Sentence examples for monumental use from inspiring English sources
Only in San Agustín, in Colombia, was there a similar monumental use of stone.
The monumental use of terror, the very grandeur of his personality cult, and the use of prison labor for gigantic public-works projects echo the ancient Assyrian and Mesopotamian tyrannies.
A Nahuatl story of a hall at the Toltec city of Tula, the walls of which were covered with fine mosaic, may belong to legend, but a monumental use of the technique was achieved in the mosaic-like treatment of the exterior wall casing of certain buildings.
The three theatres were built without the colonnade or any other unifying device, unless the monumental use of travertine marble, arched columns, and neoclassic design can be said to unify what most younger architects now look upon as a pompous, overbearing group of buildings.
Monumental use of hieroglyphs ceased after the closing of all non-Christian temples in the year 391 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I; the last known inscription, found at Philae and known as The Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, is dated to.
LONDON — The British sculptor Anthony Caro, widely known for his monumental works using industrial metal, died on Wednesday of a heart attack.
The Gehry design is, well, Gehry-esque: it reimagines the traditional monumental form, using huge metal screens to depict the landscape of Eisenhower's Kansan childhood while devoting far less space to his accomplishments in World War II and the White House.
Both are monumental mixed-use developments of near-astonishing scale.
Magdalena Abakanowicz also works on a monumental scale using rope and fiber in impressive geometric, circular shapes.
University of Hartford historian Richard Freund led the team that made the monumental discovery using special ground-penetrating radar technology at Ponar, a site that's believed to be one of the first places Jews were brought and killed during the Holocaust.
On view through Jan . 16 the exhibition "Cities of Peace" features nine monumental paintings that use gold illumination — along with such elements as calligraphy, poetry, archival photographs and urban plans and maps — to commemorate cities around the world that have experienced conflict and trauma.
