Sentence examples for and monuments of a from inspiring English sources

It was in Bel Air, Santa Monica, the San Fernando Valley and especially in Beverly Hills, where in the early 1930's the first generation of stars and moguls erected their palaces, which were both flaunting displays of personal wealth and monuments, of a sort, to cultural insecurity.

And there's plenty to talk about: trips to la Dune du Pyla (the tallest sand dune in Europe), wine-tasting at Saint-Émilion, live music at this month's Evento 2011, or just exploring the galleries, museums and monuments of a city designed by the masters of Versailles and Paris.

I spent part of the day on a 75-foot boat with coffered ceilings and a roof with a bar on top, reading the diary of John Wesley Powell, the one-armed Civil War veteran who ran the Colorado and scaled the "carved walls, royal arches, glens, alcove gulches, mounds and monuments" of which I had a spectacular view from the houseboat's hot tub.

The culture and monuments of ancient Egypt have left a lasting legacy on the world.

A final chapter dealt with Twain's unpublished papers, which Dr. Lynn described as "the broken ruins and unfinished monuments of a great talent".

Most deaths, of course, cannot be expected to be recorded and memorialised on the official monuments of a large city.

Most deaths, of course, cannot be expected to be recorded and memorialized on the official monuments of a large city.

Monuments (of a subtle and complex kind) were, in the end, his thing.

Born in Sweden in 1929, he is known as one of the great American Pop artists, a creator of wickedly visionary public sculptures and monuments and a pioneer of the enduring, complicated category of the Happening.

Petersen constructed detailed miniature castles, churches and other small buildings and monuments from a variety of rock types.

Isis's puritanical interpretation of Islam deems the preservation of ancient artefacts and monuments to be a form of idolatry.