Sentence examples for monumental about from inspiring English sources

"There is something very monumental about Dumbo," Mr. Iwaskiw said.

I'm quite a fan of Beethoven – there's something monumental about it, even with a single instrument.

Dark gray metal and monumental (about 12 by 20 by 10 feet), this hand-cranked kitchen shredder with three disc blades is an absurd blend of the erotic, the ominous and the anthropomorphic.

Her face, so powerful in its impassivity, yet with unreadable hints of fear and anger, has something massive and monumental about it up on screen, the sculpted form of a Roman empress: like the gigantic marble head of Faustina the Elder, famously unearthed with the colossal statue of Hadrian in Turkey last year.

There is something heavy and monumental about the way Mr. Huston takes up film space (in this he can recall his father, John Huston), which makes a nice counterpart to the otherworldly Mr. Pearce, a performer of such apparent delicate physicality and eerie grace that you half expect him to be carried off by the wind.

There is something marvellous, even monumental, about her honesty, the unabashed importance she attaches to every event: "I went to Paris for two days with my husband, determined while I was there to have my hair cut in a French salon.

It suggests that tiny improvements can bring about monumental change and risks reinforcing our complacency.

This bit of patriotic resourcefulness — as well as the rest of the monumental effort, by about 600 prisoners of war, to engineer a gigantic exodus — was chronicled in a 1950 book by a man who was there, Paul Brickhill.

How far below the surface, despite a newly re-elected African American President, despite a Civil War to free the slaves depicted in the movie, despite the monumental shift brought about by the civil rights movement, are the grapes of wrath stored in a Tarantino world?

But if I were a scientist punching the clock for years on end in Batavia, Illinois, to claim a tiny part of a monumental discovery about an infinitesimal particle that few understand and about which fewer care to ask, I would want to be invited to the party at a decent hour, not learn third-hand that I'm on the B-list.

Although the book has been widely praised as a monumental text about black life, it's more specifically a book about how to live free in a black male body.