Sentence examples for granite face from inspiring English sources

"He has a granite face," she says.

"What's wrong, Thomas?" he asks, his carved granite face splitting into a grin.

As my climbing group waited to descend the granite face, we were jittery and somewhat scared -- properly so.

They walked for eight days to reach base and then, in a single 27-hour push, conquered its 2km vertical granite face.

It was a powerfully memorable role – and I sometimes wonder if some Hollywood producers assumed that Postlethwaite, the granite face of integrity and street-level toughness, was Irish.

And: "I want the reader to feel that we are both on the same side -- outsiders seeking a foothold on the slippery granite face of a new idea".

Immediately after the famed visage fell, there was talk of a granite face-lift to restore him to his approximate former state.

Also of rubble with granite facing, the later structure is 1,760 feet (536 metres) long and stands 291 feet (87 metres) above foundation level.

Constructed of granite faced with Maryland marble, the structure is 55 feet (16.8 metres) square at the base and 554 feet 7 inches (169 metres) high and weighs an estimated 91,000 tons.

The sprawling, steel-glass HSBC complex with composite granite facing was built to the bank's specifications by Hamilton Partners, a developer based in Itasca, Ill., which owns and manages 12 million square feet of office buildings, mostly in the Chicago area, but also in Denver and Salt Lake City.

The work involved rebuilding a 7m (23ft) section of the wall with fibre reinforced concrete and a granite facing.