towering
参天
definition
verb
he seemed to tower over everyone else
rise to or reach a great height.
The big ticket item was a US Air Force B1 Bomber, which towered over the surrounding displays like a massive bird of prey.
(of a bird) soar to a great height, especially (of a falcon) so as to be able to swoop down on the quarry.
adjective
Hari looked up at the towering buildings
extremely tall, especially in comparison with the surroundings.
translation of 'towering'
adjective
崟,
兀,
耸,
突兀,
嵬,
参天,
冲天
example
He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their 'towering' heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.
We devote four articles to this subject of 'towering' importance.
I gave them each a glare and turned my attention towards the tall, 'towering' doors that would soon open to reveal my parents.
It positively thunders from the speakers, rising to a 'towering' , epic crescendo of hissing guitar and soaring choruses.
It is broad daylight, and the Professor is peering through rain-soaked windows at 'towering' black canyons so tall they blot out the sky.
An old upright Yankee patrician, a very gentle man in the office of secretary of war, one Henry Stimson, told the president of his good fortune in having for the job a soldier of such 'towering' eminence.
The album itself doesn't register as a 'towering' artistic achievement, just a reasonably good set of pop songs.
The enormous skyscrapers and attendant monorails were supplanted by palaces and town houses circumscribed by high walls, 'towering' railings and tall trees.
The castle was a pure sandstone building with enormous 'towering' pillars and high arches and courtyards.
It wasn't the normal, dark, 'towering' building, but a tall, skinny, grayish color that looked like it had rotted from the inside.
Peeking out from around the building, he saw before him the 'towering' Keep, surrounded by the inner walls.
In a taxi in Mumbai, she sat quietly on the back seat awestruck by the 'towering' buildings almost touching the sky on either side of the road.
Einstein is still a 'towering' figure, Freud a very influential one, Marx has fallen on hard times.
Instead we should view promises, and other people's rights, as of such 'towering' importance that they are basically invulnerable to the calculus of social interests.
The second film in the trilogy is a 'towering' achievement which actually surpasses the original in terms of spectacle, scale and emotion.
In that film, a 'towering' epic of stupidity, the astronauts confront a bunch of super-lame CGI aliens who hold hands and cry.
It was now extremely dark as the 'towering' , derelict offices clouded away the sky.
While, as 'towering' buildings, churches even today have an intrinsic power, this exists because of their architecture rather than in the meaning they might convey to us.
McGrath is a 'towering' intellect and one of the leading theologians in modern evangelicalism.
Nanda Devi is the patron Goddess of Gharwal and Kumaon and has been a 'towering' influence on the culture of these twin mountain regions.
No, today is a day to celebrate the 'towering' human spirit that exists in this one woman.
Two very different comedians, two 'towering' influences the impish Carson and the caustic Pryor, passed away in 2005.
To celebrate our 'towering' achievement, here's a photographic tableau of the PDMG as it looked last Sunday, and very early on Monday morning.
For Brown, the goal was merely the most expressive part of a 'towering' performance of assurance and influence.
Willie Ryan in the Portarlington back-line was a 'towering' influence and had a great game.
The 2003 festival is no exception, offering a 'towering' series of art exhibitions and workshops.
Who transformed you from a lame-duck President appointed by the Supreme Court into a 'towering' wartime leader?
The window screen was completely enveloped with the dull metal landscape of a huge city of 'towering' buildings, no doubt Capital City.
Legendary rock guitarist Gary Moore returns from a bout of the blues to his roots and, like the title of the album, he bares his soul and his 'towering' talents with something a few riffs short of a musical masterpiece.
The South mill complex, with its 'towering' 225 ft tall chimney, is empty and has fallen derelict while one grandiose scheme after another hit the dust.
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