Sentence examples for traditional monuments from inspiring English sources

Prayer flags were snapping in the wind, and chortens, traditional monuments containing sacred relics, marked the way to a perfect mock-up of the city's West Gate.

They implied that what people shared now was no longer a set of common ideals or heroes -- the stuff of traditional monuments and memorials -- but a bunch of everyday household objects and consumer desires.

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We've helped some of them to build or renovate their palaces and traditional monuments.

A stupa is a traditional monument, and in this form is a highly stylized rendering of the Buddha seated in meditation.

Dessicino's work focuses on representations of power, specifically "what it means to make monuments without a commissioning body-to deal with things like traditional monument-making and traditional art, especially in a public space," he said.

It would be no surprise to see a crudely designed and poorly cast model of the Queen on one of her favourite steeds cluttering up the heart of London because, while all eyes have been on temporary displays of modern art, the capital has quietly acquired some dreadful, kitsch bronze and marble "traditional" public monuments in recent years.

He added, "I'm struck by how they've gotten away from the traditional notions of monuments, to the experience of memorialization".

The labyrinthine heart remains intact, a maze of tiny streets, souks, monuments and traditional dye pits.

Paternoster Square put up barriers, manned by both police and private security, that jarred with its architectural look of traditional civic values: arcades, monuments, streets, stone and brick, a classical style.

Matsuo Bashō's poetry is internationally renowned; and, in Japan, many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites.