Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being monumental; the fact or the degree of serving as a monument.
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- noun The quality or state of being
monumental
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Examples
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We exist in this world of monumentality, which is literally carved in stone - yet we are fluid.
In the studio with Bill T. Jones Sarah Kaufman 2011
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"The chests deal with monumentality, but at the same time, there is delicate poetry in these massive, monolithic objects," says Mr. Hilty, who together with Mr. Ai selected the works for the show when it was being planned earlier this year.
An Ai Weiwei Retrospective Javier Espinoza 2011
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Probably the largest bronze surviving from Roman antiquity, its imposing monumentality—almost twice life-size—had already assured its fame.
Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011
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PWA Moderne mixes Moderne with a Classical monumentality.
Debra Levine: James Dean Broods... and Dances Debra Levine 2011
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It's all music that has been chosen for the vividness of its response to the texts – whether it's the trembling exchanges of Brumel's Earthquake Mass, the monumentality of Josquin's Praeter Rerum Serium, or the disorientating chromatic sideslips of Lassus's Timor et Tremor.
The Earth Resounds: Works by Lassus, Josquin and Brumel – review 2012
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Designs show the word BRIC, spelled out in fluorescent lights and wrapped around the corner of the building that includes the classical facade, hugging its pillars and breaking up the monumentality of the old entranceway.
Designing Brooklyn's Future Robbie Whelan 2012
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In some of the earlier symphonies, Maazel's instinct for monumentality is a trifle overdone: The first movements of Nos. "0" and 1 plod a bit, and the Schubertian freshness of No. 2 never really blooms.
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Other objects deal with one of the artist's familiar themes: monumentality.
An Ai Weiwei Retrospective Javier Espinoza 2011
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Probably the largest bronze surviving from Roman antiquity, its imposing monumentality—almost twice life-size—had already assured its fame.
Sometimes Two Is Better Than One Tom L. Freudenheim 2011
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His style of portraiture evolved from the bluntly realistic—the canonical "Blind" from 1916 shows a blind woman flush against a wall, as though ready for execution—to a stark but lustrous monumentality, seen here in his Mexican pictures from the 1930s and '40s.
From the Shadows of Giants Richard B. Woodward 2011
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