Monumentalizing

In place of the flamboyant, monumentalizing war films with their abstract ideals, the camera began to look at daily life as if through the eyes of the veteran. . . ❋ Scott Peterson (2010)

There's no issue or problem or contradiction in eschewing the "extra-literary responsibility" of winning the Nobel as a "black" writer while embracing the "extra-literary responsibility" of monumentalizing pain and suffering on a scale beyond reckoning. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The cultic life of the dead Shelley might seem to be the most naïve and egregious of these monumentalizing strategies. ❋ Unknown (2005)

They also demand that orthodox accounts of post-World War II New York abstraction as a monumentalizing, ego-driven enterprise be rethought. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The familiar postmodern point is that a real zebra, a child's toy, and photographs of either have become equivalent, but Todd makes this equivalence unsettling, ironically monumentalizing a fallen toy that in itself is as indistinct as a discarded scrap of paper. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Eartha Kitt songs add a final touch, both personalizing the sitter and monumentalizing her "Everywoman" aspect.

Deformation makes one realize how fragile the monumentalizing and epistemologically optimistic trajectory of the "original" poem is and how precarious is the voice of normative consciousness (a point revealed in the following short-line deformation of part of the last stanza, short lines typically being associated with a transformed, disembodied or de-materialized consciousness: ❋ Unknown (2003)