Sentence examples for extraordinary big from inspiring English sources

Photograph: Reuters Marina Tsvetaeva, born in 1892, was one of an extraordinary "Big Four" of Russian poets that also includes Anna Akhmatova, Boris Pasternak and Osip Mandelshtam.

That criticism could not be made of the American pianist John Beasley's extraordinary big band, MONK'estra, the outfit responsible for the most exciting jazz album of last year (a second instalment is due out this autumn).

No doubt, the distinguished feature of a violin sound is the extraordinary big number of harmonics in the frequency spectrum.

Mandela died two years ago but the extraordinary big-heartedness of black South Africans lives on.

In fact, you'll be interested to hear that the span of the dome of the caldarium of the Baths of Caracalla was almost as large as the span of the dome of the Pantheon in Rome; just to give you a sense of the extraordinary bigger is better scale in this particular bath.

But what might he make of Emily Gravett's extraordinary Little Mouse's Big Book of Beasts (Macmillan, £11.99)?

As we turned and headed south, we came across the two extraordinary capes called Big and Little Solontsovy.

The ruins of a walled compound, discovered in 1694 by Eusebio Kino, a Jesuit missionary, are dominated by the extraordinary Casa Grande ("Big House"), a four-story building constructed of unreinforced clay (caliche).

This holiday season's extraordinary crush of big, expensive films mixed with the usual array of smaller Oscar hopefuls has provoked an all-out Hollywood jousting match over movie release dates, the positioning of trailers in theaters and generally how to squeeze the last dollar out of what has become, day for day, the most lucrative period of the year.

"It just depends whether you can accept a movie which is about the everyday and the small moments, as opposed to most films, which are about the extraordinary and the big moments.

You have all these extraordinary landscapes, the big trees.