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- We visited the Pantheon, the Roman Forum, the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- The bathroom was plastered in girlie pinups, a Sistine Chapel of pornography.† (source)
- Rather, he slightly extended his index finger in a manner reminiscent of that gesture on the Sistine Chapel's ceiling with which the Prime Mover transmitted the spark of life.† (source)
- Cardinal Mortati gazed up at the lavish ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and tried to find a moment of quiet reflection.† (source)
- It took a moment before I realized that it was a leafy replica of Michelangelo's fresco of Adam from the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- He never saw the original, in the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- The first was when he saw the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, and the second was when Sandy Koufax threw him a fastball.† (source)
- "The first time I was here I was taking art, and I said, 'God, if the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican is better than this ….† (source)
- Inside the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal Mortati was getting restless.† (source)
- It looked like a mad scientist had gotten loose in the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Inside the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal Mortati had begun praying for a miracle.† (source)
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- The voice that broke the silence was the voice of the only woman in the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- The cardinals are convened in the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- His shouts echoed off the back wall of the Sistine Chapel and then a profound silence fell.† (source)
- Stand on the altar of the Sistine Chapel and lie to the College of Cardinals?† (source)
- Have both he and his camerawoman meet me outside the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Langdon, I am due in the Sistine Chapel in four minutes.† (source)
- "In addition," Olivetti said, "the Sistine Chapel is a fortress.† (source)
- Inside the Sistine Chapel, the camerlegno stood unwavering as he spoke.† (source)
- Mortati was alone as he crossed the Borgia Courtyard toward the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Despite the soft glow of candlelight in the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal Mortati was on edge.† (source)
- Glick glanced over his shoulder at the roof of the Sistine Chapel behind him.† (source)
- We await his arrival in the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- He gave the camera a solemn stare as the white smoke rose behind him from the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Oh, what terror he had felt in the Sistine Chapel, wondering if God had forsaken him!† (source)
- It is God's will!" someone was yelling, his voice echoing in the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca stood in the aisle of the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- The cardinals were still locked in the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Known as "The Michelangelo of the Capitol," Brumidi had laid claim to the Capitol Rotunda in the same way Michelangelo had laid claim to the Sistine Chapel, by painting a fresco on the room's most lofty canvas—the ceiling.† (source)
- And they are inside the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- The doors to the Sistine Chapel had been sealed, as was the custom, with two heavy chains on the outside.† (source)
- In the hallway outside the Sistine Chapel, Vittoria Vetra sat benumbed on a bench at the foot of the Royal Staircase.† (source)
- "Camerlegno," the caller gloated, "ask your commander if all your cardinals are present in the Sistine Chapel."† (source)
- Three minutes had passed in the chaotic hallways outside the Sistine Chapel, and still nobody could locate the camerlegno.† (source)
- The midmorning sky still hung heavy with clouds as the Sistine Chapel's chimney gave up its first faint puffs of white smoke.† (source)
- Camerlegno Ventresca's white robe billowed as he moved down the hallway away from the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Far away, in Vatican City, Cardinal Mortati carried another tray of ballots to the Sistine Chapel chimney.† (source)
- Inside the Vatican, Gunther Glick was walking on air as he followed the camerlegno from the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- He could see the great bronze door of the Sistine Chapel now, dutifully protected by four Swiss Guards.† (source)
- Even from up here he could hear the rumble of activity in the Sistine Chapel below-the uneasy chatter of 165 cardinals.† (source)
- If I am not mistaken, the cardinals are now safely within the Sistine Chapel, and your security concerns are at a minimum until the conclave breaks.† (source)
- Any word from Olivetti?" the camerlegno asked, looking drained as Rocher escorted him back from the Sistine Chapel to the Pope's office.† (source)
- The evacuation of the College of Cardinals from the Sistine Chapel is the worst possible thing you could do right now.† (source)
- And so it was that Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca held his head high as he walked toward the front of the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- Sitting in the Sistine Chapel among his stunned colleagues, Cardinal Mortati tried to comprehend the words he was hearing.† (source)
- At the back of the Sistine Chapel, Cardinal Mortati stood in a daze as he watched the pandemonium before him.† (source)
- The College of Cardinals bristled with ebullience and electricity as they streamed back into the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- The Apostolic Palace is a conglomeration of buildings located near the Sistine Chapel in the northeast corner of Vatican City.† (source)
- It was once in a lifetime, usually never, that a cardinal had the chance to be elected Supreme Pontiff, and by Vatican Law the cardinal had to be inside the Sistine Chapel when the vote took place.† (source)
- Langdon nodded, vaguely recalling that before conclave the cardinals spent two hours inside the Sistine Chapel in quiet reflection and visitations with their fellow cardinals from around the globe.† (source)
- "Signore," Olivetti whispered in the camerlegno's ear, "it is true that four of our cardinals have not yet reported to the Sistine Chapel, but there is no need for alarm.† (source)
- Not only was the Sistine Chapel starting to feel like a sauna, but conclave was scheduled to begin in twenty minutes, and there was still no word on the four missing cardinals.† (source)
- As the Swiss Guard helped him down the Royal Staircase toward the Sistine Chapel, the camerlegno heard singing in St. Peter's Square and he knew that mountains had been moved.† (source)
- As the guards unbolted the door of the Sistine Chapel, Camerlegno Carlo Ventresca felt the power moving in his veins …. exactly as it had when he was a boy.† (source)
- Even though the camerlegno was the church's ranking official, the camerlegno was only a priest and had little familiarity with the complex election process, so one cardinal was selected to oversee the ceremony from within the Sistine Chapel.† (source)
- To the utter astonishment of the cardinals, the camerlegno had entered the Sistine Chapel with two BBC reporters-a man and a woman-and announced that they would be transmitting his solemn statement, live to the world.† (source)
- Not to mention, the greatest treasures were architectural-the Sistine Chapel, St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo's famed spiral staircase leading to the Museo Vaticano-priceless testaments to man's creative genius.† (source)
- Still in the Sistine Chapel!† (source)
- Oh, she should—It would be a wonderful experience for her—the Sistine Chapel; Michael Angelo; and Padua, with its Giottos.† (source)
- She saw him once again at Rome, on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, carrying a burden of acorns.† (source)
- The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel for me.† (source)
- He stands by the dozen before the Botticellis in Florence, and he sits on all the benches of the Sistine Chapel in Rome.† (source)
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