Landscapes, interiors, portraits, and abstract nocturnes — all painted from memory — deploy layered, tiny, sensitive strokes to peculiarly monumental effect.
Two decades on, it is almost impossible to overplay the monumental effect Johnston's arrival at Ibrox had at the time.
In early 1914 The Real Estate Record and Guide described the thousand-room hotel, with a terraced sixth-floor setback on the Vanderbilt Avenue side, as having been designed so as "not to dwarf the monumental effect" of Grand Central.
Jason Koumas's decision to reject a move to West Brom to stay at Tranmere Rovers may not have such a monumental effect on the history of mankind, but it has left Albion chairman Paul Thompson a bit peeved.
The combination of Amnesia's beautiful setting--a club on a farm miles from anywhere--a couple of pills, and a little-known expat Argentinean DJ called Alfredo had such a monumental effect on these four friends that they made it their mission to bring this cult of music and clubbing back home to convert first their friends, and eventually the rest of the UK.
There are also special versions of the squatting figure that seem to belong especially to important magical crafts, such as the Javanese kris handle, on which miniature carvings can give an extraordinarily monumental effect.
It has a monumental effect on people's lives".
Most advertising copy skimps on exterior design, but "The New York American Fall Renting Guide to High Class Apartments" from about 1914 praised the Lucania, "standing high above a double row of private dwellings," with "dignity and sobriety — a real monumental effect".
The final sections are devoted to Mr. Zec's latest figure paintings, in many of which the subjects' faces are only partially shown, indistinct or hidden; and studies of draperies, pillows and unmade beds with crumpled linen, the thickly applied white oil impasto lending them a sculptural, almost monumental effect.
The authors have achieved such a mastery of truism that they sometimes achieve the same monumental effect even in non-magnitudinous statements, as: "Table 28-1 shows that the proportion of parents who indicated that their children will attend private colleges is approximately twice as large for those with incomes over $10,000 as for those with incomes under $3,000".
