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towering

(= eminent, lofty, soaring) of imposing height; especially standing out above others an eminent peak lofty mountains the soaring spires of the cathedral towering icebergs

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New York bristles with towering buildings.

Movie subtitles

But sure, the bravery of his grief did put me into a towering passion.
But, sure, the bravery of his grief did put me in a towering passion.
The towering giraffe, who makes the zebra look like toys.
Far away from the desert, the clouds build up into towering masses as they prepare to invade the stronghold of the sun once more.
The Germans spared the towering abbey.
Not very long ago, an obvious trick like that. would have sent you into a towering rage.
Then come towering crags, then the Borgo Pass,.where the light suddenly divides, and there, he says,.one land rises up towards heaven and one falls.
It is his towering moment.
Beautiful lakes, towering mountains, delicious chocolate, and the financial world's favorite gimmick, the numbered bank account.
Here, among the towering skyscrapers, civilization is guided by men of progress and the wonders of technology.
A great towering mountain of slop.
Heat stored in the clouds can drive them upwards into towering thunderheads.
But at the time we were living through it. we thought that we were in a decade. of such towering dullness and stupidity.
Towering shot to deep right field, and it's gone!
Watch the towering fires they consume your new planes from America, your meager store of tanks, your puny munitions, and your food.
Magnificent, the rolling pampas, the towering picks.
Just a towering guilt, a great pain a penetrating fear.
And based upon the projected rate of return on invested capital and if merger is eventually accomplished the communications complex may well become the towering and most profitable center in the entire CCA empire.
He will hasten to seize Scott from Madamoiselle Romaine, and when he finds that I have forestalled him his rage will be so towering that he will not rest until he has taken his revenge upon me through Scott.
I'm doing The Towering Inferno.
Through towering waves, from the south lam here, my lass!
That 22-ton terror of Tokyo town that towering colossus of scaly reptilian bulk.
Towering inferno, Steve.
He fakes left, he drives right, he puts Michelle in the popcorn machine and he jams it right over 2 feet, 8 inches of towering toddler. Yes.
It was during shooting that I noticed his towering personality.
If that doesn't get you, he says the towering crags will. And in the Borgo pass the light suddenly divides and the land begins to rise towards the heavens and then it drops.
To the people of Europe these exotic images revealed an utterly alien civilization a world of towering monuments and magical names.
It feels as though we have ascended a medieval stone fortress. towering above the center of Asla.
Ah, how hard a thing was that dick savage, rough and stern, towering right in the middle of the glade!
Ruggedly handsome, a sharp wit, a towering intellect.
Towering men.
I'm navajo, of the bitter water people, born for the towering house clan.
Begging the colonel's pardon, he's a navajo, of the bitter water people, born for the towering house clan.
Navajo. Towering house clan.
Perched on her towering silhouette, it was destined to rule the world.
She never sent the divorce papers to her lawyer. Now, to a towering romantic hero like you, I don't doubt I am somewhat common.
And reflected in the charm was a city of lost horizons. and tall and towering stories.

News and current affairs

So, by all means, let us admire the smooth highways, towering office blocks, and spotless shopping malls of Singapore.
Towering levels of corruption damage not only the authority of government at home, but the very standing of Georgia as an independent state abroad.
Nowadays, there is a respectable body of opinion that questions whether growth in productivity beyond the towering levels seen today is of any great value compared to the fearsome costs that are taken as given in most discussion.
How, in particular, can this situation be explained in view of the fact that today's unchallenged heads of government are (at least for the most part) not towering leaders whose charisma shields them from opposition?
It is a sad testament to Russia's current mindset that it is Solzhenitsyn the anti-modernist crank who is being remembered, not Solzhenitsyn the towering foe of Soviet barbarism and mendacity.
CAMBRIDGE - Europe's migration crisis exposes a fundamental flaw, if not towering hypocrisy, in the ongoing debate about economic inequality.
The wave's height reached 15 meters, towering above even the highest pole-vault bars.
Unfortunately, many of my colleagues - particularly those who write textbooks - present physics as a towering, seamless basilica, ignoring the gaps in our hodge-podge of skewed models.
Solzhenitsyn, one of the most famous and heroic dissidents of the Soviet era, now seems certain to become a towering figure in the iconography of Putinism.
His role in establishing enduring democracy in India, despite the tensions of caste, ethnicity, religion, and regional loyalties, made him one of the towering figures of the twentieth century.
But, without Mandela's towering moral and political leadership, the transition would have been long, ugly, and bloody beyond measure.

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