Sentence examples for monumental on from inspiring English sources

Little wonder then, that the first chapter of Darwin's monumental On the Origin of Species was entitled Variation under domestication.

Within a large group of works from a private collection, Jack Levine's monumental "On the Block" stands out as a kind of roman à clef of the nineteen-eighties New York auction scene — a busy, crowded canvas that contains a Who's Who of art-world types, recognizable portraits of such legendary figures as Leo Castelli, Andy Warhol, and the downtown gallerist Edith Halpert.

None more so than at a raucous Estadio Monumental on 8 June 2005, when just under 50,000 fans bore witness to a devastating first-half display in which Argentina danced around a spellbound Brazil, their rhythmic passing providing a joyous backing track as they raced into an insurmountable 3-0 leagainstnsthehe world champions to seal World Cup qualification.

"The pitch has been described as "benign" by Middlesex head coach Richard Scott but the scoreboard pressure will be monumental on his side's batsmen.

Growth has been monumental on the hardware front, and things are looking just as good on the software end of things.

That is monumental on a cosmic scale.

He spent his war profits on monumental building, on a library, and on art.

Kuwait National Assembly (Kuwait, 1972) Now a rather dated take on monumental Islamic architecture.

The last time New York City welcomed Boredoms, an experimental rock band from Osaka, Japan, the encounter took on monumental proportions.

Insignificance takes on monumental proportions.

Of greatest significance is the literary evidence, texts written in cuneiform (wedge-shaped) script on tablets made of clay or, for monumental purposes, on stone.