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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But the sobor had none of Orthodoxy's historic pomp�not even an ikon to remind the assembled bishops of the glory that once was St. Petersburg.

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His body eaten by acid, Codreanu was identified by the three crosses he had worn around his neck, a wedding ring and a small ikon.

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

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I fell on my knees before the ikon and wept for him before the Holy Mother of God, our swift defender and helper.

From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor