25. Compound-Complex Sentence

My sentence:

Ironically, this unfriendly, killing cold often brings with it a breath-taking beauty: skies that sparkle brilliant blue and sounds that carry for miles, both due to a lack of any extras in the atmosphere - everything has frozen and fallen to the ground.

Other examples:

"You must remember this:

A kiss is still a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh;

The fundamental things apply, as time goes by."

Herman Hepfield, lyrics to the song, "As Time Goes By"

The world will always welcome lovers (!) as well as acknowledge and respect its physical signals.