Sentence examples for monumental force from inspiring English sources

Dawson's family described him as "monumental force".

China will probably be the world's largest economy within our children's lifetimes and a monumental force in every dimension of life.

Ross was a monumental force in the lives of everybody who knew him, multi-talented, modest, kind and generous; he loved and was loved by his family.

The litany of extreme weather events has often left local officials scrambling to respond to each new crisis, looking — by turns pathetic and heroic — like the little Dutch boy with his finger in the dike, trying to fend off nature's monumental forces.

But jazz is much more than a collection of "great men" (Ellington, Goodman, Parker, Armstrong) participating in seminal events against a backdrop of monumental societal forces.

After an election like this one, what Mr. Bush needs in the black community is what we in Hollywood call a comeback role: Like John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction," he needs to do something so monumental it forces us to forget about all the other earlier awful stuff.

"The Abyssinian Mass" continues Marsalis' investigations along these lines, the massive forces of the JLCO, the Chorale le Chateau and vocal soloists offering up 23 movements on two discs — a monumental statement brilliantly articulated in jazz, blues and gospel.

The pagodas were viewing platforms, and had to be rebuilt as the glacier retreated: this monumental, almost eternal force of nature seemed mortally wounded.

His painting is a monumental attempt to force the spectactor to feel the horror of these events and the suffering of these people.

Seurat's monumental achievement was to force the issue of what pictures are to a degree that, as Roberta Smith has noted in the Times, smashed the five-century reign of Renaissance perspective — incidentally bookending the career of the first master of the vanishing point, the also dazzling Masaccio, who died at the age of twenty-six, in 1428.

It fully equals that monumental work in the force and pathos of the story told, while it surpasses it in unity and continuity of interest.