Ms. Lin purposely chose a small typeface, unheard of in monumental design, so that reading the names would seem more intimate, like scanning a printed page.
Although a monumental achievement, it is read only rarely today.
But they quickly start to read like monumental obscene gestures of the adolescent kind, numbing, boring feats of nose-thumbing.
When he was a graduate student, Bhargava read the monumental Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, a book about number theory by Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855).
Parker recounts a pen Club dinner at the Algonquin Hotel, not long after their arrival, at which Isherwood embarrassed himself by making an obnoxious speech and Auden read his monumental new poem "In Memory of W. B. Yeats".
I was disappointed to read in "Monumental Impasses Past and Present," by Debra West (Cross Westchester column, Jan . 22, that the New Castle Town Board voted 3 to 2 against using pieces of World Trade Center steel in the town's 9/11 memorial.
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.
While the American President was sitting stone-faced with Putin, and the British P.M. was braving the local pike to take a dip the lake, I was reading Patrick Seale's monumental biography of Hafez al-Assad, father of Bashar, who largely created modern Syria.
Looking at the four patchworks of festive, geometric shapes of "From Happy's Curios," a posterlike painting on paper from 1973, you suddenly see that each composition centers on a single dark green shape that reads as the monumental opening to a cave or some other inner sanctum.
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