Sentence examples for immense pair of from inspiring English sources

Raging at his lowly rank, Wilkes audaciously promoted himself to captain, appearing on deck in "an immense pair of Epaulettes".

The work, by a Russian-American conceptual artist named Ilya Kabakov, depicts a writer at a desk wearing an immense pair of blue angel wings.

If, like me, you err on the small side of perfect, a baggy suit has a tendency to dwarf you further, as evidenced by the way I looked in my "best clothes" in the late 80s: not a big suit, but an immense pair of cords and an equally immense sports jacket.

His "accouterments were a sabre, two huge Colt revolvers, and a pair of immense spurs clamped tightly against the horse's flanks".

They include a pair of immense heads cut from bodhisattvas that flanked one of the cave's three giant seated Buddhas.

He was ensconced in an easy chair in his living room in the leafy Berlin neighborhood of Zehlendorf, seated before a pair of immense Steinways, one fitted with the narrower keys that he likes to use in recitals these days.

The two buildings that have gone up already — the pair of immense highrises, with apartments designed by Costas Kondylis and facades by Philip Johnson — try to mimic New York architecture of the twenties and thirties.

And of course, this being Rome, a fountain — actually two — a pair of immense granite tubs plundered from the baths of Caracalla and tricked out with matching aquatic ensembles that look a bit like scalloped soap dishes impaled by spurting lilies (the lily — some insist it's actually an iris — being the prime Farnese family insignia).

Seated in his hospital bed, naked from the waist up save for a pair of immense bejewelled sunglasses, monitors attached to his chest, his thinning hair dyed yellow and what seems to be a tattoo of himself in full song on his right bicep, the singer makes a grunting noise that could well indicate assent but could equally herald the start of what would clearly be the umpteenth argument of the day.

Inside the cave they hear noises, witness a pair of immense burning eyes, and then the being with burning eyes recites a poem of 12 stanzas.

Some felt those semi-finals were cheapened by the manner in which they were decided, but both were immense matches regardless - probably the best pair of semi-finals in any World Cup, which counterbalances the appalling final.