Sentence examples for spectacular size from inspiring English sources

Of the approximately 50 species of Helianthus, only a few are cultivated, some for their spectacular size.

Experts believe that Varanus komodoensis (the world's biggest lizard) may have evolved to such spectacular size -- the biggest recorded in the wild was 3.13 meters long and weighed 105 kilograms -- to hunt a pygmy elephant that once lived in these forests.

(Rosenberg) ★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil — Black Rectangle — Natural Light' (through Sept. 1) Before handing its Breuer building over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney installs one of the masterpieces of Light and Space, if not all Minimalism: an eye-filling yet barely-there low-tech mirage from 1977 that is spectacular in size, but not in its means.

(Rosenberg) ★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil — Black Rectangle — Natural Light' (closes on Sunday) Before handing its Breuer building over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney installs one of the masterpieces of Light and Space, if not all Minimalism: an eye-filling yet barely-there low-tech mirage from 1977 that is spectacular in size, but not in its means.

(Smith) ★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'Robert Irwin: Scrim Veil — Black Rectangle — Natural Light' (through Sept. 1) Before handing its Breuer building over to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney installs one of the masterpieces of Light and Space, if not all Minimalism: an eye-filling yet barely-there low-tech mirage from 1977 that is spectacular in size, but not in its means.

Coldplay's singer, Chris Martin, declared Idlewild his favorite band and invited the members to open on a European tour, playing for spectacular, arena-size crowds.

The promenade made a chain of visual connections between underpasses, shelters, sunken gardens and the spectacular Olympic-size lido at Bulverhythe.

Gisele Croes from Brussels is on hand with her dark, bank vault-style booth of early Chinese bronzes, and Chinese Porcelain Company weighs in with a spectacular life-size pottery figure of a supercilious court official.

Deseada Parejo, a biologist at the Arid Zones Experimental Research Station in Almería, Spain, was studying family dynamics behavior in Eurasian rollers — spectacular jay-size birds with long, slender tails and the Cray-Pas colors of parakeets.

When the first of Ms. Taymor's spectacular, life-size puppets -- a stilted and quilted giraffe -- lumbers in from the wings in front of a shimmering, layered backdrop in the burnished pastels of a savannah sunrise (the scenic designer was Richard Hudson), it is the harbinger of the now-famous parade down the aisles of elephants, hippopotamuses, antelopes and their wild kingdom pals.

In the trees in front of us — and soon all around us — are Andean cocks of the rock, a spectacular bird the size of a large parrot and as red as Santa Claus's suit.