Sentence examples for monumental concept from inspiring English sources

It is true that Bartholdi (1834-1904) was "immensely important in the Lady Liberty story," Mr. Moreno said, since he created not only the image but also the monumental concept of the statue standing in New York harbor.

His tunes hold up and while the new stuff isn't as ambitious as their monumental concept album "Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia," the new laid-back stuff sounds a little more stripped down, older, more mature.

His most important work in English was the monumental "Concepts of the Quran: A Topical Reading" (1997), a work of nearly 1,000 pages intended to acquaint non-Muslim readers with key concepts in the Koran, arranged according to subject.

The concept of monumental architecture became central to the kings, who were worshipped as gods.

The distinguishing aspect of Boullée's mature work is his abstraction of the geometric forms suggested by ancient works into a new concept of monumental building that would possess the calm, ideal beauty of classical architecture while also having considerable expressive power.

Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.

The vast majority of the best central European Baroque painting outside portraiture is monumental in scale, and the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk ("total work of art")—where painting, sculpture, and architecture are combined together into a single, unified, and harmonious ensemble is of overwhelming importance.

In order to conceptualize such sites, we introduce the concept of persistent monumental places.

Semi-autobiographical in focus, the album was a dog of monumental proportions, weak songs failing to carry a catastrophically weak concept (girl from wrong side of the tracks makes it in the big, wide blah blah blah).

Simon Cunningham Understanding this concept helps us to understand why we are facing some monumental challenges in our current political, social and environmental systems.

A form of this eclecticism emerged in the early 1970s, when architects once again designed symmetrical monumental buildings with little functional or structural expression, and traditional formal-informal concepts in garden and landscape design began to reappear.