When he ran for mayor of New York in 1977, Mario Cuomo called the city a "magnificent mosaic," and recalls saying the same about the entire country three years before that.

Many of the old buildings have magnificent mosaics that must be seen in good light.

Blue was used as a background colour representing the sky in the magnificent mosaics which decorated Byzantine churches.

I prefer to celebrate this nation as a vast tapestry, where each group of Americans contribute their own brilliant color to the magnificent mosaic of American life.

Jon stopped at a side corridor with magnificent mosaics that began their designs on the floor and wrapped completely up the walls and across the ceiling.

They dashed down the side hallway that was completely lined in magnificent mosaics, their pistols ready to fire if discovered.

The triumphal arch is illustrated with magnificent mosaics depicting different scenes of Christ and the Virgin Mary.

Its walls were adorned with magnificent mosaics and tapestries.

Fragments of a magnificent mosaic were also found.

A perhaps unique example of Late Roman pictorial mosaic is the magnificent apsidal mosaic of the Church of Santa Pudenziana.