Sentence examples for monumental wave from inspiring English sources

Somewhere between these two is the proposal by Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects of New Haven, a 47-story tower in a monolithic form, accentuated with curtain walls on the north and south sides in a kind of monumental wave pattern.

But accounts such as Osborne's have become familiar as the "field services" industry sifts through the wreckage of a monumental wave of reckoning that has seen some 10 million homes slide into foreclosure since 2006.

The effects of this undersea earthquake were monumental, and its shock waves sent tremors through the entire earth, reminding us of the fragility of life on this planet and the need for unity among us to survive.

Of course, the ocean (Atlantic) is still there, pounding away, and soon after everyone left, with the hurricane season acting up, that mighty sea was a sight to behold: churning waves, a monumental roar, and a sense that what is left (not much) of the famed Wellfleet dunes would be washing away, perhaps taking the entire Cape along with it.

That joining, astronomers said, will result in a monumental release of radiation and gravitational waves that should stretch across the universe.

David H. Fischer's monumental history of price movements, The Great Wave (Oxford University Press, 1996), contains a pile of it.

The monumental language of this symphony comes in waves, spaced over four movements and lasting over an hour.

Called "Big Bamb? it will be a monumental bamboo structure in the form of a cresting wave rising as high as 50 feet above the roof.

But it was a tribute that did not match the monumental stature of the man, nor ride the spontaneous wave of emotion witnessed on the streets in recent days.

The door was open for a wave of younger directors who were looking to present less monumental productions.

She imposed a monumental crescendo on the climactic E-flat, letting it build like a wave that would sweep everything before it — until, of course, it ended.