Sentence examples for a crumbling edifice from inspiring English sources
Their shrine was Ebbets Field, a crumbling edifice known for its obstructed views and peculiar dimensions.
One afternoon, their convoy drove up to the old headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, a crumbling edifice built in the nineteen sixties, now occupied by squatters.
Since then, the building's red facade and iconic marquee have fallen into disrepair--a crumbling edifice stuck in the past as the rest of San Francisco, embodied by the modernist Federal Building that now towers over the Strand from the other side of the block.
The challenge for the church is to translate the crumbling edifice of traditional Christian belief into a valid assertion of truth about life that can stand comparison with the equally valid truths and wisdom drawn from scientific perception and deduction.
Outside his crumbling edifice, his neighborhood is being rebuilt by a Dutch charity, Cordaid, and other groups in an inventive collaboration with homeowners, who are empowered to choose the architectural design, buy the materials, hire the masons trained by the groups and oversee their personal projects.
And days before a New York magazine piece by Gabriel Sherman about the News Corporation ran, Gawker published a post suggesting that it would "shake loose some of the crumbling edifice of Murdoch's empire".
In protest at the whole crumbling edifice, one far‑flung relative has gone off to become a monk.
Once a city of two million people and the envy of the industrial world, it is literally the crumbling edifice of its former self.
The philosopher thought he had succeeded not in overturning the true faith but in protecting it from the crumbling edifice of ancient natural science.
All righteous anger and bass-heavy production, it surveyed the crumbling edifice of capitalism, referencing George Bush and the Taliban, and even found room for a smart riff on Tears for Fears' 'Mad World'.
