Sentence examples for architectural edifice from inspiring English sources

Historians may never discern a grand architectural edifice of achievements on the scale of the New Deal or Great Society.

And like Ronald Hayman (the author of a succinct one-volume life of Proust that appeared in 1990) he emphasizes the role that World War I had on the shape of the novel: by forcing a delay in publication, it gave him time to expand and elaborate his story, to create the famously layered architectural edifice the book became.

The central insight of foundationalism is to organize knowledge in the manner of a well-structured, architectural edifice.

By exploring the ways in which climatic conditions interacted with the economic, social and technological processes of cotton production in Dharwar, this article highlights why American cotton cultivation failed to meet colonial expectations during this period while also revealing the fragile architectural edifice of colonial power.

The trompe l'oeil fruit-and-vegetable portraits of Arcimboldo are precedents, although instead of fresh produce, Mr. Nutt gathers scraps from the dustbin of Cubism and Surrealism, assembling them into faces that also hint at landscapes, architectural edifices and sculpture.

Certainly, he set the bar high for heavily populated, location-shot period sagas from literary sources, but it would be shortsighted to see Lean's greatest achievements as the filmic equivalent of skyscraping architectural edifices: good because they're there.

The gothic flame has always burned brightly in the cinema, exploring the architectural spaces of shadowed edifices: from the real Slovakian castle FW Murnau infested with rats in Nosferatu (1922) to the cobweb-draped, colossal sets Bela Lugosi inhabits for Tod Browning's Dracula (1931).

Crumbling Victorian edifices have undergone architectural open-heart surgery and fusty old collections have been taken into the 21st century.

In this video, Goldberger looks at Goldman Sachs's earlier headquarters and contrasts the firm's architectural modesty with the stately edifices built by other financial companies.

The edifice itself was an architectural monstrosity with an elaborate system of gun towers, barbed wire, and even a moat made of sand to detect footprints.

Oedipus Rex For six decades, the New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute has conducted its affairs in a schlubby four-story edifice of yellowish brick, the architectural equivalent of an analyst's tweed.