Sentence examples for monumental expression from inspiring English sources

This trend is given truly monumental expression in the choir of the church of San Vitale at Ravenna, dating from c. 526 548 ce.

Especially in its grandest, most monumental expression — the eerie, somnolent statues of the gods and of the pharaohs who were their earthly junior-god emissaries — Egypt offers us the sleekest, longest-running style in the history of art.

Rodin was a naturalist, less concerned with monumental expression than with character and emotion.

The great rail stations like Gare du Nord and Gare de Lyon, the setting for "Hugo," which now seem so fragile, were the monumental expressions of a government wishing to impose the same centralizing logic on the nation that it had done for the capital.

As she equates the threads with reflections of her own feelings, she sews her experiences and memories into monumental visual expressions.

With Ludwig van Beethoven the symphony became no longer entertainment music but an expression of monumental intellect and innermost feeling, as in Haydn's and Mozart's late works.

Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.

The theatre looks like what it is - the expression in modern monumental terms of homage to greatness.

The art is tremendous and of its time – monumental, paint-spattered pieces, an expression of individual freedom, much of it brash and bold.

They all face two monumental hurdles.

They face a monumental task.