monumentalize

Example Sentences

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But what if we decided to monumentalize subtler expressions?

From Washington Post • Oct. 13, 2020

Rauschenberg internalized this thinking — it was what he wanted to hear — and along with it the idea that using art primarily to monumentalize personal emotion was not the way to go.

From New York Times • May 18, 2017

The goal here is less to monumentalize an artist or a style than to tell a complex story of how art is made by one person of protean energy over a specific stretch of time.

From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2014

In part, as Primack suggests, this reflects the tech publications that monumentalize each brain fart and photo-sharing app generated by the wizards of  Mid-Market.

From Forbes • May 25, 2013

With the Jolly Green Giant, he resurrected a pagan harvest god to monumentalize "the bounty of the good earth"--and to sell peas.

From Time Magazine Archive