Sentence examples for spires high from inspiring English sources

"Heroic materialism," Kenneth Clark called the best of what the commercial culture of the past two centuries had made, at the close of his 1969 series "Civilisation," and he illustrated its triumph simply by standing on the bridge of the Staten Island ferry and peering out at the skyline of lower Manhattan, the spires high and gleaming.

By Adam Gopnik "Heroic materialism," Kenneth Clark called the best of what the commercial culture of the past two centuries had made, at the close of his 1969 series "Civilisation," and he illustrated its triumph simply by standing on the bridge of the Staten Island ferry and peering out at the skyline of lower Manhattan, the spires high and gleaming.

He didn't recall much about his route or how he'd made it back, but he remembered glancing up at some point and seeing the Chrysler Building spire high above.

The Church of St. Matthew thrust its spire high into the heavens.

MORE than 100 years ago, Walt Whitman wrote with admiration of Manhattan's "tall and wonderful spires," its "high growths of iron, slender, strong, light, splendidly uprising toward clear skies".

In his Rest on the Return from Egypt, a Vatican loan, he draws the eye up through the scene from the homely picnic at the bottom – bread, water, rug – to the branch of ripe cherries Joseph is merrily handing to Jesus, to the biddable donkey with its pricked ears and the dreaming spires rising high in the distance; the whole scene is structured for uplift.

Its two unequal towers, surmounted by stone spires (the higher is more than 230 feet [70 metres]), can be seen from afar, dominating the city.

It was one of the more massive buildings in the British Isles at that time, and its spire stood higher than the dome of the present cathedral.

FROM the northwest corner of the World Trade Center site, a tapering spire reaches higher into the sky than the twin towers did.

The large contact area between the liquid and the spires lead to high variation ratio of the inductance with high quality factor.

The complex will include 18 temples with high spires, with a jaw-dropping seating capacity of 20,000 people.