immensity

Example Sentences

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The immensity of the threat has led to the rise of a powerful resistance movement.

From Washington Post

“Nothing else conveyed so well the immensity of every new undertaking and its dwarfing of whatever had preceded it.”

From New York Times

In the lower left corner of this work — in one of the best painting moments in the show — a portrait of a Native American chief is sketched in, indicating the immensity of white America’s sins.

From New York Times

The Piper family couldn’t stay in any one house for too long, because the immensity of what they represented had become too much.

From Washington Post

McCarthy celebrated Masaccio’s frescoes for their “spatial immensity, deep, massive volumes, and implacable candour of vision, which sweeps across the panels in aerial perspective like the searching ray of a lighthouse.”

From New York Times