Sentence examples for classical grandeur from inspiring English sources

Trier was endowed with magnificent buildings, but most Gallic cities failed to recover their Classical grandeur.

Despite its classical grandeur, the State Bank was subject to the usual vicissitudes of finance.

Suddenly they leaped into motion, filling the small rehearsal space with a blast of classical grandeur.

In David Dixon, Ms. Mei has an actor capable of merging classical grandeur with everyday colloquialism.

Like the Precisionists half a century later, Monet endows these industrial forms with a classical grandeur.

black-and-white view of contemporary Paris that finds a classical grandeur in the scruff of New Wave streets.

It's his first official studio album in six years and it marks a move to Deutsche Grammophon's branch of ambient indie-classical grandeur.

Already famed for his dry humour, Degas seemed to tease his viewers by opting for ambiguity, revealing a glamorous nightclub singer in all her awkwardness, while elevating a tired laundress to near-Classical grandeur.

IN a capital of whitewashed granite buildings where architects have only rarely ventured beyond attempts at neo-Classical grandeur, the nearly completed National Museum of the American Indian is turning heads, reminding visitors that someone was here long before the first colonists set foot on the shores of the Potomac.

Designed in the Classical Revival style, this "monumental example" of "austere neo-Classical grandeur" had five sides, representing the five books of Moses, a sanctuary that ultimately sat 1,200, and was capped by a saucer dome.

"The amount of the inscriptions and their proposed language, design and location take away from the restrained classical, austere grandeur of the Carrere and Hastings landmark and overshadows the original gift of the Astor Library, the Lenox Library and the Tilden Trust," said Nadezhda Williams, an associate at the Historic Districts Council, at Tuesday's hearing.