An outstanding example of Alma-Tadema's contrasting gleaming white marble against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea.

The gleaming white marble of the edifice was visible from well outside the walls of the city.

They commissioned statues, temples and buildings of gleaming marble.

William of Malmesbury wrote: " Nothing like it could be seen in England either for the light of its glass windows, the gleaming of its marble pavements, or the many-coloured paintings which led the eyes to the panelled ceiling above.

The Ara Pacis stood within an enclosure elaborately and finely sculpted entirely in gleaming white marble, depicting scenes of traditional Roman piety, in which the Emperor and his family were portrayed in the act of offering sacrifices to the gods.

The two sections can be easily distinguished: the older section has many colorful decorations and numerous small pillars, and fans have been installed in the ceiling ; the new section is in gleaming white marble and is completely air-conditioned.

However, with its pietra dura decorations and intricate mirror-work inlaid into the white marble walls and ceilings creating gleaming effect, the lavish room has come to be known as ' Palace of Mirrors ', and sometimes the ' Hall of Mirrors '.

Lotte Eisner praised its " opalescent surfaces streaming with reflections, rain, or light: car windows, the glazed leaves of the revolving door reflecting the silhouette of the doorman dressed in a gleaming black waterproof, the dark moss of houses with lighted windows, wet pavements and shimmering puddles ... His camera captures the filtered half-light falling from the street lamps ... it seizes railings through basement windows.

Finish Fetish — a style that emphasized gleaming surfaces — and Light and Space — art about perception — were other Ferus-bred styles that allowed L. A. to distinguish itself from the rest of the art world.

We were off the road, gleaming barbed wire pulling taut.

And projecting wickedly through these curtains were the gleaming muzzles of six rifles, all trained on Billy Tilghman.

But no sooner had the first light of day appeared, than the glittering coats of mail, girt with bands of steel, and the gleaming cuirasses, seen from afar, showed that the king's forces were at hand.

His features were strongly marked and expressive, from the thin humorous lips to the keen blue eyes, gleaming from beneath the shaggy eyebrows.

She was renowned for her strong voice, which was often described as a " gleaming sword "; her endurance and purity of tone were unsurpassed, especially as Brünnhilde and Isolde.

As competition intensified, horse-drawn single narrowboats were replaced by steam and later diesel powered boats towing an unpowered butty, and many of the boatmen's families abandoned their shore homes for a life afloat, to help with boat handling and to reduce accommodation costs – the birth of the legendary " boatman's cabin " with bright white lace, gleaming brass and gaily-painted metalware.

The scooped valleys of Monte Rosa itself were magnificent, all gleaming in the bright sunlight — tossed and torn at intervals, and sending from their rents and walls the magical blue of the ice.

And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ;

His formerly gray " skin " now gleaming golden like at the end of Tabula Rasa, his powers have evolved to the point where the combined League, including nearly all of its reserve members, were unable to hold him off while the Atom and Lex Luthor attempted to devise a weapon capable of defeating him using the original plans for the Android designed to neutralize Amazo's nanotechnology.

Terry Pratchett, in his ' Discworld ' novels, makes several references to the poem's well-known opening two lines " The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold / And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold "; much of the humour springing from a misunderstanding of ' cohorts ' to mean part of a suit of armour.

" Steve Juon of RapReviews wrote that " all the music is quality, and Nas spits the purest verbals ", and commended the album's digital mastering for " changing rough cut gems that were valuable to begin with to gleaming diamonds.

During the late-1920s gleaming whitewalls contrasted against darker surroundings were considered a stylish, but high-maintenance feature.

They were great gleaming discs that stared unwinkingly ; luminous, whitish, and without a hint of normal emotion or sanity.

The trees were tall and numerous, with gleaming, prism-shaped trunks and a mass of cloudlike foliage.

( Arguing that, for Jesus, the real referents of the imagery of biblical promise — Zion, or cosmic rock and, on it, God's gleaming temple of the end of days — were himself and his messianic remnant of believers.

At the site, in a small park at the roadside, is a gleaming silver statue of Tereshkova soaring upward, with arms outstretched, at the top of a curved column.

The appearance from the sea is of a white city gleaming in the sun and suspended over the rough waters below.

But what we must never forget, is that this change of country and landscape sharpened, kneaded and knitted this newly-becoming language ... And so Afrikaans became able to speak out from this new land ... Our task lies in the use that we make and will make of this gleaming vehicle ..."

It's so romantic up there, she used to say, with the broad river gleaming in its moontrack like an enormous dark mirror and all the sounds of the night, so poetic.

The gleaming expanse of ice is similar to the Arctic, with wind-driven pack ice and ridges up to 15 m. Offshore of the landfast ice, the ice remains very dynamic all year, and it is relatively easily moved around by winds and therefore forms pack ice, made up of large piles and ridges pushed against the landfast ice and shores.

Glass can also be cut with a diamond saw, or copper wheels embedded with abrasives, and polished to give gleaming facets ; the technique used in creating Waterford crystal.

Her head was covered with a gleaming helmet which was itself crowned with an olive-wreath ; she bore a shield and brandished a spear, simulating the goddess ' fighting role.

One design submitted by Wagner himself comprised an array of gleaming new buildings arranged around a vast multi-level system of fly-overs and underpasses, with a huge glass-roofed circular car-park in the middle.

Her memorial service sees a vast turnout, and a tall gleaming pillar with a light burning atop it is constructed in tribute to her.

In the Odyssey, 19. 233, when Odysseus, while pretending to be someone else, is questioned by Penelope about her husband's clothing, he says that he wore a shirt " gleaming like the skin of a dried onion " ( varies with translations, literal translation here ) which could refer to the lustrous quality of silk fabric.

Rail passenger revenues declined dramatically between 1920 and 1934 because of the rise of the automobile, but in the mid-1930s, railroads reignited popular imagination with service improvements and new, diesel-powered streamliners, such as the gleaming silver Pioneer Zephyr and Flying Yankee.

Cata is described as a large monster with a horse's mane, gleaming eyes, thick feet, nails of iron and a whale's tail.

Korean displays include green-glazed ceramics, silk embroideries from officials ' robes and gleaming boxes inlaid with mother-of-pearl made between 500 AD and 2000.

The underside of the staircases is covered with tiles that form gleaming canopies on either side of the vestibule.

The red booths and gleaming chrome in mom-and-pop diners, the stone cottages of tourist courts and the many service stations along this route saw America fall in love with the automobile.

In the 1670s, after the Great Fire of 1666, London sported a new, gleaming, city centre with forty churches.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”