Sentence examples for celebrity monuments from inspiring English sources

The celebrity monuments of our age have grown so huge that they dwarf the aspirations of ordinary people, who are asked to yield their dreams to the gods: to flash their favorite singer's corporate logo at concerts, to pour open their lives (and data) on Facebook, to adopt Apple as a lifestyle.

"Celebrity monuments in LA range from the incredibly ostentatious and expensive (Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor, and especially Al Jolson) to modest and even discreet.

DRESSED in army green cargo pants and a flouncy white poet's shirt, Derek Khan stood in the study of his modest one-bedroom apartment in West Harlem, showing off a wall of framed photographs, a celebrity-studded monument to the fabled life that was once his.

The success of the six-year-old event can be measured not only in how many people participated or which celebrities endorsed it, but also what public monuments take part in the event.

It's a rare look at a part of China where the old and new still commingle; where one can find bamboo and neon, luxury boutiques and monuments to Mao, that other locally grown celebrity.

I don't mourn the activist, the celebrity, or the intellectual, There will be plenty of eulogies and monuments to that man.

"Here we have a well-paid celebrity increasing his market value at the expense of a national monument.

Advertising and propaganda, public monuments and private commodities, deified leaders and self-aggrandizing celebrities battle it out in a potpourri collection of seemingly disconnected artworks.

But in times of widespread opportunity, the distance between gods and mortals closes, the monuments shrink closer to human size and the centrality of celebrities in the culture recedes.

When you installed the Ten Commandments monument in your courthouse, did you know how much of a celebrity you would become? A. No.

PHOTOS: Celebrities by The Times Blanchett also has a role in George Clooney's upcoming "The Monuments Men".