Sentence examples for monumental image from inspiring English sources

It is a monumental image of the king as the incarnation of absolute power: civic, moral and supernatural; and as the cosmic stabilizer, the anchor of the empire.

"Double Elvis [Ferus Type]," a monumental image at over 207 centimeters high, in silk screen print and paint, was executed by Andy Warhol in 1963, just as Pop Art was taking off on a grand scale.

Perhaps most dramatic is a close-up of a closing elevator door that travels across three big screens, effectively erasing the monumental image of Achilles' face with a startling metallic finality, conjuring up both a prison and the silver screen.

In Richard Hamilton's history painting The State, a photograph of a British soldier on the streets of northern Ireland is transfigured into a monumental image of alienation and fear.

One of Mr Hussein's many palaces sits atop a nearby hill, as if the wonders of ancient Babylon palace, theatre, hanging garden and all were follies in his grounds.The monumental image of Mr Hussein is not at all, as adversaries would present him, a beleaguered dictator and defeated general.

Then came pictures that compressed whole narratives into a single monumental image with, increasingly, a topical political edge, as in her 2004 painting of the Bush-Cheney campaign as a Boschian beach party, and the monumental "Autopsy of Michael Jackson," done in 2005 when he was about to go on trial.

In one Bronx mural, monumental images of a firefighter and a police officer echo the lost twin towers.

Each photograph has been blown up to over 1.5m across, allowing viewers to experience these powerful and monumental images on a scale at which they have never been seen before.

I quickly adjusted to the reverential mood of a film whose monumental images of erupting volcanoes and churning seas, as many have observed, recall Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".

Continuing with this theme, we stopped at the Museum of Contemporary Photography to see Paul Shambroom's monumental images of American small-town meetings, and then had lunch at Printer's Row, in a historic district that was once the hub of Chicago publishing.

After one knee-weakening Edo-screen moment, dominated by monumental images of curving bridges and Sotatsu's spacious scenes from "Genji," come pleasantly minuscule echoes: a white Mino ware bowl with the tiniest intimation of a figure on a bridge, and Tosa Mitsunori's little album of white-on-white scenes from Genji.