As Hulk, I towered over everything, allies and victims alike.
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FOR decades a titan has towered over America's shopping landscape.
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The Falcon Heavy towered over us, glistening in the Florida sun.
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And rarely have property prices around the world towered so high.
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The dome of the Unit 21990 reactor building towered behind us.
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Moline, 37, tops six feet, but the pile towered above him.
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In the backyard, a bare-branched oak towered over dense weeds.
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There were no sweeping views of the mountains that towered nearby.
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Galloway, at six feet six, towered over Ameen by a foot.
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Charlton Heston, playing Judah Ben-Hur, towered over his Arab sidekick.
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Draper was a slight man, and Smith, at 6'4, towered over him.
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But Uber towered over its rival, spending $370,000, continuing an upward trend.
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But Cikatic towered over Hug and Hug gave up weight to Cikatic.
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Each panel towered over viewers, amplifying the magnitude of AIDS' toll on life.
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At her peak, however, Ms Vonn towered above anyone else in her sport.
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In New Immerath, a simple modern church has usurped the imposing, towered cathedral.
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Trump towered over the Republican Party nominating process over the past six months.
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In my memory, these giant sunflowers towered over me, bursting with sunflower seeds.
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V.S. Naipaul, who towered over the landscape of post-colonial literature, died yesterday.
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With a growth spurt in her early teens, Naomi soon towered over Mari.
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Brick walls towered above her, and loops of barbed wire circled the top.
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Its crown of wavy oval leaves towered over its neighbors along the riverbank.
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A disciplinarian who towered over him at 6'6″, he and Ali often butted heads.
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He towered at the White House podium -- and not just because of his height.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza has towered over Egypt for more than 4,500 years.
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Olympic advertisements featuring Yuna Kim, the former figure skater, towered over the crowded hall.
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The crane, which towered over its surroundings, could be seen slowly tilting before crashing.
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All season long, Alabama and Clemson have towered over everyone else in computer rankings.
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Its centerpiece, the TWA (Trans World Airlines) Moonliner rocket ship, towered over the land.
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But in the end, one order towered above the rest in importance — the travel ban.
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Riders towered awkwardly over pedestrians, standing stiffly with their feet together as they whirred along.
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She is barely 4 ½ feet tall, but towered in my mind because of her fearlessness.
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Almost reaching the top of the couple's high ceilings, the branches towered over the crew.
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Army Elvis towered above, wooing the ladies and hopping between cocktail tables, like an Adonis.
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Benjamin Clementine, a strikingly elegant 27-year-old musician and poet, towered above them all.
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Rock spires meant to resemble petrified sequoias and speckled with yellow lichen towered before us.
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"I'm happy but also very tired," the 2.11m Karlovic, who towered over Sugita, told reporters.
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A 1,000-foot-high scarp, a geological feature created by a tectonic fault, towered nearby.
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A large, pink stiletto heel, which doubled as a fountain, towered over guests outside the house.
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New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio towered over DNC members as he pressed his case for Ellison.
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The Western Ghats towered to the east and, in the evenings, took the light of the sun.
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"I don't know how to do it," he said as he towered over the Coal Miner's Daughter.
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Tomei was also a massive underdog: the other actresses in her category towered over her in prestige.
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He positioned the Moog onstage so that it towered above his keyboards, sprouting patch cords like spaghetti.
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Second, that not only did humans roam primordial earth with dinosaurs, but that they towered over them.
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At 6-foot-3 — she jokingly said she stood "5-foot-21973" — she towered over her opponents.
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Falun, second-in-command of my guard and my closest friend, towered over me in the cramped passage.
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I've interviewed hundreds of CEOs over the course of my career; Bogle towered above most every business leader.
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He says that one of the workers, a man who towered over Heinkel, punched him a few times.
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High clouds of black smoke have towered for days over the Algarve region, a top European vacation destination.
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I also have fantasies about being Eiffel-towered by two of Dwayne Johnson as he appears in Baywatch.
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Burkini insecurities, body insecurities and social insecurities towered higher than any diving board I could hope to reach.
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On floors that towered over Grand Central Terminal, WeWork's board met for hours to discuss what to do.
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Billowing cakes towered over the counter, the cream cheese frosting between the layers thicker than the cakes themselves.
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At nearly seven feet tall, the former New York Knicks star towered over the smattering of other visitors.
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Real estate prices soared, the public transit system was revamped and cranes towered over much of the city.
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A sea of burned sticks that were trees before the 2008 eruption towered above a undergrowth of ferns.
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When people described what they were hearing about Clinton, by contrast, one subject towered over every other: email.
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The work towered over the MetLife Building's gateway to Grand Central for decades before its removal in 2000.
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Its sibling, an even more gargantuan monstrosity in bronze, towered over the pathway of sculpted bonsai in the garden.
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High clouds of black smoke have towered over Portugal&aposs Algarve region, which is a top European vacation destination.
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A large blue "Trump Pence" sign towered over a winding road in Carbon County, which sits next to Luzerne.
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At six feet three inches, Christie towered over van Herpen, who became shy in the presence of the actress.
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GE, which once towered over the American business landscape, is struggling to retain its standing as an industrial powerhouse.
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I stood in wonder under a loblolly older than the county it towered over, a 300-year-old beauty.
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Before too long, we also began to pass drilling rigs, which towered 50 feet over the road, spewing mud.
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John Brebner swept his binoculars over a fissure-ridden rock face that towered over a grove of acacia trees.
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The two-towered building, called 44pointz, should open in fall 225, said Jerry Wolkoff, a principal of the firm.
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Paul Volcker, who literally towered over both the Fed and politicians from 1979 to 1987, once argued it this way.
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The gains made by the top deals towered far over the losses of the bottom five, according to Leerink's estimates.
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Mr. Trump's business career towered over the Republican National Convention in Cleveland as a success story, if without the bootstraps.
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He stood on a stage and towered over a tiny black man who looked to be about 12 years old.
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She towered over Kristina Vogel, who at 254 foot 2000 inches and 136 pounds, was the more accomplished track sprinter.
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Now, scientists have uncovered a new species of dicynodont that towered over the rest, comparable in size to an elephant.
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In the courtyard, a statue of Woody, the cowboy-doll hero of the "Toy Story" movies, towered over the vegetation.
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As Hurricane Florence ravaged the Eastern seaboard, dangerous storm surge towered over a meteorologist – only she was safe inside a studio.
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In 2016, Jenner showed off the decorative bear next to a single Christmas tree that towered over those who approached it.
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In group photos, Trump towered above most leaders, and tilted his chin upward in pride as he walked among his counterparts.
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Under current plans, the two-towered project, which extends through to West 2421th Street, can be no taller than 22 feet.
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Millions of years ago, the birds that roamed the Earth would've towered over modern humans, and weighed over a thousand pounds.
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That's the truth that Jocasta must face in Graham's enduring "Night Journey" (1947), which towered over the new works on Thursday.
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He glumly pottered about as his Costa Rican partner, Giannina Facio, towered alongside him, exuding enough warm vibes for them both.
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When my 4-year-old daughter visited Pyongyang in 2013, she, all of three feet, towered over children twice her age.
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It's Robby, the seven-foot-tall robot who towered over his co-stars both literally and, ultimately, in the popular imagination.
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The 6723-story building would have towered over a busy residential and commercial neighborhood close to Lincoln Center and Central Park.
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Although he towered over Salahi, he hesitated before taking his hand, and when he did he noted how delicate Salahi was.
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The Osage representatives were tall, many of them over six feet, and they towered over most of their White House hosts.
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As the flames towered above the cathedral, some people who gathered to watch across the river knelt on the curb to pray.
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Among their new friends are the men's volleyball team, whose players towered over the gymnasts in pictures from a day of bonding.
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Made from iron and fibreglass, the statue towered over two tanks that ISIS had used in its failed assault on the town.
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Everyone seems to instinctively know how to publicly mourn, to break from the mundane to celebrate a figure who towered above us.
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I had a growth spurt before most of my classmates in elementary school did, and I towered over them in class pictures.
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Four years ago, it went further, exploring construction of a two-towered $6.5 billion headquarters on the Far West Side of Manhattan.
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Instead, he looked out the windshield, up at the glossy black wall that towered over him and stretched out in both directions.
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In its early years, the Plaza, 235 stories high and a block wide, towered over its neighbors like a tuxedoed King Kong.
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Kumimanu biceae, as the fossil was named, would have towered above the emperor, and above just about all other known ancient penguins.
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One slum formed inside the Ahmedabad dump, a vast landscape of trash and sewage that towered hundreds of feet in the air.
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Adorned with more than 10,000 Swarovski Crystals, the gold and ivory cake towered high above Lopez — and even included a diamond "Jennifer" nameplate.
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Warning horns were heard blaring moments before the construction cranes, which had towered over the damaged construction site, snapped into pieces and toppled.
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An imposing golden statue of China's late Communist leader Mao Zedong, which towered over crop fields in an eastern village, has been destroyed.
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But one towered over us all, both literally and figuratively: John D. Dingell Jr. (D-Mich.), who died last Thursday at age 92.
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In six-inch platform stiletto boots, corset and Elizabethan collar, a tall and thin figure towered over the crowd like an alien monarch.
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I remember visiting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where a cast of Auguste Rodin's monumental sculpture of Balzac towered over me.
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Most NBA players towered over him, of course, but Stern is unquestionably one of the league's — and one of the game's — absolute giants.
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Washington towered above his generation: he was over six feet tall, a great rider, an elegant dancer and has become an American icon.
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According to the Associated Press, Lukas Bates, 183, ran dressed as the iconic clocktower in a costume that towered five feet over his head.
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He figured that Pluto either had a natural satellite or boasted an enormous mountain that towered thousands of miles above the planet&aposs surface.
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The ladies pulled out all the stops with long gowns and heels for the premiere, and the former NFL player still towered above them.
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It was, instead, the way he towered over the occasion, the dominant figure on the field even when he was nowhere near the ball.
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He built a rickety seven-foot riser for his drum kit, so that he towered over his bandmates like some sort of magnificent despot.
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She towered over Cole by at least two feet in height and was only ever shown from the neck down during her rare appearances.
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Artwork by Grimoire Amid all the hype and anticipation for Nate Diaz's meeting with featherweight champion Conor McGregor, one question towered over all others.
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But Abby, who is about six feet tall, towered above her more delicately framed mother, and bent to her in a gentle, attentive way.
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He was tiny for his age and deeply unathletic in a traditional sense, outpaced by his peers in soccer and towered over in basketball.
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She looked wide-eyed as it towered over her, a broke but beautiful lobster that had weathered storms and bankrupted people and fractured friendships.
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He showed off animations for truly massive hardware: a rocket and spaceship combo that towered over 22019 feet tall and stretched 37 feet wide.
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At seven feet tall, the former NBA player towered over other uniformed graduates at the Army Ranger School in Fort Benning, Georgia, last Friday.
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Trump also didn't remove her 4-inch heels when the two landed and towered "almost comically" over the second lady, who was in flats.
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There in the distance was the resort's three-story wedding chapel with its bell-towered steeple and sweeping sunset views of Table Rock Lake.
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Left unanswered were where exactly Bowie died as well as funeral arrangements for the artist whose influence towered over music, art, fashion and drama.
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As the high court's white columns towered behind them, a (literal) choir of pro-Gorsuch advocates were close by, singing songs about the federal judge.
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The most visible symbol of the era was a Mercedes logo mounted on the roof, an advertisement several stories tall that towered over the building.
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At the twin-towered Century condominium on Central Park West, completed in 22, they saw several one-bedrooms priced from $2000 million to $21.1 million.
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In the crowd of tailored blazers and white sneakers towered Serhiy Leshchenko, a prominent anti-corruption activist and member of parliament, sporting an orange sweater.
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Buildings housing other prisoners towered over the yard, and they dangled their arms through the bars of their cell windows while watching the activity below.
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Mr. Mahathir, 94, who has towered over the country's politics for decades, was replaced by Muhyiddin Yassin, a onetime ally whom he accused of betrayal.
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They were there to see the drag comedian Dina Martina, who soon towered above them singing "I Love Rock 'n Roll" in a demented warble.
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When you got good at the game, the numbers of the computers around you still looked the same, while you towered above them like a behemoth.
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And yet, every year, arguably the person who was most respected at the entire conference, by almost everyone, was Shimon, who stature towered over everyone else.
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A 72-foot bronze, sword-thrusting likeness of an Alexander the Great on horseback (officially named "Equestrian Warrior"), it was unveiled in 2011) towered above pedestrians.
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The room is full of well-tanned men in excellent double-breasted suits and gorgeous women who towered over them, all of them not quite dancing.
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"I want us to march together beneath our banners, in an atmosphere of joy," Duda said, his voice echoing through speakers that towered above the crowds.
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For centuries, a natural arch towered more than 90 feet above the sea that crashed with vigor against the cliffs of the Maltese island of Goza.
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On top of these he towered stacks of smooth stones he'd collected over the years; the effect is Carl Andre set loose in a Japanese garden.
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Square Feet TAIPEI — The Taipei 21.13 building, which was for five years the world's tallest, has towered over the Taiwanese capital for more than a decade.
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And basketball legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who stands 7 feet 2 inches tall, towered over Obama and leaned back to assist him during his award presentation.
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The A shares' return has towered over other regional markets and the U.S. in spite of the trade war and continued unrest in neighboring Hong Kong.
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Donald Trump dominated the debate stage Sunday — literally, according to Hillary Clinton, who thought "this is really weird" as the Republican presidential nominee towered over her.
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A few months ago, a Muslim woman was forced to remove her clothing on a beach in France as two male policemen towered over her with guns.
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Eventually, she recognized the man she knew only through pictures, who towered over her family and beckoned her over with the word còn, or child, in Vietnam.
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Though his lanky figure towered over "the boys", as he always thought of his first recruits, he had left behind that life of controlling and commanding people.
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At 168 feet and 7 inches it towered over the rest of the water park and would be considered Kansas City's fourth tallest building were it occupied.
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All the apartments at Elmhurst Terrace, a 13-unit two-towered condo at 45-15 82nd Street, in Elmhurst, Queens, are priced at $1 million or below.
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It measured about 112 feet long (think two tractor trailers parked end to end), and the top of its shoulder towered roughly 20 feet above the ground.
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Mr. Trump has towered over the Republican presidential race for months, but the campaign here took on a distinctly new tenor and urgency in the aftermath of Iowa.
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Comey, who's 6 foot 8, literally and psychically towered over so many national dramas of the past decade, and is accused by Democrats of tipping the presidential election.
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But the mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, also cast a shadow over an existing Kushner project: the $820.8 million, twin-towered complex known as One Journal Square.
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It was Sunday morning in Tripoli's old city, but only a trickle of worshipers was expected at the 19th-century Anglican church, which towered over the curling alleyways.
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In Senegal, fat, sprawling baobab trees that have towered over the West African country for thousands of years are being threatened by climate change, urbanization and population growth.
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Lastarria's winding cobblestone streets and regal architecture are a stark contrast to the glass-towered commercial districts to the east, where the majority of Santiago hotels are concentrated.
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But the mayor of Jersey City, Steven Fulop, also cast a shadow over an existing Kushner project: the $820.8 million, twin-towered complex known as One Journal Square.
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Standing tall If you went to Army Ranger School graduation last week, you probably noticed one grad who literally towered over all the others: the ex-NBA player.
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Spearheaded by one of humanity's purest beacons of light, vocalist and guitarist Mike Scheidt, Oregon's YOB have towered over doom metal for the better part of 20 years now.
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To demonstrate this, he flew his ship near a giant Ganesha statue that towered over the city, hopped out of his ship, and started walking around on the statue.
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Mrs Zia and Sheikh Hasina Wajed, the prime minister and leader of the AL, were known as the two begums—the two powerful women who towered over Bangladeshi politics.
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At over six feet tall, the Danish-Italian actress and model towered over her husband, a former model himself, while out for a stroll in Los Angeles on Thursday.
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Swinney, who towered above the crowd at around 6-foot-5, was dressed in a helmet, armor, and knee pads, which he said was to protect himself from antifa.
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Physical attributes rarely reflect moral standing, but in this case, the image said it all: Bettman's tiny body was obscured by a giant check, and Scott towered above him.
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In the space of six hours, the two finest players of their generation — the two players who have towered over the 240st century game — exited the World Cup stage.
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Continuing south, there is 525 West 52nd Street, a two-towered complex from Taconic Investment Partners and Mitsui Fudosan America, with 392 apartments, including market-rate and affordable units.
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The brick-and-glass facades of the two-towered building, at 01-02 26th Avenue at First Street, will stand in gleaming contrast to the drab blocks surrounding it.
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The company and a neighbouring block's occupant, Myanmar Thura, had scraped away the earth until a cliff towered above them on one side, with the muddy lake on the other.
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The company and a neighboring block's occupant, Myanmar Thura, had scraped away the earth until a cliff towered above them on one side, with the muddy lake on the other.
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In a Facebook post, author Carl Hiaasen said he was "devastated and heartsick" to confirm the death of his brother, affectionately known as "Big Rob" because he towered over people.
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By February 2017, he was slightly cowed but still held his presentation before an enormous screen on which images of his collection towered over the actual people on the catwalk.
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The streaming service announced itself to the world with the help of a 2400,25-pound topiary peafowl sculpture that towered over throngs of Midtown tourists for much of the day.
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Jared Kushner brought in a new partner and tenant, WeWork, for the two-towered complex, which was to include co-working space, a business incubator and dormlike living called WeLive.
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Even there, among a group of extraordinarily tall people—Latvian men are the fourth tallest in the world, and the women are the tallest, on average—Porzingis towered over all.
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It dawned on me that it was much more fun to get Eiffel Towered by these dudes than to constantly have my grasp on reality fractured by my emotionally abusive boyfriend.
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Nicole sat barefoot with a fresh pedicure, her aviators and watch glinting in the sun; Alexei, dressed head to toe in athletic wear, towered over all of us, even while sitting.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The ancient Maya city of Tikal in Guatemala is home to a number of stepped temples that have ominously towered over the jungle for centuries.
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It caused Voiello to break down in tears, begging for forgiveness in a scene that was exquisitely shot from so low to the ground that Pius positively towered over the cowering Voiello.
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From 1911 until 5:05am today, it towered over a small circle of grass atop an etched stone pedestal that's so massive, it took workers more than four hours to remove it.
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"There were so many signs here, that nobody thought we should preserve them," said Mr. Dilling, who works just a few blocks from where Eagle Clothes once towered above the Gowanus Canal.
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But when Ms. Serre, with her spiky shag haircut and beetle brows, ascended the podium to receive the award from Rihanna, who towered over her, the general reaction worldwide was, politely: Who?
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At times, seven Spirit Walkers, like ancestral beings, towered above the others on high platforms covered by dark fabric on rollers: With crowns of feathers, they glided across the stage like ghosts.
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Why Hillary Clinton Says Her "Skin Crawled" A newly released excerpt from Hillary Clinton's new book, What Happened, describes exactly how she felt as Trump towered over her throughout the second presidential debate.
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When the singer got up, 6-foot 3-inch William towered over him (he stood on a raised platform making their height difference even greater) and placed the ribboned medal around his neck.
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The leaning tower came to define Mosul much like the arch in St. Louis, Mo. It towered over the skyline and symbolized the city's reputation as an ancient place of learning and beauty.
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The aptly named "Trump chicken" made its public debut late last year after a sculpture of the design towered over shoppers at a mall in Taiyuan, the capital of China's northern Shanxi province.
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The 86-year-old icon remains in fragile health after suffering a stroke and fracturing a hip over the last 18 months, but the strength of her career still towered over the evening.
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By the end of his life, philosophical thinking about equality, war, political authority, dissent and obedience, and global order took place on a terrain that Rawls towered over—in the shadow of justice.
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Seventeen years ago, fire swept through this area north of Jackson Lake and Grand Teton's glaciered peaks, burning a forest of old-growth lodgepole pines that had towered for more than 200 years.
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War and Peace towered above all other novels for Russians during World War II, and it inspired Stalingrad and Life and Fate, with their extended family of protagonists and their philosophical and historical digressions.
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The highlights include the triple-towered Marina Bay Sands hotel, by the Israeli-born architect Moshe Safdie, and a nearby art-and-science museum that he designed in the shape of a lotus flower.
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A monument of Forrest astride his horse towered over a public park in the city for more than a century until shortly before Christmas, when the city overcame state opposition to finally dismantle it.
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While the O Globo report described an unprecedented sting operation mounted by Brazil's federal police in conjunction with senior JBS executives to snare several politicians, Temer was the one target that towered over the rest.
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Not simply for her weaknesses -- it is a long established truism that both candidates are exceptional for their negatives among voters -- but because she too has towered over the public stage for nearly 30 years.
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That rhyolitic (high silica) eruption produced an ash plume that may have towered 1003 kilometers (164,000 feet!) over the caldera, what we call an "ultraplinian" eruption (and anything that is "ultra" has to be big).
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On a recent afternoon, the women and children sat on the ground to listen to Mr. Shettima as members of a civilian anti-Boko Haram militia towered over them with guns slung across their shoulders.
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Locke was still driven by a need for order, for meticulous systems: the project that towered over his final years was "The Negro in American Culture," a book he hoped would be his summum opus.
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Waves towered as high as 22 feet, while thunderstorms and powerful gusts of wind hindered the visibility and mobility of Argentine, American, British, Chilean and Brazilian military personnel scouring the area in ships and aircraft.
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Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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Two of them had on the black paramilitary uniforms and combat boots of the National Directorate of Security, and between them towered a third man, in slacks, a blue blazer, and a white oxford shirt.
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Health care — particularly the question of whether America should adopt a universal single-payer system or take more modest steps to expand coverage — has towered over every other economic issue early in the 2020 Democratic primary.
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Standing center-stage, the front-runner towered over the field with unrelenting verbal volleys at the top contenders -- at least the few who dared to take him on, their fear just another sign of his dominance.
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He has been featured in campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger, American Eagle and Hood by Air, appeared in an Adidas NMD billboard that towered over Times Square and was cast by Kanye West for his Yeezy spectacle.
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In another big sale this past week, the philanthropist Joy Fishman sold co-op No. 103D at the venerable twin-towered San Remo co-op building, at 146 Central Park West, between 74th and 75th Streets.
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On that billboard, Prokhorov, the new Russian owner of a middling franchise still in New Jersey, and Jay-Z, the face of this new ownership group, towered over the basketball ennui that inhabited Madison Square Garden.
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Never mind that Brown was actually a year older than Kemp, and that the 6-foot-10, barrel-chested Kemp towered over the 6-foot-1, rail-thin Brown when they stood next to each other.
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Timothy Corrigan, an interior designer based in Los Angeles, was in the midst of renovating his towered and turreted Renaissance chateau near Angers, France, when the news that the renowned estate was for sale proved irresistible.
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Across the street, Marian Dumitru, 47, stood in his tiny living room, where campaign hats from the governing Social Democratic Party adorned a large teddy bear and stacks of the party's fliers towered on a desk.
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At many of her events, food becomes a decorative element of a party: sculptural stacks of white bread towered around platters of fried chicken on a picnic table in the park for her daughter's first birthday.
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Washington ____ Mr. Roth was the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers — Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others — who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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Like Beard's obituaries, it shows how he towered over the country's culinary landscape, pioneering the kind of food television that Julia Child would later do and doling out advice in newspaper columns much like Craig Claiborne's.
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I would never have watched the World Cup if it weren't for my partner, a British national who grew up on Gary Lineker, the striker who towered over the English game in the 1980s and early 1990s.
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The structure, which was erected with a crane but whose origin is a mystery, towered over trees and nearby buildings, and had been doctored to show a smiling May flashing a V-sign with her left hand.
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For over 250 years, the 300-foot tall antihero has towered over the Tokyo skyline as a perennial warning of the folly of nuclear war and unrestrained technological advancement, like some kind of giant reptilian Jane Fonda.
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Every so often, I'd glance up at the majestic man atop his horse, then remember, no matter how casually or briefly, that he fought to keep people who looked like me enslaved, and still towered above me.
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The tall bridegroom towered over everyone, looking somewhat like a basketball player in a black suit, while the bride wore a calf-length white dress she bought on eBay, Mary Jane shoes and a furry white cardigan.
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The "Asia ex-Japan" approach traces its roots back to the 1980s and 1990s when the country was the most dominant player in Asia, and the size of its economy and stock market towered way above its neighbors.
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In one of his fields, we walked down a lane he had mowed through his warm-weather cover crops — plants grown not to be harvested, but to enrich the soil — which towered over us, reaching perhaps eight feet.
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He towered over me in his iconic pose: back foot flat, front foot tipped, shoulders cocked, left arm raised to hold the sling, huge right hand hanging down by his side, head turned fiercely toward the glorious future.
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In a Facebook post, best-selling author and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen said he was "devastated and heartsick" to confirm the death of his brother, Rob Hiaasen, affectionately known as "Big Rob" because he towered over people.
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Later at Windsor Castle, Mr. Trump towered over the queen, who wore a royal-blue coat and matching hat and carried her signature black purse, as they slowly walked around a quadrangle surveying military guards in dress uniforms.
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Clowns on stilts and drag queens in stilettos towered over the crowd filling the city's Reforma boulevard for the 41st annual pride parade, while revelers pushed past policemen to join the throng of bright flags and gaudy outfits.
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Like Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan, he towered over and defined his country's place in the world, and alongside them he defined the center-right consensus that drove Western foreign policy at the end of the Cold War.
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" The New York Times eulogized Roth as "the last of the great white males: the triumvirate of writers—Saul Bellow and John Updike were the others—who towered over American letters in the second half of the 20th century.
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It&aposs highly probable that the dunes at Noctis once stood close to 130-feet tall and the ones at Hellas basin towered even higher, coming in at approximately 246 feet, before the winds and Mars&apos ancient climate buried them.
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That music was always part of the soundtrack to my childhood — Faith Hill and Toby Keith on the radio as my mom drove me around, playing during school and sporting events, advertised on the roadside billboards that towered over cornfields.
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She placed the sugar cube in her mouth and tilted her chin up, while a polar bear, who towered at nearly twice her height, would amble over on her hind legs, bend down, and delicately snatch the sugar from Böttcher's mouth.
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In some of the booths, enormous stainless-steel machines touted features like "vaveless expansion technology"; giant glass flask and beaker rigs towered over their sales teams like props that would seem too on-the-nose in a mad scientist laboratory scene.
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Now, for the first time, the inner workings of these DAFs are poised to come into sharp relief thanks to a new lawsuit from two fund donors against the institution that has towered over this new philanthropic gold rush: Fidelity Charitable.
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Even though only 7 inches of snow fell on Cincinnati, it was hit hard since there were already 14 inches of snow on the ground, and 60 mph winds channeled it into snowdrifts that towered up to 25 feet high.
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The hotel group might be famous for the three-towered skyscraper housing its Tokyo location, but here you'll find a low-ceilinged, tile-roofed arrival house, as well as airy guest rooms with tamo wood floors and windows for walls.
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In the final decades of last century, when Wilson towered over the contemporary stage, even our finest writers couldn't expect that every one of their new plays would appear in a commercial theater increasingly dominated by musicals and classic revivals.
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MOSUL/BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) - The leaning al-Hadba minaret that towered over Mosul for 850 years lay in ruins on Thursday, demolished by retreating Islamic State militants, but Iraq's prime minister said the act marked their final defeat in the city.
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"Ant-Man and the Wasp" made $216 million at the domestic box office in its opening weekend, a figure that landed on the low side for the Disney-Marvel cinematic universe but still towered over all other releases this weekend.
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Provoked by President Trump, they are concluding that the bipartisan consensus forged in the 1990s — in which the United States towered over the world and, at low cost, sought to remake it in America's image — has failed and cannot be revived.
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Late-night hosts took particularly pointed aim, sensing an easy target in a woman who towered above her male colleagues and expressed open disdain for the idea that she should soften her blunt rhetoric to make others feel more at ease.
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During the climactic opening moment his keynote address, Zuckerberg's declared that "the future is private" as the words towered over the 34-year-old on an enormous screen, giving it a 1984 feel that seems so common in tech product launches these days.
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Everything's bigger in Texas, including Houston sports stars -- past and present -- who turned out to say goodbye to 41 ... former Rockets centers Yao Ming and Dikembe Mutombo towered over the crowd, while Texans defensive lineman J.J. Watt brought the muscle with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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On Wednesday, a partnership led by Charles Kushner filed a lawsuit in federal court in New Jersey claiming that the Fulop administration put his two-towered residential complex in default in April out of a "political animus" toward the Kushners and Mr. Trump.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A giant replica of the Millennium Falcon towered over Hollywood Boulevard and Chewbacca walked the red carpet at Thursday's world premiere of "Solo: A Star Wars Story," a movie about the early years of the space saga's famous smuggler.
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Among the glass-towered book stacks of the British Library on Saturday, the young Scot (whose Loverboy show in January had been inspired by a first edition of "The Story of Peter Pan") sought to show he had begun to grow up.
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When he told me that, a distinct memory flashed, of me sitting on the porch of my father's Arizona home shortly after he moved there, wondering why he seemed to be blind to the beauty of the Ponderosa pines that towered above like skinny skyscrapers.
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To understand why Japan would turn to coal at this critical moment in history, we have to go back to 2011, when a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a massive tsunami that towered more than 20 feet high and struck parts of Japan's Pacific coast.
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Scientists have said the waves were recorded in several places at about 1 meter (3.3 feet) high, but Sumur residents insisted they towered more than 3 meters (10 feet), possibly as high as 0003 meters (16.4 feet), which the government's disaster agency also confirmed in some areas.
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The new 2017 outlook towered above the forecast of 0.8 percent growth made by the bank in the weeks after the Brexit vote, when the economy seemed to be heading for a recession and the BoE cut interest rates to a record low of 0.25 percent.
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In early December 2015, Wired Magazine tentatively identified Wright as the probably "genius" behind Bitcoin: Even as his face towered 10 feet above the crowd at the Bitcoin Investor's Conference in Las Vegas, Craig Steven Wright was, to most of the audience of crypto and finance geeks, a nobody.
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Stacks of novels, magazines, reference books and unidentified volumes in still-unpacked cartons towered precariously on the creaky wooden floorboards at what had become a sanctuary for celebrated authors, embryonic writers and aficionados of contemporary literature — the last of the literary landmarks that once dotted Fifth Avenue and vicinity.
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It will serve the same purpose as its pal across the pond, hosting a series of works by international artists on an 18-month rotating schedule — and yes, you can expect them all to be rather grand in scale, as conspicuous as the ones that have towered over the British square.
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The moment Beyoncé appeared onscreen staring you down from a sinking police car; the moment she towered over the Super Bowl halftime show, surrounded by dancers outfitted like Black Panther activists; the moment you heard the song's first note reverberate through your headphones like an alarm, the earth's core shifted.
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Sinosphere ZHUSHIGANG, China — Only the orange of thousands of freshly dug carrots, washed in icy water and packed for delivery by village women, brightened this fog-draped village last Friday, one day after the authorities razed a golden statue of Mao Zedong erected by local admirers that had towered over the dun fields.
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In the desert, as the women towered over you and competed for pride of place with the iconic man, you could forgive Cochrane for their anatomical imperfections or for advocating that such simple forms could change "human consciousness around the need to end violence against women," as he writes on his web site.
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The project is similar to the two-towered complex planned around the corner on city-owned land on 0003th Drive that will have 1,000 apartments and 100,000 square feet of light manufacturing space, from a team led by the firm TF Cornerstone; one of its towers would clock in at 650 feet.
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The second white shirt I acquired (and still own) was an exaggerated spiritual successor to the first, a piece by the designer Viktor Luna that looked part-clothing item, part-bug skeleton, with huge, ruched sleeves that stood up by the sheer power of their formidable design and towered high above my own relatively small shoulders.
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The audience of hundreds was packed with "Sex and the City" superfans, among them Rhianna Jones, a freelance writer who described her glaringly pink outfit as "Afro Carrie goes to a strawberry field then comes to a political fund-raiser," and Dan Clay, better known as Carrie Dragshaw, who towered above everyone at 6-foot-5 in strappy sandals.
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Even recognizing these coincidences, I vowed to keep my proper distance until about halfway through the book, where Banville writes of Nelson's Pillar, the granite column erected as a monument to Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar that, to the irritation of many Irishmen, had towered over Dublin like a gloating Colossus from 1809 until March 8, 1966.
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Read more: Australia&aposs Prime Minister is sorry he went on vacation to Hawaii amid his country&aposs wildfire crisisBuckingham Palace released new photos of Prince George making Christmas puddings with the QueenA group of YouTubers staged a jaw-dropping blue foam volcano in their backyard that toppled over their balcony and towered above their house
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The announcer identified the music only in Flemish, sending Mr. Sarno to a music library and inspiring an odyssey that for 30 years would distinguish him as an outsider in an antediluvian jungle civilization, where drums, bow harps, flutes, zithers, singing and dancing accompanied marathon ceremonies and even everyday activities among the hunter-gatherers over whom he towered by more than a foot.
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Last year's one unabashed triumph, A Tribe Called Quest's monumental comeback We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, was so bright and clear-eyed, so joyous and inspirational, and such a spacey, bubbly slice of ear candy that it towered above everything else, making even decent exercises in hedonism by Travis Scott and Danny Brown sound rather limited.
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Throughout my teen years, I was crippled with insecurity about my BFG-esque stature: I towered above the boys I fancied, was over half-a-foot taller than all of my friends, and my gym teachers always assumed I would be the best in my class (I hate sports and breaking a sweat, have minimal to no athletic abilities, and subsequently disappointed a lot of people).
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Vietnam '43 Much as the Blue Ridge Mountains towered over campus, "Vietnam" loomed constantly in the background that spring, exactly 24 years ago, when 21 classmates and I were preparing to graduate from the all-male, almost all-white Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Va. Next door at the Virginia Military Institute, where the graduates would automatically become commissioned officers, Vietnam loomed even larger.
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Pillars of the theater fell: the directors Peter Hall, who towered on both sides of the Atlantic, and Max Ferra, who championed the work of Latinos; the British actors John Hurt, Roy Dotrice and Alec McCowen; and the playwrights A. R. Gurney and Sam Shepard, though "playwright" alone does little justice to the uncontainable Mr. Shepard's manifold artistry, which branched as well into movies, television, music and fiction.
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Read more:A group of YouTubers staged a jaw-dropping blue-foam volcano in their backyard that spilled over their balcony and towered above their houseThe dinosaurs may have already been suffering from mercury poisoning before a killer asteroid cemented their demiseNew Zealand suspends search for remaining two bodies believed to be on the island where a surprise volcano eruption killed 19I visited New Zealand&aposs White Island volcano before its deadly eruption — here&aposs what it was like
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Read more:Jake and Logan Paul both dropped out of Forbes&apos highest-paid YouTuber rankings for 2019KSI says there are a few celebrities who &aposwant some&apos in the boxing ring, but he&aposd only fight Jake Paul if he could &aposprove he&aposs better than Logan&aposA group of YouTubers staged a jaw-dropping blue foam volcano in their backyard that toppled over their balcony and towered above their house20 YouTube channels you should really subscribe to in 2020
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Before Tom Petty saddled up next to Bob Dylan and Roy Orbison in the Traveling Wilburys, and before he towered over the Billboard charts for more than two decades, and before I climbed the seemingly endless steps of a sold-out arena to watch him play just this past June, and before his first band, Mudcrutch, made their name playing dives in Gainesville, Florida, and perhaps even before he realized what he was capable of with a guitar in his hands, Tom Petty worked briefly as a gravedigger in Florida.
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