Sentence examples for monumental rather from inspiring English sources

A few passages remained monumental rather than momentous – the Eroica's funeral march seemed funereal in the wrong sense, for instance – but the outer movements had tremendous sweep and gusto, with real symphonic power and inexorable logic.

With his height of more than six feet, his head always held high, a slightly aquiline nose, a firm and well-formed mouth under a light moustache, a square chin, an imposing, domineering, set face, noble rather than tender, monumental rather than human, he had something of Apollo and of Jupiter…Nicholas was unquestionably the most handsome man in Europe.

Most memorials in Australia were monumental rather than utilitarian, but practical memorials such as hospitals, schools or new roads were increasingly popular in the post war period, although some concerns were raised that these memorials might be later demolished as Australia's towns expanded.

Recorded by the Concertgebouw under Riccardo Chailly, it's sombre but driven – monumental, yes, but one somehow feels inside the monument rather than gazing on it.

"To achieve this goal requires a design of monumental proportions rather than a creation that is literally pedestrian in scale," Mr. Cook said.

This is a rather monumental claim for the clever and effective marketing tool that clusters represent, and Weiss never approaches substantiating it.

Even at the mainstream-looking Volkesbühne, a rather monumental theater built in the early 20th century, the German-language play "Murmel Murmel" was neither precisely a play, nor precisely in German.

So in 1915, just as in 2014, there was a temptation to write off the lost lives as a stroke of monumental bad luck rather than a war crime.

For 40 years Richard Tuttle has murmured the ecstasies of paying close attention to the world's infinitude of tender incidents, making oddball assemblages of prosaic ephemera, which, at first glance, belie their intense deliberation and rather monumental ambition.

(Smith) * Whitney Museum of American Art: 'THE ART OF RICHARD TUTTLE' For 40 years, Richard Tuttle has murmured the ecstasies of paying close attention to the world's infinitude of tender incidents, making oddball assemblages of prosaic ephemera, which, at first glance, belie their intense deliberation and rather monumental ambition.

This is a rather monumental moment for Android.