He recently sold a monumental center table.
The first assignment, a monumental dining table with a companion bench, was dictated by 100-year-old oak timbers Ms. Woods located in Colorado.
Her centenary is being celebrated in lavish style, with a monumental coffee-table book titled "Birgit Nilsson: 100"; a documentary, "Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own"; and a seventy-nine-CD set from the Decca label, with another boxed set arriving in the fall from Sony Classical.
Monumental Moneymakers Monuments are also economic assets.
Wentworth's later practice as a sculptor in the 1970s, one might think, turned away from his master's oeuvre: "I find cigarette packets folded up under table legs more monumental than a Henry Moore," he said once.
Learn Step-by-Step: Learning all six cases and genders from grammar tables is a monumental task.
In his choice of pud, Ronson was, unconsciously or not, mimicking the Victorians, whose smartest dinner tables would have a monumental and suggestive wobbling jelly as a crowning glory.
Stephen Johnson hosts a round table discussion about Mahler's monumental Second Symphony.
"I just try to be consistent" in the pricing of his work, which ranges from the table-top (six inches) to the monumental (30 feet) in size and is priced from $1,000 to "several hundred thousand".
(Mr. O'Rourke may have delivered real fire, too, when he discovered that, in the book's table of contents, this essay's title has "monumental" misspelled).
