Sentence examples for old monumental from inspiring English sources
THE ruins of ancient Sheba's capital are more than a thousand years old, monumental reminders of Yemen's golden age.
Churches and the old monumental buildings that represented the country's history and its institutions were destroyed, at least one art museum was destroyed, and George Covington, one of the the country's most respected living historians, lost a prized collection of rare books by Haitians and about Haiti — a terrible loss by any standards.
In discussing his vision of the book, he wrote: In contrast to the old monumental art [the book] itself goes to the people, and does not stand like a cathedral in one place waiting for someone to approach... [The book is the] monument of the future.
Reclining sage in Pakistan may be world's oldest monumental Buddha.
In the hills of Turkey, researchers are slowly uncovering the world's oldest monumental structures, strange monoliths built by hunter-gatherers perhaps 11,000 years ago.
A colossal head of Userkaf was found there, the second oldest monumental statue of an Egyptian ruler after the Great Sphinx, now in the Egyptian Museum.
Old-fashioned monumental statuary attracts jokes and pigeons, of course.
Do you have a photograph of the oldest known monumental sculpture in the world?
Noting that "old-fashioned monumental statuary attracts jokes and pigeons," Schjeldahl quoted Frank O'Hara's quip that the "Angel of Victory seems to be leading the horse to Bergdorf's".
They, too, have inherited a tradition over two millennia old, with a monumental amount of material there are over 8000 commentaries on the Analects alone but the questions and problems are seldom those of the West, except in those sections of university philosophy departments that specialize in Western philosophy.
Lolita assumes that people only pretend to be interested in her as a way of gaining access to her father, who neglects her in favor of his luscious young wife (Virginie Desarnauts), their 4-year-old daughter and his own monumental ego.
