Example Sentences

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The result is a building of a curiously hesitant monumentality.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

The movie is as it should be, as the sense of scale, monumentality and sheer ambition in “The Brutalist” are largely the point.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

This variability prevailed over specialization, particularly in cereal production, and is not explained by aspects such as geographical location, form of occupation or monumentality.

From Science Daily • Oct. 16, 2023

He preferred instead to crowd the frame, cropping heads and feet, and positioning the camera lower down to create a sense of looming monumentality.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2023

To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess.

From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson