ikon
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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.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was brought to the window, lighted like an ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American delegation said he was not invited, tried to send him home, thawed out grudgingly when the Russians decided to make a "black ikon" of him.
From Time Magazine Archive
They descended carefully, a step at a time, for nine floors, like a solemn religious procession bearing aloft a sacred relic or ikon.
From Time Magazine Archive
She would always be Church of England herself; but the impression made by candles and an ikon upon her girl-friends in Haverstock Hill in North London was always before her.
From Command by McFee, William
