Sentence examples for soaring columns from inspiring English sources

For most people, the soaring columns of Greek temples wouldn't immediately conjure up visions of seating.

It is a place of somber dark marble supported on soaring columns of greenish Connemara marble.

The exception was a double-wide booth (shared by Untitled and Ibid) of sculptures by David Adamo: soaring columns of shaved cedar surrounded by piles of wood chips.

What a stunner: soaring columns, a spiralling staircase and, through the vast window, Manhattan's dimly glimmering skyline (design by Christopher Oram).

It occupies a subterranean chamber beneath the former city granary, with soaring columns that make you feel as though you are dining in a cathedral; climb to the gallery and it looks positively theatrical.

He straightened his back so that he could stare over the wiry brush at the soaring columns, the brooding eaves, and felt that he deserved this inheritance, had deserved it all his life.

He leans against a soaring column on a portico of the Capitol, looking out wistfully.

In 1852, Cobb added two showy octagonal wings and a set of soaring white columns.

Well, picture soaring golden columns amid fluffy white clouds — and, as Aunt Rita said, "This is just the foyer".

Soaring marble columns in the double-height lobby hold up an elaborately corniced ceiling with stained glass skylights.

There was a funeral going on at the cathedral in Chartres when we arrived, the soaring gray columns enfolded in black at their base.