Park at Camden Yards as part of the Orioles Legends Celebration Series during the 20th anniversary of the ballpark.

The 1830s American stage, where blackface first rose to prominence featured similarly comic stereotypes of the clever Yankee and the larger-than-life Frontiersman ; the late 19th-and early 20th-century American and British stage where it last prospered featured many other, mostly ethnically-based, comic stereotypes: conniving, venal Jews ; drunken brawling Irishmen with blarney at the ready ; oily Italians ; stodgy Germans ; and gullible rural rubes.

The word prom at that time may just have been a fancy description for an ordinary junior or senior class dance, but it soon took on larger-than-life meaning for high school students.

Her larger-than-life personality caught the attention of TV executives at Fox, who gave her big Brooklyn mouth it's broadcast debut in February 2011.

Lohrmann also erected two free-standing bell towers, as well as larger-than-life sized zinc statues of the Twelve Apostles at the apexes and corners of the roofline.

" David was truly larger-than-life, and one of the few people you could look forward to working with at 4: 30 a. m .," Careless recalls.

* John Wayne as Col. Davy Crockett, a larger-than-life legend from Tennessee who arrives at the Alamo bringing a band of fellow adventurers to the fight.

According to The Independent, " She was not the only significant Labour woman MP at that time – Edith Summerskill, the scourge of the boxing fraternity, Bessie Braddock, that larger-than-life Liverpudlian, such compassionate personalities as Peggy Herbison and Alice Bacon – but no one else quite spelt out the grievances of her people with Red Ellen's power and charisma.

Once again heralding Ritter's authorial voice, a starred review in Publishers Weekly said the book's prose was “ Enthralling ... at times stunning ,” and that, " Ritter delivers a baseball tale of legendary dimension, featuring several larger-than-life characters.

* In the The Four Captives, also known as The Four Defeated Nations, four larger-than-life bronze figures, symbolize the four nations defeated at the time of the Treaty of Nijmegen.