Sentence examples for astonishing structures from inspiring English sources

First, there are the mud-brick skyscrapers clustered together to form villages and towns, the most famous of them the town of Shibam -- astonishing structures that rise improbably out of the desert floor.

It is an astonishing structure, constructed with intense concentration.

More than 100 years old, with dual towers soaring above Richardton, an isolated prairie town of 500, it's an astonishing structure to come across.

In her vertiginous photo of a transporter bridge in Marseille, Perriand parsed the astonishing structure, and in its pylons and trusses, Barsac sees the suspension and the latticework support for her chaise longue.

James hits on a suggestive metaphor for the basilica's astonishing structure: it consists of two churches, one piled on top of the other, and he imagines that they were perhaps intended as "an architectural image of the relation between heart and head".

Stimulated by Mexican art -- from Mayan reliefs to the popular illustrations of Jose Guadalupe Posada -- and what he described as the "actual, astonishing linear structure of the Mexican landscape," he made renditions of bulls and toreadors, Virgins and Christs spring to life on the page.

The apparently low number of AMPs may be compensated by the astonishing gene structure of hymenoptaecin which in the ants is encoded as a huge precursor protein with several repeated hymenoptaecin domains.

You can discover how just 20 chemical building blocks can result in the astonishing diversity of structures and functions that are required to hold living things together.

The scaffolding has cleared from the most astonishing man-made structure I have seen.

Little can be ventured as to the outcome of this astonishing variety of economic structures.

Bowerbirds build and decorate structures of astonishing complexity to attract mates.