Just as Bunting deserted his first love and locality, "Briggflatts" abruptly leaves love behind, in search of monumental permanence, and the language that can serve as lasting epitaph: "The mason stirs: / Words! / Pens are too light.
In 1800, he declared his intention to compile a "Dictionary of the American Language," a monumental work that took him a quarter century (and which I wrote about for this magazine in 2006).
For those fighting for the rights of people with intellectual disabilities, such a shift in language marks monumental progress that can be so easily achieved.
During the remainder of his life most of his time and energy was spent on what was to be his magnum opus: a monumental study of the Kavi Language on the island of Java within the context of the entire Austronesian language group of the Pacific.
In an interview, Univision Networks' president, César Conde, called the creation of Univision Studios a "monumental step forward" for Spanish language television in the United States.
They studied law together and worked side by side for decades, taking notes, copying manuscripts, editing texts, and famously creating index card entries for their monumental dictionary of the German language.
Judge Weinstein said that Judge Fuld's arguments, which were not convincing to four judges on his court, helped influence the Supreme Court's language in its monumental ruling against segregated schools in 1954.
Dydo, for her part, has produced "A Stein Reader," numerous papers on Stein published in scholarly journals, and a monumental critical study, "Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934," to come out in the fall.
Mr. Lu's interest in playing around with the cultural traditions and the look of language, on a monumental and microcosmic scale, is shared by many of his contemporaries, notably Xu Bing and Gu Wenda.
The ability to have a long-distance conversation in sign language has been monumental.
