How To Use Numen In A Sentence

But a surge in thefts of treasured relics from ancient temples and monuments has reached such a level that an agonised debate has begun over bringing back the death penalty.
The affair isn't the thing that makes me believe he needs to be removed from office – it's the monumental lack of judgment he displayed in abandoning his states and his duties as governor. Sanford should stay, two top South Carolina papers say
There have been monumental social and demographic changes in the country.
At the bottom of the monument, below the Ten Commandments, there are two small Stars of David and also two Greek letters, chi and rho, superimposed over each other to represent the name Christ. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
It was a sentimental and monumental event as the Brazilian government gave the Philippine president full planeside military honors complete with all the 21-gun salute. WN.com - Articles related to Chile Rejects Church Call to Pardon Officials

They are completely unaware of who this monument celebrates or what its significance is; yet the image's resonance is not lost on its audience.
A monument to mark Ingleton's coal mining heritage was officially unveiled this week.
A pair of suitcases filled with special shower heads for Islamic ablutions , and monumental razors and clippers, poke fun at the needs of the Muslim traveler.
The henges represent the largest collection of Neolithic monuments outside southern England.
However, the mutilation of the monuments indicate that she had fallen from grace.
As it stood there, lifting its proud roofs and gables to the sky, it might have been its own funeral monument.
`The monument, ma'am ," intoned Bunbury, rocking back slightly on his heels. THE FIVE MILLION DOLLAR PRINCE
They were primarily portraitists, but Thomas is now chiefly remembered for his dramatic Boadicea monument at Westminster Bridge, London, showing the fearsome warrior queen in her chariot.
For example, while acknowledging that Whitney wants us to worship religious monuments and funerary traditions, we may wonder which Church he is referring to.
It is surprising that so sharp-sighted a historian of architecture would neglect to mention the role of screens as monumental platforms.
Even as the varsity officials maintain that the fee hike was inevitable, most students see the hike as monumental.
They're monuments to dead climbers - not gravestones per se but carefully constructed shrines.
I have completed a monument more lasting than bronze and higher than the decaying Pyramids of kings, which cannot be destroyed by gnawing rain nor wild north wind, or by the unnumbered procession of the years and flight of time.
This whimsical but dangerous world was depicted in a monumentally epic 15,000 page, single-spaced typed novel, "In the Realms of the Unreal".
How were ancient peoples able to construct monumental Egyptian pyramids in an age devoid of the tools of modern technology?
It took the intervention of the media, and the consequent uproar to stop what would have been a truly monumental blunder.
Currently the at-risk register covers a national view of archaeology, monuments, gardens, conservation areas, places of worship, wrecks and battlefields. Times, Sunday Times
A monument was erected to the memory of that great scientist.
These parks grew into public parks, municipal parks, state parks, and, most monumentally, into national parks. The English Is Coming!
The show presents its monumental architecture, its military might, the way it controlled and administered its dominions through provincial satrapies and the network of roads that traversed its vast distances.
In fact, the completed windows do possess a freshness that is striking to find in the medium of monumental stained glass.
The carving of the Mount Rushmore Monument likewise spanned a period of fourteen years.
I gave a small laugh and gazed at the ceiling, feeling monumentally stupid and childish.
Today the burnt-out houses stand as a monument to the failed hope that democratic rule would rescue the delta.
Cleveland, had often mentioned him, without in any respect diminishing the insignificancy with which fame insinuated he had conducted himself in those amorous encounters: she nevertheless had the greatest curiosity to see a man, whose entire person, she thought, must be a moving trophy, and monument of the favours and freedoms of the fair sex. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
I have called draughtsmanship of this quality an inheritance -- I might have called it perhaps with better propriety a monument. First and Last
To reach his aim he didn't hesitate in taking possession of more ancient monuments.
The heartbroken emperor resolved to immortalize her memory by creating the finest monument ever seen, the Taj Mahal.
Dame Gourlay, with two of her contemporaries, the same who assisted at Alice's late-wake, seated apart upon a flat monument, or "through-stane," sate enviously comparing the shares which had been allotted to them in dividing the dole. The Bride of Lammermoor
Sure, it's a monument, but it's one that vibrates with a zest for life that nothing as ancient can match.
Like an old stone barn with hand-hewn beams, they were built to last, enduring monuments to craftsmanship and common sense.
Mr Pearce makes only passing reference to what is, for many, Walpole's outstanding monument: the magnificent Palladian house he built at Houghton in Norfolk.
“numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being. ORIGINS OF RELIGION
Each species of coral has its own pattern of budding and so erects its own characteristic monument.
This whole city is a monument to his skill as a planner and administrator.
Oh, did I mention the mausoleum is a virtual granite resume, since Mr. Burris has etched in great detail his every job title, accomplishment, award, and entire life as a permanent monument to ... himself? Blago Has Been Impeached
It may yet click its way to victory after victory, a monument to the Tinkertoy dreams of childhood.
Her rotund torso and delicately etched facial features evince the monumental simplicity of an ancient fertility goddess.
High in the Alps is a monument raised in honour of a faithful guide who perished while ascending a peak to rescue a stranded tourist.
A monumental effigy was also erected to him, "made of white chalkstone"; and this is almost certainly the figure now placed The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
But he was uninterrupted in his journey, eventually arriving at a vantage point near the Monument.
Dryden makes him sound a monument of dullness; in reality he is brisk, lively and journalistic.
Gatz - I didn't think to save my entry before submitting it ... but it was to do with the thrill of discovering new music (and Tinariwen set me off on a monumental world music quest so felt legitimate to say something so seemingly cliched) then being accused of 'ululation' by the wife when caught singing along to it ... Word Magazine - Comments
For a general introduction to this large monument see the main entry under Region 1.
Still others have cautioned against the spate of monuments that they see as celebrating the cult of the personality.
Stonehenge is one of the world's best known monuments of the ancient times.
Moreover, Llewellyn's almost complete abnegation of issues of style, iconography, authorship, or artistic quality results in a rather restricted view of the monuments as mere historical objects, as products of an industry.
Brethren of St. Francis and their clients, which still roughen the pavement of Santa Croce at Florence, and recall the varnished polychrome decoration of those Greek monuments in connexion with the worn-out blazonry of the funeral brasses of England and Flanders. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
He died in comparative poverty, but was buried in Westminster Abbey, where Lady Anne Clifford, countess of Dorset, paid for his handsome monument.
Many moons ago, though, the monument was a landmark for travellers heading to Worsley Village.
It was not until 1913 that powers were provided to compulsorily prevent the damage or destruction of monuments.
A modern and sprawling city which sports imposing government monuments reminiscent of the Washington Mall, Brasilia is also home to the nation's Upper Electoral Court overseeing the nation's presidential election. Nikolas Kozloff: Part III: What Is the Brazilian Brand?
A cenotaph is a monument erected to the memory of one dead, but not marking the spot in which his remains rest. Classic French Course in English
An inscription on the base confirms the new destiny of the monument.
What, one might ask, about bequests in favour of corporations or instructions to build the testator a monument?
As I walked up Gracechurch Street from Monument that morning I had a quiet ruminate on what I thought I really was doing. WHISTLER IN THE DARK
In recent years, badgers have tunnelled into 52 ancient monuments on Salisbury Plain.
A decision by the often clannish management of a small firm to let in outsiders can be monumental.
He went on to say while initially it was his understanding that the monument was to be moved, it subsequently emerged that there were problems in doing this.
It is far more important than any particular beetle or bird or ancient monument.
But it will take monumental efforts to end the trade. The Sun
Monumental Art Deco and this riot of materials and colours led nowhere, however.
She had the Monument built on top of the hill so everyone could see it as a landmark.
There are photographs of funereal stock-in-trade monumental grave sculptures — mostly limp angels with oversized wings. Psychedelic Denver
Death comes to all, but great achievements raise a monument which shall endure until the sun grows old.
In the past India has been portrayed as a country steeped in history with fantastic archeological monuments and elephants and camels and so on. Times, Sunday Times
The erection of a costly monument in the capital while young people are homeless and the elderly are without proper medical care is an abuse of public money, the party stated.
Kitty put her finger on it, that idea of an author distilling things for us and allowing us a moment or two of relaxedness in the face of what can be monumental nonsense. David Foster Wallace: Reflecting on the late author | EW.com
The bronze bass-relief upon the monument, made from the working drawing furnished by Mr. Dripps, is an exact representation of the locomotive when it arrived in America. Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891
Amidst all that humbles and scathes; amidst all that shatters from their life its verdure, smites to the dust the pomp and summit of their pride, and in the very heart of existence writeth a sudden and "strange defeature," -- they stand erect, -- riven, not uprooted, -- a monument less of pity than of awe! The Disowned — Complete
Jackson has successfully realised the most monumental movie-making feat in recent memory, yet the scale of his achievement seems undervalued and unrewarded.
This pillar is a monument to all those who died in the civil war.
At a larger scale the deep plan was followed through in the designs for St Patrick's, Kilsyth, and most monumentally at St Bride's, East Kilbride (1963-65).
The monuments and statues throughout the country commemorate generals, judges and politicians, rather than socialists, strikers or suffragettes.
The veined and variegated appearance of the colors suggests the polished marble stone used in architecture and monuments.
Arelate had a cemetery that compared favourably in the quality of its funerary monuments with the Appian Way.
A prominent historian at the time described it as the most monumentally useless book ever written.
Bartholdi traveled to the United States to look for a location for the monument and decided on a small island in New York Harbor called Bedloe’s Island (renamed Liberty Island in 1956).
Most of the prehistoric monuments that have come down to us served ritual or symbolic purposes, rather than utilitarian ones. Times, Sunday Times
The building was like a fortress, a tall gray monument of dusty windows and old bricks, guarded by crude metal fences all around its perimeter.
Then she would inscribe it herself, chisel out each letter with care, a lover's monument to Johannes, to mark his place, their place. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
Monuments, temples, pagodas have been restored for use and for tourism.
First, Eurysaces' declaration may have functioned as a means of protecting his funerary monument.
Will Marshal is buried in Kirkcudbright church, where his monument is still shown, decorated with a scutcheon suitably blazoned with two tups horns and two cutty spoons. Additional Note
Less than a mile and a half remain and the Berlin Senate is considering buying back bits to preserve as a monument.
So this stone was monumental in its very ordinariness.
The company is a monument to Sir Peter's energy and vision.
The most likely source of destruction is now from badgers which have already caused much damage to barrows, burial sites and other monuments.
Under closer analysis, our supposedly cheap food supply becomes monumentally expensive.
The topography of the actual route with its monuments and trails, its rivers and bridges, its steep hills and precipitous valleys, is meticulously represented.
In a bid to create a rival attraction to the London Eye and the Manchester Wheel, Ulverston Town Council decides to convert the monument into a helter-skelter.
He liked the stately monuments much more than he liked Gibbon or Ruskin; he loved their dignity; their unity; their scale; their lines; their lights and shadows; their decorative sculpture; but he was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all, the Virgin, the Woman, by whose genius the stately monuments of superstition were built, through which she was expressed. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
In the cellar, Manzanares creates drama through monumental architectonic volumes that highlight the warm tones of the oak barrels contained within them.
The film broods over the Oxford monuments, twisting them into a disturbingly fraught pattern of jumbled editing, splitting and screeching noises and swirling, psychedelic visuals.
Visitors, four at a time, can float in the spirituality of this miniature monumental space.
In these videos, the camera never stands still, often turning a full 360 degrees so that seemingly pin-headed figures, shot from the ground up, loom monumentally.
Your parents search for you in the crowd of plebes clawing up Herndon Monument in a greasy, glorious finale.
Ramesses claimed the victory from this drawn fight, celebrated in monumental funerary temple reliefs still visible at Thebes on the Nile.
Many residents are opposed to the proposed monument. Times, Sunday Times
It was full of monuments to the dependents of peers, in which the peers figured very largely and the dependents fared humbly -- the epitome of flunkeydom. A Student in Arms Second Series
So far, the central courtyard – featuring in the middle a round monument or tholos – the western row of shops, the southern portico and the southern half of the eastern row of shops have been excavated. The Macellum: Aims 2009 « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds
= "-- We are told that a cenotaph is a monument" in memory of one buried elsewhere "-- otherwise," an empty tomb. The Writer, Volume VI, April 1892. A Monthly Magazine to Interest and Help All Literary Workers
Such sublime simplicity shines through other aspects of this short but monumental work. Times, Sunday Times
Monograms on mountains is a curiosity, a visual chronicle of the monumental letterforms that are located near many American towns.
Her crew were idle so she armed them with brushes and mops and set them to scrub the magnificent monument clean.
Zhang Kangkang is a pioneer in her times, and a numen of spirit homeland as well.
Today, this volume stands as a fitting and lasting monument of its time to Finzi's pioneering work on behalf of the composer whose achievements he valued so much.
it was positively monumental
Historical monuments, sites and buildings also came under the scrutinising eye of the engineers preparing the draft plan.
It took a monumental effort for her to do that. Times, Sunday Times
Ewgrange is undoubtedly the best known megalithic monument in Ireland.
This week my graduate seminar students (at Parsons Fine Arts MFA) and I had a great discussion leading from Robert Smithson's writings on entropy to issues of pessimism about social change and what might be the point of human intervention towards ideals of progressive social activism in an entropically irreversible situation: interesting in this light to read Bob Herbert Op-Ed piece in the October 26, 2010 copy of The New York Times, "The Corrosion of America": do we just go along "haplessly"/hopelessly with the flow of entropy and the corrosion and ruin of our infrastructure (a ruin which is in a sense "always already" from before its inception, in Smithson's example of "The Monuments of Passaic") creating or suggesting an art which does not try to impose an idealist order or moral value to an entropic situation of urban and suburban decay, or do we believe enough in human labor despite ultimate futility or mortality to make the investment in our near futures by fixing the infrastructure? Mira Schor: Corroded infrastructure 2010/Robert Smithson's Writings on Entropy, 1966-67
Monuments - or projects for monuments - began to espouse holes, void spaces and black surfaces, and inversions.
Under U.S. law, to import pre-Colombian monumental and architectural sculpture and murals, you must present proof that they were legally exported from the country of origin. Mexico - travelers tips
The task is monumental and the portents not promising. Times, Sunday Times
A fifth of them cannot be saved or restored, they need to be completely replaced, but among them are 66 registered architectural monuments.
The topics, however, being of monumental proportions, can only be cursorily sketched in less than three hundred pages.
The bridge is a scheduled ancient monument and archaeologists had to check the site before it could be filled in.
Here is the civilian victor of the civil war, monumentally appreciated, monumentally declared.
We have a monumental task ahead of us.
That happy stability has enabled a young man who was rather flaky to establish a series of records that is monumental. Times, Sunday Times
Her admirers later had a monument placed over her grave.
The annual arts festival is a monument to her vision and hard work.
Monumental, even cosmic, this painting brings to mind Creation scenarios.
They reared a monument to commemorate the great musician.
Not her national monument I told her, and she shouldn't come poking her nose in where it wasn't wanted.
The well-crafted, monumentally enlarged sequences through which he expressed his populist theme determined that the show would be of, but necessarily not by, the people.
She is of diminutive stature and makes monumentally powerful, often huge sculptures.
A menhir is a sort of northern European variety of the stela, an ancient upright stone or pillar serving as a monument, and accepted by the credulous as being generally mystical.
Many residents are opposed to the proposed monument. Times, Sunday Times
The ansated cross is found on many and various monuments of Egypt (Prisse d'Avennes, L'art Egyptien, 404). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
The current one has been a blot on one of our most important monuments. Times, Sunday Times
The annual arts festival is a monument to her vision and hard work.
Stonehenge is perhaps the most famous prehistoric monument in the world. Times, Sunday Times
It doesn't get more British than Alfred Gilbert's 1887 monument to Queen Victoria, one of the oldest works in the year's first must-see exhibition: Modern British Sculpture. This week's new exhibitions
This monument commemorates our victory.
The monument's signature towering monoliths, spires, and steep canyons reflect millions of years of erosion, faulting, and tectonic plate movement.
Certain of his objects could almost be funerary monuments.
No monument to him, however, adorns any of its parks: Baltimore has too many soldiers to honor to remember monumentally her poet son.
Every AIDS patient is a monument to the theory of evolution.
one who cleans and restores and sometimes ruins old pictures"; Pict: "one of an ancient people of obscure affinities, in Britain, esp. north-eastern Scotland; in Scottish folklore, one of a dwarfish race of underground dwellers, to whom (with the Romans, the Druids and Cromwell) ancient monuments are generally attributed"; perpetrate: "to execute or commit (esp. an offence, a poem, or a pun)"; and eclair: "... long in shape but short in duration. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 1
Keillor’s jeremiad is wrong on so many levels, and proceeds from a place of such monumental self-regard and fundamental misinformation, that a proper rebuttal would require an entire afternoon and a minimum of ten double-spaced pages. Publishing vs. that guy with the voice I can’t stand
The basis for the great national forest, park, monument, and wildlife refuge systems of the present had been laid.
They are, quite simply, a 'monument of unageing intellect'. The Times Literary Supplement
The massive monumental structures were intricately carved and decorated with scenes showing how the hereditary dynasties of the kings united with the gods.
This monument was erected in honour of the martyrs during the internal war.
His work is far removed from the old idea of monumental outdoor sculpture on a plinth, enhancing the panorama with solemn dignity. Times, Sunday Times
Two other monuments to conspicuous wealth that lie just across a small bridge will make you yearn for the life of the idle rich.
A sublime, monumental dead end, that has produced some brilliant sado-masochist poetry from band and critic alike.
Located in prominent positions, and as official monuments lacking avant-garde credibility, they have little artistic currency.
The whole vast plain in which it "towers alone," is covered with the evidences of volcanic action; can it then, in one of those tremendous efforts of nature, which scattered these fragments of rock over so great an extent, have been upheaved from the bed of the earth, and left as a monument of some mighty convulsion? Life in the Rocky Mountains
Despite our lack of information about the superstructures of the nearby tombs (lining the Via Labicana and adjacent to Eurysaces' monument), we know that Eurysaces' tomb had to contend with at least one of his neighbors.
Their names are engraved in plaques on this monument, as are the names of our Aboriginal men who paid the supreme sacrifice during the Second World War.
To the west we can see the Campsie hills, Stirling Castle, the Wallace Monument and Ben Ledi (this view features on the Archives banner).
Work will begin this summer on consolidating many of the buildings on the site, all of which have ancient monument status.
Altar Q's stone legs are today badly spalled, for they also protected the monument's main block from the same destructive process of groundwater transpiration that left them wrecks.
English and German, the principal ladies, and most of the foreign ministers; so that I may apply to you, nullum numen abest, si sit prudentia. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
On top of this was a solid brick monument with an upright stone.
As to all that guff about strength and confidence, red lipstick is actually a monumental pain in the neck. Times, Sunday Times
They have raised a monument in memory of the great writer.
The route gradually rises to crest the rugged mountains, smothered in thick heather and monumental rocky outcrops. The Sun
Officials plan to erect a monument in Lindbergh's honor.
This polygonal stage overhangs the altar and thus serves as a monumental ciborium for liturgical activity below.
There are relatively few surviving pieces of medieval date, so the study of armour is largely dependent on the evidence of monumental effigies, manuscript illuminations, and documentary sources such as accounts and inventories.
In the square in front of the hotel stands a monument to all the people killed in the war.
Nobody wanted their little princesses to live the life of the great French tragedienne, with her denial of moral constraint, her ridiculous traveling menagerie and her monumental myth-making. Actress, Seductress
I had grown to love the webs and patterns of these stone monuments. The Crossing-Place
He points out that the great streams of visitors to the Eternal City for the various jubilees have had a large impact on the city and its monuments.
Between rows of monuments, including homages to revolutionary scribe José Martí, independence warrior Antonio Maceo Grajales and the Virgin Mary, is an old ceiba tree, sacred to the Santería religion, where you'll find offerings like candy and cow's tongues. Take Monday Off: Cuban Miami
The highest auction price ever paid for a Munnings was $7.85 million at Sotheby's in New York in 2004 for "The Red Prince Mare" (1921), an image of a monumental horse being saddled before a race. Going to the Races, in Art
The museum now plans to find a way to display the Heroon of Trysa; one of the major monuments of classical art, it remains in storage.
The event also felt like a monument to the architectural establishment.
The damage to the limestone monument appears to have been carried out with a heavy instrument such as a hatchet, since there are large indentations on the remaining plinths which managed to withstand the attack.
On the plus side are the impressive costumes and monumental sets, the excellent playing by the orchestra and generally good singing.
It must have been a monumental research task to gather all the information required for this work.
As Justin Fox wrote, “it would be monumentally stupid not to come up with some new way of organizing our financial system after this crisis.” Wonk Room » Bank ‘Profits’ And Paying Back TARP Can’t Mean A Return To The Status Quo
an opprobrious monument to human greed
Thus thought Maria — These are the ravages over which humanity must ever mournfully ponder, with a degree of anguish not excited by crumbling marble, or cankering brass, unfaithful to the trust of monumental fame. Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
Every AIDS patient is a monument to the theory of evolution.
Parquet flooring, white leather sofas, Picassos on the wall and gold everywhere; the room was reverential, a monument to tastelessness. THE RHYTHM SECTION
With the public momentum on their side, protesters held what they called a memorial ceremony Sunday night, parading around Democracy Monument, at the scene of some of the clashes, holding up photographs of the dead. NYT > Home Page
At 70, Robert Wilson has long been a monumental figure in the arts, an interdisciplinary visionary who combines music, the visual, dance, deconstructed language, and arresting stage craft to create mind-expanding theatrical events. Erica Abeel: Getting Voluptuous With Robert Wilson at His Hamptons Gala
By night, a beam of light at the base of the monument would illuminate the night sky
Modi’s office is on an upper floor of a massive, scabby-faced ministry building in Gandhinagar, the planned city of government workers north of Ahmedabad that is a monument to the flawed architectural schemes of formerly socialist India. India’s New Face
The aim was to increase our knowledge of the wonderful variety of monuments in our church buildings and to improve their descriptions. Times, Sunday Times
His autobiographies, which list hundreds of monuments as his own works, embody a collaborative notion of authorship with only the most significant imperial projects fully supervised by him.
There is a monument to those who fell - men, women, children, babes in arms and the aged.
Here, Downes's painterliness has sprouted where it could have been least anticipated: surrounded by a Minimalist's monument to the absolute.
Duanfang's interest in paintings and calligraphies must to some extent have motivated him to collect rubbings of important monuments and historical documents carved in stone.
The world's greatest monument to the exploitation of women had its appeal, I had to admit.
Perhaps the most impressive site at Lake View Cemetery on Cleveland's east side is the James A. Garfield Monument honoring the U. S. president who was assassinated in 1881.
This embedded chain of monuments builds a meaningful sequence of events, turning the wild nature of death into mythical history based on Renaissance topoi and Homeric myth.
Practical cryogenics however, is a monumental engineering task and pressurization is bulky, inefficient and potentially dangerous.
The slipway where she was launched is already more or less a national monument, as are the shipyard gantries above, and the dry dock where she was fitted out, and the building where she was planned. Will the Titanic Ever Sink?
His critique of the mental frailty may be widely shared but letting the players know you think it is a monumental own goal. The Sun

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