Sentence examples for Sense of immensity from inspiring English sources

Maya kings erected monuments to themselves using that eternal calendar, combining an immense sense of centrality with an immense sense of immensity.

It conveys a sense of immensity like the 17th-century landscapes of Phillips de Koninck and shares with these the long horizontal composition under a huge sky.

As he so often does, Martin conveys in his masterpiece a sense of immensity that is alien to the Italianate master from the Lorraine.

According to Anthony Lambert, Telegraph Travel's rail expert: "The principal attraction of the journey is, of course, the Russian landscape – the vast panoramas and sense of immensity so vividly captured by such artists as Isaac Levitan and Ivan Shishkin.

Critics say that renting part of the building could destroy the sense of its immensity, which in turn conveys the enormity of the Nazis' military aspirations.

The same sense of visceral immensity is conveyed by scenes of giant trucks lined up to make the ferry crossing at twilight.

Most of us have no sense of the immensity this construction, for we perform it seamlessly, unconsciously, thousands of times every day, at a glance.

One of Germany's most distinctive contemporary composers, Lachenmann shares something of Mahler's sense of cosmic immensity, and his work forms a continuity with Mahler's via the influence of his successors Schoenberg and Berg.

When you look out through a window at the metropolis laid out before you, the city becomes a map, allowing you to make some sense of its immensity; this is the way pilots must feel as they guide their planes into urban airports.

This style of thinking, this powers-of-10 mentality, is our best hope for making sense of the immensity of the natural world.

The sense of matching immensities, inside and out, brings to mind Huck Finn lighting out for the territories or Augie March footloose in Mexico.