How To Use Edifice In A Sentence

The temple of the +Olympian Zeus+ at Athens (Fig. 39), a mighty dipteral Corinthian edifice measuring 354 by 171 feet, standing on a vast terrace or temenos surrounded by a buttressed wall, was begun by Antiochus Epiphanes (170 B.C.) on the site of an earlier unfinished A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised
The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple. The Life of Charlotte Bronte
Evidence such as this serves to undermine the apparently monolithic edifice of Victorianism.
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison. The Scarlet Letter
It was before we learnt once and for all that the financial edifice erected over the past two decades was rotten at the core. Times, Sunday Times

The true doctors are those in general practice, outside the gilded edifices. Times, Sunday Times
In the newer radio drama, classical and real-world references are less overt but underpin the edifice. Times, Sunday Times
He likes to pile them up into steepling edifices. Times, Sunday Times
One after another the _antichi spiriti dolenti_ rise up and salute the new edifice: Nimrod and the Assyrians, Anglo-Saxon ealdormen and Norman knights templars, and citizens of ancient Bristol. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
As if Ian Hamilton Finlay were not to be remembered here, he appears, in the form of a reference to his home, a little country estate which he filled with literary sculpture of his devisal, much as Simon Cutts has decorated his quaint Irish dwelling, Coracle, and outbuildings with words, turning edifice into literature. Dbqp: visualizing poetics
And, indeed, so solitary and remote is this ancient edifice, and so simple is the mode of living of the people in this by-corner of Spain, that the appearance of even a sorry calesa might well cause astonishment. The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
So the explanation comes and the whole edifice crumbles.
The place is now called Albano, and vast ruins of its magnificent edifices still remain. The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus
I am sure, have joined with me in unshakeable faith that this crucial test will be met; that the searing lessons of this latest war and the promise of the United Nations Organization will be the cornerstones of a new edifice of enduring peace and the guideposts of a new era of human progress. Cordell Hull - Acceptance Speech
Justice theorists have constructed impressive edifices by refining traditional notions of fairness and responsibility.
What we have witnessed more recently has been the collapse of some financial edifices which have shown the worst aspects of pure, undiluted greed.
The beach is deserted but for a stubborn few, and this Soviet edifice is now but a window to a bygone era.
But, on the other hand, it would appear that as the zikkurat developed from a one-story edifice into a tower, and as the number of the stages increased, the zikkurat assumed more of an ornamental character. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
To sustain such an edifice calls for rare strength and stamina, which were manifest. Times, Sunday Times
The edifice… is built upon a beautiful eminence, on the Philadelphia road, affording on all sides, an extensive, and delightful view, with charming rural scenery, on every side.
As his voice resonated, mingling with the call of a distant koel, the mystery of the majestic edifice stood out.
The stunning edifice and focal parade ring spoke of a new era in racecourse facilities. Times, Sunday Times
Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
Building these three, giant, rolling, temple-like edifices new every twelve months is no small task.
The stunning edifice and focal parade ring spoke of a new era in racecourse facilities. Times, Sunday Times
I feared the entire edifice would collapse. Times, Sunday Times
There can be no doubt that the cold and bitter strength of Sallust; his unflinching method of building up his edifice of invective, stone by stone; his close, unidealistic, dry penetration into character; his clinical attitude, unmoved at the death-bed of a reputation; that all these qualities were directly operative on the mind and intellectual character of Ibsen, and went a long way to mould it while moulding was still possible. Henrik Ibsen
Prominent edifices such as historic structures, public buildings, churches, synagogues, and high rises get special treatment.
GARS forms a more coherent whole since its editorial edifice was the work of Weber himself; and yet, its relationship to his other sociologies of, for instance, law, city, music, domination, and economy, remains controvertible. Asthmatic
I am well aware of the construction of this super edifice and suggest that 130 years of life would be an under-estimation, the recent neglect of roof repairs.
The AdWords learning edifice is Google's possess training tool for AdWords so I'd feature it is the prizewinning inventiveness for presenting information on every of Google's ad policies in a country and apothegmatic way. Xml's Blinklist.com
Further along, past the stoic old-timers playing bocci, and a wet-suited man struggling to rig up his windsurfer, a derelict concrete edifice looms high over the beach.
Perhaps I am misunderstanding what you are trying to say, so maybe try again, Bradford? ou are able to explain things mechanistically but if the underlying nature of reality does not lend itself to this approach you will not only not get answers, you will build a philosophical edifice which is debilitating to the human spirit. About: The Progressive Diminishment of Man
Yet it was on this feeble and dodgy dossier that an entire edifice of advice was built. Times, Sunday Times
Underlying the entire edifice was the myth of industrialization schemes based on "savings" from the countryside. The Origins of Economic Inequality between Nations: A critique of Western theories on development and underdevelopment
Sure are imperviable to crumble, putrid, corrosion or insect infestation; be given barrier edifices formed in the Crosby Finance
Now on the one hand, as we have seen, every brick making up this massive conceptual edifice is a friable mixture of untruth, half-truth, hypothesis or assertion. Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man
I would hypothesize that the leftward movement of America in recent years is a direct result of the multibillion-dollar edifice of wingnut disinformation that inundates us today. Think Progress » Limbaugh compares Pelosi to a terrorist for saying passing health care is more important than re-election.
Still, economics is a quantitative science - possibly even an aprioristic one that allows me to construct an apodictically certain architechtonic intellectual edifice that says nothing about th real world unlike pete leesons excellent economic history papers. 10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them - The Austrian Economists
These old edifices camouflage well-stocked shops that carry crafts, jewellery, trinkets, carrots, clocks, wants and necessities.
The khan has been a strong edifice, but the stones of the massive gateway, especially the great keystone, are split across, as if from the effects of gunpowder. Byeways in Palestine
Usually bedecked in a powder-blue suit, she totters down the steps of one ancient pile with the purpose of opening another crumbling edifice a short limousine drive away.
The war on terror was founded on an edifice of illusions that virtually no one in the US policy community questioned.
And throughout the edifice resound the jubilantly sonorous harmonies from the organ. 10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002
The urge to bring down the edifice of medical practice seems to me to indicate the extent to which our expectations have been brought down already.
However, it is only the northern flank of this ancestral edifice that remains.
The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
Taken separately, out of order, in alternate versions, the songs are a series of comfortable, upscale bungalows: taken together they unitarily reach and soar above the clouds, an edifice against entropy.
The Celts and their predecessors had put up edifices such as stone circles, calms and assorted burial constructions near sacred wells.
Here the Royal speaker was herself interrupted by a cloud of powder which the unconscious _friseur_ flung over the edifice then erecting. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
The nature of the degassing process within a volcanic edifice is critically important to the nature of eruptions, whether explosive or effusive, from the volcano.
The hospitals in Merthyr, Newport, and Pontypridd where I served my student attachments and house jobs are now gone, replaced by sparkling new edifices.
Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
The scene itself is picturesque in the highest conceivable idea of architectural representation; far more so, indeed, from its dilapidated state …, than can possibly consist with any entireness, however accompanied, of the most complicated and magnificent edifice (195-6). Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject
Rising from the earth on the edge of Lambourn is an edifice, which at first glance bears a passing resemblance to a rollercoaster. Times, Sunday Times
Today only the church remains.020-7836 5221The classic, half-timbered style that launched a thousand 20th-century "Tudorbethan" eyesores rarely reached Moreton's levels of artistry back in the day, but this fairy-tale edifice testifies to the continuous prosperity and experimentation of the era. The Renaissance in Britain: examples from the era
A failure of confidence in them could still bring the entire capitalist edifice tumbling down. Times, Sunday Times
It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives.
In time the hill became covered with public edifices, of which the grandest was the Temple of "Capitoline Jupiter. Outline of Universal History
From prescription, in the case of hypaethral edifices, open to the sky, in honour of Jupiter Lightning, the Heaven, the Sun, or the Moon: for these are gods whose semblances and manifestations we behold before our very eyes in the sky when it is cloudless and bright. The Ten Books on Architecture
Scalia's entire legal edifice is built not upon words, but upon a single understanding of a word.
To him this edifice is a beautiful structure, although it will never be finished. Owen Chamberlain - Banquet Speech
Forget your monuments, buildings and other such edifices, this city has trees.
The death of William, his only legitimate son, in 1120 in the wreck of the White Ship brought Henry's whole carefully contrived edifice tumbling down.
Rolling in wealth, the Church built great edifices and fielded its own armies and sank deeper and deeper into immorality, materialism, and decadence.
Still, economics is a quantitative science - possibly even an aprioristic one that allows me to construct an apodictically certain architechtonic intellectual edifice that says nothing about th real world unlike pete leesons excellent economic history papers. 10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them - The Austrian Economists
With reporters building entire edifices of Palin speculation based on Runner's World photos of Palin preparing to run (quickly ambulate, that is, rather than pursue political office) and amidst the flurry of liberal talk show jokes deriding Palin's intelligence it's understandable that many Americans who might not support Sarah Palin's political views are nonetheless coming to see Palin as a victim. Bruce Wilson: Palin Says She'll Stump for Democrats, Hints at Third Party
The stunning edifice and focal parade ring spoke of a new era in racecourse facilities. Times, Sunday Times
In my view, as soon as the animal subject has been able to understand "numbers" -- and this postulate of the new zoopsychology, I repeat, I believe to be indispensable to the whole edifice -- the animal finds itself sufficiently in harmony with the master to become capable Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals
Certainly, those who were wont to "orate" in the building when it stood in Brompton would have failed to recognise the edifice as it arose in Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
Edifices for Divine worship, asylums for the poor and sick, monasteries and nunneries, universities and schools, cathedral and collegiate churches, chantries and preceptories, were founded and endowed in great numbers. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
They were easily led to consider the flames that were consuming France, not as a warning to protect their own buildings (which were without any party wall, and linked by a contignation into the edifice of France,) but as a happy occasion for pillaging the goods, and for carrying off the materials, of their neighbour's house. Political Pamphlets
At the south or opposite end of the Parc is the +Casino+, a handsome comfortably-furnished edifice. The South of France—East Half
This used to be a well-known fact; and daily still, in certain edifices, steeple-houses, joss-houses, temples sacred or other, everywhere spread over the world, we hear some dim mumblement of an assertion that such is still, what it was always and will forever be, the fact: but meseems it has terribly fallen out of memory nevertheless. Latter-Day Pamphlets
These pictures evoke Victor Hugo's conviction that 'A tree is an edifice, a forest a city, and among all the forests, the Forest of Fontainebleau is a monument. ' Art Knowledge News
In his later years he was fully informed of the choices being made, but interposed no public objection as his edifice of dreams was systematically reduced to rubble.
As this happens, and political pressures build, we will apply small patchworks to the existing healthcare system, and we will do this over and over until we have a rickety edifice that is literally the worst of all possible worlds.
For these latter edifices the old manor-houses, with their many mullioned windows and Tudor arcuation, formed the basis for design, and machicoli, turrets, and open timber roofs became the fashion for country-houses; but the city dwellings were erected in a style that was a compromise between the Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885
They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
These volcano and feeder systems have similarities to igneous centres, which also have cone-shaped edifices, calderas and downward tapering cones created during magma chamber collapse and ring-dyke intrusion.
For a very brief moment the edifice of post-cold war global capitalism looked as if it was gazing over a very steep precipice.
They rebuilt the old basilica into a grand, very flamboyant Gothic edifice.
The legislature is housed in an impressive granite edifice.
Smaller edifices, like temples and mausoleums, were adapted bodily to their new office, while the larger ones, such as thermæ, theatres, circuses, and barracks were occupied in parts only. Pagan and Christian Rome
Perhaps it is the sense of mystery which holds the entire edifice together. Times, Sunday Times
There is a description of what it was, in an Italian manuscript, by which it appears to have been a beautiful edifice of two stories, adorned with columns and trophies in alto-relievo, with a statue of Travels through France and Italy
Yet they recognise that loyalty is the emotion that keeps the entire edifice in place. Times, Sunday Times
In explaining the reasons for his desire to work as a doctor in rural Tennessee, Verghese provides a glimpse into the medical profession and the value to be gained from particularizing its seemingly undifferentiated edifice.
Combining with taste her remembrance of the edifices which she had seen in the east, and by an effort of genius enduing them with unity of design, she executed the plan which had been sent to the Protector. The Last Man
The huge sprawling edifice of Bethlehem Hospital loomed behind them. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Ritual, law, and taboo are nothing but the institutional edifice of sclerotic priests.
The sacred edifice, completely in their hands, was soon laid waste; they broke down the altars, destroyed the monuments, and -- much will the bibliophile deplore it -- set fire to their immense library "_ingens bibliotheca_," maliciously tearing into pieces all their valuable and numerous charters, evidences, and writings. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
However, Top of the Rock does have a rather good view of a certain imposing art-deco edifice: the Empire State Building.
Emphasis is taken from the towering edifice and transferred to the ledges, curbs, benches and other ground-level surfaces that surround it.
Regarding an underlying mathematical edifice, a possible analogy in mathematics is the existence of non-computable numbers, these numbers have no deterministic, no algorithmic description, yet they exist. Are Changes Brewing and How Does the Mind Fit In?
The relative ease with which the Stalinist edifice began to crumble after 1989 caught most observers off-guard.
The old blueprints were found much later and the reconstructed edifice is a replica of how it was before the bad times. Notes from the peanut gallery
Managerial authority, and indeed the whole edifice of organisational power, represent the rights of ownership delegated to management.
Science is an edifice founded absolutely on good faith.
Our role is not to "solve" the crumbling of an edifice, by which I suppose one might mean nipping the crumblement in the bud, or at least trying to slow its relentless progress towards utter devastation and ruin. Hooting Yard
The architecture of Freemasonry is altogether related to the construction of public edifices, and principally sacred or religious ones, -- such as temples, cathedrals, churches, -- and of these, masonically, the temple of Solomon is the archetype. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
Bourges and Normandy offer some striking examples of the way in which stained glass can magnify the structural disposition of an edifice.
If so, the whole edifice so carefully reconstructed by Finnis is in danger of collapse.
And when someone like Stephen Ambrose turns out to be a serial plagiarist, which is what he was from the beginning of his career, as I document in the book, then that pulls down the whole edifice the rest of us are trying to construct whereby people respect us because we follow the rules that we impose upon ourselves. Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman To Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis and Goodwin
The whole savings edifice is in danger. Times, Sunday Times
Each tries to outdo the other and some of them are towering edifices.
Finishing touches installation stained glass windows drum octagon removal scaffolding exterior interior edifice interior calcimining dome drum octagon tuckpointing cleaning floodlighting entire structure completed synchronizing closing weeks glorious twelvemonth annals Holy Faith. Dawn of a New Day
Incorrectly labelling them as' illegal immigrants', they build a vast edifice of repression.
To the top of the crumbling Gormenghastian edifice we climbed, leaned backwards over the abyss and landed a big old smacker on the legendary stone.
In wind, rain, and snow thousands of ducks—also called black brants or just brants—slammed into the edifice and met their doom. One Big Table
Whereas representation attempts to absorb simulation by interpreting it as false representation, simulation envelops the whole edifice of representation itself as a simulacrum.
But what stops the entire edifice crashing down around their ears is the music. Times, Sunday Times
So we've set up the rather tottery edifice that is normal under the legal system in England and Wales and, for the next eight to twelve weeks or so, we'll live inside it, propping it up and patching it as necessary.
She knew he was fast and possessing of great stamina, and more than capable of overtaking her in any prolonged footrace, but could he catch her in just the few dozen meters separating her from the stone edifice? Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
Almost everywhere these edifices of civil engineering, the basis of life in urban Britain, have been taken for granted.
The entire U.S. geopolitical imperial edifice is a house built on sand. Big surprise: money wasted « Antiwar.com Blog
This is the key to the whole agricultural edifice. Times, Sunday Times
On the far side of the crumbling brick edifice a bloated half moon hung low in the sky.
They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
An incongruent digital clock atop a regal edifice displayed the minutes to the millennium - and beyond.
The final result is that the internal structure of the downward tapering cone is a complex mosaic of faults, dykes and pipes feeding the volcanic edifice.
He will surround your Garden with new edifices and piazzas: though narrowed, it shall be replanted; dizened with hydraulic jets, cannon which the sun fires at noon; things bodily, things spiritual, such as man has not imagined; -- and in the Palais-Royal shall again, and more than ever, be the Sorcerer's Sabbath and Satan-at-Home of our Planet. The French Revolution
The town hall is the only edifice surviving from the fifteenth century.
The plan if push through, will make the place a jungle of concrete edifices eliminating of what remains the only lush greeneries in the city. Mini Forest within Baguio City under Study for Commercial Development
But Isabella was intuitively convinced of a distinct lack of life within the ancient stone edifice.
For older neuroscientists, resistance to the return of psychoanalytical ideas comes from the specter of the seemingly indestructible edifice of Freudian theory in the early years of their careers.
In the newer radio drama, classical and real-world references are less overt but underpin the edifice. Times, Sunday Times
The other kind of seismicity associated with the volcano occurs after the initial shaking, but before the eruption, "when you have fluids and gases moving through the edifice and cracks and fault zones [and] you get this characteristic ringing and a resonance," said study team member Philip Benson of the University College London. Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
Ṭihrán, been returned to their owners, despite the protests of a relentless and powerful clergy, the agitation of a hostile population, and the importunate demands made by prominent members of the Legislature to outlaw and disendow the Faith, confiscate its literature, raze to the ground its principal edifices, deport its chief supporters, and root it out of the provinces. Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957
We have built a whole superstructure, a constitutional edifice, on that basis.
Then vanity drove men to build a boastful edifice. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, one act of violence is enough to bring down the whole edifice of peace-building.
People spoke, when they spoke at all, in whispers, and John was so infected by the air of solemnity that when a small boy in the gallery began to call out "Acid drops or cigarettes!" he felt that a sidesman must appear from a pew and take the lad to the police-station for brawling in a sacred edifice. The Foolish Lovers
The owner of the edifice is a 56 years old landscape architect by the way, and he say an upwards of $12,000 has gone into building thetreehouse. The Greatest Treehouse in the World
A grand foundation stone laying ceremony for Asian Packaging Center Edifice was held yesterday.
How can we raise a secure and objective historiographical edifice on such flimsy foundations?
He huffed and puffed-but failed to shake the growing edifice of evidence stacked up against him.
The enchorial language was not placed on sacred edifices.
Mohammedan region; and the edifices which crown the city with glory are not only connected with the Mohammedan faith, they are also the masterpieces of the greatest minds of the Mogul Empire, and culminate in the Taj Mahal, which is the most valued gem of Mohammedan architecture, and, perhaps, the most beautiful edifice in the world. India, Its Life and Thought
The "lowballing" issue is the biggest, and most overlooked, threat to the entire edifice. WSOCTV.com - Local News
A wise and well-tempered architect, incorporating experience and foresight, is essential to conduct the volatile dynamics of collaboration toward the goal of raising an edifice. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
A few summers ago, I was watching, with more than usual emotion, the rasure of a great edifice at a corner of Hanover Square. Yet Again
The edifice is covered by ornate and colorful molding, pilasters (pseudo columns), and arches, many of which contain bas relief sculptures.
Following a homeless ‘state of emergency’, the federal government created a $753-million fund to get derelicts across Canada out of the dirt and into an edifice.
The cracks in the moral edifice are visibly growing: people are beginning to opt out of its orthodoxies.
Outside Stromness I walked the marshes where as a boy John Rae rambled with a musket on his shoulder, and in Kirkwall I visited the explorer's memorial in St Magnus Cathedral, and his grave site behind that edifice.
The imposing Victorian edifice on North Bridge in Edinburgh which once housed the capital's daily newspapers is now making news in its own right.
It is an imposing edifice, a mock temple based on the classical Greek model, with a fine pediment and no fewer than six columns.
Now the whole rotten edifice will come crumbling down. The Sun
Note that restrictions on the building of religious edifices by minorities are common in Eurasia.
De même que votre magnifique édifice domine votre cité, de même la pensée dominante de votre université est d'être le phare sur lequel se dirige le peuple dans l'espérance que cette émulation tendra à nous diriger vers de hautes et nobles destinées. Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses
My soul was thrilled with the invigorating freshness of the verdure and moved by the echo in the mystic murmur of the ancient cryptomeria and camphor trees that half conceal the simple and sacred edifice.
“New” Delhi), the famed architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker were employed to produce a completely new complex of classical edifices. The Imperial Mind
It was before we learnt once and for all that the financial edifice erected over the past two decades was rotten at the core. Times, Sunday Times
That whole rather rickety edifice is being swept away and replaced with a much simpler system," Sampson said. Got a legal complaint? Now you can take it to the new legal ombudsman
The collapse of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 brought down with it the fragile European edifice.
Even in ruin the Colosseum is a magnificent edifice of great structural interest and aesthetic splendour.
The domiciliation of wealthy foreigners, and the introduction of foreign customs and foreign culture, have gradually modified the style of architecture, both public and domestic, and modern Buenos Aires is adorned with many costly and attractive public edifices and residences. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
By the end of the 19th century it had become an imposing theoretical edifice.
Successful policies & programs might take decades of hard work to carefully craft & hordes of active & involved supporters to defend them against the forces of reaction & hate while the edifice is being built & occupied. Go, Howie, Go! (Blog for Democracy)
A crowing little urchin beside is already waving the Union Jack which is ready to crown the edifice, if the Fates ever suffer it to be crowned. Stray Studies from England and Italy
We moved away from an edifice which was decaying and a local authority which was unsupportive to one which showed a willingness to support what we do on and off the basketball court.
The annual Budget is a natural process of continuation of financial policies and it should build up on the edifice that exists already.
Having the bad luck to ascend to Power just as the whole Washington edifice is swirling down the shithole. ha ha ha Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing “Reporting”
And his church, was it one of two grand old edifices which still adorn the adjoining parishes of New and Old Shoreham, or merely a nonconformist 'Little Bethel'?
They both paused in front of the magnificent edifice in which they worked before Jack got the door.
Will they be inclined to carry on funding it or pull down the entire edifice? Times, Sunday Times
The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Present-day government buildings are often old brick edifices left over from the Soviet period.
So in 1949 I started commuting every day from New York City to Lake Success, which is a small town on Long Island, instead of New York, where the world organization first lived in a converted wartime plant before the huge edifice that you now know has been built in Manhattan. Then and Now: How the World Has Changed Since WW 2
Efficient market theory is the foundation that supports the entire multitrillion-pound edifice of trading. Times, Sunday Times
Present-day government buildings are often old brick edifices left over from the Soviet period.
Surrounded by water on all sides, the edifice is 11 stories high but also goes 18 metres below sea level.
The entire edifice of opera subsidy, supposedly designed to make opera accessible, has had to rely instead on a private company.
There has been no acknowledgment of the mistaken assumptions on which the modern edifice rests.
The man stands at attention, head angled up, hands clenched at his sides, literally embodying the edifice of culture and the rigidity of man-made structures.
This cabinet when wc saw it, was not yet arranged; it is i; i Oie building where the mint is kept, the edifice is new, tolerably spacious, and situated at the end of the bridge, at the entrance f what is, properly speaking, the city: the portal has four columns sunk in the wall, without any pedettal: they are too laree for the building, and fail of eflfect. A General collection of the best and most interesting voyages and travels in all parts of the world [microform] : many of which are now first translated into English : digested on a new plan
The Tullianum stood in the lap of the Arx hill just beyond the Steps of Gemortia, a very tiny grey edifice built of the huge unmortared stones men all over the world called Cyclopean; it was only one storey high and had only one opening, a doorless rectangular gap in the stones. The First Man in Rome
Poking fun at the crumbling edifice of Afrikaner culture, subverting the images, distorting the holy icons and braaing the sacred cows, bitterkomix creators Joe Dog and Conrad Botes do what they do best - make comics.
Vancouver's derelict and decayed industrial edifices have often served as a source of inspiration for local artists.
Even his grand Social Security edifice is under assault by the vandals of the G.O.P. Conservatives insist the cuts are necessary to get the roaring federal budget deficit under control. March 2005
It was an edifice built in times when human constitutions were damp-proof, when shelter from the boisterous was all that men thought of in choosing a dwelling-place, the insidious being beneath their notice; and its hollow site was an ocular reminder, by its unfitness for modern lives, of the fragility to which these have declined. The Woodlanders
Comprehensive used for park, fencing wall, bridge, edifice, floor body adumbration, step street air corridor, ad brand and so on, city bright change the first choice of construction product.
There has been no acknowledgment of the mistaken assumptions on which the modern edifice rests.
As the thought starts to penetrate the fug that economicgrowth may have almost stopped on their watch and the wild-eyed TPs are are about to bring the the whole edifice down. The Guardian World News
The city was no mongrel conglomeration of edifices built independently of one another, but a single, flowing ocean of architecture that stretched on to the horizon.
The stunning edifice and focal parade ring spoke of a new era in racecourse facilities. Times, Sunday Times
This era produced hulking concrete edifices built in the form of conch shells, rocket ships, sail boats, origami figures, and circus tents.
These days, with the sun parching the New Zealand tourists, bowlers run in from the Gateway Pavilion End, home of a £4.5m edifice of wood and metal.
Apennines, where two buildings separated by some miles of distance are commonly intervisible over the crest of a neighbouring peak, it has happened that a change of level of some one of the points has made it impossible to see the one edifice from the other. Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography
It serves as the local church now, and it's a little disconcerting to see the homely parish notices posted up in such an imposing edifice.
Thankfully, she managed to locate the tall brick edifice.
This edifice is now occasionally converted into a kind of choultry, or cara - vansera, where travellers of rank are lodged in their jour - nies, upon the public service, through this part of the country. An authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China : including cursory observations made, and information obtained in travelling through that ancient empire, and a small part of Chinese Tartary ; together with a rela
Aegineta, and for that matter in certain Egyptian papyri (especially a certain very famous one, still extant, of which Clement of Alexandria speaks as a secret or 'hermetic' book), we can trace the broken and scattered stones of a great edifice of ancient chemistry. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield
And true negotiation is quarto only then, negotiation place trades in Shanghai negotiable securities edifice.
Le Tellier designed many of the reforms later carried out by Louvois; the father played the role of architect and the son of builder in erecting the edifice of French military administration.
But even so France was left with a vast surplus of grand edifices, mainly ecclesiastical, that were empty and could be converted into the prefectures, town halls, museums, and barracks required by the new regime.
The architectural appearance of this edifice reminds us a little of the severe style of the florentine architecture; the large doorway is ornamented with the attributes of commerce, as likewise the coping of the edifice; two bas-reliefs, of eight and a half feet high, and sculptured on stone by David, representing the _symbols of navigation and commerce_, decorate the middle of the facade on the first floor. Rouen, It's History and Monuments A Guide to Strangers
It is safe music that takes no risks: relying instead on a ball-less, soulless, spiritless edifice of ‘music’.
it was an imposing edifice

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