ikon

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It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.

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Lectured Updike: "To criticize Miss Novak because her tone of voice is always the same is as absurd as criticizing a Byzantine ikon because it is static and badly drawn."

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A sculpture like Saint Sebastian, 1957-58, its bronze skin crusted with the shapes of reclaimed junk that Paolozzi had incorporated into the mold, balances neatly between golem and ikon.

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They get their stocks mostly from tourists � often in exchange for "ancient" ikons fresh from the ikon factory � but can get almost any item through a smuggling network centered in Odessa.

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He nearly always carries a relic or a little ikon of some kind, and to this he frequently prays, kissing it at the same time.

From In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland by Morse, John