They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

Sparrow-size Virginia Gibson, with sparkling blue eyes and a cheerful smile, made a suitably perky Amy, while Melisande Congdon, as the real aunt, was positively monumental in the very best Gibson Girl manner.

In 1885, the same year that he published his monumental work, Memory: A Contribution to Experimental Psychology, he was made a professor at the University of Berlin, most likely in recognition of this publication.

This monumental work consists of 435 hand-colored, life-size prints of 497 bird species, made from engraved copper plates of various sizes depending on the size of the image.

The deal — alleged by onetime Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield to have been made in order to secure the Tigers ' vote in favor of the Senators ' eventual move to Texas — turned Detroit back into contenders, while McLain was a monumental bust, losing an embarrassing league-worst of 22 games.

As historian Richard Lane concludes, " Indeed, if there is one work that made Hokusai's name, both in Japan and abroad, it must be this monumental print-series ...".

Telemann wrote choral cantatas for Frankfurt ( later published in solo versions as the Harmonische Gottesdienst ) and Graupner cycles for Darmstadt, but Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) made a truly monumental contribution: his obituary mentions five complete cycles of his cantatas, of which three, comprising some 200 works, are known today, in addition to motets.

The award is only given to " those who have made monumental and lasting contributions to the cause of freedom worldwide ," and who " embody President Reagan's lifelong belief that one man or woman truly can make a difference.

Though their role was generally kept secret in the early stages of the conflict, they made monumental sacrifices to help the U. S., with 18, 000 of their soldiers killed in battle before 1969 alone, and more than 100, 000 Hmong losing their lives by the time the U. S. made the decision to pull out of Vietnam.

In the autumn of 1906, Picasso made paintings of oversized nude women, and monumental sculptural figures that recalled the work of Paul Gauguin and showed his interest in primitive art.

The monumental entrance, dating from the period of Francis I, is made from sculpted and painted wood.

This proved to be the last monumental addition made to the Forum.

It sets several important precedents, perhaps the most important of which is its status as the first monumental structure made of stone.

The monumental East window depicting Jonah's whale, top right, was made by a Dutchman, Bernard van Linge, for £ 113 in 1622.

The park hosts 27 monumental pieces made from granite, concrete, bronze, and limestone.

He composed the theme music for the People's Century, a monumental twenty-six part documentary made jointly in 1994 by the BBC television network in United Kingdom and the PBS television network in the United States.

The two monumental iron statues of reclining lions placed in an area in front of the Holsten Gate designed by Harry Maasz date from 1823 and are unsigned They are attributed to Christian Daniel Rauch and may possibly have been made with the collaboration of a member of Rauch ’ s workshop, Th.

The accuracy and thoroughness of this monumental encyclopaedia made it an indispensable book of reference.

Some are now made in the form of monumental metal sound sculptures located on the roof of a building or a windy hilltop.

This monumental work is a synthesis of every stylistic and technical contribution the Cantor of Leipzig made to music.

A Jewish convert to Islam, Muhammad Asad's monumental work The Message of the Qur ' an made its appearance for the first time in 1980.

The Espacio Escultórico or Sculpture Space is a monumental sculpture made of 64 stone triangular blocks arranced in a circle such that from above, it looks like a crown.

He wrote the Encyclopaedia of Gardening in 1822, and invented a flexible iron-bar sash which made possible such monumental greenhouses as the Palm House at Kew Gardens and the Crystal Palace.

There was at the top of the Arc from 1882 to 1886, a monumental sculpture by Alexandre Falguière, " Le triomphe de la Révolution " ( the Triumph of the Revolution ), a chariot drawn by horses preparing " to crush Anarchy and Despotism ", that remained only four years up there before falling in ruins.

Statue of Emperor Constantine II as caesar on top of the Cordonata ( the monumental ladder climbing up to Piazza del Campidoglio ), in Rome.

From 1744 to 1788, he wrote his monumental, which included everything known about the natural world up until that date.

After the Angevin conquest the city was particularly beautified by the work of the famous sculptor, Boboccio da Piperno, admired by Queen Consort Margherita of Durazzo who took up her abode in Salerno and was buried in the monumental tomb, which is today in the cathedral.

As death closes in on Gideon, the fantasy episodes become more hallucinatory and extravagant and in a final epilogue that is set up as a truly monumental live variety show featuring everyone from his past, Gideon himself takes center stage.

In 1903 he gave up his architectural training to become a calligrapher, letter-cutter and monumental mason.

In 1898, caught up in the post-reconstruction fervor that had infected most Georgia counties, Butts County erected a monumental courthouse as a sign of its new prosperity.

Just as one would imagine a real pyramid, if there are not enough stone blocks to hold up the higher ones, gravity would irrevocably bring down the monumental structure.

He got his own monumental statue at the north of the Osning, called Porta Westfalica, set up at the hill Wittekindsberge in the mountain range of the Wiehen Hills.

Considered one of his most important works, Nichols's monumental History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester, was the most ambitious of the antiquarian county histories ( extremely long, but the quality of the content is very variable ), a massive compendium of historical notes, manuscripts and engraved plates printed by subscription after an exhaustive survey of the county, and published in eight parts not in chronological order to make up four volumes when complete, from 1795 – 1815.

The Vespers is monumental in scale, and requires a choir large enough and skillful enough to cover up to 10 vocal parts in some movements and split into separate choirs in others while accompanying seven different soloists during the course of the piece.

In fact it does not have a monumental entrance or a driveway up to the castle.

A monumental stela set up two years later in a northwestern province portrays Esarhaddon in high relief upon its face and each of the sons on a side.

In November, the museum set up a monumental altar to the dead.

In other materials such as metal, clay, plaster stucco, ceramics or papier-mache the form can be just added to or raised up from the background, and monumental bronze reliefs are made by casting.

The remains of the 12 steps up to the monumental Propylon take one to the most impressive architectural structure which has survived from the earlier periods of Antioch: the Imperial Sanctuary-Augusteum.

The 12 steps at the end of the Tiberia Platea are all that remain of the Propylon, a monumental passage gateway leading up to the Imperial Sanctuary.

One monumental effort to overcome mere logical argument at the beginning of the high medieval period was to follow Aristotelian demonstration by starting from effects and reasoning up to their causes.

One of Abakanowicz's most unusual works is titled War Games, which is a cycle of monumental structures made up of huge trunks of old trees, with their branches and bark removed.

NME likened trying to classify the song as " akin to trying to lasso water " and described it as " a monumental barney between the Camberwick Green brass band, a cruise-ship cabaret act, a cartoon gospel choir and a sucker MC hiccuping < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Shake it like a polaroid pic-chaaaa !< nowiki >'</ nowiki > backed up by the cast of an amateur production of The Wizard of Oz.

On any clear day one's eye could wander along that amphitheatre of beloved slopes, over Niall Glundubh's cairn on Tibradden, past haunted Kilmashogue, down into the sylvan hollows of Glendhu, up again along a red-brown fringe of leafless trees to the sinister ruins of Kilikee brroding over Dublin's south-western suburbs-" the Hellfire Club ," monumental to the arrogance and violence of the eighteenth-century Irish gentry-until finally one's gaze rested upon Seefin, a pearl-grey phantasm of a mountain, its summit gleaming maybe with the snowdrifts of last week's blizzard.

They are then picked up by a large, sentient space craft of monumental proportions known as ' Mother ' which is inhabited by various races.

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The English contribution to Romanesque art and Gothic art was considerable, especially in illuminated manuscripts and monumental sculpture for churches, though the other countries were now essentially provincial, and in the 15th century Britain struggled to keep up with developments in painting on the Continent.