(1) It was now extremely dark as the towering , derelict offices clouded away the sky.(2) But given the towering importance of this issue and how it affects millions of workers directly, the turnout was scandalously small.(3) Willie Ryan in the Portarlington back-line was a towering influence and had a great game.(4) Atop the mountain, more towering buildings reach up into a polluted blue sky.(5) For ever since I saw that birthday cake - towering and tall - I have never been able to replicate its height.(6) Einstein is still a towering figure, Freud a very influential one, Marx has fallen on hard times.(7) He was surrounded by tall skyscrapers, their towering heights lost in the inky blackness of a night sky.(8) McGrath is a towering intellect and one of the leading theologians in modern evangelicalism.(9) At a towering two metres tall, her portrait dominates one of the principal rooms of the National Gallery of Scotland with an imperial presence.(10) The album itself doesn't register as a towering artistic achievement, just a reasonably good set of pop songs.(11) Two very different comedians, two towering influences the impish Carson and the caustic Pryor, passed away in 2005.(12) Short has underlined his importance to the squad with several towering performances since returning from a knee injury.(13) As if to literalize the longing of the title, a breathtakingly extended axle-like element joins a towering wheel to a tall woven hive shape.(14) We devote four articles to this subject of towering importance.(15) The enormous skyscrapers and attendant monorails were supplanted by palaces and town houses circumscribed by high walls, towering railings and tall trees.(16) 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.