Of great importance

Usage examples of monumental.

I closed my eyes and for an instant, half asleep, glimpsed rising before me the outline of Pontifex Hall framed in its monumental arch, the inscribed keystone above cast in shadow and maculated with moss and lichen, the words barely visible beneath.

I obeyed Mammy, skirted the market, and made my way to Monumental Church.

But I was leaning toward a conclusion that she had an overdetermined intellectual and professional arrogance that had been cemented by some monumental insecurity that she was struggling to tame as a lion tamer controls a big cat.

Petersburg, towering, monumental and inhuman, which the hero discovers when he tears himself away from the moist grip of the canals and, leaning on the parapet of a bridge, contemplates the broad panorama of the Neva stretching before his eyes.

Republicans permits only one narrow exception: When not defined by their monumental stupidity, Republicans must be scarily weird.

I tell just how and why Tillary Steevens was in reality no more than a fraud, a monumental fraud.

The tower itself was a monumental cylinder of pale pink plasti-glass, which thrust from the Earth like a raging stonker and buried its big knob end in the clouds.

Still stunned by the shock of monumental betrayal, Lirenda fought to muster a civilized response.

Monumental prototypes for the Tibetan terraced stupa have been excavated in Bengal and Bihar.

This monumental pile was Wentworth Hall, in which the Tellurian candidates for the Lens of the Galactic Patrol live and move and have their being.

A planet abides that life which accepts its whims, but man it rejects, man it seeks to obliterate, pitting the monumental force of its instability against that pitiful life form, driving man forth to seek the stars or die.

His wife, the lovely Queen Kaikilani Alii, had a nasty temper of her own, and the peace of the royal household was frequently shattered by monumental arguments.

Raymond Horgan, he exhibited monumental strength in reforming the office and especially in loosening the grip of the Police Force, with its political crosscurrents, over prosecutions.

It was like the eighth-grade dances she recalled in agonizing detail, the hour upon hour of sitting motionless against the wall, the muscles in her face aching from her monumental effort to keep on smiling as if she were having a good time.

Beyond the columns lay the choir enclosure and the high altar, with pyx and tabernacle, behind which towered a monumental downlighted crucifix.