Monumentalizes

Umbrella takes an emotion, immobilizes it, monumentalizes it, and lets it resonate for the duration of the song. ❋ Artur (2007)

Rosen speaks for what was once the dominant culture of classical music, a culture that too eagerly monumentalizes what it values and too readily conflates artistry, esotericism, and passive yielding before authority. ❋ Kramer, Lawrence (1994)

While shunning sentimentalism, the juxtaposition of these analog images monumentalizes (and mythifies) Greenland's topographic austerity while revealing (and romanticizing) the reserved warmth of its inhabitants. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the show's standouts is Charles White's large charcoal drawing Harvest Talk, which monumentalizes two field hands pausing in their work with its low point of view and the men's larger-than-life hands and forearms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shooting from below eye level he again monumentalizes these figures, but as in the Klan images his approach also makes us aware of their personal oddities: shabby clothing, unshaven faces, unusual mannerisms. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Just like the eponymous novel that serves as its narrative guide, Kemal's museum monumentalizes a love that cannot but exceed any number of objects, not to mention the limits of a life lived constrained not just by tradition, but also time itself. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like the works of Gertrud Kolmar and Rose Ausländer, Sachs’s poetry is a lyrical form of communication that monumentalizes both the possibility of atrocities committed by humankind and the beauty of humanity. ❋ Unknown (2009)