Sentence examples for imposing architecture from inspiring English sources
It looks intimidating, if you're one of those people who is made uncomfortable by imposing architecture, open air and sunlight.
Marcello Piacentini was responsible for much of the imposing architecture of the fascist period, such as the Esposizione Universale di Roma (EUR) area in Rome.
Built by the legendary Shaddad ibn Ad as an "imitation of Paradise," the city was renowned for its imposing architecture, vast groves of fruit trees and fabulous wealth.
Much as she did in "Sisters," Ms. Al-Maria distorts the footage vertically, elongating the already imposing architecture to cathedral-like heights and giving the video's few figures an El Greco-esque ethereality.
But however principled the intent, it was not matched by the imposing architecture, which suggested a "little white palace on a hill," as Jane S. Moss, Lincoln Center's adventurous vice president for programming put it in a recent interview.
In the imposing architecture of "Still Life With Melon and Peaches," for example, it might be argued that the domelike melon, the bowl of several peaches and a cluster of more numerous grapes stand in for, respectively, a king, his nobles and the general untitled populace.
Its imposing Jacobean architecture, including perpendicular vaulting and neoclassical arches, is unique in London.
Before 150 B.C., the city of Cival had many attributes of the later classic period: kings, elaborate iconography, writing and imposing ceremonial architecture.
The pair resemble DJ friars in headphones and robes, prodding at laptops as they reconstruct Hopelessness's crisp, clean, imposing electronic architecture.
The facades of some blocks, for instance, are being brightened by dozens of quaint sea-facing balconies, changing the nature of the imposing, austere architecture that stood as a monument to insatiable militarism.
Don't think, though, that the vistas are of majestic Beaux-Arts buildings and Prussian monuments; they are of gritty urban cityscapes, the industrial remains and imposing Stalinist architecture that defined the heyday of East Berlin.
