“Battle of Britain survivors yesterday launched a project to raise funds for a monument to commemorate their historic actions.”

“For many years, archaeologists had been aware of certain broad patterns in the distribution of bones inside these monuments.”

“The words written on the monument are beautiful.”

“But the cliff artists easily made up for a lack of monumentalism with sheer abundance.”

“If this is cultural arrogance, it has perhaps some of its roots in insecurity and takes a tangible form in architectural monumentalism.”

“But it had to be a human monumentalism, which then opened up and invited people in.”

“The monumentality of Amsterdam exists only in the heads of its inhabitants, not on the streets.”

“Liberated to occupy the whole of the main gallery area, it is transformed by its new monumentality.”

“Seen in reproduction, it is hard to conceive of the monumentality and refulgence that the grandest of them possess in the flesh.”

“His eight models are absurdist and visionary monuments to human, societal, and governmental follies, abominations, and questionable policies.”

“The city's monuments date mostly from the Hellenistic period and include the acropolis, an Apollo temple and an agora.”

“Formal Victorian monuments are no longer enough, it seems, to evoke memory and sanctify the sacred.”