Sentence examples for monumental approach from inspiring English sources

They mistrusted the monumental approach, "making things big when they need not be".

The Raft of the Medusa fuses many influences from the Old Masters, from the Last Judgment and Sistine Chapel ceiling of Michelangelo (1475 1564) and Raphael's Transfiguration, to the monumental approach of Jacques-Louis David (1748 1825) and Antoine-Jean Gros (1771 1835), to contemporary events.

Likewise, Wallfisch's monumental approach lent LACO's rendering of the composer from Bonn's Symphony No. 2 in D Major, a big-boned Beethovenian luster, rather than its oft-misplaced categorization as a last nostalgic gesture toward the classicism of Haydn and Mozart.

But somehow the Holocaust, in this country at least, has never received that full-album treatment from an American songwriter, as if the subject was too monumental to approach with guitars and harmonicas.

As this monumental anniversary approaches, and this year's jamboree draws close (it starts on 23 June), one can't help but wonder just why Glastonbury has survived – flourished, in fact, when so many other festivals have disappeared or become over-sponsored shadows of their former selves.

It is monumental when Shadow approaches them instead of retreating.

The remains of several massive brick walls and platforms suggest something approaching monumental architecture.

The element of paradox is essential; even when it approaches monumental grandeur, Cubism has a quality that eludes solemn exposition.

Jane's early work is often a curious mix of the intimate rendered in a monumental way - an approach that informs many of the later portraits as well.

Its hard to enjoy once you feel like they've made such a kind of monumental error in their approach to feminism".

Paul saw the fight over the program as a monumental struggle: "This socialistic approach to sharing health care costs is completely at odds with a society which values freedom....This is the socialist's dream.