Definition of monumentalize in English:
monumentalize
(British monumentalise)
verb mɒnjʊˈmɛnt(ə)lʌɪzˌmänyəˈmen(t)lˌīz
[with object]Make a permanent record of (something) by or as if by creating a monument.
为…立纪念碑；使永存
the kind of ethic that monumentalizes the glory of a hero
为英雄荣耀树碑立传的道德规范。
Example sentencesExamples
- Officially recognized ‘national heroes’ from diverse regions are honored in school texts, and biographies and with statues for their struggles against the Dutch; some regions monumentalize local heroes of their own.
- In addition to ‘monumentalising’ his figures, Breker was also required to alter his style.
- In the enlarged versions, one notices his eye for composition and design, as well as his uncanny ability to monumentalize his sitters.
- What makes it worse is that in this later encounter, the short-story writer seems to have monumentalized the show.
- At precisely the same time, the young artist Theodore Gericault was searching for a contentious contemporary subject to monumentalise on canvas.
- Museums have become lifeless structures that monumentalise and freeze history.
- It says something about our cultural scene that Welles after his death can be both monumentalized and trivialized.
- These and other inscriptions testify to the need visitors felt to document and monumentalise their visual and aural experiences upon the very statue which had engendered them.
Rhymes
departmentalize, occidentalize, orientalize, segmentalize, transcendentalize