Sentence examples for Human monuments from inspiring English sources

It has human monuments of equal majesty: Baroness Boothroyd, Eddie Waring and - model stoic for the current bad patch - Wallace Hartley, bandmaster on the Titanic.

The sudden fall from glory to the gutter can prompt a kind of melancholy reflection, not just on the vanity of human wishes but on the mutability of human monuments.

Lehner's work, on the other hand, has recently focussed on trying to recover the lost social context of the monuments in order to show people that these are "human monuments," created by the collective will of an urban society, and not by extraterrestrials or a lost civilization.

(The city's most famous tree, the one at Rockefeller Center, is turned into lumber for Habitat for Humanity). The sudden fall from glory to the gutter can prompt a kind of melancholy reflection, not just on the vanity of human wishes but on the mutability of human monuments.

Instead, these human monuments to fury come off as transparently silly.

A spectacular example of these bridges, tending to disprove the size-effect theory and challenging all previous ancient constructions, is the Jiangdong bridge, of which only a part survives, but which should be restored, preserved, and declared human heritage monument.

Countless people travel the globe to stand in awe before towering natural and human-made monuments.

The protests take place next to a human rights monument, itself sealed off and under police guard: a bleak metaphor for what has happened to Turkey.

As the war poet Wilfred Owen asked: "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" When the war ended, fields were filled with unnamed human remains and monuments to the "unknown warrior".

In a "humble petition" to the House of Commons, the council says that works authorised to bring in the project will involve the destruction of three burial grounds consecrated for the burial of the dead in accordance with the rites of the Church of England and the removal of human remains and monuments from them.

If these have required intervals of time that are antecedent to all historical traditions, and to the duration even of the human race, the monuments concealed in the bosom of the earth can alone reveal them.