monumentalize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Etymology
Origin of monumentalize
First recorded in 1855–60; monumental + -ize
Example Sentences
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Horibuchi’s virtuoso paintings examine the amateur and monumentalize the ephemeral and the tender without any sentimentality.
From New York Times ● Nov. 10, 2021
But what if we decided to monumentalize subtler expressions?
From Washington Post ● Oct. 13, 2020
Rauschenberg internalized this thinking — it was what he wanted to hear — and along with it the idea that using art primarily to monumentalize personal emotion was not the way to go.
From New York Times ● May 18, 2017
In part, as Primack suggests, this reflects the tech publications that monumentalize each brain fart and photo-sharing app generated by the wizards of Mid-Market.
From Forbes ● May 25, 2013
With the Jolly Green Giant, he resurrected a pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth"--and to sell peas.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the architects, the descending bleachers constitute a “reverse stoop,” another monumentalized form, this time of the brownstone stoops that are the front-row seats to Harlem’s street life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
Bristlecones can’t be monumentalized in the same way.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
That evening in an organ recital at Disney, Cameron Carpenter colorized and monumentalized Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, again to the astonishment of the audience.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 9, 2019
And in the Lincoln Portrait, Phylicia Rashad found a beautiful tone blending respect and naturalness, speaking human words against Noseda’s monumentalized music.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2017
The choice had the great advantage of giving me a medium not dead, but turned to stone and so monumentalized as to have become immune from all risk of vulgarization.
From An Autobiography by Stravinsky, Igor
Despite the show’s monumentalizing size, it’s a human-scale Warhol we see.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2018
Despite the show’s monumentalizing size, supplemented by an off-site display of the enormous multipanel painting called “Shadows,” it’s a human-scale Warhol we see.
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
Despite the show’s monumentalizing size — some 350 works spread throughout the museum and an off-site display by Dia of the enormous multi-panel painting called “Shadows” — it’s a human-scale Warhol we see.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2018
They also demand that orthodox accounts of post-World War II New York abstraction as a monumentalizing, ego-driven enterprise be rethought.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2010
In spite of "Kramer's" monumentalizing, none of the contributors seem outclassed.
From Time Magazine Archive
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