Sentence examples for monumental leap from inspiring English sources
Pierre was a professional big-mountain skier, and his monumental leap in the Teton Mountains was considered to have set the world height record for a cliff jump on skis.
Making a smaller weapon was a natural evolution for China, but making one as small and sophisticated as the W-88, and doing so quickly, was a monumental leap of physics and engineering that presumably would have required knowing American bomb secrets.
It may not have been the monumental leap forward some were hoping for — the expectations game is a real pain to manage — but it's certainly going to be a real contender going forward.
This is a monumental leap forward, and the upside potential is massive.
-- to break into its networks last year alone, a monumental leap from a "mere" 6 million tries in 2006.
However, what is abundantly clear based on his own history, Netanyahu will market any plan he develops during his trip to Washington as if it is a monumental leap toward peace -- and many U.S. legislators are likely to buy it.
Critics have argued that in recoiling from natural theology, Kierkegaard transformed belief into a matter of will and emotion, and that a decision as monumental as a leap of faith made seemingly arbitrarily, in the absence of any rational assurance might just as easily have disastrous results.
The monumental, and quite frankly daft, leap in prize-money from first to second unarguably played a large part in making the atmosphere so cagey and the swings so twitchy.
For Republicans intent on killing Medicare, it was a monumental miscalculation to miss that logical leap.
The book, which launches the reader into its semi-dystopian world without really explaining its conditions or origins, requires monumental focus to even loosely follow, as it leaps between perspectives and locations, laughing in the face of stylistic continuity.
Leaping into the 20th century, grief assumed monumental proportions in Picasso's "Guernica" (1937), a cinematically scaled cry of outrage at the slaughter of innocent civilians in war.
