Sentence examples for mountaintop as from inspiring English sources

A book won't fall apart; you can read it as easily on a mountaintop as in a bus queue.

A mid-15th-century icon of the Transfiguration is formally exquisite but near hysterical in tone, with Christ teetering on a mountaintop, as terrified disciples nose-dive to the ground.

On his Austrian mountaintop, as Zondag re-encounters Alma, he recalls their first meeting during a "crazy night" on an Australian beach, where the angels — "expelled," she jokes, "from Paradise" — danced and drank after the end of the literary festival.

One element in this of course is e-mail and the Internet, and the belief that you can be as much a part of the world on a mountaintop as you can in a big-city skyscraper, and if you have the choice, why not take the mountaintop?

The ram's horn is symbolically connected to the story of the "Akeidah," the binding of Isaac, when Abraham demonstrated that he was willing to have such faith in God as a merciful King who sees the greater landscape of time and history with such clarity that He would ask Abraham to bring his only son to a mountaintop as an offering.

Earth-bound infrared telescopes have been successfully located on high mountaintops, as, for example, Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

Since taking the helm of CenterStage, he has directed plays including "The Whipping Man" and "The Mountaintop" there, as well as Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit '67" at New York's Public Theater.

Judge Haden sided with environmentalists who challenged the strip-mining practice of dynamiting away mountaintops as a shortcut to seams of low-sulfur coal.

Later, Dr. Babcock invented a device to measure magnetic fields in stars and created a "seeing monitor" to evaluate mountaintops as potential homes for telescopes.

A single-minded asceticism drove McCandless to his fate; Penn shoots the movie, however, in a facile, commercially lyrical style — he can't stop swirling around mountaintops, as if he were selling S.U.V.s.

Penn can't stop swirling around mountaintops, as if he were selling S.U.V.s, and he pads this hundred-and-forty-minute movie with slow-motion episodes and other cinematographic divertissements.