hemicycle

1 In the hemicycle above are the Virgin and Child under a Byzantine canopy with angels and founders on either side.

2 The spirit of the early history of the United States seemed to reside in that hemicycle; and the crape on the vacated and peculiar chair added its own effect.

3 The church of the Assumption has five domes resting in the centre of the building on four massive circular pillars, and the sanctuary is composed of four hemicycles.

4 The ancient Greek theatre was composed, like that of our days, of a hemicycle for the spectators, and a rectangular portion that formed the place for dramatic performance.

5 Our host laughed back; then, with a serious air, Looked around him on our hemicycle, where He sat midway of it.

6 Crossing the hemicycle, the old man reached an immense porch leading to the peristyle.

7 The chapel — part of the hemicycle entrance to the cemetery, where two other chapels are up for auction — was in good shape after a recent restoration paid for by the city.

8 It’s uncertain who will be seated in the hemicycle, and whether the ineligible separatists will try to pass their seats to substitute candidates.

9 The most influential hemicycle is the French National Assembly, which began sitting in the Palais Bourbon in 1798.

10 But in 2012 the university opened a music hall, finally completing the hemicycle of buildings facing the tower.

11 In Brussels, Brown got the welcome of a global leader, delivering an address in the vast European Parliament hemicycle from the same rostrum as German Chancellor Angela Merkel when she is in town.

12 Nor does the line which measures the half, show anything when it has already passed from the sixth straight line to the base of the hemicycle.

13 It's not membership, just encouragement; but encouragement is what Palestinians need, Abbas tells the delegates seated, in alphabetical order by last name, in the auditorium known as the "hemicycle."

14 Frank Lloyd Wright's Running Water HomeBuilt in 1955 in New Canaan, Conn., this house has a hemicycle or horseshoe shape.

15 The tribunal of commerce sat in the hemicycle, at the foot of the statue of Concord, raised there to appease quarrels between the merchants.

16 Frank Lloyd Wright's Running Water Home Built in 1955 in New Canaan, Conn., this house has a hemicycle or horseshoe shape.

17 It is neither adossed to a hill nor completely isolated: the lower part of the hemicycle of steps which was completely buried, is well preserved.

18 The hemicycle became the apse; the gallery, a clerestory; the hall, a central nave.

19 The opening was very nearly square, and above it was a hemicycle, flattened like the handle of a basket; here the King wanted a figure placed to represent the genius of Fontainebleau.

20 Behind the hemicycle a sort of square niche buried itself in the wall between two doors, one of which, painted on the wall for the sake of symmetry, is a useful and curious document.

1 半圆形

semicircle semicircular arched arch

2 半圆形建筑物

shell