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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Troitski had an ikon, a painted image of the Blessed Virgin whose tears, copiously shed, performed miracles.

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Since then the artist's famed picture of his mother has become such a Mother's Day ikon* that a separate study of the Woman Behind the Painting became inevitable.

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The Rogers Group had a ritual position in the U. S. home as un varying as the ikon opposite the door of pre-War Russia.

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"Feodora and I will pray before the ikon to the saints morning and night to protect you wherever you may be."

From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Paget, Walter