Sentence examples for make it monumental from inspiring English sources

Lichtenstein once said of his technique: "I take a cliche and try to organize its forms to make it monumental".

This thing is different in that we're transferring what's contained within the world of portraiture and making it monumental in scale.

If I didn't feel that responsibility, I would make it more monumental.

She distances the subject, makes it tragic, monumental.

The result is a building whose skewed angles and monumental scale make it resemble a cliff that, like Esja across the bay, catches the changing light.When your correspondent visited, a dressy crowd heading to an Abba tribute concert was parting to make way for a mysterious black shape moving slowly down the stairs.

Its monumental size makes it a natural target for a major collection.

Properly made, it is disheveled and monumental, the size of your head.

He points out that Michelangelo doesn't merely replicate Schongauer's composition in paint; he bulks it up, makes it denser and more monumental.

Knopf ($22, hardcover) From "Token" In the bottom of my shoulder bag I found a subway token from about eight tokens back, that makes it long ago, a monumental oldie.

It finds an echo in the large-scale, single-character calligraphy of Yuichi Inoue (born 1916), on view next door at Japonesque, whose emphasis on monumental simplicity makes it one of the fair's most distinctive booths.

This monumental legislation made it easier for millions of Americans to register to vote by offering registration at driver's license facilities.