The scene was less monumental and more intimate than the huge peaks of Switzerland and Austria, with jutting rocks zooming by close to our gondola.
And for some players, Bach's monumental set is less a peak to be surmounted than a journey that warrants return excursions and encourages consideration of manifold paths.
The First Presbyterian Church on Nassau Street, while monumental and massive in proportion, is less severe than the Chapel.
In an interview on Friday, a European diplomat familiar with Iran's nuclear program called the fueling problem a major setback, even if the technical cause proves to be less than monumental.
He was less interested in being monumental than in being himself, a gamble that has resulted in a singularly varied output of paintings, prints, photo collages, theater designs and iPhone landscapes that together range from the serious to the helium-light, ideally in a single work.
On the system-wide level, the tasks are no less monumental.
And that's why the Prop 8 case, Hollingsworth v. Perry, even though it's sort of less monumental than the DOMA case, is more important in the long-term jurisprudence of gay marriage.
Today's entry into force of ILO Convention 182 in Myanmar is monumental – less than ten years ago, the government refused even to acknowledge child labor as a problem in its National Plan of Action for Children.
The door was open for a wave of younger directors who were looking to present less monumental productions.
