Sentence examples for monumental shape from inspiring English sources

In its scale and multiplicity it will begin to resemble a city more than a building, although its monumental shape will still be well defined.

The city grew up during the rubber boom of the 19th century; its erstwhile prosperity is evident in the monumental shape of the Teatro Amazonas, the opera house that attracted the world's greatest artists.

Ralston Crawford was taken likewise by the precise and monumental shapes of "Buffalo Grain Elevators".

But the styles favored during the Northern Song dynasty -- monumental shapes, ink-black color -- set a standard for what followed.

These paintings are notable for their subtle harmonies of cool and pastel colours and for the mechanistic connotations of their monumental shapes.

The bonds that Kennedy forged then profoundly affected him; above all, Winston Churchill's "monumental influence" shaped Kennedy's strategy during his tragically curtailed presidency, or so Leaming contends in "Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman".

Le Corbusier's expressionist interpretation of the International Style involved the use of monumental sculptural shapes and of raw, unfinished molded concrete, an approach that, in contrast to Mies van der Rohe's use of glass and steel, represented a New Brutalism to the English architects.

Uchida somehow missed the big picture of the work, its extravagance, its monumental, arc-like shape.

Each device is filled with layered capsules of cellular bacteria which will be activated by the flow of accumulated water, yielding monumental holes and shapes that will form artificial caves alongside natural ones, all on the same plane. .

But less monumental scenes have shaped my eye, too: a group of stray cats huddled over a New York manhole on a bitter winter day; a sea of barely clad humanity crowded onto Coney Island; Eleanor Roosevelt alone, carrying a suitcase.

They and the eight singers sometimes moved as one in Mr. Kunttu's set, a monumental meeting room shaped as much by beams of light as by stairs and panels.