With a six-story spiraling ramp, the Guggenheim is a hallmark example of "hemicycle" design.    From Wordnik.com.  [About.com Architecture] Reference

Their courtly coffins are ranged in a kind of hemicycle, with the little coffins of the children that died before they came to the knowledge of their greatness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete] Reference

It is a very short voting list (they are all in the 'hemicycle' voting on it as I write this), mostly concerning foreign affairs, so UKIP decided to abstain on most of the issues.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

And I was leading three large chickens along towards the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [So quick to use violence] Reference

The hemicycle became the apse; the gallery, a clerestory; the hall, a central nave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

Last month the Green group were allowed people dressed up on the bridges to the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [So quick to use violence] Reference

His colleague came along and said, you don't have a hemicycle badge so you have to get out.    From Wordnik.com.  [This is not a democracy] Reference

I have, once again, been thrown out of the hemicycle because I am a girl who is not pro the EU.    From Wordnik.com.  [This is not a democracy] Reference

The head of the European Parliament security refusing to let the peaceful protest anywhere near the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [So quick to use violence] Reference

Within this hemicycle lie the waters of Minas, bounded on the north by the horizon-line, the clouds and the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference

The vast hemicycle was a compact mass of cheering deputies, all waving aloft in their hands papers and handkerchiefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paris War Days Diary of an American] Reference

After calling on them to let their "guest" speak, the parliament's president angrily asked them to leave the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why are they surprised?] Reference

East and west of the forum's central plaza stood Corinthian colonnades, behind each of which was a hemicycle (semicircular hall).    From Wordnik.com.  [Trajan's Glorious Forum] Reference

It is neither adossed to a hill nor completely isolated: the lower part of the hemicycle of steps which was completely buried, is well preserved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1] Reference

In 1837 Delaroche received the commission for the great picture, 27 metres long, in the hemicycle of the award theatre of the École des Beaux Arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paul Delaroche – Hemicycle of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts 1841 | ultraorange.net] Reference

All of the discourses will be worth following, of course, but it will be interesting to read the address to the French Bishops at the hemicycle on Sunday.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy Father in France] Reference

As in a dream, one looks down the last vista to the open rotunda and crescent hemicycle of the Palace of Fine Arts beyond a lagoon that mirrors them on its surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference

These return from the columns which stand third on the inner side to the antae which project from the pronaos, and which touch the edges of the hemicycle at right and left.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ten Books on Architecture] Reference

Last Thursday (7 August), the ceiling of the main hemicycle where up to 785 euro-deputies from the 27 member states assemble to vote on EU laws partially caved in two takes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry: 'Finish Them Off'] Reference

The debates take place inside a giant dome, known as the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

Crossing the hemicycle, the old man reached an immense porch leading to the peristyle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Cardinal Sin] Reference

One minute, after all, is the time MEPs generally get to make a speech in the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph Blogs] Reference

By way of compensation he was commissioned to decorate the hemicycle of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

"Tell my lord that she whom he favours awaits him at the hemicycle in the garden, and guide him to me.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion's Brood] Reference

He was the first singer to perform in the hemicycle where the European Parliament holds its plenary sessions.    From Wordnik.com.  [News on www.kyivpost.com] Reference

The muse sits neglected, if not forspent, in the hemicycle of the arts: —“Dark Science broods in Fancy’s hermitage.    From Wordnik.com.  [0 Introduction. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900] Reference

The public galleries, the seats of the members, the hemicycle in front of the tribune, were crowded with National Guards.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71] Reference

The deputies left their places, formed in groups in the hemicycle, surrounded the minister, congratulating him with fervor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life Of Napoleon Bonaparte]

But let us step on to the hemicycle of the Belvidere, and view some works greater than any we have yet seen, or even imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views a-foot] Reference

Government had recourse on solemn occasions, for instance the decoration of the vast and grandiose hemicycle of the new Sorbonne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference

On the stage all was silence, but a murmur like the humming of bees in a hive rose from the vast hemicycle filled with spectators.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thais] Reference

Just 6km from the Strasbourg hemicycle where MEPs discuss the fate of French Roma, we met Roma families who are living in very basic conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Expulsion of Roma Raises Questions in France] Reference

There, on the bench of the marble hemicycle in the north grove, sat a row of graybeards, old men in the costume of the first Revolution, a sort of serene and benignant Areopagus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Essays] Reference

"basilica" was composed of a long hall, sometimes galleried, and a hemicycle; and its general outline was that of a letter T.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

Ashton is going to be present in the hemicycle, but also dangerous, "the top official commented.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

So they descended within the hemicycle of hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lion's Brood] Reference

Sorry, the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition] Reference

10h00 - 11h15: Official ceremony in the hemicycle.    From Wordnik.com.  [England Expects] Reference