Sentence examples similar to given grandeur from inspiring English sources

But the experience gains its full meaning only when the form of the total expression is realized: the low aisles giving grandeur to the high nave, the three together leading to the confluence of the two transept arms at the crossing in a vast climax that prepares for the resolution or finale at the altar.

Given the grandeur of its opening and the triumphalism of its ending, it was certainly well suited to do that.

The sculptures are casts of things Twombly found, such as the top of an olive barrel, given the grandeur of bronze and assembled to evoke the chariots and ships of the classical past.

The stark, geometric staging of the final two acts places him in an irreconcilable triangle of forces between his mother's pleas for the unity of the state (powerfully delivered by Li Zhen) and his pledge to Rome's enemy (given heroic grandeur by Jing Hao).

This monstrously riff-heavy band's punk roots give its grandeur a humane warmth.

Even in this supposedly diminished era, the credence that Americans give to grandeur and gravity sets our novels apart.

He assimilated this encyclopaedic array of artistic expressions and transformed them into a brilliantly unified whole that gave new grandeur and new energy to his narratives and a new sense of direction to art in Tuscany from 1260 onward.

This is not only a folie de grandeur, given that it will be American soldiers who will end up doing the fighting.

All found their way to the centers of red or black reliefs whose scale and proportions they dictated, their original forms given a homespun grandeur.

When Armstrong showed up by taxi from the airport at 3 a.m., he was dazzled by what he thought of as its grandeur, given the stark poverty he had been raised in.

On disc, though, their studio-recorded performance is far more involving - the competence of Bliss's orchestral writing, with its heraldic programme and Elgarian grandeur given an extra tang by borrowings from Stravinsky and the French Les Six, has to be admired, even if one doesn't exactly go away whistling any of the tunes from a work that is traditionally melodic.