hieratic

The style of the time was severe, hieratic and distant.

In an agitated yet hieratic manner, the figures move on.

These objects are mysterious and hieratic, yet they also speak to us in terms of modern life.

For hieratic purposes, the Virgin's feet often rest on a low stool.

And this was necessarily an inward thing, not a matter of hieratic gestures.

The cup came down empty in a wide hieratic gesture, like a ritual.

This translation offers a more modern understanding of hieratic and medicine.

It is also known that early Hebrew used hieratic numerals.

The resonant hieratic words acted as a slap in the face.

Robert Wilson carries on that hieratic function better than almost anyone else working in theater today.

Extending his psychic sense, he spoke words of power in the hieratic ritual language.

Sleeping, he had the hieratic calm of a figure already carved on a tomb.

It sets the tone for the rest of a hieratic, imposing score.

One sees this influence in works such as Hieratic Women (1956).

Like hieroglyphs, hieratic was used in sacred and religious texts.

The mosaics are not so fine and are more hieratic.

Two were inscribed in hieratic, but they are poorly preserved and the name of their owner is lost.

Similarly in hieratic script they drew a line over the letter representing the number.

It's learned, hieratic, almost classical music, made by players from an hereditary elite.

Tom stared at this hieratic figure in pure shock.

The real people are giants, too; but they move slowly, with solemn, hieratic paces.

More sort of hieratic, if I'm making any sense?"

All of the passages and chambers are present, with measurements written in hieratic script.

Later, the Egyptians used hieratic instead of hieroglyphic script to show numbers.

I was not, of course, qualified to work on the original scrolls, which were written in the hieratic script.