Sentence examples for monument of it from inspiring English sources

The Bad Plus likes to work with giant melodies, and in its choice of a cover version, there is no half-stepping: the band's take on Vangelis's "Chariots of Fire" theme starts with a groove and then makes a free-jazz monument of it.

What a monument!—of silence.

But it's not because this piece is a monolithic monument of certainty; instead, it's because its gigantic, irrefutable musical power is a wellspring of endless renewal and possibility.

Within unwanted remains, she says, "I'm seeking the inverse of the monument, the shadow of it, the subconscious of it".

Protesters chanting "Take it down!" encountered a smaller group of counterprotesters defending the monument with shouts of "It's history!" While "tensions began to flare" early on between the two sides, according to the Bradenton Herald, local law enforcement acted quickly and ultimately sent in horses to break up the melée.

Anyway, the film didn't have the star power of Bad Teacher ($97 million), the crowd-pleasing hook or Horrible Bosses ($110 million), or the 'important social monument' of Bridesmaids ($167 million), so it was probably never going to open all that big.

He calls a skyscraper a delightful and fascinating monument of folly, which is what it is.

The first Renaissance monument of a specifically Roman type, it influenced the work of Isaia da Pisa and later Roman sculptors of the 15th century.

"When I wrote my first novel my editor wrote the sleeve note and he called it 'a monument of male shame'.

The Zhuangzi, however, is valuable as a monument of Chinese literature and because it contains considerable documentary material, describing numerous speculative trends and spiritual practices of the Warring States period (475 221 bce).

Someone drove up a ramp near the Oklahoma capitol steps overnight and into a disputed granite monument of the Ten Commandments, smashing it to pieces in an apparent act of vandalism, authorities said.