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The mosque's architecture was widely described as imposing, its scale calibrated less to intimidate than to orient: every arch drew the eye upward.
Visitors moved slowly through the halls, pausing where the light fell in bands across the stone floor.
As used in the text, what does the word imposing most nearly mean?
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