Even requests to attend seemingly monumental events like weddings, 40th-birthday parties and Christmas dinners routinely go unanswered.
Even the traditional organized activities of freshman year -- ice cream socials, Wilderness Reflection weekends, wrestling parties in kiddie swimming pools filled with yogurt -- have therapeutic undercurrents to help students let off steam and face the seemingly monumental task ahead.
Those aircraft also had seemingly monumental engineering challenges at the start, but they eventually succeeded, Carter says.
At the entrance to the Egyptian galleries and visible from the Great Hall, this limestone structure, circa 2350 B.C., with its interior of intricately painted reliefs, was originally installed in a manner that suggested that it was meant to be viewed as a monumental, seemingly majestic space.
Known as the White City, it launched the City Beautiful movement, giving the country a seemingly insatiable appetite for monumental courthouses, museums, libraries, and train stations that made every city look as if its roots went back to ancient Rome.
The changes we encounter range from daily, seemingly inconsequential incidents, to monumental transitions over time.
Set yourself realistic goals, and meet them every day, and you'd be surprised how even a small amount of work – applied consistently – will turn a series of seemingly small efforts into a monumental achievement.
Critics have argued that in recoiling from natural theology, Kierkegaard transformed belief into a matter of will and emotion, and that a decision as monumental as a leap of faith made seemingly arbitrarily, in the absence of any rational assurance might just as easily have disastrous results.
Startlingly, this seemingly simple objective is proving to be a monumental task.
There was the remnant of a classical column seemingly plunked in the middle of the space; a monumental sculpture of brightly colored twisting loops; psychedelic yellow fiberglass elephants; giant Chinese ginger jars fashioned from glass-fiber-reinforced concrete; and a surreal subterranean domestic environment.
With glorious summer weather, growth is so fast and luxuriant that, seemingly overnight, plants that were tidy clumps suddenly take on monumental proportions.
