Sentence examples for monumental power from inspiring English sources

Its writhing ecstatic motion shows the full blend of Leonardo's fluid organic movement with Michelangelo's own monumental power.

His "Mt. Katahdin, Autumn, No. 1" (c. 1941 42; University of Nebraska Art Galleries, Lincoln) expresses the austere, brooding Maine landscape with monumental power.

Stieglitz gives his print a monumental power, a weight, that is the very opposite: a column of black smoke assumes iron authority.

It also has its own special, sensitive mood of sturdy reverie, as opposed to the monumental power of the larger, more elaborate pieces.

Crystal Pite's Emergence is a piece of swarming monumental power set to music by Owen Belton; Angelin Preljocaj describes his work MC 14/22 (Ceci Est Mon Corps) as a hymn to the male body – its capacity for beauty and tenderness, rather than its aggressive force.

Thanks to Vic Gold, a journalist whose wife, Dale, is the grandniece of Joseph Proskauer, I have what may be the full story -- verified by Robert Caro in his monumental "Power Broker" -- of the birth of the political usage of Wordsworth's phrase.

For more than a decade, the global economy was fueled by monumental spending power underwritten by a pair of investment booms in America — the Internet explosion in the 1990s, then the exuberance over real estate.

He continued, calling the move a "monumental and unlawful power grab".

He raps in Twi, English and Pidjin about the country's monumental traffic jams, power cuts and the gap between rich and poor.

Just two-tenths of a square mile on the opposite side of the Tiber from most of the historic center of Rome, it nonetheless squeezes monumental symbols of power into a small space.

"We're talking about the potential for a monumental shift in the power structure of the world," Roberts said.