Sentence examples for monumental examples from inspiring English sources

It was at this time that the first truly monumental examples of Greek sculpture appeared.

Therefore, the dome exerts thrusts all around its perimeter, and the earliest monumental examples required heavy walls.

The Met owns monumental examples of such sculptures: they are on permanent view, and they are fantastic.

The dome exerts thrusts all around its perimeter, and the earliest monumental examples, such as the Roman Pantheon, required heavy supporting walls.

First and foremost, Penn Square and Enron are monumental examples of the failure of corporate governance and the hazards of rubber-stamp boards.

And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".

The failure of the Gulf Cooperation Council, the security organization they formed in 1981, to achieve any meaningful military integration is a monumental example.

A typical monumental example is in Henry V's chantry at Westminster Abbey; but the most magnificent is the great grille at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, made to protect the tomb of Edward IV.

As for religious painting, if the collection has only one monumental example, it certainly has the right one in ter Brugghen's "Crucifixion With the Virgin and St. John".

In Bergen, the main theatre Den Nationale Scene is a monumental example.

And so to be confronted with a monumental example of Minimalist art may be jarring.