Sentence examples for monumental base from inspiring English sources

At least, that's what officials of the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Economic Development Corporation hope, as plans are prepared under which Artimus, a development and construction concern, is to build a new six-floor structure that would rise from the existing monumental base — as impressive a ruin as New York can conjure — which would be preserved and rehabilitated.

The raw, unregulated greed of Wall Street and corporate America has created permanent changes not only in American wallets but in our collective psyche, and has cost that monumental power base dearly over the last couple of years in political power and prestige, if not dollars.

Mr. Zakanitch went for flowers in monumental paintings based on fabrics remembered from his childhood home in New Jersey.

The issue shouldn't be what to do about climate change, but whether we should institute monumental policies based on less than robust theories.

Perhaps one of the most spectacular courts is just a few feet away from the Panthéon, a monumental mausoleum based on its more illustrious Roman counterpart.

Mr. Koons, whose recent work includes monumental sculptures based on poodles rendered in knotted balloons, seems to have taken this job seriously.

It includes rare examples of early drawings from the 1940's and Warhol's last series of major paintings, monumental works based on Leonardo da Vinci's depiction of the Last Supper.

The basic premise is to arrange in sequence objects of material culture (anything from microliths to monumental architecture) based on degree of similarity.

In addition to several ambitious new works by Johnson, William Turner Gallery will be exhibiting the monumental, conceptually based sculpture entitled The Maize Project.

From a monumental rock-faced base rises an expanse of smooth masonry, framed by a dentilated cornice.

One astounding result is "Huck and Jim," a monumental new work based on Mark Twain's literary masterpiece.