Although he had won accolades for his sophisticated, inventive cooking at Cru, the food was, if not subordinate, beholden to the restaurant's raison d'être, its monumental wine list.
Mr. Houghton's reading list was monumental, yet his methodology raised questions about the validity of extrapolating the attitudes of millions of people from a couple of hundred texts.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
It was a monumental loss.
In another city - mainland European, not British - something as striking and monumental as Preston bus station might have been listed, loved and worked intelligently into a new development.
Nonetheless, Mr. Klein seized on the list as proof that the sort of monumental changes he has been rolling out are desperately needed.
Campaigners and supporters of equal marriage rights described the ruling as monumental and said it put California on a growing list of states that have ended barriers to marriage for gay and lesbian couples.
And then, when I listed my final stop – one almost as monumental as the Great Wall, as connected to the emperors as the Forbidden City and even more consequential to Beijing's history than Tiananmen Square – they paused.
The list is endless, the impact of their choices monumental.
