Example Sentences

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High-rise appartment blocks, a 150,000-capacity stadium, bowling alleys, department stores, a zoo, and a fairground are part of a faded Soviet-era cityscape of concrete monumentalism.

From BBC • Aug. 12, 2024

The sequence begins with Moran’s “Chantal,” which is described as an introduction to the complicated cultural significance of monumentalism.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2022

The larger thrust has been to expand beyond geologic monumentalism, typical of early parks, and incorporate living landscapes rich in biodiversity and unique habitats.

From Salon • Feb. 9, 2019

In the area of the park she chose, Ms. Shechet faces off with some old-fashioned male monumentalism.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2018

A critic responding to “Oil” wondered whether the fusing of beauty with monumentalism, of extreme photographic detachment with extreme ecological damage, could trigger only apathy as a response.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 11, 2016