Sentence examples for monumental statement from inspiring English sources

In this 35-minute, five-movement work, you hear the 20-year-old Brahms striving to make a monumental statement.

Nick Dale-Lace, senior sales trader at CMC Markets, described it as "a huge blow to Sky and a monumental statement of intent from BT as it tries to grab a foothold in the UK television market".

"The Abyssinian Mass" continues Marsalis' investigations along these lines, the massive forces of the JLCO, the Chorale le Chateau and vocal soloists offering up 23 movements on two discs — a monumental statement brilliantly articulated in jazz, blues and gospel.

Eight 11-ton blocks of glacial ice are en route to Paris to make a monumental statement about climate change adjacent to the UN conference on the subject, COP21.

While we could have, we didn't count the frequent minor jabs, but focused on the more monumental statements that wound their way into every speech.

Unlike some architects, ours is not an architecture of grand gestures or monumental statements, but rather sort of subtle interventions.

When human subjects do make an appearance, their faces are often obscured in some fashion, whether covered by a fur hood or shot from behind, a stylistic choice that render his subjects as monumental statements that contribute to the overall poeticism of the photo they inhabit.

Using the text of the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead and poetry by Wilfred Owen, a British soldier killed in World War I, the "War Requiem" mingles elements of monumental public statement with more intimate utterances, those typically being relegated to the tenor and baritone soloists and a small, separate chamber orchestra.

In either form, it will be a work of monumental proportions, a statement etched upon the land.

The headliners are RAEKWON, whose current album, "Shaolin vs. Wu-Tang" (Ice H2O), continues his recent trend of diehard conservatism; and the Brooklyn duo SMIF-N-WESSUN, who just released their own backward-glancing statement, "Monumental" (Duck Down), produced by Pete Rock.

Yet this poem is perhaps too monumental, too self-consciously a "statement," to capture the complex flavor of Hardy's godlessness.