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Literary notes about towering (AI summary)

Authors use "towering" to evoke an impression of overwhelming size or exalted stature, whether describing landscapes, buildings, or even human emotions. In many works, it vividly paints images of immense natural features—a mountain, a tree, or cliffs that seem to kiss the sky (as seen in [1] and [2])—or of man-made structures that dominate city skylines (for instance, [3] and [4]). The term also conveys an elevated, sometimes overwhelming, quality in characters or feelings, capturing heroic bravery or fierce passion ([5], [6]). In each context, "towering" enriches the narrative, turning ordinary sights or sentiments into symbols of grandeur and power.
  1. Its very solitude added to its majesty, and its towering cliffs seemed to kiss the sky.
    — from She by H. Rider Haggard
  2. I distinctly saw a high mountain, towering between the two gulfs of Ras-Mohammed.
    — from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne
  3. At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul’s towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history.
    — from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  4. It was a towering barrack in the Tenth Ward, sheltering more than twenty families.
    — from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. Riis
  5. Finding he could not quiet me, he flew into a towering passion.
    — from Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup
  6. ‘You—you!’ said he, in a towering passion; ‘hang you for a meddling brat: your hand is in everybody’s pie.
    — from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

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