Jane's early work is often a curious mix of the intimate rendered in a monumental way - an approach that informs many of the later portraits as well.
"But also, I went from not really thinking through very much to having everything just blow up in such a monumental way, that you'd have to be really blind to not realize there must be some things that I need to resolve here and understand a little better.
The works that followed in the 1960s and 70s, when Messiaen's faith had evidently been restored (and when, crucially, he was finally able to marry his former student, the pianist Yvonne Loriod, following the death of his first wife) built upon those pieces in an increasingly monumental way.
The generation that Obama has touched and impacted in such a monumental way during his campaign is the one that he now needs to continue in its desire for values-based action, and to also live a values-based life, in order to make significant progress.
Sorry, BlackBerry fanboys, the BlackPad — or whatever it will be called — is going to flop in a monumental way.
It makes me feel quite inspired to think I could change someone else's life for the better in such a monumental way.
"It's almost monumental the way it rises up," Ms. Andraos said.
Here color returns, not quite bright, not quite subdued, complicated but not all that complicated -- monumental the way a tall open window, a mature rose bush or a Shaker dresser is monumental.
It is not at all monumental in the way some previous projects have been.
Still, I intuitively sensed that they were monumental in some way, for the great classical works seemed to have an inexplicable and inexorable sweep.
