Word: statueless
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...also be carved by him. Aristion was a master artisan, known from old writing to have lived on the Aegean island of Paros about the third quarter of the 6th century B.C. Until the new dig, it had been believed that the only remnants of his work were four statueless marble bases bearing his imprimatur. Now that Mastrokostas has been able to study Aristion's style, he believes he may be able to identify other works of his among the many still unidentified masterpieces of ancient Greece...
Without checking the sign on the announcement board, it is now sometimes hard to tell whether a new church is Catholic or Protestant. Abandoning baroque altars and ornate candelabra, modern Catholic churches are all but statueless and feature bare, tablelike altars; at the same time, many Protestant ministers have come to recognize the validity of more ceremony in worship, and are celebrating Communion every Sunday with Eucharistic vestments, candles, and even incense. Thanks to changes inspired by the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Mass in the vernacular features such venerable Protestant institutions as longer sermons, lay readers, and full...
...loyal readers chipped in $125,000 for the statue, with the same zeal they showed in backing Bishop Noll in drives against movie and magazine indecency. Next the Bishop discovered that sites for new statues in Washington are as rare as seats in a Washington restaurant. The few statueless sites are mostly public property...