Literary notes about Monumental (AI summary)
The word "monumental" in literature often conveys a sense of vast scale, enduring power, and profound significance. Authors use it to depict towering physical structures or natural forms whose sheer presence captures the reader’s imagination, as when describing colossal effigies or rocks that defy balance [1, 2, 3, 4]. At the same time, "monumental" is employed metaphorically to signify the weight of ideas, events, or personal traits, lending an air of timeless importance to characters and intellectual achievements [5, 6, 7, 8]. In both its literal and figurative forms, the term enriches literary imagery by suggesting something not only physically grand but also culturally and emotionally impactful.
- At the close of the fifteenth century the art of making monumental effigies degenerated together with the skill of the architects of that period.
— from English Villages by P. H. Ditchfield - There, leaning on erratically cut foundations, monumental rocks seemed to defy the laws of balance.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne - We passed a monumental gate supported by two classic columns.
— from One Irish Summer by William Eleroy Curtis - Outside was a considerable yard full of monumental masonry.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - Tibby forwarded this to Helen, adding in the fulness of his heart that Leonard Bast seemed somewhat a monumental person after all.
— from Howards End by E. M. Forster - There was something monumental in his ungainliness.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - In other years he had drafted monumental political [Pg 246] treatises; when the manuscripts were lost he did not reconstruct them.
— from The China of Chiang K'ai-Shek: A Political Study by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger - Professor Freud’s monumental work, The Interpretation of Dreams [5] , marked a new epoch in the history of mental science.
— from Totem and Taboo by Sigmund Freud
