Sentence examples for imperial monuments from inspiring English sources

However, the discomfort 19th-century Americans felt about imperial monuments did not prevent them from adopting them with great enthusiasm -- but with their own national twist.

Theodoric the Ostrogoth established an impressive "sub-Roman" kingdom based on Ravenna, where public buildings and churches served by an Arian clergy competed with imperial monuments.

Some of the great imperial monuments erected during the Carolingian age (palace of Ingelheim, palace of Aachen) reveal the permanence of ancient tradition in their regular plans and conception.

The narrative description dear to Roman art found its best expression in the great spiral frieze on Trajan's Column, where the emperor can be seen among his soldiers at various times in the Dacian campaigns; the story of the war plays a most important part, although, like most imperial monuments, the column is meant to exalt the leader.

(Formerly CLASSART 81). This course will introduce you to the material culture of the ancient Roman world, from spectacular imperial monuments in the city of Rome to cities and roads around the Mediterranean, from overarching environmental concerns to individual human burials, from elite houses and army forts to the the lives of slaves, freedmen and gladiators.

Ms. Smith -- who began working on this novel during her final year at King's College, Cambridge -- sets her story in London, not the London of imperial monuments and long-running West End shows, but a cacophonous, Martin Amis-ish Lofdon of curry shops and pool halls and cheap hair salons.

"Kiss Me Again" is a fucking monster, an absolutely imperious, imperial monument of a record.

Royal monuments stopped appearing.

The earliest known Roman majuscule, or capital, letters are in the script known as square capitals and can be seen chiseled in the stone of numerous surviving imperial Roman monuments.

Obelisks were practically tailor-made symbols for France and Britain, Europe's new empires, and both countries secured and raised Egyptian obelisks; despite their imperial associations, the monuments took on different meanings in each country as they played off local disputes and prejudices.

It is ironic to see Napoleon, flush with conquest, beside the Mamluk tombs, the burial places of slaves who rose to military glory and imperial rule; the monuments speak of the vanity of empire building and the fate that awaits even the most successful conquerors.