hieratic

When I turned to her she was sitting very stiff and upright, with her feet posed, hieratically on the carpet and her head emerging out of the ample fur collar, such as a gem-like flower above the rim of a dark vase.

Furthermore, even if a preamble of an international document is of an eclectic nature (politic, legal, economic, general principles, social or even a statement of value), it is undoubtedly intrinsic part of that document, and therefore it has the same legal force as the document itself (hieratically superior even to constitutional norms, according to most of the European constitutions--including the constitution of Romania for example).

Her black-lacquer Brick screen, for example, at once establishes a space of enclosure while providing apertures through which a voyeur might peer; it is hieratically sculptural, an exemplar of classical craft, even as its gleaming surface and streamlined modular components link it to industrial processes.

The photographs are landscape images of the state, with a few portraits, all in high-contrast black-and-white, hieratically posed or frozen by a high-speed shutter.

"Ah, I remember the strange sensation I felt when, at Kandy, the gloomy former capital of Ceylon, I went up the steps of the temple where the English had stupidly, without torture, slaughtered the little Modeliar princes who, legends tell us, were so charming.like those skilfully made Chinese ikons, with so hieratically clam and pure of grace, and their golden halos and their long hands pressed together."