Sentence examples for at monumental from inspiring English sources
BUENOS AIRES — Boca Juniors faced River Plate on Sunday at Monumental Stadium in Buenos Aires, after a 530-day hiatus after River was relegated.
In the northeast corner stands the dominating mausoleum of Aḥmad Shah Durrānī, the only attempt at monumental architecture in the city.
While the Spanish players sipped orange juice, Argentina's national players were hard at training, intending no doubt to knock the new world champions off their perch in a prestige match before 65,000 fans at Monumental Stadium on Tuesday night.
Even after the loans it was bundling began failing at monumental rates, the complaint said, Bear Stearns did not require originators to buy them back as they were obligated to do.
Queue to see the preserved body of Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam's 20th-century communist leader, in his mausoleum (admission free) at monumental Ba Dinh Square, followed by a visit to Ho's stilt house and the neighbouring diminutive One Pillar Pagoda (admission 75p).
At moments monumental and combative, at others strangely elusive, almost retiring, it is one of the most beguiling and powerful works I've seen in a lifetime of looking at architecture.
Far from being a melancholy unmade memorial to the decay of architectural vision or the hubris of utopian thinking, the tower is an object lesson in how to make a monument that is not at all monumental.
That day the first couple also visited her hometown of Turin, and paid their respects at her family's tomb at the Monumental Cemetery of Turin.
It was like putting kids at the wheels of Ferraris: how can we be surprised at the monumental pile-up?
Look back at other monumental innings.
