Sentence examples for standing towering from inspiring English sources

Though she forbade her daughter access to secular books, Mrs. Winterson read from the Bible each evening, standing — towering — as she did so.

At first it looks a little like the star baby in "2001: A Space Odyssey," but by the time the thing is fully standing, towering over its puppeteers, you half expect it to put on a diaper, head over to Ally McBeal's apartment and dance all night in her bedroom.

For instance, some floor standing tower speakers include a subwoofer driver in the lower portion of the same cabinet.

Rather than end with recovery efforts, however, this volume segues sentimentally to a more innocent era when the standing towers served as a background for scenic cityscapes by Burt Glinn, Raymond Depardon and others inside and outside Magnum.

So sublime and stately are the Eagle Nebula's huge cloud columns, standing like towering thunderheads in the light of bright stars.

This, in his eyes, makes the still standing miniature towers an especially egregious offense for a locale that claims to be an "international city".

The tests have been executed for the free standing tower as well as for the tower with adjacent buildings.

Decide on the box of your computer; whether to be a desktop or standing tower.

The colonel and his majestic horse dominate the composition, free standing and towering over the troops who march behind them in high relief.

There, standing beneath the towering skeleton of a brachiosaurus, they begin a passionate, obsessive and ultimately tragic love affair.

"Anything else would've just been a regular apartment," said Mr. DeLeon, a graphic designer, standing below the towering ceiling of his sun-drenched $1,600-a-month one-bedroom.