Translation of "Towering figure" in German

The towering figure at the lectern turned slightly, and spoke.

The towering obsidian figure of Kozilek filled the horizon.

From the viewpoint of Marxist thought and practice, Lenin is a towering figure.

But who was this towering figure?

This makes him a towering figure in the highest art of Western culture.

Richard Bellman is a towering figure among the contributors to modern control theory and systems analysis.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, a towering figure in his time, now seems an alien figure.

I have a couple of young kids at home, and I knew that the only way they were going to get to know this person who was such a towering figure in my life would be through that session.

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.

Unpopular as he may be to some in our time, Hegel is still a towering figure in the history of thought.

Martin Scorsese is a towering figure in cinema, a director, producer and screenwriter with a career spanning 50 years and as many films, many of which are considered some of the greatest ever made.

But the priests also set up a small table, from which they sacrificed rice and rice wine to the sea by quickly tipping it into the sand – and the temple's little, female Guan Yin, who concealed herself  behind a towering male figure, was turned into a Yemanja-like sea deity with a fish.

But the priests also set up a small table, from which they sacrificed rice and rice wine to the sea by quickly tipping it into the sand – and the temple’s little, female Guan Yin, who concealed herself behind a towering male figure, was turned into a Yemanja-like sea deity with a fish.

From the light, a towering figure emerges, dressed in blinding white robes and carrying a sword in one hand, a scroll in the other.

Jürgen Linn's Alberich was the towering figure of the evening: there was not a one-dimensional nasty villain, but someone who reacts helplessly angry at situations in which others have brought him.

A statement that is symptomatic of the relevance and appeal of the philosopher of the Enlightenment, who was born in Breslau on 24th January 1679, without whom – or so the experts believe – other philosophers of the Enlightenment, such as the towering figure of Immanuel Kant, would hardly have been possible.

Of these heroes, Simon Bolivar is the towering figure, having won independence from Spain for Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela.

She jerked to a halt and slowly looked up at the towering figure.

Augustine Even Augustine, a towering figure in Christian theology, held that polygamy was not something that was a crime before God, but rather a matter that depended more upon cultural biases:

Haruomi "Harry" Hosono is a towering figure in the history of modern Japanese music.

The player will recognize towers, figures and even faces.

Above them all towered the figure of Falz-Fein the Sheep King, a “Kannitverstan” of the steppes.

Do miniatures designer tend friendship one blow the other or do they sit alone in their ivory towers and make figures?

On the pipe towers sit the figures of King David and Apollo across from each other playing music.

Schäuble is undoubtedly one of Europe’s towering political figures, but his strategy for saving the eurozone by pushing Greece out was misguided.

These two towering figures of early Christian theological development were headmasters of the Catechetical School of Alexandria, which flourished under them and quickly became famous throughout the Christian world.

Ships - sailing with outstretched sails, means joy, happiness, security, good hope and success - standing near the tower or figures in the city crown with a lion, then a merchant's seaside town, safe haven, and trade, the sea sends.

The stage-like image space and the towering figures featured recall the works of Dali or de Chirico, which gives the image a surrealist note.

Only parts of the exterior walls, the stump of a tower, and the figure of the Mother of God standing at the northeast pillar of the nave remained intact.