Sentence examples for monumental bore from inspiring English sources

Weber's sheer rapture at physical beauty is overwhelmingly sincere, but nothing of much depth is revealed about anyone, and the parade of erstwhile personalities comes across as so much necrophilia, especially when it comes to the subject of gay supper-club singer Frances Faye, a minor figure on the subject of whom Weber is a monumental bore.

I may have been tired, food-weary, whatever... but I found the five-course, three-hour+ meal to be a monumental bore, even though many chefs and wineries paid worthy tribute to the charming French chef.

Nearby, a monumental kodiak bear paces purposefully across a high stone ledge.

Perhaps one of the biggest surprises came when a monumental bronze bear by the Swiss installation artist Urs Fischer, which has been on display in front of the Seagram Building on Park Avenue and 53rd Street, made $6 million, its high estimate.

But the sarcophagus, which bore a flowerlike pattern, was "monumental" and unquestionably royal, Netzer said.

Both share an intimate sense of the man's humanity, which became monumental only because of the issues he faced and the burdens he bore.

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Its most famous residents are Jackson Pollock and his wife, Lee Krasner, whose tombstones are monumental rough-hewn boulders, which bear their signatures etched in bronze.

His monumental "Romantic Landscape," painted around 1783, undoubtedly bears witness to the artist's awareness of 17th-century masters.

For Jay DeFeo (1929-89) it's "The Rose" (1958-66), a monumental oil with wood and mica that bears some 1,500 pounds of paint.

The relief fragment bears the remains of a monumental inscription.